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Humorous Wedding Speech: A Personal Narrative Of My Life
When I first began oral communications, the speech I was most excited to give was the interview speech. This is because I knew exactly who I wanted to do and that it would be interesting to get to ask him about his life. In my last speech, I had some struggles and didn’t perform in a way that I strive for. This motivated me to practice my skills more and get better. Just this past week I decided I would give the sport of wrestling a shot. In the past, I have participated in basketball. Since I’m one of the shorter kids in my class I thought I should give up this sport and try something new. Into my first week of wrestling I picked up a quote that’s left a deep affect on me. Coach Allen told us a quote by Winston Churchill that says, “Failure isn’t fatal, and success isn’t final.” This quote says a lot about my personal experience and interview …show more content…
I felt like I was about to present my grandfather's life in a very vivid way, and show how great of a person he was. Still, there a few things I wish I would have done differently. One thing I would have changed was telling the story about my grandpa’s condition at this point in his life. In my speech, I only said the doctors told him he had few hours left in his life but he overcame this issue. I didn’t give much explanation to what was happening during this occurrence. Instead, I should have talked about he had a blood clot in his leg and they thought he would need his leg amputated, but he couldn’t do a surgery. Luckily, the clot wasn’t as bad as they expected, and he was able to go home. Like every speech I’ve done this year, I also wish I would have used more gestures during the course of my speech. This helps the audience understand my message and keeps them involved. I also think I could have started the speech in a more capturing way. Truly, I’m very content with how things went in my speech, but like anything, there always some improvement that can be

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