At first I was really confused about the point of this speech, The Museum of Four in the Morning, and the title it was given. In the start he is talking about the Nobel Prize and a poem written by a Lady that had gotten stuck in his head. Then while he is trying to think of how he knows this poem and what it means to him he has the same thing over and over again. What he hears is the phrase “ four in the morning”. Rives talks about how he noticed he kept running across the phrase in his everyday life and spoke about it in a prior speech and now people send him all kinds of things that have his “four in the morning’ in it. The speaker then goes on to show us how all of our entertainment such as books, movies, comic strips, and television have the phrase in them. He reads quotes from books new and old that have the phrase. He plays movie and tv from different genres from Aliens to the Flintstones to porn that all have the phrase “ four in the morning” in them. After getting about ten minutes in to the speech the title finally clicked. The …show more content…
From the start I was annoyed with him for just playing and showing us things with the words four in the morning in it. I was thinking man they let anybody talk about anything they wanted to. But once he said that the girl from his past matched different songs with different poems I appreciated the poem for what it was. It was his story of the one that got away, and how he took all that for granted. I understood that this was a message to his audience, a message for us not to take things in our lives for granted. If he asked me what he could do to improve this speech I would tell him to keep it the same. Rives had it set up the perfect way to where it would keep the viewer on their toes, but still interested enough to make it to the end to understand the deeper meaning of his
By rereading the poem several times, made me not only appreciate it, but understand it on a different level. Saenz did a great job at telling the story so that people can view it different ways. I enjoyed the poem because it clearly drew a picture in my mind of what he was talking about. At one point, I felt like I could see what he was talking about. I never acknowledged poems prior to this one because I felt that poems were too cheesy and corny. Instead of telling the story he made it a journey for the readers to get what he was saying. This poem shows how life was at the time and what people were surrounded with. Fortunately, many children are exposed to that today and are pushed in the right direction. All in all this poem was of the most interesting poems I've ever read and made me think harder than I ever would on any other
Elie Wiesel, a holocaust survivor, delivered The Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, in Oslo on December 10, 1986. He started his speech off by reciting the following prayer: "Barukh atah Adonai …shehekhyanu vekiymanu vehigianu lazman hazeh"—"Blessed be Thou…for giving us life, for sustaining us, and for enabling us to reach this day." Then, after his speech, the people thanked him for everything he had done to help humankind make peace. With a profound sense of humility, he accepted this honor.
A time for inconveniences, mishaps, yearnings” (Rives Ted Talk). Rives relates 4 a.m. in the morning to several facts that he finds online, which have nothing to do together but he coincidentally finds some facts and shows that they all have something in common. Rives shows the audience that he is presenting to, the top ten results for the Google search of Four in the Morning, he shows and says, “The top 10 results yield you four hits for Faron Young's song, It's Four in the Morning, three hits for Judi Dench's film, Four in the Morning, one hit for Wislawa Szymborska's poem, Four in the Morning. But what, you may ask, do a Polish poet, a British Dame, a country music hall of famer all have in common besides this totally excellent Google ranking” (Rives Ted Talk). Rives says that 4 a.m. has a secret behind it even though he gathered random facts and put them all together. Rives connects a British Dame, Polish Poet, and a country music hall of famer using a set of dates that he shows to be connecting everyone into one. After this random Google Search, Rives starts to talk about each Faron Young, Judi Dench, and Wislawa Szymborska and he relates
This film influenced me greatly and how I might be able to go about in my speech making. James Farmer Jr. and his debate team delivered their speeches with a lot of emotion, drawing their audiences in on their side. James Farmer used his own experiences and struggles to drive his speech making, while trying to prove himself to everyone that he was not just a child. Although James Farmer and I are different, especially in the way we present our speeches, I admired the way he used his knowledge and emotions to help win the last debate
Theadore Rosevelt is trying to save all the resources. He is giving a great speech in Osawatomie, Kansas on August 31, 1910. He states the natural resources are being exhausted. He is trying to the save the resources before they are all used up before the next generation.
... morning" (83). The speaker of Ashbery's poem desires the same release for Bishop, as well as for himself.
The debates at Polly’s have continued with speeches from three members of the Labor Faction, Big Bill Haywood, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and Leah Schwartz. This debate was more lively than the last; it seems that the members of the audience were more involved during this debate – bringing up their own beliefs and concerns, asking questions, and even challenging some of the ideas brought up by the speakers. During this debate, the members of the Labor Faction also demonstrated the importance of art, both in life and in movements. Big Bill spoke of art’s ability to maintain humanity while Elizabeth Flynn actually used art in her speech, which seemed to make her speech more impactful since it is the arts that truly engage our minds and souls.
First of all, I found his speech interesting because of his use of self-examples to deliver to the audiences the message of how he could succeed. This is influential because his stories are real, connect to other
...s is related to his philosophy about doing the right thing and about a being a good person. But it goes beyond this. He spoke often about having true compassion. It isn’t enough to help those in need, but we must truly care about them, to take a good look and see how they got that way. He asked us to examine how we as a society can change the conditions that led them to be there in the first place. Doing this makes us better as people. I have found that it also makes me feel better. Never give up on your dreams. While his life was cut tragically short, he died in pursuit of his dream and in spite of everything he faced, he never gave up on it. He faced obstacles I could never imagine having to face, and still persisted. This reminds me that the small things in my life that often seem insurmountable, are just my excuses for not taking action and are not obstacles.
Introduction This research is intended to analyze the transcript of a child’s speech. The target child is a female named Majorie, who is 2 years and 3 months old. The transcript is from The Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology. The linguistic aspects that will be examined are the phonological processes of the child, including speech errors, syllable shapes, and her phonetic inventory consisting of manner and place of articulation.
of a time when he had something to say. The man speaks for the first
What parts of the film were surprising or made you sit back and say, “Hmmm, I need to think more about that? Or, “Wow, I never thought about that.” The part would be when he was talking about “shared equality” up until the 1970’s was a normal thing and how everybody’s income doubled in size as well.
Good-Morning/ After-noon I’m Kirra Lee, I’m here to talk about one of the Four Corners Documentary’s called the “Punch Drunk”, uploaded February, 26 2013 by Janine Cohen and Karen Michelmore. A quote I saw once said that “Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity behaviour” by Sammy Davis, Jr, and the purpose of this documentary is telling us about violence under the influence of alcohol and what it does to use while under the guidance and what we can do to others without thinking about it. This story is about a young boy going out on his first time drinking out in the clubs, while walking with his girlfriend, he gets severely punched in the head by a drunk person and now has ended up half crippled on one side of the body for the rest
He used one question at the beginning of the speech that would catch the audiences curiosity; "Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes?" and branched out from there to important issues. I think this showed a sense of organization and importance to the issue of why he was there.