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Start Stop Continue: Shark Tank Edition

Start:

• I need to start using more tone fluctuation in my speaking. I work as a server so adjusting my voice to each specific customer, i.e. old lady, tourist family from Asia, or bro, is key to receiving a quality tip. Being privy to when I should alter my voice, depending on the circumstance, will enhance my communication in business and basically any situation. 
• Furthermore, coinciding my hand gestures with my tone fluctuation will only improve my communication skills. When classmates such as Canyon and Jake speak they are very expressional with their speaking, meaning that they excel at using non verbal methods to further stamp their point upon the audience. This is something that I noticed from a variety of my peers throughout the semester, such as Perez and Foschman. 

Stop:

• I need to stop being tentative with my the volume of my speaking while I am presenting. If I am louder, and more assertive, I will be more persuasive. Thus, increasing my credibility in whatever situation I am using public speaking. 
• Procrastinating on preparing for speeches. I need to stop doing this so I have time to practice and be fully accustomed to the material. This will allow me to have a better grasp of the subject that I am presenting. 
• I need to get rid of my pre-speech anxiety. If I can get rid of this, I can focus on using all of the the speech enhancers that we have learned about (i.e. tone, hand gestures, ect.) 
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Continue: 

• Using the variety of methods that I have picked up during this course. Zach, you did a great job letting each one of us grow as a public speaker in our own way. Not restricted by rules of the class. This is something that I really appreciate of you as a teacher. 
• Some of the methods I learned from class and by watching my classmates present are:
• Being passionate ~ Daisy and Beer Bike Homie/ Slamming Folder Dude were the people in this class who stood out to me in this category. They always appeared like the subject they were discussing was very important to them.  This is something that I want to replicate in my public speaking. I feel like it enhances your ethos as a speaker when you appear passionate about something. Recently, I've been using this in while serving. In my opinion, when I appear passionate in talking about the course we serve, the customer tends to become more exuberant about their meal. Again, leading to more tips. 
• Practice, Practice, and MO Practice ~ Canyon was the one classmate of mine that really was effective at practicing the speech beforehand. I believe that this had a direct effect on him receiving some of the highest grades on each speech. In the future, I am going to focus on being prepared for any public speaking situation I'm in, by actually practicing numerous times beforehand. 
• Being Confidant ~ To quote Wu Tang Clan's Method Man, talking about something Biggie Smalls told him, "personality and confidence is a Ma' fucka with the ladies" In terms of public speaking, I need to continue being confident with myself when I am giving a speech.  This will help me from being overly nervous, as well as allow me to be comfortable on stage. When I am secure in a situation I am way better at remembering to incorporate hand gestures and tone fluctuations, which is are abilities that I am focusing on increasing. 

p.s. Thanks for a great year Zach. I absolutely despised this class when I took it at KU.  Your hands on approach to the class taught me way more about public speaking, than some class I paid a shit ton of money for. 

Sharktank outline

Outline:
 Intro - An opening introduction video describing the sharks
- Canyan & Taaka make an appearance
1. Next an opening video of Jake and I setting up our company
2. end with clip of us walking into room
3. We make appearance.
4. Give our full speal about how fucking awesome AI is
5. Get tested and questioned by the sharks
6. Respond and make our final case
7. Canyan and Taaka bargain for majority stake in company
8. They decide to split majority stake
9. Jake and I ride off into the wind of a milli

