Category: Writers Block
the passion speech
I thought over all my speech was good though long, personally just my opinion, I really like them. I was passionate about both issues, but more about the politics one though, I am a psychology major. Yes, they were long, but that's because I was passionate. I admit that my passion is good, but it is a double edged sword or whatever that expression was.
I think in answering the question what I learnt that I applied we must ask ourselves what was better this time. Though, I did thumble around in both speeches, I do have to admit in terms of writing it, it was more organized. I learnt organization was important. I placed the sources on top of the said paragraphs before. I must admit, that was a mistake, because I couldn't find them, and that didn't feel good. My logic told me that, it was not going to work. So, my reasoning resulted in me placing my sources in my bullet points. I didn't get much feedback from the class, so honestly, I had no idea what else to improve upon, in terms of big ideas. In terms of actually giving the speech it was pretty interesting, but like always, my critical defensive side doesn't help me think positively.
People think that I criticize them harshly, than they have no idea to what endless extent, I pick at myself. Except enjoying my topic, and being rather passionate about my topic, I have no idea. The question, is what did I not like. That would give you more answers almost everything. I think my outline was good, but maybe I made a fool out of myself and a bad example of the right for making such a fool out of myself. However, I do think that planning was really rather good.
I spent sometime planning, but not extremely a lot or researching. I am a passionate republican and is as right as you can get. I am nearly an anarchist, but no, I am not religious. I believe that, I knew my subject well, already but I forgot to use all my resources. I had the audio, but was so rushed and panicked that I forgot to play them. My first clip was from a speech Perry gave in Louisiana, which was followed by the crowd chanting "Run rick run!" I recorded his 4 basic principals in the middle of the speech. My other clip was another texan, Paul, during the GOP debates. My favorite line was when he introduced himself and he says, "I am the champion of liberty. I always thought that was amusing and I always got a laugh, yet that really characterizes Ron Paul. My sources were the gop debate with cain and my other source was perry again, in another GOP debate when he says what every republican has said, that we don't want more taxes, we want "flatter and fairer" taxes. I basically knew what, I was going to research when I got my idea, so it was not a hard research project at all. I've been studying and been interested in this for three years. So, I already have been researching this for a while now. I took my most recent researches however, because I could remember where they were the best. Well, I could take something from Atlas Shrugged, but I have to read the book again and find the quotes, and that wasn't worth it. Half of the stuff has more to do withapplied politics, anyway, rather then actual politics that was current. Also, Atlas was also a fiction book. Same with the fountainhead or 1984 or something along these lines. So, I found the debates and speeches, pulled the quotes, pulled out my mic, recorded the clips, wrote the outline, and dropped the quotes in. There you have it, my speech preparing process, pretty simple and a piece of cake.
If I was given a chance to redo the speech, I would want to see where I could cut or focus on modern politics or such like that. I did spend some time talking about the idea and history, because it would be shorter, which is what I really need to work on the length of all my speeches. That is important, I would also find a way to organize myself better and practice more efficiently. As to what I can do to improve myself and help myself achieve what I stated above as to what I could do about my time, talk about a narrower topic, work on knowing how long to write for, and what my time restraints are. I also need to find some method to improve myself, which at this point, I am not sure what to do. In terms of the overall assignment.
define the question of helpful, because the worksheet was just a worksheet nothing stuck out at me as extra helpful. It was very clear, and I had no questions of what to do or write, but it was not extra helpful just as usual. In terms of the speech itself, and my own paper, I could say it helped me a lot. It helped me think closer about my issue at hand. I was passionate, but like most questions and presentation and research it helped me examine things in a more critical light, which strengthen my passion. It made me more proud that I was a right winged conservative, that's for sure. As to my unsatisfactory thought?
I am not sure, because I thought the assignment was great in many aspects. First, it was broad enough, which could be distracting, but I rather the choice. I like how we could pick anything as long as we're passionate. it really gives us a lot of topic to choose from and freedom to speak about what we will. I appreciate that. I like giving speeches in general, but I also think as a wordy person, the length of the speech could be made longer, but then again, that's my opinion. That might not be such a good idea.
