Reflect on the Past Speeches

          Reflecting on the past experience, I have both strength and weakness in the public speaking. First, the strength of my speaking is organization. I can able to explain my points in a very organized way for the audience to understand. Bad organization can make the audience confused through listening to the speaker, but good organization creates a flow within the speaking which helps the listener to take track. The other strength I have is voice, I have a strong and clear voice to make a speech very clear. Loud and clear voice is a very good advantage to appeal the audience. People have difficulties when they cannot listen things carefully, cannot focus on what the listener says. Speakers must able to send their message clearly so listeners can follow. Loud and clear voice in English, make audience to focus on my speak for the entire presentation. 

          However, people do not only have only strength but also weakness. I have a weakness in the fluency on the speech. I usually make hmm or a... during the speeches which distracts the audience. While making a speech, these pauses are seen as “bad” breaking the mood and fluency in the speech. I want to fix these problems, by having stronger confidence and memorization on my speech. People hesitate and make pauses because they lose the pace on speaking their lines. To avoid this, I have to practice until these pauses cannot be made. The other weakness is eye contact. Eye contact is a way to make connection with the audience. Bad eye contact is seen as “lack” of speech, reading the script that makes the audience displeasing. However, these problem can be fix by severe memorization and practice. Similar to fluency, I have to practice on focus on the audience not on individual paper. When these problems are fixed, professional speeches can be made with good influence on the audience and increase self-confidence on the stage. 

The changes in Technologies

          People are animals where they wanted to become more "efficient" through the process, desiring for greater advance and connivance. In the past, cell phones were recognized as "public usage," however, the time and technology make "shifts" in phones, changing phones into mobile usages that everybody can put their phones in their pocket. The changes in technologies not always become successful, many technologies were forbidden (lost technology) and forgotten. The changes in technologies in the phone do not simply change cellphones into a smartphone but also changed the human's life and society. To this extent, (thesis) the shift in technology in "phones" was able to change sophisticatedly in human history, by becoming more progressive through communication and engagement on the Internet all around the world.


          In my Essay, I will discuss how the changes in cell phones to Smartphone extremely impact the society of human. From this point, I will mention things how communication transfer much faster than before, using the example of "the internet" and "Game industry." Media is a source where people can receive information in the society, and people were able to engage these media through the internet (through internet news, articles, etc.), which smartphones were able to expand the possibility to touch the internet frequently. This concludes the points that people are becoming more communicative and familiar with the situation of the society, making people into "digital citizen." Plus, it also opened the mind of people that games can be synchronized with phones that changed the ideological view of "phones" where it usually focused on texting and calling. However, I will mention the counter-arguments that the reliability of smartphone is becoming too big which changed the people's life negatively, using the fact that with-out smartphones people feel uncomfortable in business, school, and with relationships with others due to fewer devices and communication. This will be explained by comparing the cell phone (old) and smartphone (new), showing the shift in people's daily life and how it negatively followed (relying too much on technology).

          In the end, I am going to round up that shift of technology (phones) is indeed a positive movement, changing people ideology of understanding technology in phones. Shift makes the new society, and new norms that smartphone and the human became one, but also reminds the positive changes can make different adjustments referred as negative.


Sources

http://www.researchgate.net/publication/236669025_Impact_of_Smartphone's_on_Society

http://www.trffcmedia.com/topics/impact-of-smartphones-on-the-society/

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/05/150513212016.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_overuse

Shift in Paradigm Technological? Ideological?

          A paradigm shift can be happened in many ways. The paradigm shift can be happened Ideally, technology or the way people behave. The major reason shift happens because people think it is more logical and suitable in the society than before. People are rational animals, even through they do not always produce rationally they think and hope the most effective way to in act. 

           One of the examples can be the Suit. The history of suits are huge and grand, but we can think this simply. Let me give you a question. Why do people wear suits in business or other important time? In the history, people do not wear suits for every business moment. Each country had their style through their culture background. However, the paradigm shift occurs when people started to change their idea through revolution or enlightenment. The industrial revolution happened in an early 18th century, the changes of politics and the way how commoner behave change minds of the people. The artistic and sartorial revolution during the 19th century sharply changed the mind of simpler clothing is better than formal jeweled clothing. These type of shift can be called as “ideology shift” that people started to believe that clean and simple clothes looked more mature and elegant. 

           Another example can be Iphone. Before the iPhone came out in 2007, many people were listening to Mp3 for their music. Iriver were one of the major potential company who control the mp3, but as Steve Job introduced the iPhone, Mp3 were no longer used. People changed their taste and trend because it is more “comfortable”. Human relies on tools since the beginning of the civilization, and more convenient tool equals more effective tools. iPhone was able to function as internet, music, and other features that surpass the functionality of old Mp3 players. These type of situation is called, "technological shift". The paradigm of using certain technology was shifted to other due to the better creativity and innovation compared to the old technology. We also can see this aspect on the technological shift in weapons from bow to the gun because it is more convenient and effective to kill others. 

Am I in “Civic” engagement?

During the class, we first learn about what is  “civic” and the several examples to become civic. We were able to be civic in many different things.  We become civically engaged through everyday life.     Personally, I did not notice that individual life includes in “civic” engagement but through deep consideration, I was able to understand that the actions we take were part of the society.  Simply think about your everyday life. For example, in many communities or cities have recycling bins that provide us to separate recyclables and get them recycled by putting them out at curbside when the city picks up RCL. Or remember the time when in your elementary school about the pledge of allegiance, the act by ritual repetition than by actual words. We repeat the acts from certain special celebration and take a nice break. You do not need to be engaged in “special” or activates, but ordinary life in yourself can explain you are one of the “civic” member.                                                                                                                    If you like to Facebook that can be part of civic engagement, watching news, reading newspaper or be part of the organization can be civic engagement. Beyond the morality and ethnicity, all human beings can be part of civic duty. People tend to think civic engagement as “large” movement such as political engagement or economical decision for a country. However, civic engagement can be “small” but also affect the society. How do we decide the president? We use voting to select the president from our hands. Every single person might see as a small civic engagement but our ordinary life can shape the country’s culture and society.  We live in the large organization called “Country” and we are accustomed to live in the society, influencing us to civic life. 

RCL: Whats are some ideas for Passion Blog?

     My first idea will be about the entertainments in Comics,  Games and Animations from many different cultures. Many countries were able to make entertainments into innovated and creative products to show others.  I am very deeply interested in the world of animation and the history, which I am very passion about. For example, United States of America was able to make the first significant animation movie from Disney, using Mickey Mouse during the 1940s and gave significant impact to the global world that animation industries can have a bright future.  I am also interested in Games such as  Japanese Games that permeate into everyday people's life such as Mario, PlayStation, and others that we all familiar in. Based on my experience from many different cultures’ CGA (Comics, Games, Animation) like USA, Japan, Korea and etc, I am very excited to make deep analyses on many different topics from CGA and write their significances on the time period, ideas and their meaning. Plus, the blog will analyze how these CGA  can give cultural influences, be one of the significant histories of the country and also give a sense of identity to describe the country.

      My second idea will be about international relations and global issues. Human History made several horrible events that caused tragedy, losing many people’s lives. However human also made appeasement and agreements to bring peace for bright future. I love history and global politics that I am also major in international relations(political science). To this reason, I am very passionate about how certain civilizations created causes and effects that led to devastating events or brought diplomatic agreements that alleviate hatred or avoid downfall for many different countries. The blog will significantly analyze the causes and effects of certain events from the past and present. Furthermore, it will explain detail information about the critical reasons why these certain events  occurred (whether is inevitable or not) and how these events impacted on the human society.