Blog Post #6

I find this recording very interesting. I had no idea that there was a tunnel underneath the city of Las Vegas and what went on down there. The fact that kids would live down there with their drug addict parents stuck out to me the most. Knowing that Las Vegas is full of sin anyway, its very disturbing that even worse goes on below. I wasn’t expecting this to occur below the Hardrock Hotel. I’ve been to Las Vegas multiple times and have stayed at the Hard Rock and Bellagio. To think that there was lots of drug usage underneath me while I thought it was a nice hotel is disturbing to think about. Most people go to Las Vegas and think that it is “Sin City” and lots of bad behavior goes on there, but it is very interesting and touring the different hotels that are along the strip and looking at all the neat things that Las Vegas has to offer like the shows and fine dining make it less sinful. Las Vegas has a very wow factor look to it and now I have an even different “wow” feel about the place. There is a lot of poverty in Las Vegas with the overpopulated city, but no child deserves to be left in a tunnel while their parents are doing drugs. It disturbs me that people know about the activity that goes on, and nothing is being done about it to help the children out. The children don’t deserve to live a life like that and the drugs that go on with their family life should not affect their own life. Having said this, I am in a disgusted state of mind by listening to this recording and something should happen to help the children out. 

Blog Post #5

As I watched myself give my speech I noticed multiple things that I could have done better or things that I just completely messed up on. I tend to say the word “um” a lot whenever I get nervous and act jittery. I talked extremely fast and mumbled my words. Whenever I talked, I didn’t talk in a very enthusiastic way. I was monotone and didn’t really engage with my audience. I smiled a lot to the audience and made good eye contact throughout the presentation. Everyone could tell that I was nervous because of how I was moving around and holding the flashcards. I relied on those cards for most of the speech. In the middle of the presentation I forgot to change my PowerPoint presentation slides and that made me even more nervous than I already was. I was scared that my grade was going to be deflected off of that mistake pretty badly. As I finished my presentation I realized I did more good than bad. I gave the audience adequate information in the time limit that was given. I didn’t quite reach four minutes, but it was more than three minutes and every one seemed impressed with the information I was giving them. I was able to answer the questions that they were asking me after the presentation too. I prepared myself for most of the questions that they asked. I found out that I did better with improvising my answers with the questions that they asked me rather than trying to memorize my whole speech. 

Blog Post #4

As I have chose to do my speech proposal on Keeneland, I will use ethos, logos, and pathos in a way to persuade the audience to allow them to think it is a good idea for me to do so. I will inform the audience a background culture on Keeneland and get them involved by asking rhetorical questions or simply they could raise their hand. I will show an emotional appeal by telling them about the social classes and how they interact with one another and get them to think about how they see one self at Keeneland or at a race track. I want to allow the audience to not just think about Keeneland as a racetrack, but to broaden their view and to go more in depth with what goes on at Keeneland. Keeneland is more than just a racetrack, but a competition on social classes as well.