Pastor Keith Loy is the head Pastor at Celebrate Church in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and gave this speech on Sunday, April 10th. Celebrate Church is doing a series called “Tough as Nails” and this speech was to inform the audience on how life is a battle. Pastor Keith Loy’s goal is to give a good speech teaching us to live in the word of the Lord. Pastor Keith Loy started his introduction with naming off a lot of famous battles of history. There was Thermopile, Marathon, the Civil War, Gettysburg, and World War 2 to name a few. All of these are strategic wars that changed the world. He drew us into the speech by challenging our knowledge of previous wars and explained that if you don’t know history, you will repeat history.
His main point of this entire speech
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Pastor Keith Loy reminds us that life is a battle and its war time. “One standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer, and a group of three is even better” (Ecclesiastes 4:12). Jesus said it is going to get worse but in the end… We Win. His final statement was to be as tough as nails, not in life, but in God.
The delivery all throughout the speech kept me focused in the message. The biggest thing that kept me glued was the rate of speech. There were moments where he paused and others where he sped up while he paced back and forth across the stage. He also wasn’t serious the whole time. He threw in jokes here and there but in the end he made sure people understood the true meaning of the message.
Another big part of the delivery was hand gestures and movements. He started by sitting next to a small table during his speech. But, by the end he was up and walking all over the stage as the message got more intense and more meaningful as he approached his conclusion. I found it helpful instead of distracting. It was more entertaining, allowing me to focus in on him instead of daydreaming in my
While analyzing the speech, I notice how he isn’t shaky from nervousness or his voice’s pitch getting higher which makes him confident, is already prepared of what he wants to talk about, and therefore does not cause any distractions towards the audience. His voice tone is at his natural state as I assume as it calm, not quick to rush words out, and engages the audience by not bringing
Since the beginning of history there has always been conflict and disagreement, which led to battle and confrontation. Ever since these hostilities have emerged, the problems that spark the conflicts and the battle itself have been illustrated in textbooks and plastered all over the internet, yet no one really takes the time to think of the many soldiers and people who risk their lives for our safety and freedom. To gain a tighter grasp on history and what these veterans have done for us, we interviewed army veteran, Christian Werthmuller, who participated in Black Operations, Operation Desert Storm, and the Iraq War.
Words have power. However, for them to have the desired impact on the audience, some styles have to be incorporated in articulating them out. Orators of the time are best known for their ability to touch people through words. One such person is President Obama. He has a way of making people remember what he has said. This is because; he has styles that he uses in his speech which capture the interest and emotions of the listener. Oppositely, a speaker may want to bring out a certain point, but the choice of technique may impede the passage of such a point to the audience. Basing on this, it is vital for speakers not just to come with word they think are appropriate but also make a choice of the techniques that will influences the delivery of the desired message. Information regarding the styles and techniques utilized by the speaker cannot be gathered unless thee speech is critically analyzed. Accordingly, one of the speeches by President Obama is going to be analyzed.
Her slow yet concise way of speaking, coupled with easy to follow transitions allowed for a speech that was enjoyable to listen to. Her use of examples from her personal life allowed her audience to get a picture of who she was if they did not know, and allowed her to better relate to them by provided examples of how she is related to the college they are graduating from. Her reference to many modern political problems allowed her to bring up her important role as an activist and facilitated further understanding from the audience. While some areas of her speech were weak, such as the longer than needed pauses and her lack of consistent eye contact, to a few points where she didn’t speak clearly enough, the overall picture that was her speech was fairly strong. Looking at this speech, I hope to incorporate some aspects that I failed to include in my previous speeches. Some of these include her use of hand gestures to emphasize and exaggerate certain phrases and topics, and her combined use of appeals. While my initial thoughts going in were “This is boring” and “This is too slow”, it evolved into me wanting to hear more, and overall my defeat in the beginning turned into a victory at the
The language used in the speech mostly was flawless and applicable to the audience, who was the public, since he was using every day vocabulary. Therefore, the speech has had strong structure that can be easily understood by the majority of people. The audience typic...
Famed Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson’s legacy is hardly easy to define. His is most remembered for cunning speed and brutality in battle and many consider him without equal. The same strategies Jackson used in the Shenandoah Valley campaign were scrutinized by both Rommel and Patton for inspiration in WWII. Jackson’s personal discipline carried over into his command. Although his men were often barefoot and near starvation, he pushed them forward into battle, not wishing to sacrifice the element of surprise. Many of his battles were actually waged on Sundays which contradicts Jackson’s steadfast devotion to Christianity that many attribute to fanaticism.
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All in all the last State of the Union Speech was very informative. Obama was very enthusiastic when relaying the information to the audience you can tell by the tone in his voice. The audience was very interactive with all the applauding and he had a great sense of humor throughout the entire speech. He kept the audience interested and stayed on topic making it easy for his audience to follow. Although I am not interested in politics I would listen to this speaker again because it made me feel as if need to become more involved in politics by stressing the importance of the
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adequate. Hickam did use good transitions between his main points. The speech did expand my
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...t orator and rhetor, his ability to integrate emotion into fact and still have facts exist as true and unbiased. As a result of the heavy factual details, his logos in this speech was excellent.
Bush’s method of topic by topic argument along with many emotional appeals was a rather effective way of winning the audience’s support. By appealing to the emotions of the audience Bush was able to give the audience issues they could relate to as well as issues they would feel strongly about. With an emotionally involved audience Bush was able to gather a great number of supporters of his party, just as he intended in his original purpose. The further reference to the character of the people involved in the issues really paid off by drawing the crowd closer to the people working for them. With the topical structure and the appeals used, the speech was a very effective tool in gaining support for the Republican Party from the northern Arizonan audience.
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- But comfort can be found when we see the picture God has presented, not of a life without struggle, but a life where victory can be found in the struggle itself.