3 Elements and Argument

1. Logos->logic: facts, statistics, evidence
               Value: Hard to argue against it (truth)/ authority
                         Danger & overuse: personal connection; boring
2. Pathos->appeal to emotion
                Value: personal anecdotes, strong responses
                 Danger of overuse: lose credibility/ too much turn people off
3. Ethos-> authority, creditibility, character
                Value: believe you/unbiased
                Danger of overuse: lose focus of your argument
3elelemts-> balancer

Presidential Debate Reflection

The first presidential debate for election 2016 was very interesting to me. One big reason why I found it interesting is that I am from different part of world, different country, and trying to listen to United States' candidate's debates. However I always find politics as interesting topic so I really enjoyed watching it. In my opinion, Donal Trump won the debate. Here are two reasons.

First, Donald Trump was extremely aggressive. Compare to his opponent, Hillary Clinton, his attitude toward the debate truly stood up. While Clinton was being defensive, Trump was attacking her constantly. However he did not started attack from the start, he started it after Clinton attacked him based on his wealthy background. Trump was having his points and shooting at Clinton, but Clinton did not have much comebacks against it, also she was trying to pretending cool by laughing off but that did not worked out well. That created side effect of highlighting Trump's attack.

Second, compare to Clinton, Trump seem really confident and he took control of the stage. He showed that through his body language and his strong voice about his policies. Also every times when Clinton was attempting to attack him, he had good comeback on those questions. When Clinton pointed out that Trump is from rich family, Trump when back with proving that he established successful business with his own ability. Also by keep cutting into Clinton's speakings, fixing facts or biased points, he did great job with making audience to loose focus on her points. That helped him to take control of the stage and Clinton's scripted and monotone helped people to be waiting for Trump to speak up.

I think presidential debate was mixture of public speaking skills and knowledge on politics. I am not American citizen so I do not have rights to vote, but watching presidential debate was really interesting.

I am speech reflection

I need to be much louder and memorize the script better. I was reading the script too much, not having much eye contact with the audience. My body language was fine but some people might think it was too much. My body language was natural to me. By watching at other people's speeches I noticed that I could try to have better flow of speech. I think my speech was little off flow so I can try to improve it better.

I am speech video

Part 1
https://youtu.be/AJvhKp8gY5E
Part 2
https://youtu.be/t-BtkF3IbEk

I Am Speech

Hello everyone. How many of you ever seen someone who grew up in South Korea and England and goes to school in US? I think I can be first one you can meet. So please feel free to ask me for a cup of tea, but do not ask me to speak with English accent, I already lost that. My name is Ryan Choi andI am 18years old senior in Cheshire Academy.  I believe that my past built my present.

My family has been huge part of me. Both my mum and dad are having successful career on their field and I admire them the most. I want to become like them, having high social status with fame. My mum and dad was working for international companies, so I always had great opportunity to explore around the world. That motivated me to come all the way to New England to go to high school.

When I was young, I was really confused about my nationality. I was born in South Korea but I was living in two countries, Korea and England. Two countries having totally different languages and cultures. I was lost in to chaos between those two countries. However since I started going to school, I started adopting both culture. I got used to being only asian kid in my elementary school in Norting Hill, London, and when I was going to school in Korea, I was trying hard to learn how to become Korean. I still remember other kids looking at me, questioning who I am. I was unique.

There was one thing I started fitting in. Sports. I started playing soccer. I got into soccer by watching Korean soccer star. He was defender but he was also great at offence too. I wanted to be kike him, so I started playing defender and I still play that role. I just got into love with soccer. I started supporting the team he was playing, Borussia Dortmund, the German club, even after he left, I still support that team. I always dreamed being on that team. To be honest I have 0 potential to play for that team but I am huge supporter of that team. I always dream about wearing their yellow and black jersey as part of team but not as player, as general manager of that team.

This is present me, built by my past. . So I am trying to focus on present so I can build better future.

Public Speaking Class

The public speaking class is mainly focused on developing the public speaking skills with practices. I joined the class later than other classmates so this week is my second week of the classes. I am kind of person who wants to speak a lot but this is my new school and I do not want to be loudest and outstanding kid in the first month of the school. I try to limit myself on speaking because I do not want to give people wrong first impression about me. However public speaking is definitely hard skill to pick up and I am trying to pick up as much skills I can from this course. Therefore to improve my public speaking skills I need to blend into school better to have more practices. 

