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Question by ???: Is this a good topic for an informative speech?
I have to do an informative speech in my college speech class. And I was wondering if doing a topic on serial killers and why they kill. I was thinking about going into the mindset of why they kill and what the signs are. Do you think this is a good topic? Thanks for answering 🙂

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Answer by Elbie
I think this is a great topic…Just in case you are looking for more, here are some other interesting and unique topics:

1.) –QUIRKY CULTURAL INFLUENCES: How has culture influenced the following “quirky” aspects of our society throughout the decades?

__A. -SLANG TALK / Discourse, Social, and Conversational Contexts of Slang Speaking: Slang (informal popular sayings and words), emerged from a particular era or generation’s popular social practices, often become accepted into our formal language and lexicon. In linguistics, the lexicon of a language is its vocabulary, including its words and expressions. What is understood as the “general vocabulary” is itself an ongoing social process which privileges certain groups and perspectives; therefore, despite its critics, the slang talk that becomes apart of the general vocabulary, is created by a “privileged” class of people…NOT trash talkers.

__B. -URBAN LEGENDS: Like all folklore, urban legends are not necessarily false, but they are often distorted, exaggerated, or sensationalized over time and generations.

__C. -FOOD: In each culture there are both acceptable and unacceptable foods, though this is not determined by whether or not something is edible…it is determined by the values, beliefs, and attitudes of the culture. For example, Americans have become a nation of Fast Food Junkies which is largely in part because of our instant-gratification, fast-paced lifestyles in an individualistic culture. Whereas, some other cultures view our “fast food addiction” as absurd and disgusting. Likewise, horses, turtles, and dogs are eaten (and even considered a delicacy) in some cultures, though they are unacceptable food sources in other cultures.

__D. -PHOBIAS: These fears come in all different, and sometime strange, forms. Cross-cultural psychologists point out that phobias are influenced by cultural factors. Agoraphobia, for example, is much more common in the United States and Europe than in other areas of the world. A social phobia common in Japan but almost nonexistent in the West is “taijin kyofusho”, an incapacitating fear of offending or harming others through one’s own awkward social behavior or imagined physical defect. As you explore this topic, try to pin point what phobia you think is the strangest. Here are some of the phobias on the list of top 10 strangest phobias: Anablephobia(fear of looking up), Consecotaleophobia(fear of chopsticks), Geniophobia(fear of chins), Cacophobia(fear of ugliness), Phronemophobia(fear of thinking)

__ E. -ADOLESCENCE and ROCK MUSIC:
Experts have stated that rock music is often a natural target of interest for adolescents (Tervo 1985, 1991, 2001, 2003). Music becomes rock music only when it is combined with the fantasies which the adolescent invests in it. This must take into account the sounds, rhythms, melodies, instruments, voice, lyrics and the combined effect of countless variations of tone. The significance of rock music is essentially connected with the fact that the adolescent has neither words nor commonly shared ways of expressing the new and never before experienced changes taking place within him- or herself. Music can emotionally affect adolescents at a deeper level than is possible with words alone. Rock music can enable adolescents to express, to be in contact with and to share amongst themselves feelings of anger, rage, grief, longing, isolation, psychological disintegration etc., as well as to experience closeness. It can safely lull the adolescent into regressive moods and – with its musical clarity, simplicity and high volume – give shelter to the distressed and may sometimes even be of help to confused adolescents.
To read the entire article, follow this link:
http://www.voices.no/mainissues/mi400050…

2.) 1.) PLAY – What’s It Good For?
Several studies over the past decade have looked at the effects of play deprivation and found that an absence of play in supportive, positive contexts can create violent, antisocial, mentally impaired and emotionally sterile adults. In one study, about 95 percent of the convicted murderers who were examined reported either the absence of play as children or illogical, brutal, abnormal play such as bullying, sadism and extreme teasing. In the same study, around 75 percent of drunk drivers who were examined reported play abnormalities. Obviously there is good play, bad play and no play, and, according to researcher, Dr. Frost, what makes a good play environment hasn’t changed much over the years because what makes a healthy child—and, consequently, healthy adult—hasn’t changed over the years. The play that builds children’s physical, social, cognitive and affective development does not happen in front of a video game after school or when a child is alone in her bedroom watching TV and instant messaging a friend. “Good play is play that involves physical activity,” says Frost, “creativity, spontaneity, exploration and social interaction. It engage

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