MyCommunication

           Greta Thunberg            My Speaking Inspiration     Environmental activist& climate change activist Greta Thunberg delivers speeches concerning on-going climate and environmental crises. She has addressed 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference, UK Parliament, and spoke at 2019 UN Climate Action Summit. Great has become the figurehead of the global movement through her school strikes outside of Swedish Parliament and her famous speeches :  How dare you? and   The House is on Fire. She mainly performs persuasive speeches that have challenged the traditional views of many countries and politicians concerning climate change. In her speeches, she has widely criticized world leaders for not taking speedy action to prevent an irreversible chain of disaster. Moreover, she portrays urgent and emotional messages to world leaders that criticized the on-going system of ignoring climate chan...

  Organizing a Speech Analysis Dandelions: The Uncommon Weed  Susan R. Hirsch The rhetorical purpose was to inform her audience. Susan's specific Outcome Goal is to inform her audience of Dandelion's medicinal and culinary values, making it a useful plant rather than a " common" weed.   The Introduction of the speech included all five parts. First, the attention grabbers were a series of open-ended questions with guided responses. The questions referred to dandelion's uncommon origin, while the responses guided the audience's thinking of the topic: dandelions. Second, significance of the topic was brought upon by connecting back to audience's childhood interactions with the " yellow flowers" and homeowner's interaction with weeds, because many do not want weeds around the house. This retrospection was successful in establishing the familiarity of the topic therefore bringing on the importance of analyzing and talking about " common...

  Why It Is Recognized As One Of The 100 Best Speeches? It is one of the greatest speeches due to it's  remarkable and radical specific purpose and outcome goal.  Sanger was able to critique the government and society in such a way that did not undermine their functions, but simply proposed a new perspective to society to persuade government officials' thinking... Margaret acknowledged American government's efforts to donate to charities and philanthropies so that many " unwanted, unwelcomed, unknown" children can be taken care of and ensured a happy life; however, as Sanger points out in the second half of her speech, government intervention is still not enough, because " trainloads" of orphans and unwanted children kept coming. So her proposed perspective was to let women decide whether or not they should have kids.  Sanger took a stance in favor of women and  children to be.  Margaret was a strong advocate for birth control, so she focused on the ...

                     Communication Apprehension   level of anxiety a person feels in response to real or anticipated communication with a group or person My level of CA: 54 Your Results on 09/02/2021... Scores between 83 and 120 indicate a high level of communication apprehension. Scores between 55 and 83 indicate a moderate level of communication apprehension. Scores between 24 and 55 indicate a low level of communication apprehension. SUB SCORES: Group discussion: 11 Meetings: 12 Interpersonal conversations: 11 Public speaking: 20 Scores on these four contexts can range from a low of 6 to a high of 30. Any score above 18 indicates some degree of apprehension. Here is an interesting thought:   Overall, my level of speech anxiety is low, meaning that I do not get as anxious compared to people whose scores are in 60s and above. However, in the sub-scores I have received a score of 20, which indicates some degree of com...