Reviving Hippie Spirit: Analysis of Michael Lenz's Speech

The speech that I attended was The Revival of the Hippie speech given by Michael Lenz on Wednesday March 30th 2016. We were a voluntary audience who attended the speech on our own free will (Chp 6 p 34). Lenz started off his speech with two quotes to give his audience an understanding of his hippie spirit. His speech was an informative one to inform us that the ideas of the hippies are “coming back” to America. Lenz had several strong areas in giving his speech and a few areas that he could work on in his speech.
One of Lenz’s first strong points was that he used a presentation aid. It was a Microsoft word document with the main points of his speech typed on a big screen. Presentation aids are very important in giving a speech because people

Nonverbal communication behaviors play a key part in the audience’s perception of your competence, trustworthiness, and character (Chp 19 p 262). Audience members receive information beyond the actual words that a speaker says (Chp 19 p 262). Two types of nonverbal communication is paralanguage and body language (Chp 19 p 262). Audience’s only derives 7% of what the speaker’s meaning from the words that they say, 38% comes from the speaker’s voice and 55% comes from the speaker’s body language and appearance (Chp 19 p 262). He smiled at the beginning of his speech to welcome the audience and to have mutual comfort (Chp 19 p 263). He used different facial expressions so that we knew what he was feeling. He maintained great eye contact with the audience and was constantly scanning each section of the room so that no one felt left out. Eye contact is important because it maintains the quality of directness in a speech delivery, it lets people know that they are recognize, it indicates acknowledgment and respect, and it signals to audience members that you see them as unique human beings (Chp 19 p 263). He was dressed in a very casual outfit consisting of a brown almost too tight long sleeve shirt, blue jeans, flip flops, a necklace and bracelet, glasses, and his long hair in a ponytail. For the speech he was given I would say that his outfit was appropriate due to the fact that it was a hippie speech and he looked like a hippie. Dressing appropriately is important because it is the first thing that an audience notices (Chp 19 p