Please post below your topics for your informative speech. Ideally, your topic proposal should contain:
• Specific topic area
• Thesis statement
• Possible main points
Here's what you can't give a speech on, unless you can provide me with a clear reason why your speech is going to be the most original take on the subject I've ever heard.
• Vegetarianism; high fat diets, low carb diets, special food combination diets, etc.
• Importance of exercise, getting enough sleep, healthy diet, etc.
• Sex and/or violence on television (media effects); media & body image/eating disorders (Talk to me, though, because this is broad)
• Legalizing marijuana (or any other drug); lowering the drinking age (again, flexible, particularly for persuasive speech).
• Benefits of the Greek system
• “How to” information that your audience already knows (or could easily discover if they wanted to):
• Prepare a meal, bake cookies, clean their room, etc.
• Brush their teeth thoroughly
• Wash their hands properly
• Play an instrument, dance, etc. (or anything we can’t learn in one speech)
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I'd like to give a speech on the effects of piracy on the entertainment industry.
ReplyDeleteMy thesis will roughly argue that piracy will destroy the industry if we let it, and that a solution needs to be implemented soon in order to save it.
There will be a lot of stats necessary to prove the financial effects of piracy on entertainment. I'll also discuss the lack of legislation to punish piracy in America and talk about suggested strategies to change things. I may talk about technologies like 3D movies and Hulu and such that are designed to implement new media to pump revenue back into the struggling industry and whether they are enough to out-weigh the bad.
Let me know what you think!
-Skye
I'd like to give a speech on the prevalence of nuclear weapons, their use over history, and how many countries in the world currently have nuclear weapons.
ReplyDeleteMy thesis would propose that the continued existence of such weapons is highly unwise.
I will present a list of a few of the major nuclear accidents in the past and "close-calls" and suggest that it's really only a matter of time before the world runs out of good luck and one of these "close-calls" turns out to be catastrophic.
I will have facts and figures to back up these arguments.
Alastair
I would like to speak about the history of makeup from its origins to modern day use.
ReplyDeleteMy thesis statement would look a little something like this: The idea and content of makeup has changed dramatically throughout time, leaving its mark on various cultures and societies along the way.
Key points would include:
1. The origins of makeup and various early beliefs about its use
2. 1930s and the boom of cosmetics due to the film industry
3. The evolution and various uses of makeup in today's society
Topic: eliciting compliance through social proof manipulation
ReplyDeleteThesis: How to spot the different types of social proof and how to prevent oneself from getting victimized
Possible main points:
1. Background: mechanism that all persuasive techniques use and the social proof components that fall into the slots
2. Theory of social proof
a. Examples
i. salting tip jars
ii. doom prophesizing groups
iii. Kitty Genovese murder
3. Factors that increase social proof’s effectiveness
a. Latane and Darley’s explanation for Kitty Genovese
b. Latane’s study with a student faking seizures
c. Similarity
i. Smoking ads
ii. Charity donations on campus
d. Isolation
i. Jonestown, Guyana
4. Werther effect and suicides
5. What to do if you are suffering from a rupturing aneurysm in public
Topic: Crisis Management of BP oil spill.
ReplyDeleteSince the explosion, BP has put considerable effort in tandem with outrageous fiscal resources into maintaining face throughout the crisis. But have their efforts been successful? Throughout the remainder of my speech, I will discuss the different methods and techniques that were used (or not used) by BP’s publicists and top execs to quell the threat of negative public perception on their company.
Monroe’s Motivated Sequence Outline:
Attention: been in the news (yesterday(?)) they announced that the leak if officially capped.
Biggest oil leak in American history.
Facts about scale of this catastrophe
Need: Needed to save reputation of company and only way to do that was through publicity and public opinion.
- clearly their actions weren’t helping them (i.e. the spill, did not meet safety regulations onboard rig, etc.)
we are in a public speaking class and their mistakes reflect what we are learning.
Tony Hayward:
Danish rep:
Talk about their downfalls- i.e. slips in speaking
Satisfaction: Importance of speech.
How much money went into their campaign to improve public relations.
They needed to rehearse speeches/scripted speeches
Downfall was that they ‘blurted’ things out in interviews that came back to haunt them
Visualizing solution: have they been successful?
