Speech Preparation

I am going to brain-storm on both topics, and decide from there which topic to actually do my speech on.

PAIN

• makes person
• more diverse than joy ?
  • in practical sense
• spawns growth
• no joy without pain

EXISTENTIALISM

• lawsuits
• 'not my fault' society
• lawyers
• history
• Rome
• examples
  • outrageous lawsuits
  • environment
  • justice system
  • kindness
  • finger pointing
• Dominant Social Paradigm
• lady who sued McDonald's
• burglar/skylight

I am struggling with the brain-storm right now, so I am just going to take my meager lists and go with them. For some reason, I feel inclined to give the pain speech a try, despite the fact that I have less ideas for it.

Although it is a bad attitude to have, I am feeling rather lazy, so I am going to skip this portion and go straight on to writing the speech. I would not recommend that you do the same. (But never let it be said that I don't present real life situations to you.)

Part of my lack of interest in organizing this particular speech is that I can't quite seem to figure out how to organize it. Still, it is a speech I would really like to give, so I am going to just start writing it, and hope that I am able to sort it out as I go.

HOWEVER: Now that I am over the laziness of when I wrote that, the organization section will see fruition.

To organize your speech, take your brainstorm ideas and place them together in logical groups, and place those groups into a logical order. The key to a good speech is figuring out which format will allow your speech to flow best.

Here are some options to help you decide the best format for your speech
• specific to general - good for showing how one (possibly seemingly unimportant) thing relates to the bigger picture
• general to specific - start with major event, and whittle it down to its essence
• chronological - Historical speeches obviously often flow best with a chronological format.
• increasing importance - probably the most often used format with the possible exception of chronological
• decreasing importance - start with a bang and let the speech cool down, good for emotional speeches where you start with a major problem, and throughout the speech map out the solution to the problem

My ideas for the pain speech will probably best fit the decreasing importance. So, to take the first speech topic of the importance of pain, here is the pre-organized and post-organized list:

These subjects are rather difficult to organize, but I have tried to organize them in a manner that they will flow into one another. Only time will tell how successfully . . .