The statement that the person who posses and controls information has power can be related to many historical topics but the one that comes to mind first is the slave trade. The reason why I believe this is because the slave owners had all the power over the slaves because they were able to control the information about the slave's families. They would use this to make the slaves work harder and work longer. The slave owner also never let the slaves recieve any formal education because then they would be able to revolt against them more easily; because then slaves would be able to communicate with eachother more easily.
It is also important for speakers to have power throught their information about a certain topic that they are giving their speech on. When we are giving speeches we need to be in control so that our audience is paying attention to us and listening to what we have to say. But we also need to leep are speeches interesting and relavent so that the audience has an eaiser time paying attention.
Since I am going into education I think about how this phrase can also be applied to teaching and how it will affect how I teach. Teacher know what they are teaching on very well so they posses and control the information. With this they have the power to keep the students in line and so that they can become the bearers of the information and then they will have the power over others. Then finally when you are a teacher you also have the power to some extent to choose what you want to teach.
Do you believe that teachers have power over you since they have the information?

Listening

I am sure everyone has had a time when they were talking to someone and you could tell that they weren’t listening to a word you said. Or you were giving a speech to some classmates and they were goofing around and not listening at all. This could be for many different reasons; they could have been watching a movie or a sporting event on T.V. or they were listening to music or they just don’t think you are important so they aren’t going to listen to you. When people don’t listen to you it can create many mixed emotions. You could be mad at the person or persons because they aren’t listening to what you have to say or it could make you fell little because you believe that you aren’t important enough for them to listen to you. For me when I feel that I am being ignored I get mad at that person and I usually quit talking to them and ignore them back. But we should probably not do either one of these because everyone of us has been there and for some reason or another didn’t pay attention to what a friend or family member has said to us and we are acting like a two year old. You can usually tell that a person is not listening to you when you ask them a question and they don’t respond or they say what? This reflection is important because when a class mate is giving a speech we should listen intently to what they have to say. Because when someone doesn’t listen to us we get mad and feel like we are unimportant. So we should give the respect to the person that is giving the speech the respect that we want when we are giving our speeches

Week 2 Blog

Thinking back of a time when I was in the audience and the speaker was not able to connect with the audience, I could not tell you what the presentation was about. I remember being there but since he never connected with us I don’t remember what he said. For this reason, it is very important that you connect with your audience so that they remember what you were trying to convey to them. Also during the presentation you lose focus and start to talk with your or do other things that may become distracting to others. In return that might keep someone else from being able to listen to what the presenter had to say so it starts a downward spiral.
As a speaker there are a few things that I believe you need to do so that you are able to connect with your audience. First, while you are writing the speech you should know the type of audience that you will be speaking to, and the education level of the audience. The reason why you need to know this is so that you tailor your speech to them. For example, if you are speaking to a group of 3rd graders you will not use all the technical terms that you would use if you were speaking to a group of dentists.
Another thing you need to do is while you are speaking make sure you add emphasis, and make your nonverbal components evident. You want to hold the audience’s attention during your speech and one way to do this is add in a couple stories. Or you could use audience participation to help keep your audience entertained and keep them interested in what you are talking about. Something that helps this is you need to pick a topic that you are interested in so that you can show enthusiasm. But you also need to pick a topic that your audience has some interest in so that they will listen to you.

Why we need speech classes

From the time that we are born, to the time that we die, we will use some sort of communication everyday so that people can know, that we want or need something. When we are babies we will cry or fuss when we are hungry or we are not feeling good. Then, as we grow older, we learn how to talk and eventually type. Which, is becoming a more common way to communicate to others.
A lot of the improvement that we make in the way that we communicate comes from being in school and learning to write papers and give speeches. For this reason, it is important that students take a speech class in college and other educational environments. So that, we are always improving in the way in which we communicate to others. In these classes you not only learn how to talk in front of people but you also learn how to listen more intently when others are talking. This will be a benefit not only in school when professors but also in the working environment, when others are giving presentations to you. Speech classes help you to add emphasis on certain words and put more excitement in your presentation so that you can keep people interested in what you are talking about. It is also important because there are very few if any jobs that you don’t communicate in some sort or another on a daily basis. This communication could be an email, presentation, talking in person, or on the phone. These are just a few examples of the many ways in which we communicate.
But when it comes to the type of speech class that we take it should be somewhat based on the major that we are going to go into. For example, if you are in education your speeches should be more like lessons on a certain subject or idea rather than a speech because I believe giving a speech is a lot different than teaching. Another example might be, if you are in a business major your speeches should be more presentations about different things that you might run into in the workforce.