Presenter Essays

  • Book Review: Presenting To Win By Jerry Weissman

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    Presenting to Win is a book that details the steps on how to become a great presenter. The book written by Jerry Weissman covers multiple aspects of a presentation, from adapting to your audience all the way to making the numbers sing. The text hopes to help readers create a PowerPoint presentation that is informative as much as it is persuasive. The object is to coach someone into persuading even the hardest audiences with a presentation. Jerry Weissman is known as the world’s best corporate presentations

  • Deception: The Unseen Cancer of American Culture

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    John Ruskin once said, “The essence of lying is in deception, not in words”. With regards to what Ruskin talks about, deception is an act that Americans have lovingly embraced. It has been so embraced that we don 't even know if we are deceiving or being deceived. Stephanie Ericsson’s essay, “The Ways We Lie”, claims that “our acceptance of lies becomes a cultural cancer that eventually shrouds and reorders reality until moral garbage becomes as invisible as water is to fish” (343). In a sense, the

  • Understanding Your Audience: A Guide for Presenters

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    Audience Analysis: A. Demographics: The audience is demographically characterized as having both male and female Michigan State University students within the age group of 17 and 24. As well as being ethnically diverse. As a result, I think that the demographic of the audience will have great influence on the speech. Both the audience and myself fall in the same demographic group, which allows me to have a connection with the audience. Making it easier to make my point. B. Psychographics: All members

  • Analysis Of Old Spice Ad Analysis

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    commanding the assumed-female viewer to look at their male partners and then look back to him, comparing the two. During the single take of the advertisement, Isaiah Mustafa continues to criticize the viewer’s male partner and explain how he, the presenter, is much better through the use of props and settings of ideal vacation getaways. The ad closes with Mustafa abruptly stating “I’m on a horse,” as the camera pans back, revealing he is

  • Food Group Presentation Essay

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    a food item, or agreed with the presenter. If the children disagreed or did not like a food item picture, they were supposed to place their thumbs in a downward motion. The students were placed into groups when answering some of the questions and they had to write their answer on the paper provided and hold the paper above their heads. These strategies were successful. I do not believe there was a post-evaluation of information presented. However, what the presenter did was pass stickers out to children

  • College-Level Five-Person Group Speech Analysis

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    by one of the presenters. To gain attention, he involved the audience by talking about statistics for prostitution and applying them to the number of men in the audience. A series of slides then illustrated the different aspects of sex trafficking. He provided quotations from men who had bought sex at one time or another. He read from a page several short, painful narratives from former prostitutes. He moved and gesture towards the screen during the introduction. This first presenter (reading from

  • Public Speaking Essay

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    provokes a passionate response. The more intriguing the topic, the more interesting the presenter can make a speech. For example a speech about the presidents could include facts about which ones served in the military;

  • Christian Inspirational Speakers

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    common reasons for using this type of presenter include fund raising, personal growth, and life coaching. Think about the purpose of your church event. Is the goal to get a reaction and encourage people to take action? Christian inspirational speakers are the best choice if the answer to this question is yes. Below are some reason why inspiring and motivating Christian speakers are commonly chosen by churches and other organizations for

  • Alfred Hitchcock Shower Scene Analysis

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    Presenter: What marks horror as different from other genres is both the relationship it has with the audience and its tendency to twist and subvert cultural norms. I intend to explore that subversion today, and hopefully arrive at a deeper understanding of certain features. Click to next slide, a quote from Alfred Hitchcock (Item 10) “I have always believed in following the advice of the playwright Sardou. He said “torture the women!” The trouble today is that we don't torture women enough

  • Does the UK TV industry reflect its cultural diversity

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    Summary The lack of black TV presenters on prime time television in the UK has been criticised by many black British celebrities. The lack of black male or female presenters is vastly becoming a recognised problem. Reggie Yates is the only prime time black presenter and has publicly voiced his opinion and concern as to why there aren’t more black presenters on TV. In comparison to the United States, they have a higher number of black TV presenters who are on mainstream programmes. There are many

