Safawat Saleem's Fear Of Speech

Choosing a speech for this paper was not easy, I had a lot of topics going through my head. Finally, I settled on the topic of bullying and how it can affect how the victims live their lives. I chose a speech from “ted.com”, the speech is by a man named Safawat Saleem, and is titled “Why I keep speaking up, even when people mock my accent” this speech was given in Vancouver back in February of 2016. This was a really good speech and he presented very well, from his use of ethos, logos, pathos, to the way he communicated with the audience and used his resources to help them understand. Safawat Saleem had fear of speaking in public at a young age. One of his biggest fears, that played out quite often was, where he would be in a group setting and someone asking his name. Safawat Saleem would freeze up and would be unable to tell them his name, at that point that one person would say something along the lines of “what have you forgotten your name?” and then the rest of the people around them would then join in asking “What have you forgotten your name?”. To avoid these situations, he would try his best to stay away from larger groups of people, but since that was not possible when he was in that

He used another visual aid to help us understand how voice editing worked, and how he could make his voice higher, lower, and even fix his speech if he was to stutter while recording. Safawat Saleem referred back to when he was a child, and how hard it was for him to speak. Safawat would never answer the phone if it rang, in fact he would run away and go hide in the bathroom just so he would not have to answer it. If the phone call happened to be for him his parents would say that he was not there, or that he could not come to the phone at the moment. Safawat made the joke saying that he spent a lot of time in the bathroom, which got a good amount of