martes, 12 de julio de 2011

Review On Prose Reading At The NFL Tournaments

The NFL tournaments, competition and contest are speech art competitions that are organized for students in high school. This organization is a non profit and non partisan youth league. The main purpose of the National Forensic League is to encourage and motivate secondary school pupils in speech art. It offers college scholarships as motivation to winners in the speech art competitions. Examples of facets in Speech art are like debate, interscholastic debate, oral interpretation of literature, public speaking, community speaking and so on. The National Forensic League plays a major role in high school debate competition and contests.

NFL has a membership base of over one million members world wide. All its members are expected to abide by the NFL code of honor which consists of five tenets. These tenets are integrity, service, leadership, respect and humility. All students in both public and private secondary schools are eligible to be members on approval from their principal and payment of associated fees.

Points are earned by students when they participate in student congress, speech contest, community speaking, and interscholastic debate. Degrees are also awarded by these organization based on the number of points accrued by any particular student. Points accrued by students from a particular school are also factored in when deciding the number of student the school can field at the NFL tournaments

NFL awards a number of degrees. Degree of merit, this is awarded on accruing twenty five points. Degree of honor, this degree is awarded on attaining 75 points. Excellence degree is secured on accruing 150 points. Degree of distinction, this is awarded once an individual attains 250 points. Special distinction degree, this is secured on accruing five hundred points. The outstanding distinction degree is secured once a student accrues one thousand points.

The League mission is to empower youths to become effective communicators, critical thinkers and leaders of a free and just society. These are the core values in the organizations mission statement. The league increases public awareness on matters that relate to speech art by organizing countrywide contests and competitions

Winners in these contests are awarded over one hundred thousand dollars in college scholarship. This is a major motivation factor to all participating students. Though there are some life long members, only students in high school are allowed to participate in the tournaments.

The national speech tournament has been held continuously since nineteen thirty one. It only failed to organize the tournaments during the Second World War period that is between nineteen thirty nine and nineteen forty five. Participants in these contests compete in story telling, policy debate, value debate, original oratory, prose reading, poetry reading and public forums among other contests.

NFL tournaments are usually carried out at state, national and district levels. Points that any member accrues in the state or district level catapult the participant to compete at the national tournament. There are other points that participant can garner, this are called the service points. For instance if a participant addresses or delivers a speech to about twenty five adults he or she is entitled to 25 service points.


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