Definition of a Good Speech
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Carlos M. Albuja Jijón
11th grade “B”
12-Jan-10
The Definition of a Good Speech
I don´t get why people like to give speeches: there´s nothing fun about doing them. To think you must first feel the anxiety weeks before the speech doesn´t seem worth it. You know I still remember the long hours of holding a pen over an unwritten white paper (while I waited while my computer was turning on), not having any idea what to talk about. I remember the anguish I had to go through in order to write the speech for my book´s publishing ceremony. Besides the anxiety of not knowing what the heck to say to a bunch of people who might even not listen to you in the first place, there is always the nervousness that doesn´t let you even sleep.
It really is awful the weeks before the speech. I remember those horrible times when I just could not sleep thinking what would happen if something went wrong. There was once when an older cousin had to give a speech in his school, and he came and said to me, “Oh Charlie it is so hard to give a speech, I just can´t sleep wondering what to talk about, and thinking what will happen if I screw up!?” And then I said, “It will not matter. People will forget about your speech in a day or two.” I knew that was not the answer he was looking for when he said, “Oh my God! You are saying people don´t care about my speech?” “No that is not true,” I answered, “I am sure they do care about your speech”. Finally he said, “In that case, what if I screw up, dude!?” This story happened to me before knew I was ever going to give a speech. Days before my speech I actually couldn´t sleep because of the same reasons. The pre-speech´s anxiety makes people stupid.
A good speech is not too long (to the point of boring the audience) and not too short (to the point of making the audience wonder why it was so short). I once went to the publication of the book of one of my grandpa´s dearest friends. He was always a really elegant...
11th grade “B”
12-Jan-10
The Definition of a Good Speech
I don´t get why people like to give speeches: there´s nothing fun about doing them. To think you must first feel the anxiety weeks before the speech doesn´t seem worth it. You know I still remember the long hours of holding a pen over an unwritten white paper (while I waited while my computer was turning on), not having any idea what to talk about. I remember the anguish I had to go through in order to write the speech for my book´s publishing ceremony. Besides the anxiety of not knowing what the heck to say to a bunch of people who might even not listen to you in the first place, there is always the nervousness that doesn´t let you even sleep.
It really is awful the weeks before the speech. I remember those horrible times when I just could not sleep thinking what would happen if something went wrong. There was once when an older cousin had to give a speech in his school, and he came and said to me, “Oh Charlie it is so hard to give a speech, I just can´t sleep wondering what to talk about, and thinking what will happen if I screw up!?” And then I said, “It will not matter. People will forget about your speech in a day or two.” I knew that was not the answer he was looking for when he said, “Oh my God! You are saying people don´t care about my speech?” “No that is not true,” I answered, “I am sure they do care about your speech”. Finally he said, “In that case, what if I screw up, dude!?” This story happened to me before knew I was ever going to give a speech. Days before my speech I actually couldn´t sleep because of the same reasons. The pre-speech´s anxiety makes people stupid.
A good speech is not too long (to the point of boring the audience) and not too short (to the point of making the audience wonder why it was so short). I once went to the publication of the book of one of my grandpa´s dearest friends. He was always a really elegant...