Reflection on Persuasive Speeches

1) Which speech did you find the most persuasive?

The speech that i really found most persuasive was Jana's which was about beauty and plastic surgery. even thou the plastic surgery part did not relate to me but the definition of beauty and the way she compared it with what media defines it related to so much to me as an individual.but overall all speeches were very persuasive and interesting.

2) What made it persuasive? Inspiring delivery? Topic? Rhetorical techniques?

What made her speech very persuasive is the way she related the issue to her own personal life and feelings and proved to use as audience how we are related or could relate to that topic or issue. another aspect that made it persuasive is the use of questions and answers in her speech with had us all contemplating on are ways of contributing to the issue and the way we live with it.. the way she pointed out her view which was the view of most teenagers these days clarified many things in her speech, and the fact that she used her self as an example was very brave and inspiring. Her eye contact with the audience, and maintaining steady pace while saying her speech and the confidence she showed while saying her speech all made her speech very powerful and clear to everybody. Jana put in a lot of patin in her speech with supported all the techniques mentioned. Her speech was very powerful yet she approached it in a very calm and serious way which helped to grab the audience's attention.

3) What do you think you did well?

I think what i did well was connect the audience to my speech by simplifying and clarifying my solution to the problem in the issue. My solution to the issue, which was the alleviation of urban poverty, was sharing as the simplest solution, and the repetition of the word itself gave it a much greater meaning which made the audience realize how simple yet great the word and it's meaning is.

4) What could you have done better?

One thing i could have done better was have more eye contact with the audience so that i could have made my issue more interesting to the, another thing was maybe that i should have maintained a better, and more stable body position and stayed calm, where i felt that i was stiff through out the whole speech.