This year I started working on campus at UNI in the Postsecondary Education and Educational Leadership office. For the first part of the semester, my job was to assist in planning the Hall of Excellence event that has been happening every year for the past 13 years at UNI. Through this task, I had the opportunity to meet Jason Lau. Jason Lau was nominated by the Hall of Excellence committee as a candidate to be an inductee for the Class of 2016. To be nominated as a candidate, an individual must be a distinguished UNI graduate from the School of Health, Physical Education, and Leisure Services. The individual must have had at least ten years of service to their profession and meet specific criteria established by the committee. Jason was
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It was easy to follow his story because he told it in a time sequential chronological order. He provided the audience with four reasons that helped him “design” the individual he is today. As I listened to his story, I found myself listening with empathy. I think most of the audience may have reacted this way because even though most of us haven’t experienced a situation like Jason’s, he still made references that connected with the audience. While keeping it personal, he incorporated situations that the audience would relate to because of cultural influences. Some of the cultural influences, Jason mentioned where the opportunities he had in America, Iowa specifically that he wouldn’t have ever had in China. The two that I could easily relate to where riding four wheelers on the farm, and eating a “big mac” from one of the famous burger joints in …show more content…
Figuring out the demographic analysis was probably easy because individuals invited to the event are faculty and staff, past inductees, present inductees, and present inductees guest. The contextual analysis was pretty vague because the inductees only had a rough outline of the event so unless you haven’t attended the event before you wouldn’t really know exactly how the day went. Personally, I think Jason hit the nail on the head with the psychological analysis. For not ever having met Jason before in my life, I feel like after listening to his speech I have known him on a personal level for quite some time. Lastly, Jason ended concluding with another heartfelt thank you. There was a quote Jason ended with that really hit home, “thanks for making the impossible possible”. Listening to Jason’s speech almost made me realize how many things I take for granted in life. There aren’t many eye openers that actually make you stop in your tracks to take a moment and think how different your life could be. Like Jason said it is a wonderful thing to be living the American
It was easy to follow his story because he told it in a time sequential chronological order. He provided the audience with four reasons that helped him “design” the individual he is today. As I listened to his story, I found myself listening with empathy. I think most of the audience may have reacted this way because even though most of us haven’t experienced a situation like Jason’s, he still made references that connected with the audience. While keeping it personal, he incorporated situations that the audience would relate to because of cultural influences. Some of the cultural influences, Jason mentioned where the opportunities he had in America, Iowa specifically that he wouldn’t have ever had in China. The two that I could easily relate to where riding four wheelers on the farm, and eating a “big mac” from one of the famous burger joints in …show more content…
Figuring out the demographic analysis was probably easy because individuals invited to the event are faculty and staff, past inductees, present inductees, and present inductees guest. The contextual analysis was pretty vague because the inductees only had a rough outline of the event so unless you haven’t attended the event before you wouldn’t really know exactly how the day went. Personally, I think Jason hit the nail on the head with the psychological analysis. For not ever having met Jason before in my life, I feel like after listening to his speech I have known him on a personal level for quite some time. Lastly, Jason ended concluding with another heartfelt thank you. There was a quote Jason ended with that really hit home, “thanks for making the impossible possible”. Listening to Jason’s speech almost made me realize how many things I take for granted in life. There aren’t many eye openers that actually make you stop in your tracks to take a moment and think how different your life could be. Like Jason said it is a wonderful thing to be living the American