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I've actually been on both ends of the spectrum. I used to be quite comfortable with giving speeches and dramatic performances. I was the news anchor of our school broadcast, I got As on all my oral assignments. When 8th grade ran its' course, my self esteem however was beat into tatters by a group of kids bent on feeding their insecurities with my suffering. All my "friends" deserted me, and several even joined this group. They got me fired from the news program as many of my former friends were on it and it became clear to the teacher that they would rather hurt me then work with me on the news. 8th grade remains to this day the worst year of my life.
Two years later I still didn't fully realize how much that had effected me, until I was finally called upon to give a presentation in front of the class. As I commenced, and simply assumed the confidence and comfort of public speaking would still be there. I was shocked to find that I stammered on words, and mixed up simplistic sentence structures in my head, with the odd arrangements still being uttered.
It took a rhetoric class, drama classes, and some wonderful friends to get me back to where I used to be.
Now I have no idea where this girl is coming from in terms of her intellectual and speech craft. But her answer falls well within the realms of what intelligent people might state given the right circumstances. She should have just stopped, taken a deep breath, accepted the docked points for losing continuity and tried again. But she opted to just keep going and try to wrap it all together later. and her plan just did not pan out.
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*sigh* I love the Weather Channel. I used to fall asleep watching it during tornado season, while wearing my shoes. I was marginally more neurotic back then.
At any rate, I was kinda joking. But look at how much ignorance is blamed on poverty-stricken kids being forced to sit in their apartment and watch TV all day because the streets aren't safe in their neighborhood. You'd think at some point they'd see the local weather.
But, if you've ever seen this image of the United States, you'll never forget what it looks like again.
quote:Editorials have been talking about "the fact that 1/5 of Americans can't locate the US" as though it actually IS a fact just because Aimee Teegarden used the phrase "recent polls have shown." If we don't expect trained journalists to think to check this stuff, why should we expect a teenager to do it on the fly?
Whoa! This is off-subject, but Aimee Teegarden? She's my cousin!
Guess that stint in Friday Night Lights is paying off for her.
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