Public speaking is difficult because you need to grab everyone’s attention and give them clear massage that you want to deliver. To fulfil that expectation, speaker need to have strong and loud voice to make all the audience to hear my words. speaker will also need body languages to make his words clear but need to be careful with it because too much body language will distract the audience. The natural body language of the speaker will help speaker to be much relaxed also the audience would feel fine with it. Additionally the speaker should try not to have monotone, if speaker keeps talking with monotone, the audience will get bored and be much harder to pick up the words. 

In my case, because English is not my first language I struggle with fluency and pronunciation. However this is not a problem I can easily solve, I need to keep working on improving my english skill to fix this problem. Through my childhood I have been the kid always enjoy talking in front of the audience but I was speaking Korean at that time. If I get much confident with my English skill I think I can perform better quality public speaking. 

Speech brainstorming

Intense sports games, family, personal memories, life lessons, failure, music, don't know what to talk about.

Family
Background
Grandparents
Parents

Soccer
Fan
Business
Borussia Dortmund

Lifelesson
Personal anecdotes
The failure

Bad ted talks

too much unnecessary information not matching the topic
Too much talking
Watching computer
Very fast

Annoying voice
Missing some information
Pictures do not match information
Not much strong argument

Voice is annoying
Too much weird body action

Bad TED talk

https://www.ted.com/talks/ray_zahab_treks_to_the_south_pole

The speaker was speaking really fast, also not much breaks between each sentence. His body language was inappropriate and acting cocky. He kept his hands in pockect. The structure of speech was making audience to keep loosing focus because the speaker was talking behind the pictures.

ㅋMorning meeting announcement

Good morning. I am Ryan and I'm a senior. Boys varsity soccer team has first home game on Saturday night on turf against Wooster. This will be our first game of the season. There will be plenty of food and ice cream truck will be there too. It will be great game and team is in good shape, not like last year. Please come and support the team. Thank you.

ㅋMorning meeting announcement

Good morning. I am Ryan and I'm a senior. Boys varsity soccer team has first home game on Saturday night on turf against Wooster. This will be our first game of the season. There will be plenty of food and ice cream truck will be there too. Please come and support the team. Thank you.

Ted Talk No.1

First Ted talk

Goods:
Have lots of motions: hand gestures and walking around
Good at taking pause
Very strong voice
Good jokes

Second Ted talk

Goods:
Really fun experience
Showing the actual visual about the contents

Third Ted Talk
Very fun and humorous
Making audience to focus on his performance
Used popular songs to help audience to be engaged
Making visualisation to give example to the audience

Who am I

Hi all, my name is Ryan Choi. I am from Seoul, Korea and 18years old. This is my first year in Cheshire Academy and I am a senior. I live in Motter basement, rooming with Stefano. I play soccer as centre defender. We have our first home game this Saturday day night on turf at 6pm against Wooster. It will be a great game.

I grew up in England and Korea therefore I was having easy access to soccer ball. All of my friends were playing soccer and soccer ball was our favourite toy, even I was bad at soccer when I was young. Everyday I went to playground with my friends and passing or dribbling the ball around slides and swings until my mum comes back from work and finds me. I was doing that everyday until I started skating and dreaming to be national team short-track skater. I started playing soccer again after I quit skating because of my ankle surgery. As a recovery I started playing for club soccer teams. I started playing soccer playing as winger, but when I came to highschool, Brewster Academy, I changed my position to defender. Right now I prefer playing as defender and I thank my old coach that he switched me to a defender.

I was born in Korea but grew up in England and Korea. It is quite unique to have back ground like this. My mum was working for British government so I was living in London, Notting hill. It is exact place where famous romance movie Notting Hill was shot. We do not live there anymore but Notting Hill was a place I started building myself. Every morning my mum and I go for a walk around the park. We stop by famous bakery in our town "Tom's bakery" and pick up croassant sandwich and walk back to our house. No matter of the weather, we went out every morning. It is the moment I really miss.

When I was 6 years old I started skating. Korea is huge country for speed skating therefore it was easy to me to get access to skating. I started with speed skating and changed to short-track. I admire national team skaters and always wanted to be like them. Coach said I was talented. I had 8 hours of practice everyday but I truly loved being on ice. I was being ranked as top prospect and potential national team skater in the future. Unfortunately accident happened during race, my ankle broke. I went through surgery and recovery. That was the time I moved to London and started playing soccer.

I think my childhood build my everything. All of my actions can be explained from the past memory. Soccer, London and skating took huge part of me and making my personal. Those three factors are very important to me. 

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