COM 110 - 002
Friday December 07, 2007
Call to Action
Reviewer: Melanie Moses
Speaker: Alex
I think that Alex did a good job on her speech. She restated her points from her last speech but I think she was a little nervous in her delivery in the beginning of her speech. She stated the amount of children that become smokers and that the tax on cigarettes should be raised. I think that she stated everything in a great way and she got that motivation across.
Alex's entire speech showed her support of raising the taxes and it really showed. There seemed to be passion in her topic and that made everyone pay attention to the facts of her speech.
Posted by memoses2 ( Dec 07 2007, 02:39:46 PM EST ) Permalink Comments [0]call to action
Reviewer: Melanie Moses
Speaker: Shakira
Shakira did an excellent job on her speech about company relocation. She was against companies moving from the United States to foreign countries. I think that the speech was well organized and she stated her points again. She did a wonderful job of reviewing her previous speech and letting us know more details of why we support not wanting companies to relocate.
Shakira made a valuable point when she stated that Americans should not have to move overseas to live a comfortable life. Company relocation causes a raise in taxes and Shakira stressed the fact that company relocation is not an advantage for the citizens of the United States.
Posted by memoses2 ( Dec 07 2007, 02:33:31 PM EST ) Permalink Comments [0]
Thursday December 06, 2007
Call to Action Speech
Self ReflectionSpeaker: Jessica Dean
Topic: Biodiesel
I think I did a good job with this speech. I illustrated a need for action by telling how the emissions from petroleum-based diesel affects children's health. I proposed very specfic actions that included writing a letter to the school board, protesting outside of the school board, and attending a school board meeting. I think the audience could understand what needed to be done and how to do it. My main persuasive strategy was to pull on their emotions and make them think about all the children that are being harmed by school buses. I might could have used a few other strategies to help me, but I think this worked ok.My favorite phrase was "Think of your own children." I really think that this was an important phrase because it made the issue hit close to home. What if this was my child getting sick? Would I do something if this was affecting my life? I believe my weakness in this speech was my delivery style. Instead of being "energizing" I think I made the audience more thoughtful. They were aware of the issue, but I do not think I convinced anyone that my action was worth the time. To make this better, I could have been used more emotions, such as anger, to promote the audience to follow me to the school board. I also could have talked faster, since I think that I might have been taking it a bit too slowly. Overall, I feel like this was a good speech, but not as good as my last one.
Posted by jcdean ( Dec 06 2007, 03:00:10 PM EST ) Permalink Comments [0]
Call to Action Speech
Reviewer: Jessica Dean
Speaker: David
Topic: Skin Cancer
David's call to action speech addressed reducing your risk of getting skin cancer. He showed that something needed to be done because 1,000,000 people get skin cancer every year and 10,580 die from it every year. He also said that skin cancer is the most common type of cancer. The specific actions that David said we should do are put on sunscreen, wear hats, wear long clothing, avoid long periods of time in the sun, and see a dermatologist at least once a year. A phrase he used that struck me as important was "Because the ozone is depleting... it won't get better naturally, so we must protect ourselves." This makes the situation seem more dire because only we can protect ourselves from skin cancer; no matter what other people are doing, only you can protect yourself.
I really liked David's speech and think he did a very good job.
Posted by jcdean ( Dec 06 2007, 02:54:38 PM EST ) Permalink Comments [0]
Call to Action
Speaker: Adeia
Reviewer: Tanesha
Topic: Boycott Chinese Made Toys
Adeia gave information on chinese toys and convinced us that the toys did have lead in them. She wanted us to take action with her against the unsafe toys and protest at a local Toys R Us. She had information on the recalls over the past year from China. Her presentation was good and If I was gonna be here on the date of her boycott I would come out. Good Job with eye contact and confidence in her speech.
Posted by tlhamil2 ( Dec 06 2007, 02:51:58 PM EST ) Permalink Comments [0]Call to Action Speech
Reviewer: Jessica Dean
Speaker: Blaire
Topic: Abolishing the Electoral College
In Blaire's call to action speech, she addressed the issue of the Electoral College and what we as college students can do to fix it. She illustrated that there is a clear need for action b discussing the Gore vs. Bush election and how the popular vote and the electoral vote did not match. She also talked about absentee ballots and how they do not count toward the electoral college. Her plan of action was that on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 she would lead a march to Washington to protest the electoral college. Her itenerary had a day full of action, but she did not mention any of these specific actions in her speech. She used two phrases that made me feel like moving into action. One was that abolishing the electoral college would make "us, the individuals, count." It clearly shows that by doing this action, it will help you in the long run. She also said " it's not as hard as you think." This puts he action into perspectie and makes it a more attainable goal.
Overall, I think Blaire did very well with her speech and I think she chose a very interesting topic.
