Question

Could someone help me out with this "paper" I'm writing? I only need a bit of help on two parts. Its for a public speaking course.

Answer 1

2. CRITICAL LISTENING: In effort to practice our critical listening skills, briefly summarize and analyze the message SENT in "Stroke of Insight."

Do so by (a) identifying the main idea the speaker presents and at least three of her supporting ideas. Next (b) consider what preconceived ideas, biases, prejudices, and or background knowledge you brought to the listening experience with this speech. Consider, for example, your pre-existing feelings/ideas about things like mental health, mental illness, neurology, strokes, female speakers, etc. Next, (c) explain whether or not you believe the speaker's message about her stroke experience by analyzing and discussing her use of facts, opinions, and conclusions drawn. (Is her message mostly factual? Mostly opinion? Are the conclusions she draws logical? What facts and/or opinions does she use to draw her conclusions? Are they believable?) Explain using three examples from her speech.



I need help with part A and part C. -- Are the conclusions she draws logical? What facts and/or opinions does she use to draw her conclusions? Are they believable?) Explain using three examples from her speech.

Answer 2

https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight/transcript?language=en

Answer 3

My stroke of insight is about a brain neurologist who experiences her blood vessel explode inside her head. As the title suggests, after this "stroke" she felt how her brain processed how and how all her functions shut down one by one. The time when she was floating around in her brain was the time, she could truly understand things about her brain, her realty, and so much more. Essentially, although it was stroke it was insight learned from her experience.

Answer 4

The conclusions she draws could be considered logical. Before she begins, she starts off with her large knowledge of the brain,

" This is the front of the brain, the back of brain with the spinal cord hanging down, and this is how it would be positioned inside of my head." at 2:35. By providing the audience with extensive facts of her knowledge on the brain it shows the audience that she has facts and doesn't bass her information on just opinions.

The second piece of proof there is her exact clear memory of the event, proving that she did in fact have the stroke:

" But on the morning of December 10, 1996, I woke up to discover that I had a brain disorder of my own. A blood vessel exploded in the left half of my brain. " At 1:45

The last proof I noticed was, that she had extensive detail of what was happening in her brain as if she was still there and her emotion throughout her speech , "But then I immediately drifted right back out into the consciousness -- and I affectionately refer to this space as La La Land. But it was beautiful there. Imagine what it would be like to be totally disconnected from your brain chatter that connects you to the external world."

Hope that helps!

Answer 5

That does. Thank you!