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fandomhigh2005-09-20 08:14 am
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Speech Comm
CJ walks into class wearing dark sunglasses and carrying a 20 oz coffee. She looks tired, but extremely happy. It takes her a good 5 minutes to begin talking, and then it's v-e-r-y softly.
201, it's time to get into some really meaty speech writing. I want you to pair up, this is going to be a week long project, and I want you to
1. Choose an issue
2. Take a side (one pro and one con. You do not have to agree with the side you argue)
3. Come up with a speech, a la debate.
This will be a good exercise especially for those of you running for student government.
((ooc:I go back to teaching tomorrow, so speech comm is moving to slow play))
By this time she's had her coffee and has perked up some, but she still doesn't take off her glasses.
301
Let's continue our discussion from yesterday. We had decided that sex, or rather the promise of sex, violence and the threat of violence, peer pressure and the need to conform, and fear were all tools of persuasion. All true, all true...but there are others.
Attractiveness, I mean non sexual, just plain good to look at attractiveness is another. People are more inclined to agree with and help out pretty people. Someplace I have statistics on that.
Furthermore, likability and similarity gets factored in. I suppose this all leads to the peer pressure D'anna brought up yesterday.
So, let's keep talking people!
201, it's time to get into some really meaty speech writing. I want you to pair up, this is going to be a week long project, and I want you to
1. Choose an issue
2. Take a side (one pro and one con. You do not have to agree with the side you argue)
3. Come up with a speech, a la debate.
This will be a good exercise especially for those of you running for student government.
((ooc:I go back to teaching tomorrow, so speech comm is moving to slow play))
By this time she's had her coffee and has perked up some, but she still doesn't take off her glasses.
301
Let's continue our discussion from yesterday. We had decided that sex, or rather the promise of sex, violence and the threat of violence, peer pressure and the need to conform, and fear were all tools of persuasion. All true, all true...but there are others.
Attractiveness, I mean non sexual, just plain good to look at attractiveness is another. People are more inclined to agree with and help out pretty people. Someplace I have statistics on that.
Furthermore, likability and similarity gets factored in. I suppose this all leads to the peer pressure D'anna brought up yesterday.
So, let's keep talking people!
Re: 301
And because people are attracted to symmetry - not just im people, but in everyday life - they will go with the more symmetrically-pleasing option. That's why beauty is used in advertising: because the brain responds.
Re: 301
Anyone else?