National Public Speaking Project 2007/2008

Topics for this years Project are as follows:

1. Supermodels as role models in today’s world?

2. That action is best, which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers? (Hutcheson)

3. Mental Health in Changing World: The Impact of Culture and Diversity.

4. Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of but stigma and bias shame us all. (Bill Clinton)

5. Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts. (Plato)

6. In his journey of life, humanity seldom travels first class.

7. True education is more than academic achievement.

8. Urban planning – does it affect our mental health?

9. The media can both build and destroy.

10. To feel valued is an important asset in the maintenance of positive mental health.

11. To live without hope is to cease to live. (Teodor Dostoievsky)

12. Mental illness is an unwelcome intruder in the family and the community?

13. No passion so effectively robs the mind of all its power of acting and reasoning, as fear. (Burke)