Rutan spoke in long, stump-speech paragraphs.
Break down your speech into paragraphs or bullet points.
(Note: In a December 8 Chatham House speech (see paragraph 9), Fox affirmed the importance of the Afghanistan mission to the NATO Alliance and the importance of explaining to the British people with "clarity, conviction, and consistency" "what the national security threats are that compel us to be in Afghanistan".
In written form the speech was 36 paragraphs.
The Newsday article reports on an eleventh grade English class at Ward Melville High School in Setauket, New York where an "English class recently spent five days studying Lincoln's Gettysburg Address -- a speech just three paragraphs long".
It's mostly vocabulary and as you progress you'll get into parts of speech, sentence structure, paragraphs, and before long you'll be standing in front of the class presenting your own writing and speaking abilities.
It wasn't a big part of my announcement speech — a small paragraph.
And as far as the speech itself, this paragraph takes the interlude from banal to troublesome:Now, let me be clear: Issues of women's equality are by no means simply an issue for Islam.
That night, true to his reputation as a master of political patronage, he read a three-paragraph speech imploring his colleagues to confirm a former aide for a federal appeals court judgeship.
An undeniably daunting slab of high modernist prose, without such concessions as speech marks or paragraph breaks, it's also a brilliantly absorbing and audacious meditation on madness, consciousness, technology, war and the mess of the 20th century.
Aside from revealing just how much of a Rand fanboy Ryan is — urban legend, my foot — this is interesting because that 23 paragraph speech isn't just a call for the gold standard; it's a call for eliminating paper money and going back to gold coins.
