Picks

1. Seasame street versus the muppets
2. Burger King versus McDonald's
3. Are video games too violent

Debate topic

1. Fried chicken or grilled chicken
2. Brand verus knock offs
3. Prequels versus sequels: Star Wars
4. The muppets or sesame street
5. The greatest wwe wrestler ever

Monologue two: the backstory

Motivation: the motivation for this monologue is anger, anger at the stangnate and unmotivated populace who are willing to sit by and do nothing while the world turns sour. 

Backstory: the charater is a news personality who is about to get fired from his job for poor ratings. He wants to make his last one memorable

Setting: a news room where the charater is speaking to millions of Americans watching his broadcast.

Blocking: the charater is sitting down but as his speech goes on and his fury builds he moves away from his desk and starts yelling at the camera.

Monologue two: gotta get mad 

 I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth; banks are going bust; shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter; punks are running wild in the street, and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it.

      We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat. And we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be!

       We all know things are bad -- worse than bad -- they're crazy. 

It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out any more. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, "Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials, and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone."

       Well, I'm not going to leave you alone.

I want you to get mad! 

         I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot. I don't want you to write to your Congressman, because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street.

        All I know is that first, you've got to get mad.

You've gotta say, "I'm a human being, goddammit! My life has value!"

So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell, 

"I'm as mad as hell,

and I'm not going to take this anymore!!"

Look! I made a speech video and it is not very good. You can barely hear me. I'm also flailing around like a car salesmen trying to sell you a old junker. I'm imitating a teapot and at the end i actually pour out some tea. I really need to work on my hand gestures and teapot effectiveness. I pretty much didn't have any strengths except I was firmly rooted in the ground. Perhaps eye contact was good? I don't know, I just see this as a terrific fail on my part. Though I was matching that day so at least it was a snassy fail. My weaknesses were numerous, I didn't talk loud enough, I moved way too much. The speech itself was lack luster. but i digress, i learned a bunch from watching other people say their speeches out loud. I thought that Adler was loud and i should be too, Maize acted like a automatic robot and so should I. David showed me how to make an interesting speech. It was fun though, to say my speech out loud in front of people, i wasn't nervous at all, the speech itself wasn't very good, the delivery was dull and uninteresting. Thats all from me, ttyl.  

Public speaking: how to fail at it

The most important elements of public speaking are things that we normally do when talking to normal people. It is when we are talking to groups of people that we mess up our words, fidget and talk very fast. The way to think about public speaking is that instead of talkin to a huge group of people you are talking to one very deaf very invisible person. So it can be said that the important elements of communication with other people is the same elements of public speaking. Now maybe it's on a lesser scale but the concept is still the same. The elements therefor are your ability to speak with volume, make eye contact and talk with interest. No one would bother speaking to a very quiet person so don't speak to a group as if you were a church mouse. You won't be taken seriously if they can barely hear you and probably cut you off before your finished on accident. You gotta make eye contact as well else people will think your shy, unprepared and too cowardly to look them in the eye, it gives a bad impression. Makes you seem a tad bit shady. This applies to speaking to crowds and to one person, it doesn't make you seem very honest. But more importantly then making eye contact is to never dart your eyes around the room! You'll look like your trying to run, if you can't manage to make eye contact, stare straight ahead cause it will at least seem better. The third and most important thing to do is to speak with interest, no one likes a mono toned boring idiot. You hafta speak like this is the most exciting and interesting thing you could be talking about. Like the end of times has arrived and your trying to negotiate with the lead alien while he's shooting lazers at you. It's just polite. It makes you seem more interesting too so maybe that pretty person in the crowd will talk to you later😏. Who knows? Anything can happen when your interesting. So to recap never talk soft, never bore and look at people. This will epically help when talking to invading aliens. Last thing to talk about, I have three goals, firstly to stop getting nervous, secondly to stop my leg shaking and thirdly to be able to figure out how to speak in public. That's all for now, ttyl.

Who am I? That's a difficult question to answer because who I think I am and who you perceive me as are two very different people. But I belive that I am mainly made up of contradictions. These contradictions aren't big things but they netherless make no sense when used to describe something. For example I am a very lazy person, I wouldn't do an ounce of work if I could help it. At the same time I'm a hard worker, I go running at 6:30 every day for no real reason I can think of expect that it's a good thing to do. I also am incredibly mean or a nice guy depending on who you ask which ties into how we perceive each other versus of we perceive ourselves. Anyways, I don't think I'm nice yet there are some people I know that would say that I am. I just think I'm a mean person who does nice things occasionally. Another contradictory thing about me is that I'm a loner, I don't like to be around lots of people all the time yet I find myself surrounded by friends. Which I never really wanted or expected but it's something I have. I apperently made a bunch of people like me without really ever trying to be liked. People just like weirdos I guess. And that is the basic understanding of who I am, a weirdo.

Who am I?

When someone asks you the question of "who are you?" You would usually respond with your name and then proceed to get to know the person who asked the question through more questions. It's a rigorous process that takes a long time to really understand a persons charater.
          I would make this system take even longer because I would just make a new self up. I would say I'm James Palk from Transylvania, I know how to fly planes and had once climbed on the pyramids. Now most of those reading wouldn't belive me if I told you in person, or would you? Most of what I say is said with an air of confidence. Unlikely as it is if you say anything with confidence people tend to belive you, and while in actuality they are probably wrong some of the time. Anyways, I have a professional degree in bullshitology, or the science of making things up, for good reason. I've always been able to spin the tallest tales from the most mundane activities and create beautiful works of fiction.
       What's weird though is that I'm quite a literal person, I'll take anything you say at face value and won't notice the joke till later. It's a contrast to how I talk because I tell jokes and stories all the time yet I can't seem to understand when other people are doing it. I am a very polarizing person, some people hate me and some people love me but that just life. I am also very lazy, I wouldn't do the slightest bit of homework if I could get away with it, but at the same time I drag my self awake at 6:30 in the morning to go running. I don't know how I can manage to run 3 miles everyday even when it starts to hurt while I can't do a few math problems to save my life. It's weird, probably because I'm weird.
        Weirdness though isn't a horrible thing, I personally like strange characters to normal ones. I find that people who act normal or never do anything interesting are just hiding from themselves because there is no such thing as normal. I for example do whatever I want whenever I want, most people would be too shy or cautious to just do something without cause. It's quite fun and I'd suggest doing it once or twice cause you'd be surprised where the brain takes you when it's free to wander.
 That's all the rambling I have for now, I'll just talk to you later then.