Anyone have any short stories that can be recited in about 8 minutes?
For the High School Speech League in my state, I am looking for some very, very, funny short stories which can be recited in about 6-10 minutes. Anything on any subject matter is fine.
Why is Theodore Roosevelt important? ?
1. The ONLY President who has been awarded both a Nobel Prize and a Congressional Medal of Honor. 2. The ONLY President who actually has a patent in his name. 3. The President who created the dog breed called a Rat Terrier. The very first rat terrier (Teddy's dog "Chip") is buried on the White House lawn. 4. The President who was responsible for taking on big industry, monopolies, trusts and robber barons, fighting for the little guy and creating the "Square Deal." 5. The President responsible for creating our National Park System. 6. The youngest person to ever become President of the United States. Edit: the person who claimed he started the Spanish-American War got it all wrong. It wasn't Roosevelt's boat involved. It was the US Battleship Maine which blew up in Havana harbor. Tensions were running high (due to diplomatic disputes, reports of Spanish repression in Cuba and the yellow journalist of Frederick Randolph Hearst who promulgated a lie of a story that Spanish border inspectors were strip searching American women when they entered Cuba or Spanish territory--they were forced to be naked--and Hearst's papers created a drawing depicting this which was on the front page of many of the Hearst papers). Then the battleship Maine blew up in Havana harbor. We found out later it was probably due to a boiler explosion which ignited the ammunition magazine. But at the time we blamed the Spanish. Teddy had NOTHING to do with this, it wasn't his ship, he wasn't in the US Navy at that point.