Joshua Ballesteros
CO 210 Introduction Video
Reflection
Hello everyone, my name is Joshua Ballesteros and and this is my introduction video about myself. My video wasn’t all planned out, but I had a list of what to say. The video made me nervous because realizing that many people will watch my video, which I would feel nervous in front of people, especially people I just met or people I do not personally know. I’ve made a mistake about my age, which I realized in the lab classroom. This is the first video I made an introduction about myself, because usually I introduce myself personally to people instead of doing it on an internet web page. My video speaks about what my goals are, hobbies, and my personal information. Next time I will plan out my video so I can be ahead of what I need to say in front of the camera and true information about it. |
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How to Make the World a Better Place (Favorite Speech)
In this world, hate has been spreading and wars have been happening for over many decades and yet everyone may not be content with each other. People try to make the world a better place by starting small and becoming big like community services, such as the American Red Cross where they help people in need. Making the world a better place varies from what act of kindness you give towards everyone and the world. A small act of kindness to the world could change to become a better place for everyone and spread happiness. Volunteering, donating, or spread kindness could be one of the things you can do to make the world a better place and the people in it. Make the world a better place by starting with you. First of all, there are many things to do and try to make the world a better place. Volunteering for a fact is the best way to contribute you to make the world better for everyone. Join different community volunteering acts in your area that involves picking up trash, repaint vandalized walls, and donate food or clothing, and other acts of kindness. Volunteering doesn’t consume all of your time and only for a few hours to contribute those times into acts of kindness. Many volunteering acts affected everyone and everything in this world, such as animals, marine life, plants, and people, yet people try to also destroy Earth with their poisonous gases and wars. With everyone contributing volunteering acts, it could be about a time where a change can happen, slowly, but surely. A quote from Barrack Obama said, “The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.” See, everyone can change the world, rather than feeling hopeless on yourself. If you need or want to do something, you have to start with yourself and achieve the things you need to do, like what they say, “What you give is what you get.” So I’d per say that volunteering is a number one act of kindness to make the world a better place. Secondly, another act of kindness is donating. Many donations involve items, such as clothing, food, blood and other important stuffs. Donating clothing to a organization to help people in need puts a smile to their faces and showing them that you care for their needs or you can go and do it yourself in the community. It’s easy to donate items, even your old clothing for the people in need and canned foods is the best choice for donation to anyone. Many of the donations formed from an organization could raise awareness towards the people around the world to show what acts of kindness that could change the world. Lastly, a very simple act of kindness is complimenting. It shows that you’re not afraid to tell them how they are or look and it makes them feel good about it. A simple, “you’re pretty” to a girl can change their mood, especially on their bad days, but not in a sexual type of manner, it should show that you actually mean it. Complimenting a person makes them feel good about it and they would deny it, but feel like something triggers a laughing motion in them. Small acts of kindness can make the world a better place. In conclusion, there are different ways to make a world a better place and it could start with you, whether you volunteer, donate, or provide a simple act of kindness. Volunteering encourages helping the community and society of the people for the world. Donating portrays your kind feeling and shows that you care for them. A last simple act of kindness is complimenting and can change their mood to become happy about themselves. Make the world a better place by starting with you. Remember, the little things count, so give it your best. |
This is my favorite speech of the semester because this is not only one of my best, but such hard work I gave into for this essay. I have finally became better at speech for the essays and portraying it in front of an audience. My recent speeches gave me chills and i felt so nervous when presenting speeches over a crowd of audience. As time passes by and learning skills for enhancing my speech, I felt like I gain a bit confidence when giving this speech in front of my audience.
SEMESTER ENDING OVERALL
At the beginning of the class, I've felt overwhelmed with the work and tasks that has been given to us and how we had to enhance our speaking skills. It was tough at first and learning different techniques and the pronunciation of the alphabets. Time to time and speeches after speeches, many of us learned to become better and gain confidence in ourselves when presenting in a crowd audience and portraying our skills to the test. It was a nice class and fun classmates to help and encourage one another when they've felt like they had stage fright. Such support and sportsmanship towards everyone and I've felt like I am becoming much better with speaking orally in front of a crowd audience, but I will have a long way to go into learning some more aspects of speech. Thank you! |