To conclude, I felt as if this was a great opportunity, and I enjoyed it. I might not pforermed as well, but what is done is done and now we just have to move forward and rise to the challenge and improve ourselves every single day. I will end with saying that I appreciate the opportunity and thank you.
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the persuasive speech
First, I must say this speech was difficult for me or a little more challenging, because I was presenting something I had just learnt over the past month. I had written an essay about it, the effective bribe essay that I modeled my speech on was for my rhetoric 110 class, but I will be willing to admit, that I was still new to it. So, it was interesting to say the least, but I enjoyed it, every minute too. I always enjoy a good challenge and if this was not one, I don't know what was, and to speak about something, I had just read about and was not overly confident about was challenging. I must admit that, it was a struggle to find areally strong argument for this paper and I am hoping that I did achieve that. If not a strong argument, some sort of argument. This speech, while the resources was readily available, was not easy to find and this speech required the most thinking to put together. I made it a little difficult for myself by talking on something a little more new to me. These were not sources, I knew about for years like the past papers, but for weeks, and I had just finish reading them too, and writing that english paper. Anyway, I am done with my how hard it was for me rant, so on to more serious matters. Despite it being difficult, I did take strategies from the previous speeches. I used the data, with my feedback and my own trial and error results to improve this speech.
While my last speech, the passion speech on Republican politics was 15 minutes and thus was doubled the time, this one was only about nine minutes and 30 seconds, I was sure to make this shorter and more to the point. Also as the passion speech, I placed the sources in with my points so I know how to refforence it quickly rather than placing them in the beginning and struggling to find how to list them. I did a lot of what I did in my passion speech except maybe keeping it shorter. I think , I did okay, which leads me into what I think I could improve on. As with the last speech there's more things that I didn't like rather then liking.
In looking back, I could have been more organized again. I again stumbled and fumbled through, not in structure, but in within the paragraphs. Yes, again I exceeded the limit, only by a minute and about a half this time. I seem to always go over, which bothers me, I really am not sure quite what to do. I tried rehearsing this time as I did with my first speech in front of a mic, but that took even longer and it was more awkward than not. There just isn't people around here to practice on, I much less who want to talk to me, so practicing in front of people is really not an option. I tried counting words and pages because the five pager seems to be too long, but so does three pages. I am looking at the options, and I have no idea what to do better or how to improve. If I was to do this again, I am not sure what would be different here. Probably the length and the organization. I have tried a lot of things in terms of effort wise and nothing seems to work for me. I guess, I have to look more closely for solutions, I have one more speech and I really hope to do well. On the other hand, there are interesting things I do like, but few.
I enjoyed my topic a lot, besides that's why I chose it, I did spend four weeks researching it. I am passionate about it and I do think it should be used more. I organized my topic, and I liked my organization of points. I enjoyed putting it together, it was very painless, because I had all the research done and in front of me too. The quotes were pulled, the references in apa sited, and everything was pretty much done and just fell in placed., since this was a recycled paper. There were not much in terms of excitement. It was a piece of cake, I didn't have much time, and that's what I really appreeciated. My research was long however, but this goes in my english paper bit, and I don't know how much you want me to elaborate on.
My library research was delayed and pushed back, but it got done. I took many days and many searches. I went back to the library many times to get more help on searching. At one point, I forgot what I had searched after I delayed my research due to other work that didn't allow me time to research. I tried it once again after a span of time hoping to remember, but couldn't so I went back. I looked on Fusion, Psychinfo, and ERIC. However, a bit of a problem with my research was a lot of the research that came up was not exactly what I was looking for. While one article was certainly close enough, it was not exactly what I actually meant and wanted to do my research for. This article was called Personalizing Behavior Modification and it discusses something called process reinforcement. The rest were good enough, though it didn't talk about the reasoning part, as it just discussed methods on how to praising the children and why praise was so great, which is all great and good except that without reason, I am not sure how effective it would be. It seems to me, that this method would be less of a permanent solution and much more of a temporary fix. However, I couldn't find what I was looking for, so I guess that would have to do. I ended up adding my opinion about the reasoning myself in one of the points and relied one of the points.
To conclude, I enjoyed this speech and thought it was interesting to give. I am just hoping people took something from it and benefited. I appreciated the opportunity to be able to give it.