This paper is a summary of the Closing Bell Speaker Series that I have attended this Spring. The Closing Bell Speaker Series is a lecture series where professionals come in to present on a topic of their choosing. The topics speakers present from include are very differentiated, ranging from professional development to the importance of mentoring. In this summary, I will discuss two of three Closing Bell Speaker Series lectures that I attended. I will also describe how the topic related to my future
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challenges and obstacles throughout my whole life due to my battle with stuttering. Stuttering is a speech disorder that affects my ability to fluently communicate with other people. It makes something that should be a very easy task, such as telling a waiter what you would like to order at a restaurant, very difficult for people like me. Throughout my childhood and early teen years, I let my speech disorder control me. I would never raise my hand or ask for help during class. I remained quiet when
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speaking can be challenging when people are struggling to get their speech together. When on-stage speaking in front of a group of people may not seem so bad, unless you are unprepared to speak then it may become extremely nerve racking. Delivering a speech is easier for some than for others; however, it may be difficult for anyone who is ill prepared. Some ways you can be unprepared is by not spending your time writing your speech, getting all the facts straight and in order. This results in your
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Speech to Entertain: An Overview The primary purpose of a speech to entertain is to have the audience relax, smile and enjoy the occasion. The speech should have a central theme or a focus. A series of jokes will NOT work well for this type of speech. Good speeches to entertain typically mix humor with more serious morals, lessons learned, or experiences. In other words, they have a real point to make… they are not just silly, slapstick humor. You can tell a lighthearted, personal story that reveals
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Movie Review: The King’s Speech The King’s Speech relates to this course by showing someone who struggles with presenting speeches in front of large crowds of people, eventually gets over his fear and accomplishes his goal by giving an amazing speech. I’m almost for certain that more than half of my public speaking class is afraid to give a speech in front of people due to nerves. To me, giving a speech in front of people makes me nervous and scared. I feel like the King George VI because I tend
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Ella Doss Mrs.Bratton English 1-7 October 15, 2012 Humiliation. It went away slowly, the fear and anxiousness that came over me before my speech. My face was like a furnace , but the cool, salty tears were cooling it down, almost evaporating. The lingering heat and sweat from on my palms was still there, but at least it was over. The bell rang, announcing the end of fourth period. I dashed out of the classroom as prompt as I could, stopping for no one. My next class, youth leadership
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investigate the effects of a music-based speech and language therapy approach on late talking toddlers and compare with a literacy-based speech and language therapy approach. Research Questions Do sung lyrics in speech and language intervention promote growth of expressive vocabulary in toddlers who are late talking? Does literacy-based speech and language intervention promote growth of expressive vocabulary in toddlers who are late talking? Does a speech and language therapy approach integrating
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lesson was no exception. After I knew my topic subject a day before I represent my speech. I went early to my school and I stood timidly by the side of the class waiting for my teacher and other students to show up. After a couple of minutes, the teacher came over. He smiled and two more students joined us. Although they were both older than me, they did not seem to be embarrassed about not knowing how to give a speech front of twenty students. I began to feel more at ease. The teacher start calls our
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terribly awkward. As I go on with the speech, it gets worse because I’m worried that people see me as some shaky freak. One thing that I would hope this class could help me with is to communicate a point more effectively. I typically know what I want to say and what I’m trying to get across to someone, but sometimes I don’t know if I’m doing it in the most effective way. I believe that the speeches alone in this class will help me out; by going through the speech myself and watching classmates and
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that were mentioned in this video that I would like to try to use the next time I have to give a presentation are to smile and practice in the room that I will be presenting in. In the video, it spoke about knowing your surroundings before giving a speech, and while most of the times I have had to do public speaking in a public setting it had been at the same location, I have never tried to practice there first. I feel that this could be a great asset to preparation. Another tool is turning the nerves
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