...An Analysis on the Speech Contestants’ Arguments in English Celebration Week Octaviyani Raharja 1213009001 Abstract Nowadays, many universities hold speech contest to facilitate their students in improving their communicative skills. Widya Mandala Catholic University, through English Department, holds a speech contest during the English Celebration Week event. As speech contest in common, students are required to conduct a good speech that deals with the topic given. Unfortunately, there are still some mistakes found that deal with the argument components and verbal fallacies. In figuring out a good speech, the contestants’ speeches are recorded and transcribed to be analyzed whether they have met the quality of a good speech which are: (1) includes all of the main components of argument and (2) fallacies free. Since the speech contestants are still in the first semester, they have limited knowledge on argument components and verbal fallacies. Therefore, the contestants sometimes miss the argument components and make no verbal fallacies in their speech. |Keywords: Argument, Fallacy, Verbal Fallacy, Speech, ECW Speech Contest | Introduction There are four language skills and two language components that are needed in learning foreign language, especially English. Among the four language skills, speaking has big roles in both language teaching and learning activity since it requires both communicative...
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...pursuing your dream job. Perhaps you already have a career but you want to explore something new or maybe you are just entering college and are unsure of what you want to study. Dream Jobs could be just the thing you need to push you in the right direction. How lucky would you be to be able to “try out” for a job before deciding that is really what you want to do? Dream Jobs will not only provide you with the opportunity to work somewhere else but also the chance to win a dream vacation and money to go along with it. This show will have four contestants, two will know they are competing and two will not know they are competing. The target age for contestants will be twenty thru...
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...Behavioural Finance - Erin McCall Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Deal Or No Deal? WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE? 1) The risk averse investor would accept the safety level of $500,000 because they would refuse to accept any risk. The risk neutral investor would have been indifferent had the expected payout for both options been equal however, given that the expected payout for the guess is higher than that of the sure thing the risk neutral investor would choose to guess. The risk lover investor would always choose the option pertaining to the most risk and therefor choose to guess. 2) The expected value of the guess is $15 million [(0.5 x 30M) + (0.5 x 0)]. However, the actual outcome will either be $30 million or $0. 3) The average person would choose the safe $10 million because their marginal utility after that point begins to decrease. $10 million is far higher than the average American’s income of roughly $51,000 , implying that most people would recognize that $10,000,000 is a life changing amount and not be willing to risk it for $30,000,000. The individuals who choose not to risk the guaranteed $10,000,000 are most likely female , an older adult , married and in a low to moderate-income profession. Females are inherently more risk averse than men, making them more inclined to take the sure thing rather than risking it. Older adults must consider their sources of income after retirement as well as potential medical considerations when determining...
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...| CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR BUS273C | OUR EVERYDAY IDOL | Contents Page 1. Executive Summary 2. Introduction 3. Theories that Apply to the Way Viewers Form their Perception i. Selective Perception ii. Consumer Learning iii. Classical Conditioning 4. Impact of Reality Programs on Various Industries i. Food Industry ii. Home Improvement Industry iii. Entertainment Industry iv. Health Industry 5. Involvement Level and Interactivity that affect Viewers Perception v. High Involvement Level vi. Low Involvement Level 6. Conclusion 7. Appendices 8. Reference List 1. Executive Summary This report discusses about the impact of Reality TV shows on viewers. Firstly, the theories that apply to the way in which viewers form their perceptions are discussed. Three different types of theories namely selective perception, consumer learning and classical conditioning will be examined and how they relate to the forming of a viewer’s perception of a Reality TV Show. Secondly, the report also discusses how these programs impact the viewer’s purchasing decisions. Information from four industries was used to evaluate and explained the impact of Reality TV on consumer purchases. Lastly, involvement theory was used to evaluate the impact of involvement to the perception of the consumers/viewers. High-level and low-level involvement consumers/viewers are used in deriving...
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...I chose to do my analysis on an article from US Weekly. It is multimedia because it contains words and pictures. Without pictures, I think that the article would have looked boring, but without text, there wouldn’t be an article at all. I was drawn to an article about Nick Viall from The Bachelor because it was the cover story and included a lot of pictures and interesting headlines. Pictures of Nick, the individual contestants mentioned, and a group shot of him with all of this girls are on this season. They use a lot of pictures of roses and rose petals, because they have important significance on the show. People seeing the roses or petals might make them emotional because their favorite didn’t get a rose this week, or because they’ve always wanted a rose from past bachelors. In the article, they reveal things that Nick did before being on this season of The Bachelor and also some insight on the most popular contestants so far. I think that it was written to stir the pot of the emotions of the viewers from the show. They wanted to create drama to keep this season interesting. It was most likely...
