Speech Presentations and Techniques

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The main technique that I used to familiarize myself with my speech was I just read it over and over until it practically just came to me when I thought about a certain part. Once I got some what comfortable with it I started writing my note cards. I would say my speech and when I came to a spot that I just couldn't remember for the life of me, I would put down a key word in that sentence. When I finished writing it, I would then say my speech, with only my note cards, in front of different people so I could get used to standing up at the podium. The key element that I would like to share with the class is to just practice practice practice.



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Since my first speech I believe that I have gotten a lot calmer. The first time I freaked out and forgot my words as soon as I started. However, my last speech that I gave was a lot better. I didn't hardly mess up, unlike the first time. I didn't even look at Mrs. Sims at all. My voice was much steadier and I put some of my own personality into it. Also my hands weren't shaking this time, from nerves. The next speech I want to be able to read right through it with no problem, without stuttering. I want to just go up there and present my speech without feeling any nerves at all. The only things I can do to improve on this is to just practice more. I should probably just say my speech over and over in front of random audiences, like different classrooms since it would basically be the same atmosphere.

How I feel about what happened to Joe?

"Joe committing suicide"


I think that Joe took the easy way out, which kind of made me angry. First of all, he should've owned up to his faults so an innocent man didn't have to go to jail instead of him. It really made me mad because he kept talking throughout the whole book like he was innocent and made Annie's father sound like the coward not owning up to his mistakes. I could kind of tell that he was going to admit it mid-way through the book, because he was defending him all the time. I upset me that he thought the only way was to kill himself. What mainly pops into my head is that he is going to hell for that. Also it may be harder for Annie's father to get out of jail since Keller wasn't there any more to confess.

Night

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This picture represents in the novel a world without God, because in the beginning there was nothing but darkness, and God's first act was to dispel of it with light. Elie named this book Night because throughout being in a concentration camp he didn't have God. He felt that he was alone with no one to help him. Also everything seems to happen to Elie for the first time in the darkness. Him arriving at the concentration camp, seeing burning babies, and the horrible run from Buna are a few examples. It also doesn't just represent physical darkness but the darkness of the soul as well, from being around evil for so long.

Fire

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This picture represents the evil that the whole novel talks about. At the beginning for example, it talks about a women on the train showing visions of fire, giving them an incite of what was to come. Also when they get there they see babies being thrown into a ditch of fire, people being burned alive in the crematorium, people being beaten and shot, and also being put to work with laborious activities with hardly no food or water. Fire also represents God's wrath, but the Nazis turned that around and used it on innocent people, confusing Elie about God's existence even further.

Father-Son Bond

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This photo represents the bond that a father and son have. No matter what they will be there for each other, for love and companionship. In the novel Elie's love for his father is strong. I think that he learns to love his father a little more throughout it though. Everyone around them are showing that their survival skills are more important than family. There were three different times in the novel that three sons abandoned their fathers to survive, but Elie and his father keep together until the end. Elie even feeds his father his ration of bread and soup when he's sick.

Inhumanity Toward Other Humans

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This picture represents the torcher the Jews had to put up with day after day. It shows how someone could commit a murderous act just like that, without feeling anything. If you look at this picture it shows blood already on this man, so swinging the knife to end this poor mans life with just be nothing to the murderer, since he already beat this man. I also think about Doctor Joseph Mengele, carrying out experiments on innocent people, just to study the human body.

Silence

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Elie is troubled by the silence from God. He wonders why God is remaining silent after millions and millions of his people are dying for their faith in him.

This picture obviously represents silence. The women's hand is being placed on her lips relates to Elie's book in numerous ways. The silence from God, and also the silence from the whole world. When I see this picture after reading the book all I can think about is the termoil each and every Jew had to endure, the cruelty, the beatings, and the hard brutal work, but remain silent.