C. MID Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1 MS/HS IE - 9:30am
Speaker 1
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1. Newspaper2. Horse
Concrete Nouns3. Can
Speaker 2
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Concrete Nouns1. Shark
2. Onion
3. Truck
Speaker 3
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Concrete Nouns1. Taxi
2. Peacock
3. Statue
Speaker 4
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Concrete Nouns1. Umbrella
2. Raccoon3. Computer
Speaker 5
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Concrete Nouns1. Violin
2. Radio
3. Alligator
Speaker 6
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Concrete Nouns1. Wolf
2. Courthouse
3. Sword
Round 2 MS/HS IE - 2:00pm
Speaker 1
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Abstract Nouns1. Opportunity
2. Victory
3. FearSpeaker 2
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Abstract Nouns1. Poverty
2. Warmth
3. StrengthSpeaker 3
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Abstract Nouns1. Reality
2. Yearning
3. SorrowSpeaker 4
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Abstract Nouns1. Sacrifice
2. Tension
3. StrangeSpeaker 5
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Abstract Nouns1. Talent
2. Anger
3. AngelicSpeaker 6
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Abstract Nouns1. Uncertainty
2. Grounded
3. EmpoweredSpeaker 7
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Abstract Nouns1. Annoyed
2. Interesting
3. Boring
Round 3 MS/HS IE - 6:00pm
Speaker 1
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Proverbs1. A penny saved is a penny earned
2. Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together - George Lichtenberg
3. A leopard never changes its spotsSpeaker 2
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1. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link3. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em
Proverbs2. The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do - B.F. Skinner
3. A stitch in time saves nine
Speaker 3
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Proverbs1. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em
2. Man is by nature a political animal - Aristotle3.
3. A bad workman always blames his tools
Speaker 4
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Proverbs1. Two wrongs don't make a right
2. As soon as there is life, there is danger - Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. Actions speak louder than wordsSpeaker 5
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Proverbs1. Familiarity breeds contempt
2. Oddly enough, success over a period of time is more expensive than failure - Grant Tinker3. Out of sight, out of mind
Speaker 6
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Proverbs1. Beggars can't be choosers
2. The unexamined life is not worth living - Socrates
3. Better late than never
Pattern C Finals - 8:00pm
Speaker 1
1. "Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership." --James Humes
2. "A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them." --M. D. Arnold
3. "Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you." --Margaret Thatcher
Speaker 2
1. "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." --Kurt Vonnegut
2. "Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work." --Seth Godin
3. "The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things." --Ronald Reagan
Speaker 3
1. "To add value to others, one must first value others." --John Maxwell
2. "The task of the leader is to get their people from where they are to where they have not been." --Henry Kissinger
3. "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Speaker 4
1. "I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people." --Mahatma Gandhi
2. "There are no office hours for leaders." --Cardinal J. Gibbons
3. "When people talk, listen completely." --Ernest Hemingway
Speaker 5
1. "One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency." --Arnold Glasow
2. "The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves." --Ray Kroc
3. "Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway." --Eleanor Roosevelt
Speaker 6
1. "I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody." --Herbert Swope
2. "Leaders don't inflict pain, they share pain." --Max Depree
3. "The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership." --Harvey S. Firestone
Speaker 7
1. "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right thing." --Peter F. Drucker
2. "The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." --Ralph Nader
3. "Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality." --Warren G. Bennis