Start, Stop, Continue. Speech #3

Start: -I need to start loosening up even more when I am up on stage.  I realized after my speech how poorly I explained the connection between the Global Village and my radical idea of eliminating political correctness from American culture. This was a crucial element to convincing my audience that political correctness is indeed the consensus in America. Because I was still a bit tense, I failed to convey properly the point that I was trying to get across.
- Along these lines, I still need to start to practice giving my presentation to an audience.  I did practice this time, but never in front of an audience.  While I was up on stage, I noticed a problem  with the grammar in my Prezi.  This caused me to become flustered. Once I was thrown off a bit I started to become more tense, because I didn't want to look like a fool in front of my peers. If I had practiced in front of a live audience more I likely would have noticed this discrepancy in my speech.
Stop: - I need to stop putting my hands in my pocket while I am presenting.  This is detrimental to my ethos, or credibility.  It made me appear far more casual, which made my presentation lose some of its luster.
- I need to stop trying to figure out what exactly I am going to say to my audience during my speech.  In my opinion, my speech comes across more natural when I improvise, but this can be adverse to how well I articulate. While I was giving my speech I realized that political correctness related to the topic discussed early on in class, which was first-order thinking. Being worried about what we are saying to whom can negatively effect your first-order thought process, making you turn to second order thinking. This would have been a really good point in my speech, but I said primary-thinking instead.
Continue: - I'm going to continue picking topics that I am passionate about.  I firmly believe that concealing our true emotions about something, via political correctness, builds up resentment or hate towards that topic. Much like passive aggressiveness with roommates; The tension can explode. Letting it out there would let people grow into friends. Once the differences are accepted.
- Trying to use hand gestures in my speech. Think that this is helps my speech appear more natural.
- Using a theme in my Prezi that relates to my topic.  I've enjoyed doing this on the last two speeches. I feel like it helps convey my message to the class.
- I tried to fluctuate the tone and pitch of my voice during this speech to enhance my important points. This is something that I have noticed my classmates had used in the past speeches, which added to their presentation.
Ultimately, I thought that this was the most enjoyable speech so far in the class to make.  It was a challenge to come up with a radical idea that I was passionate about changing, and was a viable option to use. Initially, I was planning on arguing the radical notion of String Theory, which was shot down in the "screening process." I was happy that I settled with my idea of eliminating political correctness.  In future speeches, I need to focus more on practicing beforehand before a live audience. This will give me more confidence, and will help me spot errors in my speech before presenting in front of the class.

Classmates Moves: - A move that I liked was Canyon incorporating me in his speech when he posed a question to the class.  He talked to me before the speech telling me what to do and say.  I thought this was a pretty cool move to bring some interaction with his audience in his speech.
- Another move that I thought was pretty slick was how Foschman used the Prezi that had the countries on it.  This was awesome.  It brought the speech together nicely, and even made me understand his point better, which is the ultimate purpose of using a Powerpoint in your speech.
- The last move that I noticed was how McCool started her speech with a video clip.  This was the first time someone in the class did this.  I thought it offered a visualization for what she was trying to argue well.  I can definitely see myself doing this in future speeches.
~ During my speech my video messed up while Mr. D was filming it. Wasn't able to get a video to post to the blog. Sorry. NOVA's gonna win tonight!

Speech 3: Radical

Thesis: The consensus in America is that being politically correct is good, I propose that being politically correct is actually a detriment to American's culture, identity, education, and in certain instances, their safety.

•   1st slide: Intro ~ You see the term political correctness thrown out their in everything from news, politics, to even kids sports. define political correctness ~  agreeing with the idea that people should be careful to not use language or behave in a way that could offend a particular group of people

•   2-4 slide: Show consensus ~ Why has being politically correct become so important 

•   1.  discuss how recent events, such as police violence against minorities, have made the topic more prevalent 2. Show instances in kids sports were their are not trophies given to kids anymore     3. Explain story of the massacre that could have been prevented ~ Nidal Malik US Army Psychologist; Pentagon knew of emails to radical imams, and coworkers described as ticking time bomb. Didn't stop him because they "were afraid to profile somebody" ended up killing 13 people, including one pregnant female, at a US army base. 4. Show how cops have been hampered by their fear of profiling 5. Explain instances on college campus of ridiculous political correctness. ~ In 2014, a muslim student at The University of Michigan was harassed for a satirical column he wrote about the oversensitivity of students at his school. As Jonathan Chait described in a post in New York Magazine, the student was viewed as a perpetrator rather than a victim because he mocked politically correct norms. ~ it is the consensus

•   Slide 5- Science of Political Correctness ~ Why political correctness is so important now 

•   1. Discuss globalism and Global village. Marshal McLuhan,"release of human power and aggressive violence” greater than ever in history, as long separated —and emotionally charged—cultural norms would now constantly intermingle, clash and explode." ~ forbes 2. Political correctness is the product of the cultural collision that occurs on a daily basis, as we are interconnected with multimedia technology on a 24/7 basis. Differences thrust in face. Only way to save face, per say, of what you truly believe. 

