On March 16th 2017, Natalie Daguiam delivered a persuasive speech to the Speech 2001 class of 25 people at Western University on why sugar is an addictive substance using a PowerPoint presentation as a visual aid. Natalie began her speech with some effective hooks, noticeably grabbing the attention of the audience. This was done in a two-step process, in which she first asked the audience “How do you live a good life?” a general question which seemed to attract some audience attention. She then transitioned into her topic by showing very spectacular and indulging images of sweet desserts while describing how delicious they are, effectively using visual rhetoric to grasp the attention of the remainder of the audience and enhance the pathos of her speech.
Once this was established and the majority of the audience was salivating, Natalie began to explain why humans need sugar and how it can become addictive. She effectively utilized the multimedia effect, using …show more content…
However, the use of unique slide design and appropriate colour combinations relieved some of the clutter. Furthermore, the appeal to ethos was made in the argument that sugar is addictive when scientific evidence was used to explain the dopamine reward system and the activation of different neural circuits upon sugar stimulation. The last minute of the speech was where I felt the most disconnect between the PowerPoint presentation and the speech. The slides were displaying key points from the presentation -which were mostly facts on the physiology of addiction- while the speaker began to talk about if we should give up sugar all together. This created a sense of overwhelming information, as the listener had to read the already excessive amount of information on the slide while simultaneously trying to absorb the spoken
Once this was established and the majority of the audience was salivating, Natalie began to explain why humans need sugar and how it can become addictive. She effectively utilized the multimedia effect, using …show more content…
However, the use of unique slide design and appropriate colour combinations relieved some of the clutter. Furthermore, the appeal to ethos was made in the argument that sugar is addictive when scientific evidence was used to explain the dopamine reward system and the activation of different neural circuits upon sugar stimulation. The last minute of the speech was where I felt the most disconnect between the PowerPoint presentation and the speech. The slides were displaying key points from the presentation -which were mostly facts on the physiology of addiction- while the speaker began to talk about if we should give up sugar all together. This created a sense of overwhelming information, as the listener had to read the already excessive amount of information on the slide while simultaneously trying to absorb the spoken