persuasive presentations

When we were first told that our last speech was going to be a group persuasive presentation my heart kinda sank a little bit. I am the type of person who is always put in groups and looked at as the smart kid, and therefor always had to do the most if not all of the work. Therefor I feel I had a pretty decent reason to feel so scared when this idea was brought up to the class. Once I was put into my group I felt a little bit more assured, and this last week has made me feel so much better. My group mates, so to say, are awesome. Everyone is willing to do their share. One person doesn't have more to do than the other, and we all agreed on a topic easily, and get along just fine. In highschool it was never this way. I guess it just goes to show me yet one more major differance between college and highschool, even at the junior college level.

I have a dream

I just finished watching the Martin Luther King Jr. I Have a Dream speech. I believe that this speech was amazingly powerful. Mr. King did not move around a lot but his voice and his message and the feeling one gets about his passion for this speech and the message it is sending is amazing. He did not move around at all, though he did have a podium with a microphone, and that probably restricted his movement,he did not even use had gestures. His voice and the impact of his words probably were enough to put aside the fact of his lack of movement though. I did enjoy not only the message he was trying to send, but the very end of the speech. It seemed like Martin Luther King had gotten a second wind at the end of his speech. His voice got louder, he began to make hand gestures and he really brought home the message he was trying to give in his speech. I believe that this speech was amazing, not only did the presentation of this speech have a lot to do with my feelings, but the message in and of itself was revolutionary.