After watching both the speech buddies on light pollution and drinking, I probably got the most from the speech on drinking. The speech was very well put together, the logical thinking flowed smoothly and I liked how he kept breaking down the statistics until the reality of the numbers struck me: statistically, four people will die during the duration of an average college class period. Listening to some of the comments that he made, it is obvious that he paid attention to some of the points that the book hit on, he showed that he was aware of the age demographic of his audience and even threw in some statistics for them to show how his speech was relevant to them.
For the light pollution one, I think the one thing that I picked out that related to chapter five's topic was how she brought up one of the earlier discussions in the class. By doing this it helped unify her audience by bringing up a topic that they all participated in. Something that I think she did a little too much, especially with how early she was in her speech, was how she was looking at her paper almost the entire time she was talking. I can understand a little though, since I have a major problem with this. It will be something that I will be working on for the next speech. :)
I totally agree. I was so annoyed at how many times the girl in the light video looked at her paper. Pretty soon it was all I could focus on. I just kept thinking to myself how many seconds would pass until she looked at it again. This is something she should have really worked on. With just a little more practice she would have done much better. As for the drinking video, those statistics were insane! I think he did a great job of relating it to the audience because that was their age group. If they would have heard something much more broad like 1/10 die in the US every minute, that would have been to open ended. That age croup wouldn't relate to the entire United States to where the number sunk into their brain.
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