Checkers speech

dreading having to say the first speech. Then we had our first online class, I felt a lot more prepared and had a better understanding of what was expected. Through com103 I was able to grow an understanding of how to prepare and organize a speech, I was able to decrease the anxiety I get before a speech, effectively listen and am now more prepared to talk and…

Language is a truly unique thing since everyone utilizes it differently allowing people to show who they are. When I was in the sixth grade, I attended a summer camp where many of the campers were from Tennessee. Living in Alabama, I believed that I had a southern accent, but these campers made my accent seem nonexistent. Many people have stories like this one where they sound different or used different words than the people that they are speaking with at the time. In James Baldwin’s essay, he…

Speech 5 was no doubt the most difficult one. My topic was the importance of voting, in my speech I talked about how my oldest brother was into politics and how growing up he always emphasized the importance of voting to myself and my entire family as well. As my speech progressed I talked about how every vote matters and how, as crazy as it sounds Donald Trump could help draw a new audience to politics. I tried by best to show the audience just how important voting really was by giving them…

Preserving Endangered Languages As An Art Form The article “Why Do Language Die?” by Noah Tesch reminds me a conversation that I had with a Cherokee when I visited a Cherokee Preservation festival at the Cherokee National Park several years ago. When I asked if they are speaking their native languages, he replied to me that the government requires their younger generations to learn whatever are in the culture of Cherokee, including learning the Cherokee language because their languages are near…

The senior project kick-off made feel that I am going on the right path with my project, during the begging of the school year I didn't really know what to do with my project. As the year went on and doing my research paper, I got an idea of what I really want to do with my project and the main point of my project. Speaking in front of adults is a lot different from speaking to my fellow classmates because with your classmates your a lot comfortable speaking in front of them and used to being…

slideshow presentation on this dinosaur. I was terrified to present because my peers laughed at my speech impediment. Joselyn, the cult leader, made me feel so alone while I was at school. To avoid humiliation, I asked my teacher if I could present just to her. She looked at me coldly and said I needed to grow up and “get over it.” But I could not just “get over” this feeling of failure. I had attended speech classes from kindergarten to fifth grade, but the classes did not help much. I still…

My clinic client that I observe has his therapy session on Tuesdays at 10:15. He is around 3 years old and originally had the diagnosis of language delay. His diagnosis has changed from that to developmental articulation disorder and expressive language disorder. One thing that surprised me was that most of the activities during the therapy session are the client is just playing and then the clinician tries to get him to produce words and utterances. One specific experience that I remember was…

For this extra credit opportunity, I watched the first Republican debates of the 2016 campaign. Given that this assignment is for an advanced public speaking course, I focused most of my attention on the nonverbal communication of the debaters and their use of rhetorical devices, two qualities that distinguish advanced public speakers. During the course of the debate, several candidates showed strengths and weaknesses in these areas. Every candidate appeared to understand the importance of…

sweaty so that causes me to move my fingers around to make them not as sweaty. I like to shift my weight back and forth because it keeps me moving. Also when I am giving a speech I feel like I can only make eye contact with the person that is grading me and just glance at the audience here and there. Just giving our first speech with the Chinese fortune cookie, I was nervous right when I stepped up and right away I felt my face go red and the room get hot. I think it’s because I feel like I am…

my interest in and vocal support of egalitarianism, I was later nominated by my English teacher, Mrs. Lindsay Gutierrez, for the Jack Weinstein Award through Facing History and Ourselves. I won the award thereafter, because I made a video-recorded speech regarding gender discrimination intervention that was terse yet impassioned. I recounted a past event that compelled me to take a stance against sexism: I went against my grandfather. The patriarchal traditions and values he held could not take…