The speech that was analyzed was “Your Body Language Shape Who You Are” by social psychologist, Amy Cuddy. Amy explained in her speech that other people’s and your body language can display how a person can perceive themselves in a power dominance situation. Also, Cuddy described how an individual can change how a room of people views them by simply arranging their posture. Amy Cuddy gave an effective speech by her delivery of the topic, her credibility on the subject, and how she kept the audience engage.
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
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The speaker first grab her viewer’s attention by giving them questions and having self participation. Also, Amy uses humor to keep the audience focus on what is is talking about. She achieved this by her use of funny pictures and videos to break the ice for the viewers and to warm her crowd up. Cuddy also utilized technology in her speech. Her use of technology enhance her discussion by providing visuals to guide the audience in her topic. Together with the technology, Amy used an emotional personal story to keep the attention of the audience. This emotional story used the pathos side of a persuasive speech to use the audience emotion to keep them focus on the subject.
Overall, Amy Cuddy gave an effective speech on her topic of the importance of body language. Amy Cuddy achieve the goal of an effective speech by her delivery of the topic, her credibility on the subject, and how she kept the audience engage. In order for a person to give an effect speech they should really look into on how Amy Cuddy gave her
She gives the listeners personal advice she has learned and uses pathos in a more emotional way. Her allusion to the world trade center is a perfect example of this. She reminds us how we can easily overcome obstacles when we work together with other people. Later in the address Amy Poehler shares a few things she learned from when she studied improvisation in Chicago. She says, “Say ‘yes.’ Live in the moment. Make sure you play with people who have your back. Make big choices early and often. Don’t start a scene where two people are talking and jumping out of a plane. Start the scene having already jumped. If you are scared, look into your partner’s eyes. You’ll feel better”,. The way she relates the strategies she learned there back to life touches your heart. She closes her speech with a heartfelt message, “When you feel scared, hold someone’s hand and look into their eyes. And when you feel brave, do the same thing. You are all here because you are smart. And you are brave....As you head out into the world, I wish you love and light, joy, and much
The TED Talk “Why 30 is not the new 20” by Meg Jay, was a powerful and successful speech. Jay delivers an inspirational message to twenty-year-olds to not waste away important years of their life in an unmeaningful relationship or career. Instead she stresses the importance of searching for a life-long partner sooner rather than later in life. She also talked about taking career risks while still young, because these opportunities will likely be indefeasible later in life. Jay 's main points were very effective in persuading one to consider living by this set of social standards. It is clear that Meg Jay is an experienced public speaker, because of how well the overall presentation was. She does all of the basics perfectly, such as standing
Her hand gestures are still natural, but she uses more gestures to express her emotion and the way she feels to further emphasize her story. Her facial expressions and voice tone is more vibrant and aggressive to further go along with the emotion she’s expressing and to grab the viewer’s attention to detail. She does a good job on being the main focus of her speech by not having any outside sources such as slides, note card, etc. and also keeping her body relaxed and in a natural state by not pacing around, expressing natural movements, and many other things. Throughout the speech, she puts emphasis on the word ‘articulate’ as she uses it various amounts of times to get the viewers to catch on to what she is trying to say and the message she is trying to get across. She does express humor here and there but she doesn’t use it as a focal point to keep her audience engaged, instead, elaborates on a story on why she’s
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
Sheryl Sandberg came to Ted to give a speech in 2010. She had a story about her preschool daughter and asked Pat, the CEO if she could add it to her speech. Pat responded with “Absolutely tell that story.” That’s when Sandberg then realized she could help others especially, woman by being honest about her own experiences and challenges. Sheryl Sandberg says “I tried to be authentic and share my truth”. She also says “she feels short of doing it all and it felt good to not only admit it to others but herself.” When you give a speech you should always want to be authentic, open, and transparent. Allowing yourself to do this will allow the audience to listen and understand what you’re opening up about during the speech. If you’re not authentic
emotion-evoking pleas persuade the audience to see from the same point of view as her,
You could tell that she was very passionate about the subject of eating organic food. At the end, Meagan talks about her personal story being that about a year ago she started eating organic food. She explained how her bank account is not broken, and how she used to be really tired but now she wakes up early, goes to the gym and eats little organic meals throughout the day and feels so much better than she used to. I really enjoy how Meagan brought her personal life into this, because I think this is very important in a speech but my personal opinion would be that she put it more towards the beginning of the speech rather than the end. I think this would be a good way to keep the audience focused throughout the speech. I think Meagan’s delivery of the speech was really good and interesting. Her eye contact was usually good but it was very clear that she was reading directly off of the paper but you could tell it was very organized. She didn’t move much, she stood in the same spot, I think it was good that she stayed n the same spot but I think she should’ve moved her hands a little more. I think her change in voice could’ve been a little better because she seemed to have the same tone through the whole speech. Otherwise, she did an amazing job at her pronunciations. I could understand every word she said and her speed and timing was so
Renowned and engaging speakers have the ability to connect their values and ideas to greater causes and principles, leaving an enduring impact on the audience. You may be questioning what makes a great speaker? And what qualities and features contribute to the formation of a powerful speech? It is understood that a great speaker has the ability to communicate to larger truths and carve those truths on the audience’s hearts and minds as they surpass the context, place and time of the deliverance of the speech, and focus on conveying their ideas and values.