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...The Voice and American Idol are two of many popular entertainment tv series. Audiences have only increased for each series as they continue to climb up the popularity ladder. However, despite their massive steps toward stardom each show has their own level of popularity. The Voice may be seen as more entertaining than American Idol, but every “perfect” thing has it’s flaws. American Idol has statistically been proven to be the best compared to The Voice due to the fact that the main focus is the contestants and their celebrity production rate. The Voice may have much more popular judges than it’s counterpart, but that may be their downfall. For the most part The Voice’s audience members merely watch the show because their favorite artist(s) are the judges, where as, American Idol’s judges are known but not to the extent as The Voice’s judges. “...the four celebrity “coaches” on the show...
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...Imagine living inside the doors of a candy factory. Imagine having never met other kids and have never walked beyond your property line. This is the life of eleven year old Logan Sweet in The Candy Makers, by Wendy Mass. This book is about four characters that are in a contest to become one of the greatest candy makers of all time. It sounds simple enough but as you read on you realize the situation is far more complex. The book is filled with surprises and lots of suspense. It will also give you the inside scoop on what goes on in a candy factory. The four contestants Logan, Daisy, Miles and Philip are competing against each other at the Life Is Sweet Factory to make the most creative dessert. Logan lives at the Life is Sweet factory and is extremely nervous to meet other kids his own age. Daisy, the second contestant has a way of making you feel attracted to her. She is hysterical, open, and cheery. Miles, the third contestant, is self-conscious and has never had a best friend or someone that he can rely on. Lastly,...
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...has been brainstormed people’s perspective. First, survival game has only one winner. In the Hunger Games, people kill others to survive. The game is for surviving, and the person who wins the game can be a rich person. It means only one can live well, but others should sacrifice for only one. Also, in American Idol, people compete against each other to win the competition. Winner can be a famous person, so this status enables to be him/her a singer, but others aren’t recognize by audience. Secondly, contestants have to have the audience care. In the Hunger Game, less audience care is directly connected to death because audience gives their food and supplies. Attractive to audience will give participate more support to win the Hunger Games easily. American Idol also needs audience care. In competition, contestants have to judged by their own skills, but attraction is more than their skills because if the audience likes contestants regardless of their skill, contestant can survive, and can go to next stage. This program needs fervent response from audience. Attraction can win the competition. Finally, media is trying to mess up with people’s perspective. In the Hunger Games, Panem is the only nation of the world, and many districts are dominated by Panem. Most districts are suffering from hunger and poverty. If that continued long, people who live in the...
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...Beauty Pageants on Contestants Reality TV shows like Toddlers and Tiaras and Little Miss Perfect expose the growing popularity of child beauty pageants. These shows have turned pageants into an industry that is valued at $5 billion (Cartwright 1105). This newly created pageant industry has changed the child beauty pageant system—contestants are competing at younger ages, they are wearing more makeup, and the focus is shifting away from natural beauty towards glitz and glam. The emergence of a pageant industry has changed the pageant system, but what affect does this industry have on contestants? More importantly, do pageants’ effects on young contestants warrant regulation? As more young girls compete in pageants, answering these questions and determining the effects of child beauty pageants becomes more important. These questions need to be answered so that the well being of pageant participants is ensured. The issue of regulation is of particular importance since parents, pageant companies, and the media all contribute to the growing pageant industry. Some regulation is needed to protect the young participants. Generally this regulation would be the parent’s responsibility, but in this paper I will argue that the industry merits specific regulation. In order to prove that regulation is warranted, I will analyze the negative impacts of the pageant industry using research from psychologists and sociologists along with accounts from previous contestants and media sources...
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...Significance of the Study Beauty pageants take place everywhere around the world, and as the researcher observed, they never fail to draw various sectors of audiences. As Cohen (1996a) described it, beauty pageants, as diverse as they are in their cultural and historical contexts, they do something similar wherein they establish an ideal of beauty that best represents the locality. Indeed, Filipinos have been always fond of beauty pageants that it has become a significant part of their lives. No town fiesta or festival can be called as they are if there was no beauty pageant held. And beauty queens and even beauty contestants are always admired and considered as one of the beautiful icons in the country. But as the Philippine culture easily being influenced by the American society, this research hopes to emphasize the distinction of Philippine beauty pageants from American beauty pageants for it is in beauty pageants that the epitome of a Filipino is being showcased around the world. With that in the mind, this research also hopes to discover and unravel the purposes behind the staging of beauty pageants in both American and Philippine society. Background of the Study The researcher, who is not a stranger in the world of beauty contests in her school, has been asked by a judge on what she thinks is the purpose of beauty pageants in the society and whether its purpose is still prevalent. Intrigued, the researcher decided to do a research on beauty pageants. The TLC TV series...
