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Argumentative Speech On The Media

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There is nothing more discouraging than being patronized by the classroom favorites: advanced-placement students. Those are the only ones who will go on and do outstanding things, right? For the most part, yes having a 5.0 GPA will steer you in a successful direction; then you turn twenty-five and no one in the professional community will turn their heads at your grade point average when you were sixteen. In the real world there are real people. Author Kevin Ashton firmly believes that show-stopping innovations do not only belong to “geniuses”, our advanced placement population. Instead, he believes that “extraordinary solutions come from ordinary people doing ordinary thinking”(Ashton 8). The ordinary people that Ashton is referring to are those who did not exit the womb and have everything they created to reach the top charts without effort. Who he is referring to are those who dedicate their lives to achieve a specific goal; the ones who fail again and again, and maybe even give up at times to reach their objective .
The effect that media and world news has on people today is tremendous. The news puts society on a roller coaster of emotions by using a mix of heart-breaking news and the newest, best thing that will stock our shelves. “Man, what a good invention. I wish I came up with something like that.” Breaking news: you can! The man who invented the first ever wheel did not sit down and immediately produce blueprints and threw a patent on it. The only thing that that

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