Final Speech: Final Reflection On Public Speaking

aspect of public speaking is appearing confident. Through my use of hand gestures and eye contact, I feel I got sense of confidence across to the audience. By using appropriate gestures that corresponded to the topic or sentence I was addressing, it made the speech feel more active and less stagnant. In combination, by using eye contact and switching being the different people in the audience, this was able to make everyone feel like I as truly addressing them. As a result, the speech came across

Final Reflection Essay I thought this class would be easier than it ended up being. You warned us of this on the first day of class, and you were certainly right. Fortunately, this resulted in me actually improving my public speaking skills, which I will certainly need as I go through my career. Most of the public speaking I’d done before this class involved one-on-one, pitch style speaking. This one done at robotics competitions trying to present our project to judges. While this was certainly

To this day, I harbor vivid memories of the final moments leading up to our product launch. “Get ready - you have sixty seconds, and then we’re live,” the HSN cameraman called out amid a brightly-lit studio. He leaned toward me, my body just inches beyond the camera’s field of view. I was the only company representative on location, and the only respite for any technical issues that could render our portable, inkless printers non-functional. “Alright, you’re on!” He motioned to the set with a

Cheyenne Baker COMM 121-06 Garien Hudson Final Exam Introduction The purpose of this essay is to reflect, to reflect on a class nobody wishes to take but has to. It is also to reflect on what was learned in said class. Speaking Skills These skills are the ones everyone stereotypically expect to learn about in a speech class such as Communications. I must admit I have horrid speaking skills, I still do. Even though I do have a job where I communicate with people constantly, I mess up often. I

I completed this reflection process using Gibb’s reflective cycle. I am grateful to my lecturer and fellow class members for helping me through this experience. Description My group’s presentation was on ‘Nutrition’ which focused on Maori adolescents aged 10-12 years. We all stood at the front of classroom presenting the topic to our lecturer and fellow classmates. For a clearer explanation of each section we used PowerPoint slides. In order to capture the audience’s attention, we avoided adding

in early 2015, the topic of free speech seemed to regalvanize. This conversation will only pick up more momentum and fully convicted sentiments with the rise of social movements like the Black Lives Matter and Social Justice Warrior movements. Edward Morrisey writes his article, The Coming Demise of Free Speech in America, to share information regarding the first amendment, respective court cases, and the results of an implementation of a hypothetical ‘hate speech’ law. The substance and its presentation

Tasked with travelling to Los Angeles, California to host our first hackathon, I stood up in front of a crowd of over 200 eager software developers to deliver the hackathon’s opening speech. If only I was a public speaker at the time. As I began my presentation, confident wording quickly gave way to an amalgamation of nerves and self-doubt. Nervously, my body tensed and my legs shook as I stammered out a timid, “Thank you for coming to our Hackathon

for sex, not the media or literature of their daily lives. Again, if the people of the United States feel uncomfortable exploring the web, watching a movie, listening to the radio, or even opening a magazine, then the government needs to seriously reflection on its purpose and duties as the

strived to be like them in their life, a concept that has transcended time and civilizations. A reflection of this idea is found in Passage 2 in which the picture on the shield of Achilles is described. It depicts a microcosm of aristocratic culture in ancient Greece through the extravagant and sophisticated interactions between the members of the wealthy upper class and to those beneath them. Well-versed speech was an essential factor in the construct of power. In Passage 2, the “quarrel” that arises

When I began writing my commencement speech I knew that I wanted to use humor as a main theme. When we watched the speech examples in class the ones that I really took material away from and the ones that stuck with me the longest were the ones that were funny and had humor sprinkled throughout. Other than the humor part I had no idea what I wanted my speech to be about but I knew that I needed to stick with a common theme throughout or it would be a mess. Once I had the reoccurring dream about