Peer Response to Allison S. Blog

The sale of organs is a very controversial topic and can have many different views, Allison provides many reasons why selling should not be legal. It is easy to understand that Allison does not support the sale of organs and effectively argues her side. She supports her reasoning with reasoning of self-exploitation and the disputable way of paying for organs. I personally believe that the sale of organs should be made legal, but after reading Allison’s agreement she pinpoints the areas of weakness, where regulation and supervision would be needed. Allison does provide a clear, distinct reasoning behind her standing, which makes the reader review their stance on the topic.
Allison also provides a link to the article “Sell organs to save lives” that discusses the benefits and downfalls of legalizing the sale of organs. I advise that Allison’s blog be read before taking a stance on this subject.

Technorati Search: The United States Healthcare System

Technorati is a search engine used to find blogs and blog-related content. I recently used Technorati to search for information related to the United States healthcare system, the topic of my persuasive paper. Technorati lead me to an informative blog, America’s Frist Universal Health Program Is Failing Miserably, by Rob Port. In Port’s blog he discusses kidney dialysis in America and compares it to that of other countries.  Ports blog on America’s Healthcare has been active since November 10, 2010. Port creates five or more blogs daily, all revolving around political and governmental issues. He also uses hyperlinks in his post, leading the viewer to his source of information, a magazine article referred to in his blog. Port also uses pictures in his blogs. Rob Port’s blog was very informative, but there was even more information in the comments made about his posts. Port’s blog was hit up many times with additional feedback showing the viewer’s many sides of this topic.

Another link that Technorati provided was, New Report Reveals Health Insurance Industry Pumped $86 Million Into the U.S. Chamber to Kill Reform. This blog was a part of Think Progress and was written on November 17, 2010 by Lee Fang. Fang provides three to four posts weekly if not more. He uses picture video, and links to almost all of his blogs. The difference in the type of writing Fang provides and that which would be used in writing a research paper would be the way you present yourself to your audience and the position you take on the topic. In a blog you have the ability to communicate with your reader at a more conversational and relaxed style. In a research paper all information on the topics are presented to the reader in a professional style. Also in research papers the author does not have a bias approach to the topic and presents all information clearly and without favoring a certain view. In Fang’s blog he takes an economist side to the problem of healthcare, altering the way the readers view the article.

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Demonstration Speech Evalution

When presenting a demonstration speech, I found that it is much easier to preform the speech if you are actually in the process of what you are demonstrating. Before writing my speech, I knew that demostrating how to build a grain bin would be difficult to talk on, but I felt that I had plenty of knowledge to go from. After my speech though, I realized that by choosing a different topic it would have made my topic a lot easier to talk upon, not having prepare what I would say so in depth. From that realization during the speech I believe my content was somewhat unclear to those who have no experience with grain bins. During the speech, I repeatedly would talk upon a subject not using the note cards and then be lost when I returned to them. As you can see from the video, my time was over the five to six minute range. Towards the end of my speech, you could sense that I was rushing what I was showing the class in order to cut back on time. When concluding my speech it was also undefined at when I was finished, after asking for question and hearing no response I returned to the computer to stop the video. A simple phrase of, "Thank you for your time," would have easily concluded the speech and given the audience that the speech was finished. Finally, during speeches a lot of people tend to do things with their body when they are not standing behind something, for myself it is easily notable I like to rock my body weight from foot to foot, which could be distracting for auidence members. In conclusion, I would rate my speech low, the content was unclear then rushed towards the end, my conclusion was unclear, I repeatedly got lost in with the note cards, and swayed my body when presenting. The topic of my speech was hard to demonstrate fully on, but there were many places where I could have improved on.

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