Speech against the thesis by Raúl Gaston Krüger “Marriage is unnecessary, old fashioned and outdated”

Skript , 2010 , 5 Seiten , Note: 1,0

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All in all the speech should be serious and emotionally touching but in order to underline my point I was also trying to put some funny parts into it (as the short example part illustrates).

Short part of the speech:

My most favorite slogans were: “love does not need marriage”, “security brings laziness” and “marriage is a control mechanism”. To underline my point, I quoted Homer Simpson as a representative of a common understanding of marriage:

>Homer Simpson to Mel Gibson: You see this? [he holds up Marge's hand, to show her wedding ring] It symbolizes that she's my property, and I own her.<

It took me some time to realize that Homer Simpson is no quotable authority, and that marriage is not as bad as I thought it to be. Actually, I am going to marry next summer...

How can I take responsibility for that in front of myself? What has changed?

• Hochschule: Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (Seminar für Englische Philologie)
• Veranstaltung: Oral Communication II
• Note: 1,0
• Autor: Raúl Gaston Krüger (Autor:in)
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
• Seiten: 5
• Katalognummer: V175798
• ISBN (eBook): 9783640969036
• ISBN (Buch): 9783656933991
• Sprache: Englisch
• Schlagworte: Debate, Speech, Oral Communication, Marriage, Love, Debating Club, Sprachpraxis