My speech was quite difficult to make as I’ve never made that type of speech before, nor have I spent that much time writing one out. I had a lot of trouble with delivery overall due to personal reasons, which really affected my overall performance. However I’m proud of myself because I spent a super long time working on this speech and the research behind it, and even worked with my mom and Grammy to curate some old family photos in order to show working class fashions.
Two ideas for the “History of a Public Controversy” project would be assisted suicide or autism. Examining assisted suicide would require a large amount of research on the history of this topic and the different techniques. It’s also important to highlight the detractors of assisted suicide and the ethics that influence both sides of the argument. For autism, we would examine it’s development and classification history as well as different movements, including autism speaks which wants to cure autism. It’s important to also get different views on the disease itself and how these views generate controversy.
I had no idea that the pictures in your presentation came from old family photos. It’s definitely a more personal touch, as opposed to obtaining photographs exclusively from sources like fashion magazines.
I thought that your presentation was really good! I ended up reviewing yours for my post because I have yet to publish mine due to extension. I think you did a really great job and have every right to be proud of your work. I think that assisted suicide is really something interesting to cover, and I’d be down to cover that!
Assisted suicide seems like a very interesting (and certainly controversial!) topic– the fact that it remains controversial to date would ensure that there’s plenty of information available on the subject. I said this on a different blog, but I absolutely love the fact that you included family photos in your presentation; adding that kind of personal link to the subject really shows how invested you are in your research. Great work!!