Ashley Buckner
Persuasive Speech
COMM210D
4/20/12
Why should you smile?
I. Imagine: you wake up in the morning. You get ready and grab a cup of coffee. Then, you walk out the door, seeing many faces as you make your way to work, and walk up to your building. When you walk inside expecting to be greeted by many more positive faces, you see none, and so you walk over and sit down at your desk. While thinking back on your morning to work you were realizing that there was not a moment of joy. There was no laughter, no happiness… nothing. A single coworker or employee did not greet you happily, and a single person walking to work did not smile you at. The world just felt cold and bitter, and now you’re in a terribly bad mood for
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vi. It helps us to not look so tired and overwhelmed. 3. It can wear down the stress before it works you up. f. Smiling reduces your blood pressure and boosts your immune system. vii. Those are two very important things to keep in mind while keeping a healthy living style. viii. “When you smile,” stated by Mark Stibich, “ there is a measurable reduction in your blood pressure.” ix. Smiling relaxes you, and when you are relaxed your immune systems is boosted. IV. Smiling can help you in many, many other ways as well. g. Whether it is with your lips or with your teeth, smiling is how to make for a positive day ahead. x. When you go to an interview you smile to show appreciation. xi. When you are at work you smile to show courtesy. xii. While it takes 43 muscles to frown, it only takes 17 to smile. h. “Smiling is universal.” –quoted by Michael Lee. xiii. There is no barrier on smiling. 4. All races, males, females, any age, and any type of people have the ability to crack a smile whenever they feel the need/want to. xiv. When you smile it breaks the ice of any situation. i. “Smiling has a lot of benefits, not only to you but also to those around you.” – Another quote from Michael Lee’s only blog about smiling improvements to life. V. Smiling makes any day a better day. According to this class, 100% of you agreed that
Results of the experiment overwhelmingly supported the hypothesis. Particularly in the measurements of smiling. Male-female dyads showed extraordinarily higher frequencies of smiling during conversation than the other dyads. Both same gender dyads showed relatively marginal to moderate frequencies for smiling. Eye contact frequencies were also higher for male-female dyads, though not as overwhelmingly as smiling. In contrast, both same gender dyads showed relatively low frequencies for eye contact.
Persuasion is key when trying to compel your audience to do or believe something. Barack Obama, Martin Luther King Jr. and Fannie Lou Hamer all delivered powerful, persuasive speeches that will go down in history. The use of these creative individuals’ language and persuasion played a pivotal role within the civil rights movement. We can observe this in the speakers’ rhetoric devices like ethos, logos and pathos.
b. Walking is a nice, relaxing way to spend time, especially on a nice day.
a) Based on article Laughter is the “Best Medicine” for Your Heart, July 14, 2009 by Michelle W. Murray stated that
In “Happiness 101,” Harvard professor Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar presents his ideas pertaining to the achievability of happiness. He begins by discussing how individuals must give themselves permission to be human, so that they can feel the negative feelings before they reach the positive feelings. If negative feelings are held back without release, then they only intensify eventually blocking out the positive feelings. Ben-Shahar continues his presentation to the topic of managing stress on the micro, mezza, and macro levels. These levels include the ideas of meditation, sleep, taking time off, vacations, and the “three deep breaths.” Simplifying agendas and practicing quality over quantity has a positive effect on stress levels as well. At the conclusion of his presentation, Ben-Shahar discusses the positive effect of practicing gratitude on health, happiness, and well-being. After listening to Tal Ben-Shahar’s presentation, I completely agree with every point that Ben-Shahar uses over the topics of giving permission to be human, stress management, and practicing gratitude covered throughout his presentation over happiness.
4. I agree with this quote because it emphasises how backwards our way of thinking may be when it comes to
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c. I am open to all personality traits. I know that no two people are the same. Yes, I can work with anyone to complete a task or assignment. I recognize the things I do well in and I am able to see area where others excel.
29. When we respond to a stimulus as a Victim, we are most likely to ____.
C. So you may still ask, what does this have to do with me, well let me ask, do you breath?
C. Humans only have a natural obligation to care for other humans in need. [From P4 and P5].
C. Even though struggle can challenge ones outlook on life, a changed life, hope and perseverance can happen with optimism.
C. Link to audience: Imagine that someone in your family, your mom, dad, or sibling were to be killed by a driver who was sending a text message. Was that text worth losing someone you love?
b. Our mentor attributes her health aging to having a positive mindset, keeping active and independent as well as
Vision Reporter (2016) concluded that smiling may seem like an involuntary response to something cute or funny, but it is much more than that. He believes studies suggest that smiling, forced or not, can have a positive effect on the mood, decrease stress levels, and even make everyone around feel better (Vision Reporter, 2016). As Thich Nhat Hanh (n.d) points out, “sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy”. Shimamura, Ross, & Bennett (2006) study determined the advantage of a happy face was observed even when faces were inverted (upside down) and even when the salient perceptual feature (broad grin) was controlled across. According to Kraft and Pressman (2012) study revealed that all smiling participants, regardless of whether they were aware of smiling, had lower heart. Hagan (2010) supports the research adds to mounting evidence that a happy disposition can have a powerful impact on health as well as life expectancy conditions.