Great Speech Analyses & Delivery

1. Great Speech Analyses & Delivery Doris L. W. Chang

2. Definition of an A Speech (Fletcher) • An “A” means • superior content, • outstanding organization, and • distinctive delivery. • An A speech • gets almost everyone in the audience thinking, excited, concerned, really wanting to hear more, read more, and do something about what you said. • And most in the audience remember most of what you said.

3. Presentation Outline • Def. of a “Great Speech” • Requirements • 8 Parts to Be Included • Sample Speech Structural Analyses • Sample PS Skills • Application • Reference • Lesson Review • Sample Student Analyses

4. Requirements • 1.Choose a speech you think is great • You can consult the URL on page 2 of our reader • Key in “speech” or “great speech” on Google to search for a speech to analyze • 2.Prepare for your presentation • Read the speech, analyze it, discuss, and prepare a Power Point presentation of your analysis • 3.Total Presentation Time: 10—15 min.

5. Sample Presentation Outline • Title and speaker of the speech • Intended audience and occasion • Purpose of the speech • Main message(s) • Organization (structure) of the speech How does the speaker achieve his/her goal • Highlight passages that impress you Analyze why (famous quotes) • Practice delivery of the passage(s) • List skills you can apply to your own speech

6. Sample GA Manuscript Analyses “CONTROL OF ATOMIC WEAPONS” • By Bernard Mannes Baruch, American elder statesmen (1870-1965) • A speech given at the opening session of the Atomic Energy Commission of the United Nations, in New York City, on June 14, 1946

7. Sample Speech Analyses” • Title: “Control of Atomic Weapon” • Speaker: Bernard Mannes Baruch, USA elder statesman • Intended Audiences: UN delegates in the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) • Occasion: AEC meeting • Purpose: to persuade the delegates to initiate an international law that can effectively control the use of atomic weapons

8. Organization I. Introduction Attention Getter—Shocking Intro. 1-3 II. Body Key Issue—International Consensus 4-6 Call for action—an Int’l law with teeth in it 7 Possibilities and Advantages 8-9 III. Conclusion Lasting peace to be done only by understanding & agreement fortified by sanctions Review Punch line that leaves the speech on a high note

9. Sample Manuscript (Copeland ) • We are here to make a choice between the quick and the dead. • That is our business. • Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work our salvation. If we fail, then we have damned every man to be the slave of fear. Let us not deceive ourselves: We must elect world peace or world destruction.

10. 4. Science has torn from nature a secret so vast in its potentialities that our minds cower from the terror it creates…. Science, which gave us this dread power, shows that it can be made a giant help to humanity, but science does not show us how to prevent its baleful use. So we have been appointed to obviate that peril by finding a meeting of the minds and the hearts of our peoples. Only in the will of mankind lies the answer. In this crisis we represent…the peoples of the world…. We must answer their demands; we must answer the world’s longing for peace and security.

11. 5. …In our success lies the promise of a new life, freed from the heart-stopping fears that now beset the world… Only by a lasting peace are liberties and democracies strengthened and deepened. War is their enemy…The peoples of the [worlds’] democracies gathered here have a particular concern with our answer, for their peoples hate war…

12. 6. The basis of a sound foreign policy, in this new age, for all the nations here gathered, is that: anything that happens, no matter where or how, which menaces the peace of the world, or the economic stability, concerns each and all of us. That, roughly, maybe said to be the central theme of the United Nations. It is with that thought we gain consideration of the most important subject than can engage mankind—life itself.

13. 7. Now, if ever, is the time to act for the common good. Public opinion supports a world movement toward security. If I read the signs aright, the peoples want a program, not composed merely of pious thoughts, but of enforceable sanctions—an international law with teeth in it. 8.We of this nations, desirous of helping to bring peace to the world and realizing the heavy obligations upon us, …are prepared to make our full contribution toward effective control of atomic energy… It must have a guarantee of safety, not only against the offenders in the atomic area, but against the illegal users of other weapons—bacteriological, biological, gas—perhaps—why not?—against war itself.

14. 9. If we succeed in finding a suitable way to control atomic weapons, it is reasonable to hope that we may also preclude the use of other weapons adaptable to mass destruction. When a man learns to say “A” he can, if he chooses, learn the rest of the alphabet, too.

15. 10. Let this be anchored in our minds: 11. Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race. Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions. We must embrace international co-operation or international disintegration.

16. 12. Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain of dealing with the principles of human duty. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics. 13. The solution will require apparent sacrifice in pride and in position, but better pain as the price of peace than death as the price of war.

17. Organization Review • I. Introduction • Attention Getter—Shocking Intro. 1-3 • II. Body • Key Issue—International Consensus 4-6 • Call for action—an Int’l law with teeth in it 7 • Possibilities and Advantages 8-9 • III. Conclusion • Lasting peace to be done only by understanding & agreement fortified by sanctions • Review • Punch line that leaves the speech on a high note

18. 12. Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain of dealing with the principles of human duty. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics. 13. The solution will require apparent sacrifice in pride and in position, but better pain as the price of peace than death as the price of war.