•   6-8 slide: Radical Solution ~ Why and How we should become politically incorrect 

•   main point ~ That differences in people's culture, gender, success, ideals, and religion shouldn't be taboo, but rather celebrated: Meaning that we should understand that every person is different, and that is not necessarily a bad thing, unless you make it bad. 

•   1. If we don't put a stigma on things: such as a persons race, if their Muslim, a girl, gay, how much money they have, what they wear. It will no longer be as important. Being passive aggressive, in a way, by acknowledging the fact that their is a difference, or reason to be "politically correct," is more bigoted. 2. Stop in news, humor, politics, government. Realize in some instances, especially for police and military, it is OK to profile. BUT realize that just because a small portion of that culture may be: radical islamists, criminals, or fulfill someones stereotype. That does not mean that MOST of that culture is like that. By eliminating Political Correctness we can realize our differences, than accept them. Doing this will allow us to realize the similarities and grow as a nation, which prides itself on being a "melting pot". 

Start,Stop,Continue: Speech #2

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Stop:
-The main thing that I got knocked points off for this speech was the amount of time I went. I'm pretty sure I went over 7 minutes, which is far too much time over the 5 minute time that I was shooting for. In retrospect, it was probably due to me having to explain my Barstool sports genre during the early portions of my speech. This took up a lot of time, and ultimately took away from the main point of this speech, which was to explain the moves and conventions in a speech genre. I have to pick a speech topic, in the future, that will be easier to relate to for the audience. This will make it easier to focus on what the prompt is for the speech, rat her than merely a topic that interests me.

-Stop drinking coffee before my speech.

-I need to also stop slouching during my speech. I feel like I could take on a professional manner when I am speaking, which will increase my rhetoric.

-I have to breath a little better while I'm presenting. There was a moment in my speech that I was short of breath, and I tensed up a bit. This was most likely due to me trying to talk to speedily. This then made me have an awkward blip in the middle of my speech. I got to stop being nervous in front of the class, this will enable me to be more comfortable, and will make my speech far better.

Start:
-I went into the speech relatively unprepared on the speech structure that I was going to follow. I was so familiar with the topic that I didn't it was necessary to have a definitive outline, and structure to the speech. This made me spend to much time going on tangents about things that weren't as important to the overall purpose of the speech. I have to start going into speeches with structure. This will make it easier to focus on the shit that's actually important, which in this case was moves and conventions.

-I need to start using pauses and tone fluctuations more prominently in my speeches. I think that doing this will jettison my public speaking to the next level. My voice isn't entirely monotone, but there is room for growth. If I start to practice more I will be able to use pauses more effectively because I know when they will sound appropriate. I noticed that when my classmates used pauses in their speeches it really boosted the point they were making.

I'm going to really start to be more passionate in how I preset my topic. I want to be more animated and vocal, which will make my speech sound better and be more persuasive.

Continue:
- I thought that I did a pretty good job at maintaing eye contact with the audience throughout the speech. I also used decent hand gestures to amplify my points. Making my Prezi was my favorite part of this speech by far. I had a good time making the theme of cards and a table. I thought that was pretty slick with my topic being called Barstool, and the site being so focused on gambling. I'm definintely going to continue using Prezi in my future speeches.

- I also liked titling the moves for my speech genre. I thought that this was something that was kind of unique to my speech. I'm going to continue to try to find different ways that I can try to make my speech a little bit different than other people's. I think that this is a good thing to try to do to make my speech more entertaining for my audience, because watching the same speech over and over again can make it hard to pay attention.

