Prepare / deliver a speech on a true story about an event that happened to you that has helped to shape a personal belief. A story has a clear beginning, middle and end. It is about a single event. A story, for example, is NOT an autobiography, a list of places you visited on a summer trip, or experiences you might have had at work. A story is one particular event in your life, your experience when you visited one place on a summer trip or one event that happened to you at work. For example, a first date, seeing the Grand Canyon, dealing with an irate customer at work, the birth of a child, crashing a bike, getting a tattoo, waiting on a famous person, are all experiences that would work for this assignment..