Speech Responses

1. What speech did you think was most persuasive and why?
2. What did you do well in yours?
3. What could you have done better?

1. Best speech.  Overall, I think that everyone's speeches were good, and each person with their own style has their strengths and weaknesses.  Also, since people tend to remember what they saw last, the people who presented on the last day have an advantage in this, just because it's fresher in my head.  But if I had to pick one, I'd probably say that Sheikha's was the best, for a few reasons.  The biggest was the way she was able to come across clearly, and show passion and that she cared about the issue.  Also, she used literary techniques well, like rethorical questions.
2. Pretty much nothing.  I didn't fall asleep while presenting it, and that's about it.
3. Everything.  I've given better useless speeches about Kool-Aid than this.  With my speech, I hadn't memorized much of my speech, and had so spend way too much time looking down at my speech instead of up at the audience.  Also, due to my lack of memorization of it, I wasn't really comfortable while speaking, and would go off on tangents freestyling and changing sections of it on the fly.  Also, due to my head being stuck in the paper, I wasn't able to pay much attentioni to what I was doing with my hands gesturing, or how I was standing, so I wasn't really able to use my posture the way I'd planned to to puncuate points that I was making.  In my verbal delivery of it, there really wasn't much passion or strength in what I was saying, and I wasn't able to hold the floor, or control the room like I should've been.  With the speech itself, the biggest of the several weaknesses was the ending.  There really wasn't an ending, since I just said a bunch of vauge things about MUN or whatever while I was making it up.  Though it was an issue that contains a lot of emotional and moral arguments, I didn't feed off of that in my writing.  I should've used more contrasts and examples in my speech.  I also needed to have a wider range of persuasive techniques, like tying it to how famous Nigerians have refused awards from the governement because of how bad the issue is, having anecdotes, or such things.  I also didn't have any memorable line.  There wasn't an abstract hook at the begining to get everyone's attention because they're confused, or a power line that is memorable, sonorus, and can summarize the speech in one sentence.  And that's proabaly skipping a few things I can't think of right now.