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...Ryan Brown COM 702 3/18/2010 Final Paper In his paper entitled Idolizing and Monetizing the Public: The Production of Celebrities and Fans, Representatives and Citizens in Reality TV, Yngvar Kjus explores audience participation theories and new media by analyzing both the Norwegian and American versions of Idol, a popular reality musical competition series. His exploration of the program via the analysis of collective participation, idolization, and production tactics ultimately unveil a well thought-out and persuasive spectacle that is not as real or grand as it comes off in societies around the globe. While Kjus does touch on theories like massive participation and voter behavior, there is certainly room in his paper for expansion on these topics as well as room for the inclusion of others. Over the course of multiple seasons of the Norwegian version of Idol, Kjus attends nine tapings and multiple production meetings in an attempt to answer his two main research questions. His questions set to find out how reality programs increase the participatory scope and empowerment of audiences and everyday people, as well as how television industries are reinventing themselves as new forms of media emerge, namely online and social media. Kjus starts the paper by presenting these research questions and then explores the history of reality TV and studio audiences, touching on game shows, talk shows, and docusoaps. He then gets into Idol, a show created by Simon Fuller...
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...When reality TV gets too real (summary) In the article ''When reality TV gets too real'' Jeremy W. Peters debates about the dark side of reality TV shows and their frequent ethical pitfalls involving dangerous situations. When we watch reality shows, we are more than often exposed to the bad side of an individual’s reality. In order to increase ratings, we are seeing much more crime committed by the contestants of the TV shows such as drinking and driving, underage drinking, as well as dangerous working conditions for children aged 815 years old. Although risky behaviour seen on TV shows have proved to have consequences in later life for the contestants (suicide, disturbance and trauma), It has not stopped TV producers in showcasing similar dangerous behaviour even after production houses were faced with lawsuits. Their explanation is that contestants would live such lives regardless of cameras being on, and the law in the USA does not require anyone to step in and try to save someone’s life if they are in danger. It seems as if viewer ratings are their priority rather than the person’s well-being. In attempt for more money and ratings, bad behaviour is rewarded and ultimately defined as “good TV”. In ‘When Reality TV Gets Too Real’, it is argued that producers create dangerous or traumatic situations, merely because they are legally allowed to and seek higher ratings. On rare occasions producers have been known to draw the line in order to stop some situations...
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...Hong Kong. According to the government report estimated population of around 636,200 living in this city. It is the most densely population region in the world. Normally, there is always hold large of events in every year. Such as Macau Grand Prix, Macau food festival, and Macau international firework… etc. In this year, it is 62nd Macau Grand Prix. Macau Grand Prix is one of the international competitions. The event holds in Macau every year. This competition could attractive of many contestants joined it. They are come from different of country. They usually call the event is street circuit racing event. The contestants will choose car and motorcycle to compete this. Every year hundreds of contestants joined in different games, like motor-racing, touring cars and motorbikes. Even this competition is very dangerous if have accident. Since 1954, this competition had a lot of contestants come to competitive in Macau. Although they come from different countries and they are wonderful contestant in the world. They had a lot of competitive experience and around the world with Grand Prix. Every year in November one of the highlights of the race weekend is the Macau Formula Three Grand Prix. The winner being obtained the FIA Formula 3 intercontinental Cup. While the race is very famous and the most one of top race. Macau government holds Macau Grand Prix in Macau. It can be given many people recognizance our city of Macau. It could be make our city become international recognition...
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...with an estimated 290,000 contestants (Bowling). Behind the popularity, however, follows the controversy. There are essentially two types of children’s beauty pageants, the “natural” pageants and the “glitz” pageants. In natural pageants, children under a certain age are not allowed to wear make up or fake teeth (flappers), spray tans and big hair are discouraged, and there are specific age appropriate dress guidelines that the contestants must follow. In contrast, at a glitz pageant you will see fake smiles, fake tans, heavy stage make up, and wigs on almost every girl. Advocates of both types of pageants argue that they are a good source of friendly competition and healthy for a child’s self esteem. Critics of child beauty pageants, however, argue that the glitz pageants, more so than the natural pageants, could potentially have damaging effects on the child contestant. One of the most significant reasons parents cite for entering their children into beauty pageants is to boost their child’s self esteem, and to teach poise and confidence. A group of parents interviewed by TODAY contributor Michael Inbar claimed that putting their children on stage builds their confidence and that it doesn’t distort their self-image. Many parents of young beauty queens would tell you that the pageants are healthy for a young child. It gives the child an opportunity to step outside of their comfort zone. Anna Berry, a mother of a 13- year-old beauty pageant contestant, says that her daughter...
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...Personalized gateway to IEE Membership | We chose this organization because IEEE RAS strives for education in research of robotic and automation that emphasizes efficiency, productivity, quality, and reliability. Part 2 * Overview of the competition: In the contest, teams must design and build a robotic mouse that navigates through an assembled maze from a specific location to its center in shortest time. * Rules of Competition: 1. Must be an undergraduate IEEE Student 2. Conduct a brief presentation of your micromouse prior to competition 3. Only up to five members 4. Two or more design of mice that are near identical from the same school are not eligible B. Contest Eligibility 1. All contestants must be an undergraduate IEEE student member at a Region 6 school from within the Area of Region 6 in which contest they will compete at the time of entry in the MicroMouse contest. 2 .All contestaMicromouse Competition This small robot must navigate a large maze as quickly as possible, using a navigation algorithm. We meet every Friday from 5-7pm in the...
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