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1. The reason that I want to do “Chinese Students in America” is to letting more Americans or students know that at the time we study abroad, we also need to face a lot of problems.

2. I want to write the problems that we are facing.

3.  How people misunderstanding Chinese Students?

4. Searching for how Americans and students come from other countries think   about Chinese Students.

5.  Writing a personal example to let the speech to be more pervasive.

6.  Using some metaphor make idea more understandable.

7.  Using parallelism make some sentence sound stronger.

8.  Cultural differences

9.  Why Chinese students come to America, the importance of higher education.

10.  English as a second language. 

1. What did the chapter address? What are evidence / logos?

In chapter 7, it addresses on the third set of qualities that required, qualities inherent the speech itself: purpose, substance, structure, evidence and logic, which in Greeks word are logos. In Greeks and Romans’ clue, there are five divisions: prologue, narrative, proofs, refutation and conclusion. The speech is better to start with narrative. And every good speech needs a purpose and the greatest speeches state their purpose clearly and succinctly upfront, which speech given by Edward R. Murrow, played by David Strathairn the movie Good Night, and Good Luck is a good example. The final logos, the related job of a speech is refutation, which is the undermining or knocking out of opposing arguments. John F. Kennedy proved great rhetoric, great substance, great style and great logos in his speech, which is a great example.

2. Which speech topic will you be writing on? Why? What compels you to choose this topic?

This time, I am quite thinking about writing on “Chinese Students in America”. As known, there are plenty of International Students come to America to study, definitely, Chinese account a large part. I am Chinese, and now English as a foreign language we need to study and use, so I want more people know what kind of situation we are facing. It doesn’t means International students come front other countries are not facing the same situation. Feb. 9^th is the Lunar New Year of China this year. Generally, people all back to home and spend time with family. Since I come to America, I just can chat online with my parents during this special timing, which compel me to think about Chinese Students in America. 

Possible Speech Topics

1. Gay Marriage

2. Women's Best Friend

3. Chinese Student in America

4. Does Tobacco Free in campus really necessary?

5. How to define "good friend?"

6. Eating fast food

7. College life-- the fun and stress

8. College tuition is too high, and is that available to include parking and      
    coffee in tuition? 

9.  Be yourself!

10. Gun Control

11. How Much is Too Much Homework?

12. How to handle a child?

13. The Mystery of Name

14. Friendship and Love, which is more important? 

15. Should or not to lend college textbooks to students for free?

16. People's feeling about other foreign language

17. Should students wear school uniforms?

18. How old should people available to get married? 

19. Plan for future -- good or bad?

20. Open book exams 

Martin Luther King Jr. & Malcolm X

Both Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X are very prominent African American individuals throughout history. They fought for what they stood for but in really different ways because of their grown environment. King grew up in a middle class family and was well educated and his father was a pastor. So because of the education background and his religion belief, King was always against violence even though he may have been attacked physically. In the speech “I have a dream”, it more make people think about the future. He was trying to use a nonviolence way to fight for the civil rights. And he spoke out for passive resistance and what he called “weapon of love”.

However, Malcolm X almost has totally different way thinking about the civil right “war”. Malcolm X grew up in an underprivileged environment that was very hostile with barely any schooling. That is a cause about why his speech was so aggressive. Malcolm X was a Muslim, and believed in Muslim principle. He believed fighting back physically. Malcolm X was suspicious of whites and willing to use “by any means necessary” to achieve equality. Although later in his life he visited Jerusalem, and met other Muslim, he changed his view, and become nonviolence, which is also a cause of to him. The similarity between Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X is that they both wanted equal rights for African Americans, they just went different paths to receive those rights.

Sydney's Speech and Analysis

Sydney's Speech

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, I am Sydney. I am here coming for the college, I am here coming for the rights of a student need to keep.

Now, it is not a secret that the tuition is too high. The tuition rises every year, at the same time, the cost of living also increasing. It is becoming more difficult for students to pay tuition and therefore earn degree.

And more than 36 million Americans have accumulated student debt; it also shows that the tuition is too high. The government needs to do something for students.

However, while many people can’t afford a college degree, it is becoming more difficult to find a job. With job cuts and layoffs, it is almost necessary to have a degree to get a job a step higher than flipping burgers. It is also a cause of the rise of unemployment rate.

Knowledge is power. It is a really important power a country needs to have. With a high tuition, students lost chance to go to college to learn knowledge.

The government needs to set up policy to solve the problem!

ANALYSIS

In the speech about college tuition fee, I tried to let the audience have the same feeling with me. This problem not just needs to be discussed by people; it is needs to be exactly finding a way to solve. I said that “I am here coming for the college tuition, I am here coming for the rights of a students need to have”. This sentence is in the beginning of the speech, the reason that I put this sentence there was to let the audience have a clear idea about the main idea of this speech. After the audience has an idea about the speech, they might have the same feeling with the orator; they might be interested with the speech. 

Secondly, I used a data to show the situation students are in. it is a way to show the information directly. “More than 36 million Americans have accumulated student debt”. The huge number can let people realize the serious level that students are facing. And at the end “government needs to set up policy to solve the problem”. This is kind of a call; it might encourage people to support for this problem. 

Emotion Analysis

There are several techniques people can use in order to deliver a good speech. One of them is to be storytelling, which can captures audience attention. Audience won’t like to attend to a speech without any story or really dry. Audience’s feedback is really important in a speech, it shows that they like the speech or not, it also a kind of way to present the successful of a speech. We can’t say that the audience’s feedback is the most important part of a speech, but it’s true that it account as a big percentage of a successful speech. Sometimes, a speech with excellent audience reaction not good at present the orator’s personal opinion and the reason they give the speech.

The speech is not just given a truth, its needs to be amplification, one needs to be exaggerate. When things go to a really serious situation, people will be more encouraged to solve, and it can seems to be more persuasive. Not only part of the speech needs to be exaggerating, but also the orator’s express. If they elevate their tone, or give some emotion stuff, just like tear, audience might think that they are in the same situation. Absolutely, too exaggerate will give negative effect, and the audience might think that the speech is fake.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Speech

On August 28, 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the speech named “ I Have a Dream”, which has become a symbol of civil rights movement, was written more than 30 years ago as America struggled with the problem of how to create racial equality for all of her citizens.  The speech, delivered to over 200,000 civil rights supports from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for jobs and freedom. And the demonstration was organized on the 100^th anniversary of Emancipation Proclamation to call attention to the wrongs suffered by African Americans and push for federal legislation to bring about change. The speech was massage of hope. The hope that blacks and whites could live among each other in peace.

Martin Luther King, Jr. is best known for his role in the advancement of civil right using nonviolent civil disobedience, and he is a national icon is the history of American progressivism. The key message in the speech is that all people are created equal and, although out the case in America at the time, King felt it must be the case for future. He argued passionately and powerfully. His words proved to be a touchstone for understanding the social and political upheaval of the time and gave the nation a vocabulary to express what was happening. And the crowd of the Lincoln Memorial shows that the audiences were ready to support his view and argument.