Prompt: What are the big takeaways from chapter 25?  In a full journal entry, help explain the significance of what you found important and what you connected with in the chapter. (150-200 words).

Chapter 25 spoke on the subject of ceremonial speeches. These speeches are reserved for special events where their goal is to either entertain, celebrate, commemorate, inspire, or set a social agenda according to the chapter. It goes in-depth into these goals and how they can best be achieved and then continues by sharing examples of a multitude of contexts that warrant special occasion speeches. Each example provided its own specific uses as well as the components that are needed for a good speech. I personally found this chapter the most interesting due to the lack of real-world experience I have in giving them. While I certainly have heard a variety of these sorts of speeches, I have never considered the parts that are required to make a good one nor the fact that some of the speech types mentioned are rather similar, such as how eulogies are similar to toasts