Oratory

When starting something new or changing an aspect of your life, you may have a little voice in your head that is doubtful of your abilities to succeed. The little voice that says things like “I am such a disappointment” or in my case, “Why did I even think about taking Psychology 150? I can not pass that class.” This little voice, as small as it may be, slowly eats away at your confidence until there is nothing left...unless you learn how to diminish it. On the same note, while…

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears."(Shakespeare, William. The Tragedy of Julius Caesar). An oration is a formal public speech delivered on a special occasion such as a funeral. As Brutus and Mark Antony clearly exemplified, there are many different approaches to giving a funeral oration. Both men gave very impacting orations, but they use extremely different methods to sway the crowd. Mark Antony took the heartfelt, emotional approach, while Brutus took the logical, reason-filled…

Letter of Intent: First of all, I would like to say thank you to every member on the 2015-2016 E-board for the hard work and dedication you put into the association. Reflecting back on this year, we were able to perform at a level that other student’s organizations only hope to and for that I can say that I am proud to have served with all of you. My goal since the first day that I set foot on Temple’s campus has been to be the most competitive Pre-PT student that I could be. The…

All you need to know about public speaking When it comes to speaking in public, everybody almost feels the same way; it’s scary because you never know what’s going to happen, who’s going to be attending or how people are going to receive your speech. In other words, people are scared to speak to a crowd. And it’s not hard to understand why. Imagine that you’ve been assigned with selling a new cooking device for your first day at work. You’ve never done it before, and were only given 30 minutes…

I greatly appreciate taking this course with you Professor Skibba. What I have gained, knowledge wise, has improved my everyday resources. My original goals had the intention to become better in communication. In the first essay, I mentioned, for me it 's hard to grasp the minuet details in many arenas. This issue often led to unclear thoughts and to a lower self-esteem. Furthermore, realizing that as an apparent problem brought forth the need for a solution. Basic ways of learning wasn 't…

When giving speeches most of the time the person giving the speech is experiencing Communication apprehension. The definition of Communication apprehension is the level of fear, or anxiety, an individual faces when having to communicate with one or multiple people. I have dealt with Communication apprehension for quite a while now. Although it is not as bad, as it used to be. My freshman year of college, I was actually enrolled in the COMS 130 course, but my fear of public speaking, caused me to…

In the article Why Everyone Can and Should be a Leader it starts out talking about where to find leadership, “ It is said that leadership starts at the top. This is often true of course but it is far from being the whole story. Leaders can also be found at the bottom of an organization and it just about every place in between.” (Wharton, 1) This quote perfectly describes Beca and where she starts off as a leader. Pitch Perfect incorporated all the steps into become a successful group. The movie…

The first guideline is “Don’t overestimate what the audience knows.” What this essentially means is that a speaker should never just assume that the audience knows the topic well. The audience might never have heard about the topic before, so the speaker must be sure to either elaborate or simplify the topic to make it easier to understand from the perspective of a first-time listener. The second guideline is “Relate the subject directly to the audience.” In order to give a successful…

As a student I have always tried to avoid public speaking courses as much as possible. Especially the ones that are for public speaking, once I found out I was going to have to take a public speaking course I was dreading the moment than I found out I could take it solely online and I thought oh this wont be as bad, even though I was still pretty anxious about it. Once in Com103 I was dreading having to say the first speech. Then we had our first online class, I felt a lot more prepared and had…

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…