The Thing Is, I Stutter Megan Alexandra Washington, an Australian musician and song writer, performs jazz, alternative rock music and plays the piano and the guitar. In her ted talk, she talks about the importance of language. This is something that is very important to her because she has a stutter. Singing, it is not apparent that she has this speech disorder. While singing, she is her true self and can express her ideas fluently. There are thousands of people in the world that struggle with a stutter, and her speech may inspire those who can relate. She uses personal stories and humor to deliver her message in an effective way. Megan’s audience would be anyone struggling with a stutter or speech disorder, musicians, and of any …show more content…
She states, “I sort of lived to this idea that when I’m grown, I’ll have learned to speak French, and when I’m grown, I’ll learn how to manage my money, and when I’m grown, I won’t have a stutter, and then I’ll be able to public speak and maybe be the Prime Minister and anything’s possible and, you know.” The repeated phrase of, when I’m grown, emphasizes the fact that until now, she believed that her stutter would go away someday, just like the rest of those adolescent beliefs. There is also humor in this quote, and by making her audience laugh she creates a better listening environment. This speech’s persuasiveness was mainly dependent upon her personal efforts and experiences. Megan’s personality allowed her speech to be more persuasive, listeners could tell she felt very passionate about music. During the speech, Megan intentionally, as best as she could, avoided using words that started with the letter S or T. She knows that these tend to cause her stutter to happen. She also held her phone the entire time and read off the screen, which made it easier not to stutter. Throughout the entire speech, there were 57 or more stutters. However, as she ended her speech with the singing a song that she wrote, she did not stutter
As most people know speech and language issues would only happen with children just learning to talk and tennagers in middle school to high school. The reasoning behind this is because most people don’t correct their children’s speech when they are first learning due to the fact that the parents or grandparents think it is to cute to correct, which only hurts the children more th...
From being a competitor on Dancing with the Stars, to an actress on Switched at Birth, Marlee Matlin is known for her overflowing amount of talents. She seems to do it, and quite effortlessly while she’s at it. But, the one thing she cannot do, is hear. To quite a few people, this may seem as a disadvantage, but to Marlee this is quite the opposite. She embraces her uniqueness and strives to show her disbelievers that she is capable of anything that she sets her mind to. Despite the many challenges she has faced, Marlee Matlin remains determined, unique, and an advocate for the Deaf culture.
Shania twain is a pop and country music sensation. As a young girl she struggled with poverty, hunger, and abuse. Shania watched her dad physically abusing her mother and verbally abusing her. When Shania was 22 years old her parents were killed in a terrible car crash leaving her to raise her siblings. Shania twain loved her step father even though he was abusive and beat her mother. In 1993 Shania twain collaborated with rock music producer 'Mutt' Lange to create her mega hit album ‘The woman in me’ which sold twelve million copies turning Shania into the best selling female country artist of all time. Six months later Shania twain and 'Mutt' Lange fell in love and married. Her career was kicked into high gear with her follow up album ‘Come on over’ which became the best selling album by a female artist. Five time Grammy winner Shania twain was on top of the charts and on top of the world. She seemed to be living a fairytale life with her husband and young son but was actually struggling with the high price of fame and walked away from the spotlight to live a quiet life with Mutt and their young son. Six years later her fourteen year marriage fell apart when she discovered that her husband of fourteen years was having an affair with her closest friend Marie-Anne Thiebaud who she was confiding in about her marriage troubles, her confidence was shattered, and she lost her voice and ability to perform. She then went on a quest to find herself and her voice again and to get to the bottom of what’s going on with her voice physically. It was discovered that she suffers from Dysphonia, an ailment where...
Throughout the article, Leonard Pitts Jr. makes it abundantly clear his disapproval of the "McBudget" strategy served up by the fast food mega giant. The mood portrayed could at best be described as complete and utter disbelief, with a bitter pinch of anguish. Metaphorically punching well-crafted, rational hole after hole into an exceedingly narrow-minded proposal, used to shade a harsh reality. Though subtle and straight forward, it's the underlining depths of the author's argument which truly bear the antagonizing weight in the piece. The masterful used of the word "bupkes" for example; conveys a rhetorical first strike. A Yiddish word meaning "next to nothing"; Pitts' particular choice of language supplemented a more culturally philosophical notion.
Tarshis explains how Bella Negron would be “so hurt that she [would] run to the school bathroom to cry,” (Tarshis 3), seeking refuge from bullies. Like how Raymond was underestimated by his neighbors, Bella has been considered vapid by her classmates. They made her suppose that it is improper to be unique, and that her stammer made her an alien. If her peers were not so ignorant, Bella would never have misjudged herself and her abilities. Unlike her fellow students, the people of SAY, the Stuttering Association for the Young, welcomed Bella for who she is and took pride in her character, and Bella started to ameliorate with their aid. Understanding each other’s situations and being respectful is the first step in accomplishing what the stuttering program
I choose Marika Kovac-Houlihan’s TED Talk “Deaf Ideology” at University Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Kovac-Houlihan recounts several tales from her life while criticizing society’s interaction with Deaf people. I had no idea the stigma a Deaf person faces. I read about the hardships and difficulty, but I never understood what that meant to Deaf people. I have never understood the thinking that a Deaf person is disabled, I don’t even know how to react or change that kind of thinking because it never occurred to me. My biggest concern with Deaf people, as it is with anyone who speaks a different language than me, is communication. I strongly dislike not being able to communicate with people, Deaf people included because I do not see them as disabled or needing to orally speak.
