Audience: How did you analyze your audience and keep them in mind as you developed your speech? How did your audience respond to your speech? Did you feel you interacted well with them?
I took in consideration the age, the cultural differences and the educational level of my audience. Additionally, were the audience looking at me and their facial expressions. The expressions that I received from my audience make me believe that my interaction with audience was good.
Topic Choice: What were the issues you considered in choosing the topic? By what process did you decide?
My decision was made really quickly because I have notice the fact that despite Islam is the the second largest religion in the world but it still remain a mystery in America. Islamophobia in the media is a huge problem some media mostly cover Islam related topic in a negative light. Thus shape people’s opinion as most Americans do not have contact with people embracing Islam. Some of the causes include the 9/11 attack as some people believe Bin Laden was doing it for Islam.
Additionally, the fact that I have to to consistently defend myself when terrorist attack whenever it is made a Muslim. Finally, with all this misinformation how can we coexist in the society and maintain cultural differences? How can respect people’s personal code? For example, why do people care too much about women wearing the hijab, if they feel comfortable with, we should respect it and not judge them.
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Third, after the September 11 attack, the relationship has undergone some profound changes between America and other countries especially with Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Political people in Saudi Arabia did not accept what happened in the United States and other countries have been exposed to violence. In addition, people a treatment became very rude with Muslims because they thought Muslims are agree with American's situation. For example, my uncle came with his family in 2003; they faced a lot of problems with American people. Also, while his wife was wearing Islamic dress, she got a lot of harassments from citizens. So, they could not stay more than one week then they decided to travel to Canada to complete their vacation. In my experience, sometimes old people called terrorist because I wearing Islamic costume. However, after 9\11 Muslim people did many important things for American people. Also, Muslim people
After a horrible terroristic attack that shocked the whole world on September 11th in the center of New York City, Muslims in the Western world have been constantly fighting against prejudice. After September 11, media interest in Islam increased, where Islam was usually portrayed in a negative way. Before 9/11, many Muslims lived the normal, everyday life. However, the attack has changed lives of many people that belonged to the Muslim community, where they were the victims of guilt. Unfortunately, many Americans were introduced to Islam, after the 9/11 attack, thus even till today, Islam is associated with terrorism. For the past ten years, Muslims felt excluded from the American society by being rifled, attacked, discriminated, checked
Audience analysis is described as the process of examining information about your listeners. Then using that analysis helps you adapt your message so that your listeners will respond as you wish (Steven A. and Susan J. Beebe, 2015). It is highly important to read your audience when presenting a speech, the first thing I noticed about my classroom audience was everyone has a good sense of humor and were open minded as to what they might be hearing. In this paper I will be analyzing my classroom audience and describing how they might react to my speeches and what is the best way to present my speeches. I will discuss the differences between each person and how their views will shape my speeches as a whole because ultimately I must appeal to my audience.
Just recently, I had remembered my parents signing an online petition reprehending Islamophobia. With Muslims residing in Canada being stereotyped based on the actions of the uneducated extremists in the middle-east, Muslims are looked at as danger and can be unequally treated when finding jobs, going to school, and even travelling. Consequently, Muslims nationwide wanted some justice for the years of being mistreated and passed an anti-Islamophobia motion – an attempt for social change. I experienced Islamophobia first hand when I noticed the difference between travelling with my mother and father. My mother wore a Hijab, while my father looked somewhat European and almost every time I was stopped at the airport or felt uneasy with my mother and never had troubles when travelling with my father. The Hijab in many ways is a representation of Islam and with it comes all the misleading and controversial allegations against Muslims. I got the same uneasy feeling when I wore a hat that Muslims wear during prayer. Our norms of clothing might be different from the larger culture however we had done nothing
Audience: what argument can you make about the way the beliefs and values, demographics, or shared experience of the audience shaped the speech?
With these questions in mind, please select a topic from one of the three choices listed previously, and include it in your Research Essay Preparation Template.
Since Muslim Americans were now facing discrimination and violence in their every day lives, they felt the need to hide the fact that they were Muslim for their safety and for their sanity. As Shawna Ayoub Ainslie, a Muslim woman, says “I hoped they wouldn’t even remember that I was Muslim” (Blumberg). She was terrified that her friends, classmates and teacher would treat her differently after the attack on 9/11. She did not want to be associated with the terrorists depicted in the news, so she stopped reading the Qur’an between classes because she did not want to be seen in public practicing. She not only altered her religious practices after the attack, but she changed what she wore so she was not perceived as Muslim to the public eye. Ayoub
During the speech, I was also a good speaker in many ways. I had a good voice projection, my hand moment was consistent, I was always facing the audience and held eye contact, and had facial expressions to emphasize the importance of a topic. Right off the bat when I was explaining my citation saying According to the U.S Census Bureau “there are alone 5.7% Asian’s in the United States,” I was pointing my hands to make sure everyone was paying attention to the numbers. Another thing I did well during the speech was, that I kept eye contact with everyone during the speech
The purpose for my speech was to inform the audience about different experiments in social psychology and how they helped contribute to the field of psychology. In my speech, I believed I achieved this goal in communicating to my audience. I will go over some of my strengths, weaknesses, and what I will do next time to improve the quality of my speech. I know that for my next presentation for persuasive speaking, after viewing this last speech, will go better after critically analyzing my informative speech.
Being Muslim in America comes with many challenges and hurdles, but the struggle has just begun. American Muslims have faced a great deal of discrimination from the public and the American government, as well as anti-Muslim sentiment from media outlets that depict Muslims in a negative light. Islamophobia has increased since the 9/11 attacks and Muslims have experience an array of hate crime throughout the years. Unfortunately, due to the ignorance of some and the lack of understanding of others, Muslims have become prime targets and the face of all that’s evil in the world. However, if Americans learn to put their differences aside and try to understand Islam for what it truly is, a religion founded upon peace and justice, they will see that
Provide a description of your audience (e.g., its demographics like age, gender, ethnicity, etc. as well as any other information about them that impacts the way you plan and present the speech (see the textbook, pp. 618–628).
The speaker made direct eye contact at all times unless his head was moving to place emphasis on what he was saying. Further, the speaker spoke loud enough to be heard and did not require me to turn my volume up super high while struggling to hear him. Additionally, the speaker utilized a good pace. He moved slow enough for me to comprehend everything he was telling me but fast enough so that I did not get bored and distracted. Finally, the speaker alternated his pitch throughout the speech which kept my attention. Overall, besides the previously addressed issues, the delivery of the speech was great! I would, however, suggest having more time of the speech spent face to face with the speaker for a more powerful speech.
After re-watching your speech, do you think you clearly explained a complex idea so that a non-expert audience could understand it? Was this a topic that will help your audience in some way? Why or why not? How could you have done this even more effectively?
In the beginning, it was easy. This was possible mainly, because I was blessed to grow up in a multicultural environment. The media portrays Muslims as violent, hateful creatures who think only of killing, when there is so much more to us than what people see. This is not true, but people choose ignorance over knowledge.
Choose Your Topic. Some important points should be considered when choosing a topic. Choose a topic that is of a wide interest. Attitude towards the topic may well determine the amount of effort and enthusiasm the researcher puts while doing the research. There should be sufficient information about the topic. If topic is too broad, there can be difficulty of completing the number