UQF 0133 Individual Assignment (15%)

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. -Edmund Burke-

Read and understand the quotes below. Choose only ONE quote and come up with a 15-minute presentation about the quotation. Your presentation should be based on your understanding of the particular quotation you have chosen. In addition to that, provide sound explanations, arguments, and rationale as well as relevant examples as you present.

Requirements: 1. Provide some background information about the author/ politician/ philosopher, etc of the quote 2. You should only use index/ cue cards during the presentation. (NO power points, other presentation aids and etc, required) 3. Dress smartly when presenting.

Quotations
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards. Abraham Lincoln After crosses and losses, men grow humbler and wiser. Benjamin Franklin Take time for all things. Benjamin Franklin Life is a constant class, and once you think you know it all, you're due to decay. You're due to slide. I have to keep challenging myself and try something I haven't done before. Clint Eastwood

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill

Where there is love there is life.

Mahatma Gandhi Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas Edison Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it. T. S. Elliot I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half heartedly because I know if I do, then I can expect half hearted results. Michael Jordan I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. Nelson Mandela It always seems impossible until it's done. Nelson Mandela After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. Nelson Mandela If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. Nelson Mandela Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front. Nelson Mandela I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying. Nelson Mandela The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Nelson Mandela Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. Mother Teresa Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Mother Teresa Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Mother Teresa

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. Mother Teresa Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own. Mother Teresa Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. Mother Teresa If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. Mother Teresa If you judge people, you have no time to love them. Mother Teresa Life is a long lesson in humility. Sir James M. Barrie Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together. Joseph Joubert Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes. Confucius Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. Confucius Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. Confucius Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star. Confucius

UQF0133 English 3 Presentation Rubric Students Name:_____________________________________ Evaluating Students Presentation Category 2 3 4 Total Audience has difficulty Audience cannot understand Student presents information Student presents information in following presentation Organization presentation because there is in logical sequence which logical, interesting sequence because student jumps no sequence of information. audience can follow. which audience can follow. around. No movement or descriptive Very little movement or Made movements or gestures Movements seem fluid and Body Language gestures. descriptive gestures. that enhance articulation. help the audience visualize. Sometimes not appear to be Sometimes does not appear to Listens intently but has one Listens to Other Listens intently. Does not make listening and has distracting be listening but is not distracting noise or Presentations noises or movements. noises or movements. distracting. movement. Student occasionally uses eye Student maintains eye Student maintains eye contact Student reads all of report Eye Contact contact, but still reads most of contact most of the time but with audience, seldom with no eye contact. report. frequently returns to notes. returning to notes. Student mumbles, Student's voice is low. Student's voice is clear. Student uses a clear voice and incorrectly pronounces Student incorrectly Student pronounces most correct, precise pronunciation Elocution terms, and speaks too quietly pronounces terms. Audience words correctly. Most of terms so that all audience for students in the back of members have difficulty audience members can hear members can hear presentation. class to hear. hearing presentation. presentation. Total Points: Points will be deducted from your final score if you speak for less or more than the assigned time. Calculation of marks: _(students mark) ___ X 15% = ____________ (Total points) 20 1 Section: ______
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