In a blog from Daniella on HQ (1) it is stated that “The show Switched at Birth has been very successful and is being praised for bridging the gap between the deaf and hearing worlds. It’s even been said that they are making deafness cool.” In an effort to help hearing communities relate more too deaf communities, Switched at birth went Silent for an episode and was largely only done in ASL, American Sign Language. This had never been done before on Television. In this ASL episode Katie, playing Daphne, was fighting for Deaf children to remain on their Deaf campus and for it to receive as much support as a hearing campus and for them not to be forced to be mainstreamed or separated. Katie while playing Daphne has brought to the table multiple concerns or questions that the hearing community doesn’t know or understand about the Deaf community. Some of these concerns are learning to sign, cochlear implants, the need for a deaf campus for deaf and HOH students and relationships among a deaf and hearing
Up until now Lynn had it very tough growing up in a hearing world, but as soon as she started learning and using sign language her world turned around. Lynn finally gained a means of communication and Thomas and Louise were finally able to understand and communicate with their beautiful little girl with whom they were cut off from with a language barrier. Through communicating with other deaf individuals like her, Lynn finally felt like she was “normal” without trying to please the society’s normalcy.
Pollan’s article provides a solid base to the conversation, defining what to do in order to eat healthy. Holding this concept of eating healthy, Joe Pinsker in “Why So Many Rich Kids Come to Enjoy the Taste of Healthier Foods” enters into the conversation and questions the connection of difference in families’ income and how healthy children eat (129-132). He argues that how much families earn largely affect how healthy children eat — income is one of the most important factors preventing people from eating healthy (129-132). In his article, Pinsker utilizes a study done by Caitlin Daniel to illustrate that level of income does affect children’s diet (130). In Daniel’s research, among 75 Boston-area parents, those rich families value children’s healthy diet more than food wasted when children refused to accept those healthier but
In a quote by John Mill, “Does fining a criminal show want of respect for property, or imprisoning him, for personal freedom? Just as unreasonable is it to think that to take the life of a man who has taken that of another is to show want of regard for human life. We show, on the contrary, most emphatically our regard for it, by the adoption of a rule that he who violates that right in another forfeits it for himself, and that while no other crime that he can commit deprives him of his right to live, this shall.” Everyone’s life is precious, but at what price? Is it okay to let a murderer to do as they please? Reader, please take a moment and reflect on this issue. The issue will always be a conflict of beliefs and moral standards. The topic
The movie trailer “Rio 2”, shows a great deal of pathos, ethos, and logos. These rhetorical appeals are hidden throughout the movie trailer; however, they can be recognized if paying attention to the details and montage of the video. I am attracted to this type of movies due to the positive life messages and the innocent, but funny personifications from the characters; therefore, the following rhetorical analysis will give a brief explanation of the scenes, point out the characteristics of persuasive appeals and how people can be easily persuaded by using this technique, and my own interpretation of the message presented in the trailer.
Linda Bove was born November 30 1945 in Garfield, New Jersey with to two parents who were also deaf. Growing up deaf herself, she used ASL her whole life. In the beginning, she went to St. Joseph School for the Deaf in Bronx, New York. Later, in 1963 she was fortunate to graduate from Marie Katzenbach School for the Deaf in Trenton New Jersey where she was surrounded by her pears which helped place the foundation for her success. Upon completion of Marie Katzenbach School, Linda later attended Gallaudet University and received her Bachelor’s degree in library science. While attending Gallaudet she was in several plays including The Threepenny Opera and Spoon River Anthology. After graduation she attended a summer school program at the National
The Letter from Birmingham Jail was written by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in April of 1963. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of several civil rights activists who were arrested in Birmingham Alabama, after protesting against racial injustices in Alabama. Dr. King wrote this letter in response to a statement titled A Call for Unity, which was published on Good Friday by eight of his fellow clergymen from Alabama. Dr. King uses his letter to eloquently refute the article. In the letter dr. king uses many vivid logos, ethos, and pathos to get his point across. Dr. King writes things in his letter that if any other person even dared to write the people would consider them crazy.
In “Why I Keep Speaking Up, Even When People Mock My Accent,” Safwat Saleem(2016), in an inspiring Ted Talk, emphasizes that maybe normal isn't really normal, Saleem talks about his life and growing up with a stutter and learning confidence. Although as a kid Saleem was bullied such as this example; “After some awkward silence, he goes, "Have you forgotten your name?" (Saleem 2016)And I'm still quiet. And then, slowly, all the other people in the room begin to turn toward me and ask, almost in unison,”(Saleem 2016) with this experience, he, later on, he found comfort in doing voice overs in his videos and disguising his voice to help him except his voice. As to find a norm in his voice
What made Amy Cuddy speech so effective was her delivery to the audience during her TED Talk. Amy was very articulate with her verbal projection because she never stumble on words or took long pauses in between her connections of ideas on the topics. Also, the viewer or an audience member could tell that Cuddy took time to