With each progressing speech I have felt able to use more skills I learned in class and feel more comfortable. This speech I felt was probably the best because I had practiced it the most and had a lot of experience after my completing first three speeches. I tried to use as many of the strategies we learned in class as possible, I focused a lot on my introduction, including thanking the previous speaker and making sure I signaled my speech well for the conclusion and didn’t go over the time limit mainly. I also wanted and did include an experience many of us were present for, which was when we met the Public Safety Officer because it was related to my project. I still forgot to use some of the skills that I had practiced such as introducing the next speaker. It felt pretty good to discuss a topic other people weren’t doing and that is a controversial debate. It also is kind of a topic that I am actually interested in and really important especially in modern society. I was moderately stressed about this speech particularly because it was on a heated topic ans was my last final speech for the semester so I wanted to do well. It was also easy to relate my speech to Lloyd Blitzer’s exigence theory because I felt the “imperfection marked by urgency” was not really that guns are dangerous and immature but people are uneducated about them. The country of Switzerland has a lot of education on guns and that has contributed to it’s citizens having one of the highest gun ownership in the world. This country is also responsible for very little violence and crime that is related to guns. I also have found it easier that the last two speeches I was one of the first presenters to present their speeches and I think that helped me stay focused on my speech. It was also helpful to warm up to my S4 speech by doing the exercise where we stand in two lines and talk about our topic for two minutes and I could ask what they think worked well in my speech and what wasn’t working. For the future I think I’m gonna stick with the strategies that I know best and can do confidently.
I think Koko’s presentation was interesting to me because I know recidivism happens but I didn’t know there was a word for it. His video about how Norwegian prisoner’s made it really clear as what he was advocating what government should do instead.