March Madness is my favorite time of the year. And this time I started a league in yahoo for this years NCAA tournament. Here is my bracket so far....
http://98.136.70.92/t1/viewprintbracket?tid=2020265&c=1&ts=1238212111&sig=sxvku9d1KYxAqK.pB8iTFWAlBYw-&uy=cale_l44%23bu
This has been a tradition for me my whole life, and I enjoy it every single year.
The unique thing about the tournament is that there was over a million brackets filled out and after the first two rounds there was not one perfect bracket.
Friday, March 27, 2009
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Speaker Critique
On Monday the twenty third of February Gary Brackett, an Indianapolis Colts Linebacker, came to Pruis Hall to talk about leadership and overcoming adversity. He spoke for nearly an hour at Pruis Hall, and then opened it to question and answer time where students asked questions. Questions varied from what is your greatest accomplishment in life to what are your favorite memories of Tony Dungy. Gary Brackett showed us how life isn’t going to be handed to us on a silver platter and gave us many examples in his life where this was true. He spoke in a relaxed tone to the crowd as if he was trying to be our friend, and giving everyone hopes that they can do anything in life.
There were many points throughout the speech, but the main idea was that you can’t let things hold you back from your dreams. In his speech he used a chronological order to tell his life story and about his football career. In his life, he had his father, mother, and brother all die in an eighteen months. But before this, he trusted others to get him into a college on a full ride scholarship, and he found out that you can’t always rely on others to get things done. He ended up not getting on the team he wanted, and Gary Brackett walked onto Rutgers University football team. And from there it was not going to be easy, he eventually led the team his junior year as the defensive captain. After his career at Rutgers, he was drafted by the Colt in one of the very last rounds of the draft. From that point in his life he went up the ladder again and became the Colts defensive captain. And that is when tragic deaths hit his life, but that didn’t stop him. While telling his story I could tell that it was still hard to discuss it, and he showed this by loosely describing what would had been a tragedy in the strongest man’s life.
The conclusion of Gary Brackett’s speech in my opinion was not well done. He finished his speech and I didn’t even realize he was getting to the end of it. Then he opened up for question and answering which is one way you can finish a speech must I don’t think his ending was efficient enough. He could have easily went back and highlighted his main points and then left us with his motto or a moving one line statement to solidify the ending but instead it ended abruptly and left me wondering other questions. A conclusion needs to bring a sense of finality to the speech leaving you with no questions of what he was trying teach his audience. This speech gave me some guidelines on what I could correct in my future speeches
From this speech, I discovered some tips that will help me for the rest of my speeches in my life. The first tip that I learned is that to keep the audience’s attention a little more it helps to fluctuate your voice. The next tip is to call upon the audience as much as possible not only does this get the audience to interact, but it gives you time to collect yourself. He also made sure to look throughout the whole audience recognizing there were more people in the hall then just the people in the front row. It was a little inappropriate but he continuously did shout outs to certain people in the audience showing that he cared. The most important thing I learned was that the introduction is the most important part of your speech, because it sets the tone of the speech. And in Gary Brackett’s speech he smoothly went from topic to topic giving you an easy story to follow. This would help me in my speeches and give me a way to help the audience follow my speech. In conclusion, the speech was well done, and Gary Brackett made it very entertaining and humorous.
There were many points throughout the speech, but the main idea was that you can’t let things hold you back from your dreams. In his speech he used a chronological order to tell his life story and about his football career. In his life, he had his father, mother, and brother all die in an eighteen months. But before this, he trusted others to get him into a college on a full ride scholarship, and he found out that you can’t always rely on others to get things done. He ended up not getting on the team he wanted, and Gary Brackett walked onto Rutgers University football team. And from there it was not going to be easy, he eventually led the team his junior year as the defensive captain. After his career at Rutgers, he was drafted by the Colt in one of the very last rounds of the draft. From that point in his life he went up the ladder again and became the Colts defensive captain. And that is when tragic deaths hit his life, but that didn’t stop him. While telling his story I could tell that it was still hard to discuss it, and he showed this by loosely describing what would had been a tragedy in the strongest man’s life.
The conclusion of Gary Brackett’s speech in my opinion was not well done. He finished his speech and I didn’t even realize he was getting to the end of it. Then he opened up for question and answering which is one way you can finish a speech must I don’t think his ending was efficient enough. He could have easily went back and highlighted his main points and then left us with his motto or a moving one line statement to solidify the ending but instead it ended abruptly and left me wondering other questions. A conclusion needs to bring a sense of finality to the speech leaving you with no questions of what he was trying teach his audience. This speech gave me some guidelines on what I could correct in my future speeches
From this speech, I discovered some tips that will help me for the rest of my speeches in my life. The first tip that I learned is that to keep the audience’s attention a little more it helps to fluctuate your voice. The next tip is to call upon the audience as much as possible not only does this get the audience to interact, but it gives you time to collect yourself. He also made sure to look throughout the whole audience recognizing there were more people in the hall then just the people in the front row. It was a little inappropriate but he continuously did shout outs to certain people in the audience showing that he cared. The most important thing I learned was that the introduction is the most important part of your speech, because it sets the tone of the speech. And in Gary Brackett’s speech he smoothly went from topic to topic giving you an easy story to follow. This would help me in my speeches and give me a way to help the audience follow my speech. In conclusion, the speech was well done, and Gary Brackett made it very entertaining and humorous.
