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		<title>It hasn’t gone away you know</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It hasn’t gone away you know. The debate on death row rumbles on. Now there are calls in England for re-introducing the death penalty there. They follow in the wake of a particularly gruesome murder. Yet the question remains what would re-introducing the death penalty actually achieve?
For some people, of course, it would be a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In some countries both parents escort their daughter up the aisle to her wedding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In some countries both parents escort their daughter up the aisle to her wedding. After all they have both reared her. It should be equally acceptable then for the mother of the bride to give a wedding speech. The father of the bride is, of course, the one who usually toasts the happy couple but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.speech-writers.com/?p=1008</link>
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		<title>Thanksgiving Day is celebrated more widely than Christmas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving Day is celebrated more widely than Christmas and that’s understandable. Whether or not we believe in Christianity we all know when we have reasons to be thankful. That is not to say, of course, that we always remember to be thankful. In our busy lives we often groan and moan about what we haven’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Has it ever occurred to you that giving a toast is like giving a compliment?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Has it ever occurred to you that giving a toast is like giving a compliment? Whether it’s a wedding toast or a birthday toast or a toast to Christmas it usually comes as the ending to a short speech. Quite often that speech is very personal and, of course, that’s how it should be. After [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.speech-writers.com/?p=1000</link>
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		<title>Get to the root of the matter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just now many people are searching for Christmas gifts for loved ones. Sometimes it’s very easy to choose but sometimes it’s more difficult. Your children will write their letters to Santa but what do you buy for that someone who has everything?
One thing that we all have in common is our personal genealogy. So why [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.speech-writers.com/?p=997</link>
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		<title>Speech etiquette - it&#8217;s how you say it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The party season is almost upon us now and with it come questions of speech etiquette. How do you give a toast to the guests for instance? What would you say when giving a vote of thanks to a guest speaker?  Just what should you say when you are giving a toast to the ladies?
You [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.speech-writers.com/?p=990</link>
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		<title>Water, water everywhere</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So they have discovered water on the moon. The scientists may be thrilled about that but our own water is a bigger problem right now. We have droughts in some countries and floods in others and marine pollution as well. Let’s get our own world in order before we bother about outer space. After all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.speech-writers.com/?p=987</link>
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		<title>A new way to quit smoking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[They are working on a new way to help people quit smoking. They hope within a few years to provide a vaccination against this nasty habit. After all let’s be honest about it smokers stink. Sitting beside smokers in a bus or a train is an endurance test for non-smokers and one they should not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.speech-writers.com/?p=984</link>
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		<title>Have a plant in the audience when you are giving a speech</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you afraid of giving a speech? Are you worried that you will go to pieces in front of your audience? One of the best ways to avoid this is to have a plant in the audience. Choose someone who feels sympathetic towards you. It may be a family member or it may be a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.speech-writers.com/?p=981</link>
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		<title>What topics make for the most interesting speeches?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What topics make for the most interesting speeches? For specific audiences of course you may have to give specific speeches. A motivational sales speech will go down well with sales staff. For a mixed audience though you can’t beat health subjects.
All of us either have health problems ourselves or know of people with them. Diabetes [...]]]></description>
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