Outstanding Speaker Reflection

“So God made a farmer” (Harvey). This famous phrase was originally spoken by a famous radio personality Paul Harvey, and last year was heard by many on the night of the 2013 Super Bowl in a Rams truck commercial. It is impressive that a speech that was originally written and spoken in 1978, reached out to an audience in today’s age and is still relevant to people with many different backgrounds. In this essay, I am going to analyze Paul Harvey’s speech and delivery by discussing what rhetorical strategies he used and why these tactics worked, and finally how the speech could have been improved.

As seen in the passages, the speaker is a highly philosophical and educated person in the field of critical reading. For instance, the speaker makes many comparison such as buying a beefsteak and eating it and distinguishing whether a book owner owns woodpulp and ink or the book itself. The speaker stated that even though one may have the beefsteak in their icebox, it doesn’t truly belong to them until they consume it. Similar to the beefsteak situation, one truly owns the book if he or she writes in it, but only owns the ink and wood pulp if he or she lets the book sit on the shelf, untouched. The speaker’s temperaments are revealed to the readers through his opinions about books and critical readings. Furthermore, the the speaker’s identity is apparent in the story due to the first-person narration in the beginning and the use of the word “you” to show that he is talking directly to the readers.

While living in the South, Richard refuses to accept the racial stereotypes imposed on him as a black man. He tries to fight for himself to create his own identity until realizing that his only hope was to leave the South. On his high school graduation, Richard shows his strong heart by reading his own speech, rather than reading the speech written for him by the principal. He remembers, “On the night of graduation I was nervous and tense; I rose and faced the audience and my speech rolled out. When my voice stopped there was some applause. I did not care if they liked it or not; I was through” (Wright 211). Richard refuses to accept white people talking for him, as the principal had tried to, and speaks up for himself. Rather than conforming

My visual aid was the strongest part about my speech. I brought in the ingredients to make Tiramisu to show which brands I like to use for the recipe. I also prepared Tiramisu for the class as my hold interest technique. To relate the topic to the audience, I told them that they could make this recipe when they want to impress someone. My credibility was also convincing as I informed the class I had researched and compiled the best recipe. My introduction in general was concise and convinced the audience pay attention to the rest of my speech. I also thought my tone was conversational and not too formal.

For my out of class speaker critique assignment, I chose to go and attend the public lecture on campus by Mr. Jim Davis, the creator of the Garfield the Cat syndicated comics. The event took place in Sursa Hall inside the Music Instruction Building, and it lasted an hour and half long from 7:00 to 8:30 pm. This lecture occurred on Wednesday, February 15th. In his speech, Mr. Davis talked about his youthful years, the initial challenges he faced, the business strategies he used, and the wild adventure he endured throughout his comical Garfield business adventures.

I would like to start my journal by discussing our guest speaker last week, Joseph Sanok. Joe really helped me explore a side of social work that I have yet to have thought about before. I always viewed private practice as something that I would never achieve, so why should I even contemplate it. After reading Joe’s book, Practice of the Practice, and listening to him in class it has really opened my eyes that private practice is obtainable and not a far future dream. It was nice to hear him discuss the money and profit side of school work. I would be interested to talk more with Joe and I would also highly recommend that either a professor or the social work program bring him in again to talk to more students. I think it would be beneficial to have him talk to the whole graduate program but would also encourage if possible undergrad as well.

Since my time at Sparks Elementary I have only been able to observe two routines that my mentor teacher has done with the other 3rd grade teacher’s. To start off the morning, Mr.Locklear meets his class in the cafeteria to greet them before the day get’s started. The teachers then instruct the student’s to set their backpack’s in their designated area and take the materials needed for their first rotation of class. When the student’s have set there belonging’s down, the teacher’s line up the students in the middle of the common area, where the student’s will be lead to their special’s classes like Music, P.E and Art. While the student’s part take in special’s, Mr. Locklear takes care of any last minute assignment’s or note’s he need’s before he start’s teaching his first class. He also take’s part in a weekly meeting the 3rd grade teacher’s conduct to go over any announcement’s or strategies. Once the student’s come back from special’s, Mr.Locklear starts off his math lesson with Mrs. Sanchez classroom. As soon as the student’s enter the class, they are instructed to take out their journal’s and engage with what the teacher is teaching for the first 10 minutes of class. In those first few minutes of class Mr. Locklear introduces the topic or objective that the students will be learning and engages them to participate in the examples he places on the permithian board. He then has the student’s break up into group’s to do their daily math station’s. While some student’s do

For the TeachLive conference I received scenario #1. The goal of the experience was for Ms. Mcgowan to be aware that her son received a detention due to rude behavior and attitude and to schedule a date and time for him to serve the detention. This did not take place. I did not bring up the detention nor did we schedule a date and time for the detention. What worked in the conference is I showed concern for Sean. What did not work was I allowed Ms. McGowan to deter me from focusing on Sean because of defending my teachers by assuring her that I would look into her concern of Sean being humiliated. I also interrupted Ms. Mcgowan to deter her rampage about Mr. Ferguson from escalating and focus our conference back to Sean.

A prime example of the lighting is how Daniel Plainview always appears darker than the other characters. This creates a mood to make Plainview seem more like an antagonist because he is a darker, or lower level character. An example of this is when he is making the deal with Eli’s brother at the beginning of the story to take over some land for extra cheap. An example of the lighting going up to create a protagonist is Eli preaching and seeing everyone out of the church. Eli is meant to be a good so it is very bright and cheerful. The sound also helps with suspense and with the setting such as the very beginning; the music creates a feeling of isolation and never getting out if Plainview were to get hurt in the

There have been some arguments as to who should be nominated best speaker in History. Indeed, choosing the best speaker in History is not an easy task. We should keep in mind that one of the most important criteria for someone to be the best speaker in History is that their speeches must have a lasting impact on their audience (Mckay). Namely, they must effect change, in thought or deed, in their audience. With this in mind we can see how some try to argue against the fact that this is what Winston Churchill did.

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For this speech I choose to have my topic be something I have a strong personal connection to which was Rave culture, its history and practices. Choosing this to be my topic of choice I was able to be motivated in researching it and I believe my genuine interest in the topic showed in my presentation. In this self-eval I will be discussing the structure and style along with what I am taking away from this speech.

My dependable dad, for my heritage speech I spoke about my dad. I shared on February sixth how he shows his dedication to both his job and family along with some past memories we’ve shared together and advice he has taught me. Before I shared my speech I was very nervous because I’m know as the shy girl that never raises her hand even if she knows the answer. Although I was confident I knew my speech and practiced it many times so I knew there shouldn’t be anything to be scared of. My speech had some positives, one of which was the fact that I used the SA walking method, made eye contact throughout and showed some emotion like laughing or smiling at the past funny stories. My structure was good and the transitions

I am one of those who suffer from butterflies, that uncomfortable feeling in my chest and stomach, before speaking in public. This is not only a problem for myself, but it is also a common fear and a concern for many people. My purpose is to denounce a few dynamics I feel have helped me to become a more effective speaker and to manage my butterflies. I will prove to you that strong body language makes ideas and feelings more clear, vigorous and engaging. First, I will show how eye contact unconsciously engages the audience. Second, I will prove that vocal emphasis is the key to a vigorous speech. Third, I will confirm that gestures reinforce the ideas of the speech, making the speech

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