The Mark Twain Prize for humor is awarded by the John F. Kennedy Center for performing Arts every year since 1998. This award is given to leading actor/comedian in the American industry. In 2011 Will Ferrell received the Mark Twain Comedy award. This is an analysis of the speech acceptance speech that he gave.
In her Ted Talk, Amy Cuddy talks about how body language is not only how other people see you but how you see yourself. She says there are two ways the natural world categorize itself with non-verbal expression: dominance or submission. A dominate presence wants to occupy space, to spread out wide. A submissive presence wants to make themselves as small as possible, and not bring notice to themselves. The dominate or submissive posture, real or forced, affects the mind not just the body. Cuddy mentions that in a study she did, she mentions that subjects were acts to pose in power poses. In two minutes in high or low power poses led to hormonal change that configured the brain to be dominate or submissive. With how well Cuddy’s argument is put
Over the recent four months in Communication 1402 class, I have addressed three formal speechs and completed a number of chapters in the corresponding textbook “Communication Works”. This course of Communication aims to provide general information what public speaking is and how to address a public speaking. Recalling back the experience during the processes of completing the Speech to Imform, Speech to Persuade, and Group Presentation, I will draw a conclusion about this course and these three presentations in five aspects, comprising my previous perception of public speaking before this course; learning from the Speech to Inform; the goal and evaluation of Speech to Persuade; learning from the Group Presentation; the most important thing learned from this course.
1.After reading Anna Tardos speech I feel that each element has a great impact on the infant's development. I never knew that noisy toys are not good for them and to stimulating. I also didn’t know that too many toys can be over stimulating. I wish I learned this when my child was an infant. I feel putting them in the small space could be great to keep them safe, but I only used this space for sleep and didn’t want to make it a play space. With my daughter I played with her on the floor and supervised to be their if she became unsafe. Otherwise I let her explore, I feel this worked great for her, instead of confining her.
Nonverbal communication behaviors play a key part in the audience’s perception of your competence, trustworthiness, and character (Chp 19 p 262). Audience members receive information beyond the actual words that a speaker says (Chp 19 p 262). Two types of nonverbal communication is paralanguage and body language (Chp 19 p 262). Audience’s only derives 7% of what the speaker’s meaning from the words that they say, 38% comes from the speaker’s voice and 55% comes from the speaker’s body language and appearance (Chp 19 p 262). He smiled at the beginning of his speech to welcome the audience and to have mutual comfort (Chp 19 p 263). He used different facial expressions so that we knew what he was feeling. He maintained great eye contact with the audience and was constantly scanning each section of the room so that no one felt left out. Eye contact is important because it maintains the quality of directness in a speech delivery, it lets people know that they are recognize, it indicates acknowledgment and respect, and it signals to audience members that you see them as unique human beings (Chp 19 p 263). He was dressed in a very casual outfit consisting of a brown almost too tight long sleeve shirt, blue jeans, flip flops, a necklace and bracelet, glasses, and his long hair in a ponytail. For the speech he was given I would say that his outfit was appropriate due to the fact that it was a hippie speech and he looked like a hippie. Dressing appropriately is important because it is the first thing that an audience notices (Chp 19 p
The speech wording was very strong. The wording hit the hearts of many that day. The best was the word play like similes she used I think it’s always better make people laugh. She used the 3 Ps as a reference on life. The imagery she used was great and the bad words helped. She used them strongly and I think it worked.
I have also learned about different types of audiences and speeches including persuasive, informative, entertaining and delivering special occasion speeches. It came to my attention that whenever I was making these presentations or speeches, I needed to do so with confidence, consistence and practice before the actual presentation and completely eliminate the element of panic. It was also clear that capturing the attention of the audience and engaging them in the whole process, it was necessary to have a very strong introduction and also try and use visuals to deliver the message. It was therefore vital to respect each person’s diversity and cultural values (Lucas, 2011).