Posted by jcdean ( Dec 06 2007, 02:44:37 PM EST ) Permalink Comments [0]
Self-Reflection Call to Action Speech
James Boykin
Animal Welfare Speech
In this speech I recapped the issues dealing with animal ethics that exist today. I then went over several ways the audeince could help to reduce these problems. On the positive side I believe I demonstrated a clear need to take action by explaining some numbers and statistics. I also made it pretty clear what I wanted the audience to do, the easiest being educate themselves more on their own time such as watching a documentary. Some of the things I did not improve as much as I would have liked would be reducing anxiousness. I felt like I could have connected to the audience much better had I not been so nervous while speaking. While I did experience less nervousness then the first speech, I still see it would take it least several more events before I would start to feel comfortable speaking in front of groups that I don't know very well. As far as linguistic strategies I feel like I spoke pretty clear though took to many pauses throughout the speech.
Posted by jwboykin ( Dec 06 2007, 11:14:17 AM EST ) Permalink Comments [0]
Wednesday December 05, 2007
call to action
Call to Action Speech
Speaker: Adrian
Reviewer: Blaire Davidowitz
Topic: War on Terror
Today, Adrian spoke to his audience in his Call to Action Speech about the negatives on the War on Terror. He started his speech of asking the audience if they knew anyone that was serving in the war right now. He then went on to say that he had relatives fighting and had not seen them in a very long time, since the war started. This use of persuasive strategy did move me and the audience as well. I felt bad for him and angry that the war would bring this about not only on Adrian but other families as well. After this introduction, Adrian illustrated a few very clear needs for action on his topic. He explained that the war is killing people, over 3000 so far and wounded over 20,000 people as well. He also stated that the war was one of personal gain and preemptive too.
After spending time talking about the need for this war to end, Adrian gave us a really cool way to take action and stop the war. Adrian gave everyone in the audience a registration paper to vote in the upcoming presidential election. He told us that we could choose a candidate that will make a difference in the war and also vote for a Congress as well. He even gave us the three candidates, Clinton, Obama, and Edwards, who could make this happen. I thought that this action was very need. He made registration very easy for us and if I had not already been registered I probably would have done it then and there. I only wish he would have given the audience an address to send it to so that we could get our registration card.
Finally, Adrian used persuasive techniques to the best of his ability to move the audience. As stated above, Adrian mentioned how he has not seen members of his family in a very long time. This, along with the statistics, helped to move the audience into taking action.
Overall, Adrian did a great job with his speech. He knew his facts and presented them perfectly. The only real weakness that I can see is that he spent a little too much time on his need step. He could have narrowed it down a bit since the audience was already on his side and he was only supposed to be strengthening commitment, not persuading us. But, besides this, the speech was very enjoyable to listen to.
Posted by bedavido ( Dec 05 2007, 10:20:59 PM EST ) Permalink Comments [0]Call To Action
Call to Action Speech
Speaker: David
Reviewer: Blaire Davidowitz
Topic: Skin Cancer
David did an excellent job with his speech about skin cancer. As one would probably expect, he was not in favor of the cancer and not only illustrated how important it was to do something about the skin cancer, but also had very good actions that could be taken to avoid it in the first place. David started his speech of stating the need for putting an end to skin cancer. David stated that over one million people get skin cancer in a year. Besides this, it is the most common cancer and shockingly enough it can effect anyone, especially kids and those with fair skin. Also, David let the audience know that one in five Americans may develop skin cancer sometime in their lives. These shocking numbers truly did motivate the audience to take action against developing skin cancer.
Once this need was made clear, David went on to provide specific actions that the audience could take to defer and hopefully prevent skin cancer in the long run. For this action, David handed out a small piece of paper giving pretty specific actions for the audience to take in order to help themselves against the skin cancer. Some of these actions consisted of using sunscreen, wearing hats and long clothing, and going to see a dermatologist once a year. The actions are actually very reasonable and there is a good chance that the audience will actually practice these actions, as opposed to other actions from speakers that were a little more farfetched.
Finally, David used persuasive strategies and evidence to move his audience. As stated above, the numbers David gave in his need step truly did hit the audience on more of a personal level. Skin cancer seemed so much easier to get once I learned of these horrifying statistics. The fact that I may die if I do not protect myself from the sun truly did move me, and I?m sure that it did the same for many others as well.
David did a great job with his speech. His only weaknesses were that he tended to read off of his facts. I wish that he had known them a little better; this would have made him more credible. But, he stuck to the time limit and had great facts and preventions of skin cancer for his audience. Overall, this speech achieved its purpose.
Posted by bedavido ( Dec 05 2007, 10:19:40 PM EST ) Permalink Comments [0]Peer Review
Call to Action Speech
Speaker: James
Reviewer: Morgan Parks
Topic: Animal welfare
James did a good job at recapping and refreshing his audience on what he covered in his last speech. He also provided facts to help bring around the point that action needs to be taken such as over 9 million cats and dogs are euthanized, over 15 million are used for testing, and that many of the 10 billion animals we eat are caged for their entire life.
James proposed two actions an indirect and direct one. The direct course of action he proposed was to have all your pets spayed and neutered, and to adopt your pets instead of buying them since most pets that are turned into the shelter are turned in by their owners. He also proposed the indirect method of watching where your money went. He stated that if you pay for it it is the same as killing it. He said that we need to reduce the amount of animal meat we consume, because we don't need as much as we ingest any way. He proposed attainable solutions to the problem that we as an audience could implement every day. James was straight forward and direct and simple to attain on the audiences part.
