Reflection About Cultural Hero Speech

Reflection Paper #4 Preparing and giving my Cultural Hero Speech was different than my Narrative Speech in many ways. First of all, in my opinion, the Cultural Hero speech was more personal because I have to tell the audience why this person was my cultural hero and why they deserved it in my eyes. For the Narrative speech I simply just had to interview someone who was different from myself. This, in turn, also made me more passionate presenting my speech about my hero than I was in my first speech. Also it was more difficult to prepare my narrative speech because I had to make sure I was telling the other persons story correctly. I knew everything about my hero when preparing for the speech so it was easy to put it all down on paper and organize it, but for my narrative speech I had to make sure I was relaying the life of somebody I didn’t know as well correctly. Both speeches taught me a lot about communication and public speaking while preparing and presenting them and I believe my skills improved greatly because of it. One of the biggest things I learned in the process of giving speeches is that
Being passionate about my subject, in turn, would help me with by voice inflection, gestures, and making eye contact with the audience. If I was not passionate about my topic than my judges would not be very convinced with my argument. Ironically, I also learned from communication that communicating with my teammates was very important for the debate. Our object was to convince the judges our argument was right, and to do that we needed to work together as a team. As a team we needed to come up with our arguments as well as work together in out rebuttal statements and the fire back questions round. A lot of my knowledge about communication went into preparing and presenting our debate and I believe that my team was successful because of