Response to Laurel's Post

I am writing this blog post in response to Laurel Miller’s latest blog post.  Laurel’s post was about abortion and the topics associated with it.  I agree her deposition of the separate arguments for and against abortion.  She states that some of the reasons for abortion include the right of women to do what they want with their own bodies.  I agree, women should be able to do what they want and, after all, who is the government to say that a person cannot choose the rights for their bodies.  The argument against abortion, however, states that because women can choose to have sexual intercourse and potentially become pregnant, she must know the consequences of her actions and must keep the baby.  I can also agree with this statement.

            Laurel presents an accurate reason for her stance.  It seems as if she thinks that, because of abortion, there are many people who could be in the world today that could help out so much.  For instance, what if there has been a baby who was aborted that could find the cure for cancer or solve world hunger?  I think this is a great reason for being anti abortion.

            Laurel then changes her opinion when she finds another article because she sees that people should be able to choose their own rights for their bodies.  I agree with her idea that women can choose their plan for their bodies, but disagree with the idea as it applies to abortion.  Even though a woman has a right to do what she wants with her body, she still must follow the law.  No matter what an abortionist says, a baby in the womb is alive.  It has a heartbeat and has thoughts and feelings.  Even though it is not born it can still feel.  To get rid of an unborn baby through the process of abortion is murder and should not be allowed by any government.

Demonstration Evaluation

For the demonstration evaluation blog assignment I had a good time searching through different speeches to evaluate.  Many of the speeches I found were very humorous and I couldn’t take seriously.  There was a speech on self-defense that just made me laugh the entire time I watched it.  Its probably good that I decided against evaluating that demonstration for this blog assignment because I would have run out of things to say, seeing as I would only be critiquing the video.  Instead, I found this video on Youtube.  It was not the last video I watched, but it was probably the best to critique.

            In the video, the presenter is in his room or a room in his house/apartment where he is recording the video for a class of some sort.  His topic is “how to clean your shoes.”  It was a good idea, but the demonstrator needed to specify that his demonstration applies only to cleaning the bottom of shoes.  In the video he did an excellent job demonstrating, but had a few minor details that could have cleaned up the speech.

            The person demonstrating the speech did a good job of introducing his topic with an abstract idea, rather than just jumping into the topic.  He also talked about each of the tools he would use, which helped out in the understanding of the topic.  After the intro, he talked through the steps involved in his topic and did so in chronological order.  This helped the flow if information.  He then proceeded to follow through on the steps and demonstrate his topic.  His conclusion was ok, but it was rather brief for the somewhat complex process that he described.  In fact, he did not even review the steps of his topic in the conclusion.  He had good tone and pitch overall, but he was slightly monotone and dry.

Overall, his speech was done well, but could have been shaped better with going through his steps again and allowing more time to let the steps sink in.