Peer Review: Call to Action Speech Speaker: Morgan J.
Reviewer: Kristin Freeman
Morgan clearly illustrated the need to take action regarding her topic. She stressed that we need to reduce the amount of violence in the media. After restating some of the things of why we should cut down on violent media, she was very specific on things that we should do to help. Since the violence in media causes people to solve problems violently, makes more people abusive more likely to commit a crime; Morgan came up with actions that we should take. For example, she said that we could write a letter to express our concern or join a group that supports this problem.
She had good persuasive strategies and overall her speech was well done. However, Morgan might not have ended her speech so shortly.
Posted by kmfreem2 ( Dec 05 2007, 11:04:05 AM EST ) Permalink Comments [0]
Self-Reflection
Topic: Skin Cancer
David Gruetzke
Self-Reflection
I started off by reviewing a little bit of what I said in my last speech. I informed the audience why skin cancer is such a serious and dangerous disease and I showed them why I think that we have to take action now, rather then later. My argument for doing something now was that the o-zone layer is decreasing and if it keeps on doing that we'll be in big trouble soon. I then went on and talked about the action that the audience should take, I told them that they should wear long clothing while being out in the sun, use sun screen, wear hats, and see a Dermatologist at least once a year for a yearly check-out. I also said that it is important to protect young children against skin cancer because bad sun burns in your childhood almost always lead to skin cancer. I passed out a little sheet on which it had some tips of how to protect yourself against skin cancer. Over all I think I did a pretty well job at showing the audience why we have to do something now and what exactly we can do and should do. The only thing that I can think of that I could have improved on was my presentation, and not reading my outline as much as I was.
Posted by djgruetz ( Dec 05 2007, 11:03:46 AM EST ) Permalink Comments [0]Peer Review
Call to Action Speech
Speaker: Adrian
Reviewer: David Gruetzke
Adrian talked about ending the war of terror, he started of with giving us reasons why this war is "bad". He said that we're loosing a lot of America lives and that over 3800 lives have already been lost since the start of the war. He also said that the war is a war of personal gain for Bush and Cheney because they both have relations with the oil industry. He pretty much said that the war is wrong because too many lives are lost and only reason why we still have troops over there is because of the personal interests of our politicians. In order to resolve this problem he proposed that we vote and that we choose what we think is the best candidate with the best policies that we agree with. I had trouble believing what he was saying because some of the factual information that he gave us sounded like it came from a not so creditable source "antiwar.com" I think it was. But over all I think Adrian did a great job at showing us why this war is wrong and what we as individuals can do to change that.
Posted by djgruetz ( Dec 05 2007, 10:50:08 AM EST ) Permalink Comments [0]Peer Review
Call to Action Speech
Speaker: Blair
Reviewer: David Gruetzke
Blair talked about getting the electoral college abolished or at least reformed. She started off giving us some general information about the electoral college and how it works. What really caught my attention was when she said that if we as students voted right now, it wouldn't count. This pretty much did it for me and it convinced me that we have to do something about that. She proposed that we all take a trip to Washington D.C. and speak directly to Congress, she had every little detail about the trip planned out and it was well done. The best persuasive strategy that she used in my opinion was when she told us that student votes don't count and that individual votes don't really count either. I like when she used the phrase "we'll go down in history" this gave me the feeling that i could make a difference. Over all I think she did a good job at convincing us that we need to abolish the electoral college and at tell us what we could do to accomplish that goal.
Posted by djgruetz ( Dec 05 2007, 10:39:10 AM EST ) Permalink Comments [0]
Tuesday December 04, 2007
Self Reflection- Call to Action
Self Reflection: Blaire Davidowitz
Call to Action-Abolish the Electoral College
I feel like I was very prepared and gave my speech to the best of my ability. One of my strengths was definitely showing a great need for the abolishing of the Electoral College. I gave two problems, absentee ballots and the fact that individual votes do not count and an example for each. I definitely informed my audience of problems, and if anything I spent too much time on this part. The action that I proposed nearing my conclusion was very detailed as well. I supplied my audience with a complete itinerary, with times and everything, and told them exactly what to do and how it would help. I only wish that I had spent as much time or even more time on this part as I had with my need step. It was my shorter allocation of time to this part of my speech that really deferred from it in the end.
I also feel like I used persuasive strategies well, especially with my need step. It was this need step that later led into the action. Many different things contributed to my overall ?action? step, especially the way I spoke to my audience. I made them feel like they could really help, and using words like ?we? and ?us? made them feel more on par with myself.
My strengths of my speech were definitely my expressive and emotional input into my speech. I did care what I was speaking about and my tone let the audience know this as well. I feel that ultimately this emotion let them trust me and eventually believe me. A major weakness was that I did not spend enough time on my action step. I should have lengthened it by at least a minute and made the need step a little less long. But, other than that I feel like I did a very good job with my speech.
Posted by bedavido ( Dec 04 2007, 11:04:17 PM EST ) Permalink Comments [0]
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