  • Comparing Newsround and BBC 6 o'clock News

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    pulsing, gradually getting louder. This sets the pace for the news programme, and is, further more, a visual representation of stereotypical teenage music, which is viewed likewise as being loud and throbbing. As for the mode of address, the presenters are wearing casual jeans and T-shirt, similar to what teenagers would dress in, to show that the programme is up to date and appeal to the show’s target audience, who generally pay more attention to things that fit into what they categorise as

  • Attracting and Keeping the Radio Audience

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    on content, presenters and multiplatform services to keep audiences and draw them to their show. To engage and entertain is to attract an audience but in order to keep that audience, up to date content week on week and multiplatform activities when the show is off air are crucial to maintain the audiences interest. This essay will address whether one element is most important or does it require a combination of elements to fully attract, engage and keep the audience. Radio presenters are the fuel

  • Newsround Key Conventions

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    the main conventions is that news programmes often feature presenters or anchors. This is a very common convention and is featured in most, if not all news programmes on TV. The presenters are the people who sit in the studio and read the news reports to the audience at home. An example is on BBC News. The presenters dress and speak very formally and they talk about hard news topics. On the other hand, on This Morning on ITV, the presenters speak a lot more casually and they tend to mostly talk about

  • Ethos, Pathos, Pathos And Logos

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    particular case all of the available means of persuasion" (American Rhetoric). Numerous rhetoric principals were utilized in the research presented by the students in English 287. In this review I will categorize the presentation by the way the presenter attempted to persuade the audience to agree with their argument. The rhetorical triangle will be used to classify if an element of a presentation applied to the pathos, ethos, or logos side of the triangle. In Greek logos means “word” or “reason”

  • Incorporating Public Speaking into Regional and Urban Town Planning

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    town and regional planner. Proper organization includes; making sur... ... middle of paper ... ...ust be properly prepared, have a set amount of goals and a dynamic style to present these goals. This means that Regional and Urban Town Planning presenters need to incorporate these aspects into their presentation style to successfully communicate with their audience no matter what size or knowledge level. Works Cited Ron Kurtus. 2006. Goals of a Public Speaker. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www

  • Passive Communication: Three Popular Forms Of Communication

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    Successful face-to-face communication requires preparation, being concise and attentive. Presenters must know what information needs to be presented and what the goal of communicating must be. Being concise and straight to the point is key to achieving these goals while respecting others time. “Great conversation is like a tennis match. One person

  • The Pros And Cons Of Powerpoint

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    My great-grandfather owned a business in the 1940s and conducted business solely through conversation, mail, and newspaper ads. My grandfather took over the family business in the 1960s and conducted business through conversation, mail, newspaper ads, projectors, and telephones. My uncle took over the family business in the late 1990s and now conducts business through conversation, mail, telephones, computers, internet, software, tablets, apps, and many other forms of technology. One form of technology

  • Jamaican Patois Interview Essay

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    would grow too comfortable with the ghetto life and familiar to bad manners. I proved differently. Living in the ghetto helped me to explain ghetto life and my feelings through music, which also helped me to become the best of the best in my genre. PRESENTER: You’re a man of hope, and you want to make peace in the future by acting in the present. So many people worldwide connect with your music. Bob you’ve been labeled a powerful political individual, how do you regard that? How do you feel about yourself

  • Differences And Similarities Between A Current Affair And The Project

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    through the entire episode, with one host (Tracey Grimshaw) and one presenter (Dan Nolan). Targeted the audience’s sense of remorse and sympathy, for the story of young women who was assaulted on a trip to Bali. The programs evoke these emotions and feelings through a number of ways, particularly by giving as much details and facts as possible. Similarly, they both have a quick transition between the tones the hosts and presenters use and how they address the story and topics they are presenting.

  • Analysis: Top Gear

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    and it has become the most widely watched television program in the world with approximately of 350 million views per week in 170 different counties. The show is presented by famous iconic presenters, Jeremy Clarkson, James May, Richard Hammond, Jason Dawe, Chris Evans, with Matt LeBlanc. These presenters are known for their repugnant behavior and their inappropriate use of language to various groups in the society which may cause harm to the people indirectly. Due to their British Heritage, they