Survey Questions

Question 1

Children nowadays are watching action movies more than any other programmes. Do you agree with this statement?

Question 2

Why you think that children love to watch action movies rather than watching cartoons?

Question 3

Do you think there are few changes in children nowadays for example dressing and talking behaviour after watching action movies?

Question 4

Children could turn out to be violent after watching action movies. What you’re thought on this?

Question 5

As referred to question number four, the children could harm other children’s safety if turn violent. In your opinion how far the statement is true?

Self Reflection

I was confident enough when I went in front of the audience and I started pretty well and I was pumped up. As i continued to do it suddenly i forgot the second half of my speech.I didn't panic and but I was trying to recall the points back. But I couldn't. And i have to jump into the next point and I slowly started to pick up the pace again. It was a very different experience for me as I never did it before. The mistake that i would like to correct when I want to do speech in the future is, I want to bring cue cards with me to front of the audience and in case I forgot any points, I can see the point in the cue cards. And in that way I believe that I can perform better in front of the audiences. Hand gestures was okay I think but still I need to do few more adjustments. Maybe I would to do few jokes in my speech to entertain the audience so that they will focus to my speech. Other than that i feel I did okay not good but im happy because it's part of the game and from mistakes I learn and from from experience I excel better in future.

Comments on Jason's speech

Jason started the speech with less confidence. The points he emphasized in the front of the audience was really does make sense. His topic is communication is a headache which is a quite hard topic to do as most of the people know use communication to communicate with other people. So he was brave in that case to tell the audience that communication is headache. He used few papers to illustrate his points to audience which i find it attractive since other people didn't do that. Slowly he started to pick the pace during his speech and he finished it very well. He had time management problem but he done well in covering his speech within 5 minutes. But overall a job well done for him.

Violent scenes in action movies are ruining children’s future.

My Speech

A very good morning to my lecturer and my friends. My topic for today is violent scenes in action movies are ruining children’s future.

Whatever done to children now, they will do it to society in the future. The quote said by Abraham Lincoln definitely related to the topic which I mentioned earlier. Children love to watch action movies than any other programmes in television. According to my survey almost all the people agreed that children nowadays watching more action movies than any other programmes in television. Action movies like Iron Man and X-Man contain so many violent scenes and almost all of it is aggressive. So obviously it’s not a suitable programme to let a five or six year old kid to watch right? But this is what happening currently. Since most of the houses in Malaysia have television, it’s not a big deal for children to watch their favourite shows in television. Children nowadays are so smart until they use the remote and tune to the channel they want. And parents nowadays are so ignorant towards this issue. Maybe some of the parents are so busy with their works in offices or maybe they just don’t care.

In action movies normally the hero will always kill the enemy in order to save his loved ones or just to defend himself. When this act is witnessed by the children, they tend to follow the hero’s way whenever they feel threaten by other kids. Why this is happening? Just because the failure of parents to stop their children from watching the action movies. Children have no ability to think of which is right and wrong since they are too young and it’s a parent’s responsibility to teach them the good things. Since the parents failed to do so, the children just use the means of violence to defend themselves which they think is good for them. As they grow up, the attitude will grow within them and it could turn them into some gangster in town. You guys want your future children to be one of them? Definitely the answer is no right.

So here it is, the decision is in your hands. Be clear on what you want for your children. Remember your children deserve a better future. And finally I would end with this, it’s easier to build a strong child than to repair a broken men. Thank you.

Miracle Worker by Taylor Mali

The speech is given by Taylor Mali, a slam poetry perfomer from New York City. The video entitled as Miracle Worker tells about the profession about teacher. He is a former teacher in a boys school. And now he is conducting workshops for teachers and students all over the world.

In my opnion, he looks very confident on what he is talking about. As we can see, he have no notes in his hands. That shows that he clearly know on what he is talking about. He is talking about his profession of teacher and what does a teacher do. Since he is former teacher he have no problem in telling the audience about his experiences.

He is not afraid to make jokes and during the speech the audience enjoyed his joke and gets what he trying to say. He looks very confortable on the stage in front of large crowds. The way he delivering the speech is very interesting as we can the tone he used from low pitch to a higher ptich. He grabs the attention of the audience very well. I personally feels that this is very entertaining and interesting.