Title: A Visitor or a Host
Where do you live? Where are you living? Where will you be after tomorrow? (Showing up with projector 1-2) This is the place all of us living in. No matter who are you; rich or poor, intelligent or dumb, white or black, African or Asian, Norwegian or Indonesian, even speak English or not. We are living together in this big house.
Our living place, Earth, is it beautiful? Do you like to live here? What role would you like to play, a visitor or a host? A visitor means that you just come to enjoy, to pleasure, to consume and then go away.
A host also means that to enjoy, to pleasure, but plays more as a provider, cater, giver and investor. The visitor just concern and take pleasure in what he wants right now, no more about the next time or tomorrow, but the host shall take care of his big house and think about the day after tomorrow.
In this 5 hundred million olds planet something is going to change. Do you know what is it the most severe circumstance? I know most of you already have the idea, global warming. Yes it is. Some of Toastmasters fellows had shown up similar topics on their speech in our club before. I’m sure most of you have the basic knowledge connected with this topic. But I would like to remind you again what severe situation we are facing now and offer more evidence and go into a little more detail about it.
---What we did yesterday and doing right now continuously hurt it— All we know that the earth is protected by the atmospheric surface.
Earth's atmosphere is a layer of gases surrounding the planet and retained by the Earth's gravity. (Showing up with projector 3-4)
There are 4 layers to protect the earth. Ozone layer (the most famous one and almost every one knows it)--It is vitally important to life because it absorbs the harmful ultraviolet (UV) from the Sun. Ozone layer is going thin and disappear---main cause of Global warming.
It has been claimed that the Earth's climate warming is due to the changes in the relative concentration of gases in the atmosphere. The gases involved are: (Showing up with projector 5)
Global Warming is caused by many things. The causes are split up into two groups, man-made or natural causes.
Natural Causes-- One natural cause is a release of methane gas from arctic tundra and wetlands and animal metabolism.
Man-made Causes-- Man-made causes probably do the most damage. Pollution is one of the biggest man-made problems.
Reasons –Pollution (Pollution is the introduction of pollutants (chemical substances, noise, heat, light, energy, etc.) into the environment which resulted in deleterious effects of such a nature as to endanger human health, harm living resources and ecosystems.)--- increased carbon dioxide (CO 2)
(Showing up with projector 6-11)
Temperatures going up cause the effects of Global Warming---
(Showing up with projector-12-14)
Global Warming – Cause the Green house effect-- Cause the Climate change -- Cause the agricultural problems-- Cause the economics problems -- Cause the political problems –Then what ???
The most severe circumstance is effecting on ecosystems and human health.
So far right now, if you followed my ideas you may waiting my suggestion or advice for what should we do or what we shouldn’t. No, I’m not going to offer or suggesting any bearings on them. I’m just demonstrating the severe situation we are facing now. And evoke you to think about what role we are playing in and that would be the tomorrow, a visitor or a host?
Thursday, October 4, 2007
2007/09/4 Wade's A3 speech
Title: Money is not money, but MONEY.
A3: The persuasive approach
Welcome.
Sir, I would like buy 2 set of toast, here is 40NT dollars.
Sorry, sir. 40NT dollars is not enough for 2 set of toast, but for one.
Are you crazy? I just bought 2 with 40 last month, is your toast more delicious than before?
Our toast is as delicious as before, your money is not as worthy as before.
Dear members, good evening. I believe most of us should figure out that we are in the high-cost society. No matter the gasoline, bread, milk, Mcdonald, even tissue, they are getting expansive on the back. Everything is on the rise, but just only one thing is still. Do you know what? Yes, it is our salary.
Why is our money getting smaller? Why we always working overtime and rock our brain, day and night, everyday; and it is still not enough to get a raise from our boss. Why my money ….. Dear members, if you Scream behind your mind, scream it out. I totally understand; I can’t agree it more. We are on the same boat.
The question is how to make money bigger? We often think about how to make additional money or how to save money. Purchase something on sale; keeping account for financial management. Or…. I think most of you have good idea on that. However, maybe we can think something with alternative point of view. The question is how to make money greater even we can’t earn more.
30NT dollars only afford one set of toast today; it is also able to buy 20 Bangal children a cup of milk. Or you can buy a bread with 30dollars from mind disabled to help them more hired chance. 60NT dollars only afford 2 sets of toasts or it is also …
Dear members, we are in the high-cost society, our Money is smaller, but at the same time, if we can, our money is greater.
A3: The persuasive approach
Welcome.
Sir, I would like buy 2 set of toast, here is 40NT dollars.
Sorry, sir. 40NT dollars is not enough for 2 set of toast, but for one.
Are you crazy? I just bought 2 with 40 last month, is your toast more delicious than before?
Our toast is as delicious as before, your money is not as worthy as before.
Dear members, good evening. I believe most of us should figure out that we are in the high-cost society. No matter the gasoline, bread, milk, Mcdonald, even tissue, they are getting expansive on the back. Everything is on the rise, but just only one thing is still. Do you know what? Yes, it is our salary.
Why is our money getting smaller? Why we always working overtime and rock our brain, day and night, everyday; and it is still not enough to get a raise from our boss. Why my money ….. Dear members, if you Scream behind your mind, scream it out. I totally understand; I can’t agree it more. We are on the same boat.
