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Sara PfeifferTED Talk Analysis 1ShanLan Hsueh: The Chinese Zodiac, explained Who, What, When, Where, WhyThe speaker is technologist and entrepreneur ShanLan Hsueh. Hsueh discusses and explain the Chinese zodiac. This was filmed in 2016, which according to the speech is the year of the monkeys. Hsueh shares these tips so that the audience can audience the ancient tradition of the Chinese zodiac and describe to them how it is believed to influence their lives, career, marriage, and how you will do in a given year.ContentHsueh dives into the topic of Chinese zodiac. She explains how the signs are divided and even goes into what some signs stand for. She uses visuals to show the audience which signs are compatible with other ones, and which ones are meant to be enemies. Hsueh also explains how the belief of these signs influence the Chinese society and even the birth rate as certain years there is a heavy increased in babies born, while others there is a decrease since that sign is looked upon anizationHsueh is visually organized, and adds an element of creativity, as she begins opening her speech with using images on the screen to explain where the signs come from and how many there are, and which animal corresponds with what year. While she has a clear introduction, as she opens it by relating it to the audience and slyly establishing topic all in one. She has smooth transitions that help her go from each point. During the body part of the speech, it is unclear what direction she is going in as there are not transitions between each main point. In her introduction, she does not really set what she will be discussing regarding Chinese zodiac signs. Then for her conclusion, she ties back to the introduction in which she discussed the monkey sign and she ends it with the monkey sign, which I think she did well in.DeliveryHsueh had delivered the speech very well. She did not rely on her visuals to carry her speech. She used hand motions and walked around the stage to engage the audience. When she wanted to make the audience laugh, she was creative in using her topic to relate it to the audience to make it funny. She also used good eye contact as she used a very conversational tone while sounding confident about the topic. Overall Effectiveness and Why/ Why NotWhile the speech was short, I believe that it was very effective and served its purpose. She wanted to educated the audience on Chinese zodiac signs. It was related to the audience, as everyone has their own sign, which is meant to explain how different aspects of their life is meant to play out. She gave examples of famous people who had the ‘better’ signs and even those that had ‘bad’ signs. The only thing I feel was not extremely effective was the conclusion, it felt very rushed and only seemed to last a sentence and it did not give an overall summary of her speech and the point she was trying to make.Extra Credit: How Vultures can help solve crimesWho, What, When, Where, WhyLauren Pharr, a forensic anthropologist, discusses how vultures are involved with crimes. She spoke in May of 2018. She discusses vultures and how they impact crime scenes and how their assistance can provide to detectives investigating the murders so that the audience can understand their unknown importance. Her purpose is to inform the audience of the vulture’s importance in investigating criminal cases. ContentPharr takes the audience through a story that she had went through involving murder and the vulture. While she is telling the story, she is taking breaks within it so thoroughly explain vultures and how they function, and their importance they serve in a criminal case. As she is feeding the audience information of the topic she is discussing, she continuously refers to her specific story, a murder case, and gives it a beginning, middle, and ending. OrganizationPharr appears to be very organized. She opens her speech by taking the audience through a journey and telling them to picture a certain scene. In her introduction she clearly sets her credibility and explains what the point of her speech will be. When Pharr switches between her points, she uses smooth transitions by relating it back to the story that ties into the point of her speech. Her conclusion is very clear and she repeats her main points and ends with what she hope the audience had gotten out of what she had said. She was creative in her conclusion as she made it humorous by referring it back to a joke she had previous statement in the middle of her speech.DeliveryPharr was very conversational with her entire speech. She spoke a very good pace and used her transitions as breathing opportunities. She was very animated on stage as she demonstrated certain movements on stage. Pharr was very engaged with her audience and made the topic seem appealing and extremely important to them. Overall effectiveness and Why/why notPharr was successful in making her speech effective. She educated her audience in the important of vultures and she even named a few different types of them and where some of them are in different locations of the world. She had used visuals but did not rely on them to carry her speech, but she gave the audience visuals as what she was referring to, and she kept a poster up of a vulture up the whole time so they audience could have a continual visual to help them visual the animal she was talking pare and ContrastI think the biggest difference between the two speeches is the organization set up. The first speech was a lot shorter and seemed almost rushed because she did not take the time in her introduction to establish her credibility or discuss her main points. She did not give the audience a lot of time to absorb the information she was feeding to them. On the other hand, the other speech was about eight minutes longer and had a clear pattern. The intro set the speech and she established herself and introduced her main points to prepare the audience as to what she was going to discuss.A similarity between the two speeches is their use of visuals. They both effectively used visuals to enhance their presentations, but they did not depend on them and kept eye contact with the audience. Also, the visuals they used were not distracting, they served the purpose they needed to and did not overwhelm the audience with information or loud colors. ................
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