Most everyone has been on a sports team, or has a concept of what happens before a game in higher age athletics. Perhaps you don’t have any concept of either, but just really enjoy listening to others speak to help you feel motivated to do something. That was my exact genre, motivational speeches, specifically in athletics. These two are different in their own ways, but their message is always the same. What exactly makes a motivational speech so emotionally changing? Is there any kind of rhyme or reason to how they are words are spoken or is it just a natural talent of the speaker to be truly motivational?
Reading Wardle’s piece on “Writing in New Workplaces” made me think of common workplaces like coffee shops and big businesses, however, depending on who you talk to, playing sports is a workplace, and we all have to be able to communicate. In this specific case I’m talking about motivation, but there are plenty of other types of communication that occur when playing sports. If a sports team is a new atmosphere for you, you probably won’t be the one standing up in front of the whole team trying to get them to all come together for a common cause. You’d most likely just leave that to the guys that have been here longer or to
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the coaches. Coaches don’t quite get the same luxury unfortunately. If you’re a coach coming to a new work place you have to be ready to inspire your team to go out and put forth their best effort. Chances are though that coaches will
Sport’s are an aspect of life that affect societies across the globe. Athletics affect everyone's life, whether that be playing the sport, watching games, or hearing about a sporting event. There is a big difference between playing an individual sport and players relying on their own athletic abilities versus a team sport when members of the team rely on their teammates to complete each individual's specific responsibility to reach the team's goal. Team sports bring people together in countless ways, and they teach many life skills for the athletes that participate in them. Some of these skills include communication, teamwork, discipline, work ethic, dedication, leadership, and numerous more that will help them in their personal and work
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.
Just because a soldier comes back and has PSTD does not mean he will go into a work places snap and go on a violent rampage. These men and women come home and want come back into society and be accepted, welcomed, and feel like they have helped the people they fought for. The don’t wanna be singled out and and ignored because of what they went through, it is just not fair not to hire someone that is perfectly qualified and able to do a job and not give them that job because they were a veteran.
The message I will be conveying is the importance of embracing failure. My role will be myself as I understand myself the best. The audience addressed will be my fellow classmates. In the format of a speech.
Participating in organized basketball and football for ten years presented me the opportunity to achieve common goals working side-by-side with a variety of different personalities. Playing sports drove home the importance of harnessing different personalities and skill sets as key components to teamwork. Fundamental to teamwork is the ability to encourage others, to pick up new information, to learn from mistakes, to hold oneself accountable and to overcome defeat. Over time I have found that the lessons learned through team sports are broadly applicable tools for success. For instance, this past summer my
-patient-centered is the consideration of behavior change that is viewed from the patient’s perspective rather than the clinician’s perspective
This essay will discuss the four stages to motivational interviewing and it’s theories to motivating people for change. The content within this essay will also critically analyze how motivational interviewing is utilised in therapy as a tool to approach the issue of alcohol abuse/dependency and how this can contribute to a person’s recovery. As a clinician I will also reflect on why a female client who was affected by a mental disorder would become dependent on a substance such as alcohol, who describes her alcohol use as a coping strategy to minimize her auditory hallucinations even though this was a short intervention. For people who are affected by mental disorders, find coping with the stressors of illness and everyday life motivates the misuse of substances that have negative effects on their illness causing abuse and dependency, (Cleary, Hunt, Morley, Siegfried & Sitharthan 2014).
Thump thump. Thump thump. Thump thump. My heart beats like a jackhammer in my chest. Thundering cheering echos from the sidelines, barely audible in my own ears over the rythmic sound of my feet scraping on the track, my steady breathing, and the blurred white noise. As the finish line lies just a short one hundred meters away, I pump my arms harder and focus on gaining on my competetor. Adrenaline courses through my body as I not only pass the navy blue jersey to my left, but also cross the finish line. The feeling of running in that purple uniform never changes. While running on the track and standing on the sidelines may seem like polar opposite actions, they share qualities that set them alike. Due to the experience of being a former spectator
To begin, I strongly agree that journeys have the ability to challenge our thinking as they have the power to change our pre-conceived perspective and reaffirm our existing viewpoint.
1. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) revealed that 515,000 people were injured in various car crashes in the United States due to texting. Around 28 percent of all crashes in 2008 were caused by drivers in the age group of 18 and 29, who admitted to texting while driving. (http://www.buzzle.com/articles/texting-while-driving-statistics.html)
The World Wide Fund for Nature or WWF for short has worked at reducing our carbon footprint for over 45 years. Even since 1985, the World Wildlife Fund Network has invested over $1.165 billion in more than 11,000 projects. According to the WWF website, their mission is to conserve nature which they are actively doing in 100 countries with 1.2 million members in the United States and close to 5 million globally. There are several ways that everyone can do their part in supporting WWF. Supporters can donate money, adopt a species, or take action and directly help conserve our environment. I am going to discuss WWF’s cause and importance, how they are working to conserve nature, and how all of you can help support the cause.
At every level of any team sport communication is one of the most vital components to success. Because teams are often comprised of players who have not played together, getting to know each other well is essential to having strong communication. As captain and center position I got to know
Communication and rhetoric in sports has always been an interest to communication scholars. Analyzing the communication used in Coach Brook’s locker room speech lets one understand how Burke’s pentad makes it all work. Burke’s pentad originated, “as a tool used to systematically dismantle and understand the bases of human conduct and motivation”(Ling, 1969, p. 81). This analysis relies heavily on motivation and why the speaker is doing what
a. The following poem by Robert Test entitled, "To Remember Me," shows the importance of organ donation.
An American literary theorist and novelist, Kenneth Burke, once said, “Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.” (Burke) 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 motivational individuals’ language and persuasion played a pivotal role within the civil rights movement, the movement that achieved the most important breakthrough in the equal rights legislation. We can observe this in the speakers’ rhetoric devices like ethos, logos and pathos.