Reference no: EM133398120
Assignment:
Prompt:
Students often have difficulty determining how to relate their speech topics directly to their classmates. Often, this is actually more simple than we think it is. This exercise is designed to help give you some practice.
For each of the following topics, thoroughly explain how you might relate each one to your classmates in the introduction of a speech. You can share the ways in which the topic is relevant to your entire audience, or you can write out what you would say in an actual introduction. Examples provided below.
- Roller coasters
- Performance-enhancing drugs
- Pizza
- Australia
- Social Security
Examples: Topic: Laughter
The neural circuits in your brain begin to reverberate. Chemical and electrical impulses start flowing rapidly through your body. Your pituitary gland is stimulated. Hormones and endorphins race through your blood.
Your body temperature rises by half a degree. Your pulse and blood pressure increase. Your arteries and chest muscles contract, your vocal cords quiver, and your face contorts. Pressure builds in your lungs. Your lower jaw suddenly becomes uncontrollable and breath bursts from your mouth at seventy miles per hour.
This is surely no laughing matter. Or is it? It is! This is a medical description of what happens in your body during a burst of laughter. It sounds dreadful, but we all know it feels great.
Topic: High Blood Pressure
It is the most common chronic disease in the United States. Controllable but incurable, it is a symptomless disease. You can have it for years and never know until it kills you. Some 73 million Americans have this disease, and 300,000 will die from it before the year is out. Odds are that five of us in this class have it.
What am I talking about? Not cancer. Not AIDS. Not heart disease. I am talking about hypertension-high blood pressure.