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Posted: Wed 16th Jul 2:07pm Post subject: My Ncea Lvl1 Speech
My rant/speech I've got to do for school
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Why Society Sucks
Society sucks. You may not know it yet but it does. Just so we’re on the same level here, by society I mean this school, city, country whatever, a group of people living in one area, something like that. All around us are restrictions put on us by the government, expectations from friends, teachers, people that don’t know us, anyone. Then you have the media, constantly broadcasting parc right into our heads, buy this! Buy that! Go stuff yourself.
The government: Ooo look at us were sitting down here in Wellington, thinking were helping this country. All their doing is putting restrictions on us. Just think back to the Party pills thing, it should be someone’s choice as to whether to take some random pharmaceutical full of stuff including horse tranquilizers. Now, don’t get me wrong, I hate the pharmaceutical industry just as much as anyone else who takes the time to think about it, but that doesn’t mean someone should not be allowed to choose whether or not to take something. The government is the reason people are unhappy. Laws are the reasons people are unhappy. If there were no laws, sure the death rate would rise, but who says that’s a bad thing considering the number of people on this planet. Anyway, if there were no laws, the unhappy people could go out and get theirs back the person who drove into their kid at a party, I sure as hell would go get my revenge. You might be thinking with no laws people would drink drive and kill themselves, good, its survival of the fittest, or most intelligent in this case. Aw but what if they kill someone else who wasn’t drunk? That happens even though it’s against the law now, so it won’t make much difference.
Look around you, at your friends, at people you know, at people you don’t know. Think about the expectations you have of them and they have of you. A likely one would be for them to wear clothes in public, another law placed by the government, but if people felt comfortable not doing so, why not let them? Why should you expect them to wear clothes? It’s their choice. What other expectations do you have of the people around you? Now just take a moment to think why. Society sucks because of these expectations. Take a look at models, they are expected to fit into clothes I couldn’t fit my leg into, why? Because it’s beautiful? That?! Beautiful?! I’m not sure about you guys but I sure don’t like woman who look like a bag of sticks with skin around it. How is that beautiful? Its societies fault these people think like this. Another expectation of society is you follow their morals. Their morals being you have the latest technology, the most expensive watch or some big name clothing on your back. Once again, why? To show off that you have money? Society demands appearance over function. Society sucks
Perhaps the worst part of society is the media. All of us are in its grip, even Mr. Preacher standing up here talking to you. Everywhere you look, be it the TV, the internet, outside of a shop, even someone’s t-shirt, there will be a logo, bright flashing colours around a sign or an advertisement for some over priced non functional piece of metal. I assume most of you trust the news on TV or the newspaper right? In New Zealand it’s not so bad, but the media still twists it to make something more interesting to readers. For example: In Britain they have heaps of different newspapers each catering to one side of a story or a political party, each throwing mud at each others stories. Then we get to television, you know how if you tell someone something for long enough they begin to believe it? It’s the same with TV, if you watch the same McDonalds ad every ad break, chances are by the time your hungry you’ll want to try that new big fancy new deal from McD’s. That’s brainwashing for you, or so called ‘persuasive advertising’.
So just take the time to think about yourself, what you do and what you want to do. Are your thoughts your own or ones forced upon you by society? Always question everything. Why aren’t you allowed to do that? Why do you want that item of whatever? What are they trying to get you to buy?
Thank you.
Any tips of what to add or remove or change would be appreciated, even comments of what you thought would be nice.
Joined: Apr 25, 2003 Posts: 3,423 Location: Trying to slim down in NZ!
Posted: Wed 16th Jul 2:17pm Post subject:
Okay, putting aside what I actually think of your topic, my memory of speeches at School was to add in feactures (alliteration, rhetorical questions etc) to get your point across so that you can discuss them at a later stage.
If you want to tidy the topic up a bit, make sure that your arguments are strong and their is no obvious retaliation for them. Your drunk driving one is a bit funny (as an obvious example)
Also, we live in a country where the public pays for someone messing themselves up, which is potentially a good reason to ban them.
Make sure you just present it well don't read off your cards use eye contact and emphasise the strong points by varying your pitch and tone etc.
It's all about the presentation and good arguements : )
Joined: Mar 25, 2007 Posts: 2,878 Location: On my bike
Posted: Wed 16th Jul 2:45pm Post subject:
Reminds me a little of my speech...
So ill post it so you can have a read. It earned me an excellence - but probably only because i can speak to an audience well
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I listened to a “ G Homedog” once trying to talk badly to the beat of his song or rap. He was telling me to “superman dat hoe”. That piece of lyric directly refers to a deviant sexual move towards a prostitute. It could also mean “Soljah Boi” is commanding you to rape someone. I believe this to be just one example of rap promoting a negative attitude, towards it listeners. Any song that refers to women by demoralising and degrading terms such as “tuls, hctib, erohw or skank” is promoting a negative attitude in my books. I am neither for nor against rap as genre – I just feel that the messages these “rappers” are trying to convey should be “PG” rated. It offends me to hear about your mum, getting backslapped in the face.
The lyrics in rap songs promote aggression, disturbing sexual activity, severe alcohol use, suicide and violence. This is not what we want our young children listening to. They are picking up on these ideas and putting them into reality. A survey conducted by Took & Weiss concluded that listening to rap had a direct correlation to below average grades, behavioural problems, arrests and drug use. I believe this to be a fair representation of today’s problems brought on by “gangster rap”.
Not only does rap promote aggression, but it also influences its listeners to evade the police. Such songs as “Snoop doggy dog’s” “F**k the police” involve running away from the “pigs” after they have taken part in an illegal activity. In a youths mind, the over use of such terms is re-enforcing the fact that running away from the police is acceptable in the society we live in. It is not; we need to crack down on rap culture promoting negative attitudes.
Sure it may only be a minority in the music industry that produces these negative rap songs. It would be all right if the lyrics were about daisies, flying kites, and running through fields, but its not. They are about drugs, sex, and violence. The videos produced to coincide with these “gangster rap” songs also highlight raps main themes. The videos have gangsters in gang colours “popping a cap” in each other’s esras. That’s not cool, that would hurt. Sometimes I think they must be dratered and why anyone would listen to that pathetic excuse for music. This is in-between snorting some cocaine and punching their mistress in the face.
90% of all rap thats out there, provides the negative images I am talking about. I am not attacking Usher because he got his girlfriend pregnant and he is telling the world about his confessions in a song. I am trying to get you to understand that the messages “Gangster rappers” are trying to convey are not ok. It is not ok to recruit youth to your drug gang using a music video. It is not ok to throw insults at women to state your domineering image. We are not in the ghettos of America. New Zealanders are smart people, and do not deserve these negative attitudes “gangster rappers” are forcing upon us. Next time you hear some insulting rap; I encourage you to show your disgust.
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