Three Types Of Speeches
To answer this question I will use three types of speeches. Of those three
types of speeches I will create three speeches to give. The speech formats that
I will use are speeches to entertain, speeches to inform, and speeches to
persuade. For my speech to
entertain, I will talk about my life. For my
speech to inform, I will talk about drums. For my speech to persuade, I will
talk about how television violence has negative effects on children.
To
organize my speech to entertain, I would start by making an outline to go
by.
On the outline, I would separate into groups the most important parts
of my life. The first group of my life that I would talk about is about me
growing up and where I lived. The second group I would talk about is my
interests and hobbies. The last thing I would talk about is my life right now. I
would also include an introduction and a conclusion.
In order to better
help the listeners to visualize what I am talking about, I would bring pictures
of things that have to do with my life. I would also make an overhead with the
outline on it so they could follow along with the speech better. I would be sure
to move around and use hand gestures to make points more clearly. This would
also hold the interest of the listeners better. I think this format would be
helpful to my listeners because it is very organized, and it includes many
things to hold their interest.
To organize my speech to inform, I would
again start by making an outline. To start off, I would begin by explaining the
basic parts of a drum set and what they do. I would then explain who makes the
parts of the drums and cymbals. Next I would talk about how drums and cymbals
are made. I would then explain what they are made of. I would again use an
introduction and a conclusion.
My visual aid that I would use would be an
overhead containing the basic parts to a drum set. This would be so the
listeners could see what I was talking about. I would also bring pictures of
different drum sets. During my speech, I would be sure to move around the front
of the room and use my hands while talking. I think that this format and the
visual aids would be the best way to help the listeners understand the
speech.
For my speech to persuade, I would talk about television violence
and the effects it has on children. I would start out by making an outline
containing the parts of my speech. The first part would be to talk about how
television violence triggers aggression in children. The second part would be
how it puts fear in children. The third part I would talk about would be how
children become desensitized to real world violence by watching violence on
television. I would include an introduction and a conclusion in my speech as
well.
For a visual aid, I would use an overhead containing statistics to
prove my theory. I would be sure to include in my speech the references from
which I derived my information. This is important especially in a persuasive
speech because the listeners are more likely to be persuaded if they can see
actual statistics from authority figures. I would be sure to use hand gestures
and be energetic to hold the attention of the listeners. It is very important
that I hold their attention so they can see the problem as it is.
To
conclude this half of the assignment, I will go over the things I have just
talked about. First I talked about how to do a speech of entertainment and what
would make it a successful speech. Second I talked about how to do a speech of
information and how to make it a successful speech. Then I talked about how to
do a speech of persuasion and how to best persuade the listeners. Thank you and
have a wonderful day!!!!
Question 3
This question to me is a lot
harder than the first one. It is one that needs a lot more in depth answer to
the problem. The four challenges in personal relationships are dealing with
distance, managing dual career relationships, resisting violence and abuse
between intimates, and negotiating safer sex. The one that I will break down is
managing dual career relationships. Managing dual career relationships is
balancing by both partners the demands and pressures of two careers with
investment in the relationship itself.
Managing dual careers in
relationships can be hampered by pseudolistening. Pseudolistening is pretending
to listen. It is when we appear to be attentive, but our minds are really
somewhere else. This can be very unhealthy for the relationship because when we
pretend to listen but think of other things, we can miss some of the things that
the other partner is saying and not hear or do the things that they want us to.
It can cause problems when they have had a bad day and just need someone to
listen to them, then when they ask you what you think and you have no answer,
you get in trouble. It is also bad that if they ask you to pick something up for
you and you don’t hear that, then you get into trouble for not listening to them
or paying attention to what they are saying.
Another bad form of
listening is monopolizing. Monopolizing is the hogging of the stage by
continuously focusing the communication on ourselves instead of the person who
is talking. It is the old trick to turn the conversation around. It is used like
you think you have it bad, well listen to all of my problems. It can be bad for
relationships because both partners will almost start to argue over who had the
worst day. It is almost an immature way to fight. Instead of venting your
“steam” for the day, you can build more up in an argument with your
partner.
The last bad form of listening I will talk about is defensive
listening. I am guilty of this one. Defensive listening is the perceiving
personal attacks, criticisms, or hostile undertones in communication where none
is intended. It can be bad for the dual career relationship in that one partner
might think that the other is getting after them to pull more “weight” around
the house when really they are just asking a simple question like if they took
the garbage out. I am guilty of that when asked if I am keeping my apartment
clean or if I have my homework done.
Now I would like to start to give
solutions on how dual career partners can keep from using pseudolistening. This
is a hard accomplishment. It takes the work of both of them to work this one
out. This is very hard to do if one partner needs to talk and you are watching
an interesting program on television. All you have to do is take five minutes
and let them explain what is wrong and offer advise or even just a hug. It can
be difficult but if you actually listen to them there is a good chance that they
will then do something nice for you.
I will now offer a way to help with
the problem of monopolizing the conversation. Monopolizing of conversations can
be worked out by setting back a time when you can go one at a time and talk
about your day. You could do something like that at the supper table while
eating. You could also practice this by both of the partners help make the meal
and you could talk about the day that you had one at a time. The main thing to
do here is to listen carefully to each other and try your best not to interrupt
the other person who is talking.
The last that I will offer advice on how
to fix is defensive listening. Defensive listening is a bad think because you
can upset the other partner if constantly take their comments the wrong way.
This is a hard problem to fix overnight. It could take months of listening to
everything that they have to say and then try not to take it in the wrong way.
You almost have to put yourself in their shoes and try to look at the situation
like they do. This is something that I struggle with every day. I can’t figure
out why I do this but I do. Like I said you have to look out for yourself, and
be careful how you respond to the situation at hand and try not to read anything
negative into the comments.
I am now finishing up this paper on listening
problems of the dual career relationships. I went over the listening problems
that can arise in a dual career relationship. They are pseudolistening,
monopolizing, and defensive listening. Then I gave suggestions on how to get
past the problems that those types of listening cause. Now that I am done I wish
you a wonderful day and good luck in the future. Thank you.