Day: June 13, 2021

Out of all the speeches we have done so far, I think Speech 4 was my best speech given in my personal opinion. I can see the improvement on things, like maintaining eye contact, making sure there are pauses to insert emphasis, and speaking rather clearly compared to my others. As for my seriousness in this speech, I don’t think it’s too much since most of it is a serious topic. However, I believe that my personality fluctuates and the seriousness is balanced with a joke here or there to cause a lightheartedness to the topic.

One thing I personally still want to improve on is my organization. I think the beginning of this speech is really well organized, but the end kind of loses me a bit. I don’t realize it until I watch it back, and even then it stumps me because I’m not too sure how to make it any better. Continuing forward for the last two weeks, I really think I need to focus on the organization of my speeches and maybe start out in the outline to the progress from there.

Chapter 25 was really interesting for me to read because I call every single speech a speech. There isn’t a fancy word or title in my head to describe that speech like this chapter mentioned. Learning the ins and outs of what goes into each speech in order for it to be labeled that way was something I had never learned before.

I watch a lot of Comedy Central’s roast specials, so it was mind boggling for me to understand that a roast is a speech. My brain understands it, but doesn’t want to if that makes sense. The section that I found really intriguing was the one about eulogies. They had the quick tip section at the bottom labeled “Commemorate Life- Not Death.” I feel like when some people write eulogies they focus too much on the sadness of the present versus the happiness of the past life. I wasn’t expecting the book to point out something like that, which was shocking to say the least.

Since I can’t write about every single section, I will definitely take away the differences in each speech and always remember the pro tip if I ever have to write a eulogy too.