Speaker Critique
On Monday the twenty third of February Gary Brackett, an Indianapolis Colts Linebacker, came to Pruis Hall to talk about leadership and overcoming adversity. He spoke for nearly an hour at Pruis Hall, and then opened it to question and answer time where students asked questions. Questions varied from what is your greatest accomplishment in life to what are your favorite memories of Tony Dungy. Gary Brackett showed us how life isn’t going to be handed to us on a silver platter and gave us many examples in his life where this was true. He spoke in a relaxed tone to the crowd as if he was trying to be our friend, and giving everyone hopes that they can do anything in life.
There were many points throughout the speech, but the main idea was that you can’t let things hold you back from your dreams. In his speech he used a chronological order to tell his life story and about his football career. In his life, he had his father, mother, and brother all die in an eighteen months. But before this, he trusted others to get him into a college on a full ride scholarship, and he found out that you can’t always rely on others to get things done. He ended up not getting on the team he wanted, and Gary Brackett walked onto Rutgers University football team. And from there it was not going to be easy, he eventually led the team his junior year as the defensive captain. After his career at Rutgers, he was drafted by the Colt in one of the very last rounds of the draft. From that point in his life he went up the ladder again and became the Colts defensive captain. And that is when tragic deaths hit his life, but that didn’t stop him. While telling his story I could tell that it was still hard to discuss it, and he showed this by loosely describing what would had been a tragedy in the strongest man’s life.
The conclusion of Gary Brackett’s speech in my opinion was not well done. He finished his speech and I didn’t even realize he was getting to the end of it. Then he opened up for question and answering which is one way you can finish a speech must I don’t think his ending was efficient enough. He could have easily went back and highlighted his main points and then left us with his motto or a moving one line statement to solidify the ending but instead it ended abruptly and left me wondering other questions. A conclusion needs to bring a sense of finality to the speech leaving you with no questions of what he was trying teach his audience. This speech gave me some guidelines on what I could correct in my future speeches
From this speech, I discovered some tips that will help me for the rest of my speeches in my life. The first tip that I learned is that to keep the audience’s attention a little more it helps to fluctuate your voice. The next tip is to call upon the audience as much as possible not only does this get the audience to interact, but it gives you time to collect yourself. He also made sure to look throughout the whole audience recognizing there were more people in the hall then just the people in the front row. It was a little inappropriate but he continuously did shout outs to certain people in the audience showing that he cared. The most important thing I learned was that the introduction is the most important part of your speech, because it sets the tone of the speech. And in Gary Brackett’s speech he smoothly went from topic to topic giving you an easy story to follow. This would help me in my speeches and give me a way to help the audience follow my speech. In conclusion, the speech was well done, and Gary Brackett made it very entertaining and humorous.
There were many points throughout the speech, but the main idea was that you can’t let things hold you back from your dreams. In his speech he used a chronological order to tell his life story and about his football career. In his life, he had his father, mother, and brother all die in an eighteen months. But before this, he trusted others to get him into a college on a full ride scholarship, and he found out that you can’t always rely on others to get things done. He ended up not getting on the team he wanted, and Gary Brackett walked onto Rutgers University football team. And from there it was not going to be easy, he eventually led the team his junior year as the defensive captain. After his career at Rutgers, he was drafted by the Colt in one of the very last rounds of the draft. From that point in his life he went up the ladder again and became the Colts defensive captain. And that is when tragic deaths hit his life, but that didn’t stop him. While telling his story I could tell that it was still hard to discuss it, and he showed this by loosely describing what would had been a tragedy in the strongest man’s life.
The conclusion of Gary Brackett’s speech in my opinion was not well done. He finished his speech and I didn’t even realize he was getting to the end of it. Then he opened up for question and answering which is one way you can finish a speech must I don’t think his ending was efficient enough. He could have easily went back and highlighted his main points and then left us with his motto or a moving one line statement to solidify the ending but instead it ended abruptly and left me wondering other questions. A conclusion needs to bring a sense of finality to the speech leaving you with no questions of what he was trying teach his audience. This speech gave me some guidelines on what I could correct in my future speeches
From this speech, I discovered some tips that will help me for the rest of my speeches in my life. The first tip that I learned is that to keep the audience’s attention a little more it helps to fluctuate your voice. The next tip is to call upon the audience as much as possible not only does this get the audience to interact, but it gives you time to collect yourself. He also made sure to look throughout the whole audience recognizing there were more people in the hall then just the people in the front row. It was a little inappropriate but he continuously did shout outs to certain people in the audience showing that he cared. The most important thing I learned was that the introduction is the most important part of your speech, because it sets the tone of the speech. And in Gary Brackett’s speech he smoothly went from topic to topic giving you an easy story to follow. This would help me in my speeches and give me a way to help the audience follow my speech. In conclusion, the speech was well done, and Gary Brackett made it very entertaining and humorous.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)