How To Survive A Plague Speech

Think of all of your close friends. Now imagine a plague has been taking their lives away from your grasp and you know in your heart that any day now, this could be you. This is the case as seen in the documentary How to Survive a Plague. It is a documentary about how with the power of public speaking a group of people were able to make a change in the production and distribution of AIDS drugs. The documentary displayed the power of working as a group and with good public speaking skills anything you put your mind to can be accomplished. How to Survive a Plague effectively presented that the role of public speaking is a pivotal part of accomplishments, it displayed the various uses of public speaking, and it allowed me to experience a part of history which I did not know much about. The documentary How to Survive a Plague starts out with an underground group of people with AIDs trying to bring awareness to the severity of their …show more content…
In everyday life we use public speaking in many situations. Public speaking plays an important role in a person’s acquisition of power and a person’s ability to gather a following. For example, the first time you spoke to your friend you said something that had them thinking “I want to be friends with this person.” Your words persuaded your friend to be friends with you. Public speaking is very similar to making friends, except you are speaking to a larger audience. You are trying to get your audience to like you, to relate to you, and ultimately to follow you or something you speak about. In the documentary, the speakers of Act Up related to other AIDs patients and even recruited some non AIDS patients that wanted to contribute their knowledge and support. Public speaking was used to persuade the government to experiment on and distribute a safe, effective drug, and to inform the general public and the world of the AIDS patient’s