Ask audience and respond according to their response.
I'd like to give a speech on tanning and skin cancer. My thesis would include how tanning can cause skin cancer, and how big the issue is. I would then give tips to prevent skin cancer. Some general points would be:
ReplyDelete-Background, and origins of skin cancer
-what it is
-how it spreads
-why its a growing problem
-how/why you should prevent it
-Steven Zhu
ReplyDeleteI would like to give a speech on the trend of the music industry moving from a business consisted of record sales into a business of live music.
- Internet as a huge promo tools
- People downloading pirated songs
- Blogs and aggregate sites are promoting music
- Less dependent on radio airplay
- More festivals
- Decline of CD sales
- It is all about selling tickets to your show.
I would like to give a speech on the Middle Teton or mountaineering in general.
ReplyDeleteMy thesis will tell people what to expect if they want to attempt to climb a mountain.
Possible points to make:
- Different types of terrain:snowfields, boulder fields, technical climbing, hiking
- Safety risks: loss of appetite, altitude sickness, falling.
- How you can be prepared to take all of this on.
I would like to give a speech on the history of the word “retard,” and it's abuse in modern day slang. My thesis would address how the casual use of the term has ultimately led to an obstructed view of the people it refers to.
ReplyDeleteMain points would include:
-historical meaning/origin of the word
-common confusion associated with the word
-how mainstream usage degrades people with mental illnesses.
I'd like to give a speech on the importance of a comprehensive sex education program in schools.
ReplyDeleteThesis: A comprehensive sexual education program that informs students of all their options and proper information, not just abstinence in a one week course, should be mandatory.
* Abstinence-only education programs are morally problematic by withholding information and promoting biased and inaccurate opinions
*Abstinence-only programs threaten fundamental human rights to health, information, and life.
* The more information about sex available, the later youth will be in starting to have sex. Delaying the age youth starts having sex has a substantial amount of positive consequences, as it can reduce the amount of sexual partners , STDs, unwanted pregnancies, and all of the emotional distress that comes with the territory of being sexually active.
let me know what you think! thanks :)
i would like to do my speech on the reasons why Orlando Bloom was SO FRICKING CUTE in the movie Troy.
ReplyDeleteNo i'm completely joking.
I would like to do my speech on societies extreme over emphasis of traditional gender roles while presenting alternative ways of viewing gender all through a lens of modern queer theory.
-West and Zimmerman's theory of "doing gender"
-Judith butler
-a discussion of people that are persecuted because of these enforced gender roles and what that means to us personally and society as a whole
see ya guys tom!
peace
Oh sorry,,,, i am not sure what my thesis would be but i think it would look something like:
ReplyDeleteWhile traditional gender roles dominate current society many people do not fulfill these roles.
Ha!
ReplyDeleteSide Note: Adam I love you.
I would like to do my speech on Reggie Bush and the recent media blitz surrounding the NCAA violations and the stripping of his Heisman Trophy.
My purpose would be to inform my audience of the specifics of what actually happened, objectively, so that they are then able to form their own opinions based on fact.
My main points would include:
-The specifics of the NCAA rules that were violated in specific instances (i.e. "improper benefits")
-The permanent removal of Bush's likeness at the University of Southern California
-The consequences/effects of Bush's actions on the University of Southern California
-The PR effort and actions of Bush since the announcement of the sanctions/consequences
-Possible arguments for and against the positive opinion of Reggie Bush as a current NFL athlete/celebrity
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My topic is going to be how to eat healthier and change your diet.
ReplyDeleteMy purpose is to help people live healthier lives and increase their energy throughout the day.
My main points include:
- Trying to eat healthy snacks throughout the day to avoid binge eating.
- Trying to eat all of the food groups and include them in their diets.
- Dividing up the portions.
- Removing fats from your diet and making substitutions for healthier food.
I know this is past deadline, but I would like to do an informative speech on autism and its wide spectrum and levels of severity.
ReplyDeletePurpose: To inform others on how broad of a disorder autism is and how many people are affected by it.
My main points would be:
-an overview of the disorder
-number of people in the US that are diagnosed with autism
-the different types of autism
-examples