Classmates Moves:
- I liked the move that the homie Mr. D pulled by incorporating the laser pointer in his speech. I felt like he broke from the norm by doing it, and it added an extra element to his presentation. It's also something that was reminiscent of what could be used in the speech topic he was presenting.

-The dude who was presenting the speech about police interrogations used a doozy of a move. Not gonna lie, my mind has started to drift a bit, but then he used the ultimate attention grabber by using the "slamming the folder" move. When he did that my mind jolted back into awareness, and I listened the rest of the speech.

- I thought that Daisy's speech was probably the best speech of anyone's. She was just really animated, and it was infectious. She somehow made a campus tour sound like an exhilarting venture, which is pretty fucking impressive. I'm going to attempt to copy her move of just being passionate of the speech that she is presenting.

Conclusion:
Ultimately, my speech going 7 minutes was the most detrimental aspect to my grade. The main reasons that my speech was this long are: 1. I choose a topic that I had to throughly explain to the audience 2. I lacked structure, causing me to go on tangents 3. I did't practice sufficiently. For future speeches I will look to these 3 things to improve upon my overall presentation.

Speech 2:Speech Genres

Speech Genre: Barstool Sports Daily Run Down

Intro:

• Describe site 
• Show pic of an example of a post 
• Explain who the bloggers are.
• Thesis: Barstool Sports Daily Run Down is a speech genre that consists of different bloggers commenting on daily sports and news, trending topics, and funny internet stories and videos. 
• Transition: To understand the topics of Barstool you first must understand the~

1st: Buzzwords and Key teams

• Explain different lingo such as Hardo meaning try-hard, Stoolies being readers of site and smoke-show or hot girl 
• Slogan: By the common man, for the common man. 
• Tend to talk about some sort of news, particularly Donald Trump 
• Explain the cities~ Boston, Philadelphia, Iowa, Chicago, New York, D.M.V, soon to be canada, failed in LA.
• pic of stoolies with flag
• Focuses on betting and fantasy sports, such as Draftings.
• The New England Patriots are most discussed team cause of El Presidente 
• Transition: Who is El Presidente?

2nd: Dave Portnoy

• Who is El Presidente? `college, Boston, Jewish, Wannabe Mogul
• Site also contains store, music, podcasts, and hosted a Black Out Party at colleges.
• Site started with gambling advertisements and fantasy sports projections 
• Now gets 5 million page views per month
• Just sold sold a majority stake to an investor for $10 million
• What is he like, arrogant, cocky, lack of a better word douch 
• Transition: Portnoy's politically incorrect humor, which is reflected in site, has led to controversies.

3rd: Controversies: 

1. Baby Gate: Pics of Tom Brady's two year old child, made comments on the size on genitals. A former prosecutor postulated that this was sexualization of minor.

2. Rape Criticism: Northeastern protested one of their parties, believe condones taking advantage of females

3. Blackout Parties: Excessive drinking and underage drinking, Boston police cracked down at party

Transition: These instances help provide the context for the different conventions of the Barstool Rundown 

4th:  Conventions

• The topics are clearly on side, much like PTI, and there is around 5-7 topics
• The time is usually around 30 minutes
• Intro clip then Dave says day and introduces other bloggers 
• Normal bloggers are El Presidente, Big Cat, and KFC
• Others include: Feitlelberg, Stool President
• El presidente is biggest screen, he's standing, and introduces topic 
• Use videos to show what they are discussing to viewers
• Talk about sports, news, and trending internet topics 
• Casual attire 
• Portnoy tends to be loudest most assertive of opinion 
• Segments such as GIF's of Weekend
• Transition: The bloggers also use a variety of moves

5th: Moves 

• Portnoy is always made fun of~ especially BigCat. 
• Advertise their products whenever they can incorporate it~ Kristaps Porzingis T-shirts 
• Use of crude humor 
• Portnoy is the orchestrator.
• Transition: This clip of a Run down shows some of these conventions and moves 

6th: Conclusion

• Show clip of the Run down 
• Talk about the conventions and moves seen
• Reiterate what makes this a speech genre: Humor, daily topics, casual, crude.