19. Detailed Structure 1 1.Brief, yet powerful opening—key decision 2-3.Punch line— 2.significance of meeting 3.Choice between world peace or war 4.Background—what science can & can’t do 5.Consensus—peoples hate war 6.Consensus—answer opposite opinion Sound foreign policy is based on the consensus of the inter-connectedness of all peoples and all nations

20. Detailed Structure 2 • 7. Consensus to Action • an international law with teeth in it • 8.Possibilities & Advantages • Effective control of atomic weapons prevent even war itself • 9.Future Prospects • 10. Lasting peace—the only choice • It can only be secured by agreement fortified by sanctions

21. Detailed Structure 3 • 12. Review—what science can/can’t do and the meeting’s key task • 13.Conclusion— • Understanding of difficulties (pride & position) • A better choice vs a worse choice • Pain as the price of peace • Death as the price of war

22. Style Analyses 1--Brief Statements with Contrasts • Highlight Samples • We are here to choose between the quick and the dead. • We must elect world peace or world destruction. • We must embrace international co-operation or international disintegration. • We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics • Better pain as the price of peace than death as the price of war. • Effects • Highlight the consequences of causes, effects, and importance • Lead to the intended choice—peace • Repetitions with variations

23. Sharp and Vivid Images & Metaphors • 1. Sharp image • ….the peoples want a program, not composed merely of pious thoughts, but of enforceable sanctions—an international law with teeth in it • 2.Effective metaphor • [effective control of atomic weapon] must have a guarantee of safety, not only against the offenders in the atomic area, but against the illegal users of other weapons—bacteriological, biological, gas—why not?—against war itself. • When a man learns to say “A,” he may, if he chooses, learn the rest of the alphabet, too.

24. Possible Applications • We are now facing a task of how you say it than what you say. • To speak, or not to speak, that is a question! • We must choose between suffocating silence and interactive eloquence! • Public speaking is not only about what you say, but more importantly, about how you say it! • We refuse to be drowned in the sea of silence when effective communication is in every way a better solution. • If one can learn the basics of public speaking, he may, if he chooses, learn the rest kinds of speech applications.

25. Reference Copeland, Lewis, and Lawrence W. Lamm. The World’s Great Speeches. Third Ed. Mineola, N. Y.: Dover, 1973. Fletcher, Leon. How to Design and Deliver a Speech. 6th ed. New York: Longman, 1998.

26. Lesson Review: 8 Items to Include • 1.Title and speaker of the speech • 2. Intended audience and occasion • 3.Purpose of the speech • 4.Main message(s) • 5.Organization (structure) of the speech • How does the speaker achieve his/her goal • 6.Highlight passages that impress you & analyze why (famous quotes) • 7.Practice delivery of the passage(s) • 8.List skills you can apply to your own speech

27. Sample Student GA Great Speech Analyses & Delivery “Who Then Will Speak for the Common Good?” by Congresswoman Barbara Jordan Presented by: Bella, Carolin, Denise, Helen Melissa Sherry

28. About Barbara Jordan and Her Speech Occasion & Audience Analyses Structural Analyses 4 Skills We Learn from Her Speech Q & A Parallelism Sympathy Framing & Quotation in Conclusion References Presentation Outline

29. Title:“Who Then Will Speak for the Common Good?” • Speaker:Congresswoman Barbara Jordan • Intended Audiences:members of the Democratic Party. • Occasion:the 1976 convention of the Democratic Party in New York • Purpose:to call on the members of the Democratic Party to lead the way for upholding the common good.

30. Strengths: (Why we consider the speech as a great speech for analyses) Its effective introduction & conclusion The four skills we can learn and apply The Instructor’s Comment: How does the speaker tailor her speech to the occasion and how effective is the speech in delivering her message and persuading about equality (upheld by Democratic Party)? How effective is her delivery (if any audio materials is provided)? Overall Evaluation of the Speech

31. Parallel & Contrast  Proposal • I could list the many problems which Americans have. • I could list the problems which cause people to feel cynical, angry, frustrated: problems include lack of integrity; the feeling that the grand American experiment is failing or has failed. • I could recite these problems and then I could sit down and offer no solutions. • But I don’t choose to do that either.

32. Quotation for a Memorable Conclusion • Now, I begin this speech by commenting to you on the uniqueness of a Barbara Jordan making the keynote address. • Well I am going to close my speech by quoting a Republican President and I ask you that as you listen to these words of Abraham Lincoln, relate them to the concept of national community in which every last one of us participates:

33. “ As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of Democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference is no Democracy.” ---Abraham Lincoln

34. Thank you for your attention!

35. “A Tribute to Barbara Jordan”1936-1996 http://www.elf.net/bjordan/default.asp --with her photo, -Opening of Barbara Jordan's address to the Judiciary Committee considering impeachment of then President Richard Nixon. This led to Barbara Jordan's Keynote Speech at the 1976 Democratic National Convention. Reference

36. Assignment • 1.Choose a speech you think is great • You can consult the URL on page 2 of our reader • Key in “speech” or “great speech” on Google to search for a speech to analyze • 2.Prepare for your presentation • Read the speech, analyze it, discuss, and prepare a Power Point presentation of your analysis • 3.Total Presentation Time: 10—15 min.

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