The question is how to make money bigger? We often think about how to make additional money or how to save money. Purchase something on sale; keeping account for financial management. Or…. I think most of you have good idea on that. However, maybe we can think something with alternative point of view. The question is how to make money greater even we can’t earn more.
30NT dollars only afford one set of toast today; it is also able to buy 20 Bangal children a cup of milk. Or you can buy a bread with 30dollars from mind disabled to help them more hired chance. 60NT dollars only afford 2 sets of toasts or it is also …
Dear members, we are in the high-cost society, our Money is smaller, but at the same time, if we can, our money is greater.
2007/08/21 Emily's C5 speech
How to be a good teacher?
Two years ago, I became an assistant professor at Kaosuing Medical University. At that time, I was ready to be a researcher because I was trained a lot to do researches. However, I didn’t learn how to be a good teacher for university student. Since then, I kept asking myself: How to be a good teacher. By reading some books, discussing with other experienced teachers, observing from my own classes, and thinking all the time, I find out some ideas. Here, I would like to share with you to share some important ideas.
Firstly, I think the most important thing is to help students develop an interest in the field you teach. You have to love what you do. We all have that kind of experience. If you are interested in something, you can spend a lot of time searching the related information, reading it and learning it. Most important of all, you do it happily. So, I just try to give students the basic knowledge, and tell them how interest this subject is. That’s my first goal.
Secondly, make a free atmosphere for student to ask questions. Encourage them to ask questions, or even force them to ask questions, because every great discovery comes from a good question. For example, do you know who invent airplane? Most of us know Wright brothers did it. But how did they do it? At the very beginning, they just asked a very simple question: Can we human being fly like a bird? Yes, just a simple question. So, the second goal of my teaching is encouraging them to ask questions.
Thirdly, teach them both the ability and the knowledge. Most teachers teach the students “ knowledge”. However, things change very fast in this Age. I told my student all the time “You can’t learn everything from school.” But, you can not tell your boss I didn’t learn it from school, so don’t ask me to do it. So, you need to learn the ability to solve the problem when you face a new challenge. Therefore, I try to teach them how to find the related information, what’s the resources you can find, how to read it and understand it, and finally, how to digest all the information and find out a solution. Maybe I still can’t design the course perfectly. But I do want to teach students the ability. And that’s the third goal of my teaching that I want to share with you.I know I am not a very experienced teacher, but I do hope my student can learn something from me. Today, I am so glad to have this chance to share with you three important goals of my teaching: Help students develop an interest in the field I teach, Make a free atmosphere for them to ask questions, and teach them both the ability and knowledge. Hopefully, those are correct concepts. If you have any suggestions, I will be very happy to have them.
Two years ago, I became an assistant professor at Kaosuing Medical University. At that time, I was ready to be a researcher because I was trained a lot to do researches. However, I didn’t learn how to be a good teacher for university student. Since then, I kept asking myself: How to be a good teacher. By reading some books, discussing with other experienced teachers, observing from my own classes, and thinking all the time, I find out some ideas. Here, I would like to share with you to share some important ideas.
Firstly, I think the most important thing is to help students develop an interest in the field you teach. You have to love what you do. We all have that kind of experience. If you are interested in something, you can spend a lot of time searching the related information, reading it and learning it. Most important of all, you do it happily. So, I just try to give students the basic knowledge, and tell them how interest this subject is. That’s my first goal.
Secondly, make a free atmosphere for student to ask questions. Encourage them to ask questions, or even force them to ask questions, because every great discovery comes from a good question. For example, do you know who invent airplane? Most of us know Wright brothers did it. But how did they do it? At the very beginning, they just asked a very simple question: Can we human being fly like a bird? Yes, just a simple question. So, the second goal of my teaching is encouraging them to ask questions.
Thirdly, teach them both the ability and the knowledge. Most teachers teach the students “ knowledge”. However, things change very fast in this Age. I told my student all the time “You can’t learn everything from school.” But, you can not tell your boss I didn’t learn it from school, so don’t ask me to do it. So, you need to learn the ability to solve the problem when you face a new challenge. Therefore, I try to teach them how to find the related information, what’s the resources you can find, how to read it and understand it, and finally, how to digest all the information and find out a solution. Maybe I still can’t design the course perfectly. But I do want to teach students the ability. And that’s the third goal of my teaching that I want to share with you.I know I am not a very experienced teacher, but I do hope my student can learn something from me. Today, I am so glad to have this chance to share with you three important goals of my teaching: Help students develop an interest in the field I teach, Make a free atmosphere for them to ask questions, and teach them both the ability and knowledge. Hopefully, those are correct concepts. If you have any suggestions, I will be very happy to have them.
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
2007/07/17 Amanda's A6 speech
A6 speech（The Speech to Inform）
Title: UV, stop!
*Objective:
1. Select new and useful information for presentation to the audience.
2. Organize the information for easy understandability and retention.
3. Present the information in a way that will help motivate the audience to learn.
Props:
(OPEN)a video of domino
When you walk under sunlight without any protection, the UV from sunlight will destroy our skin cells by a chain reaction as the domino show. Day after day, your skin color will become dark, you will have more wrinkles and even more seriously, you may have skin cancer.
(Body)
Does it mean we should stay in the house all the day time? Absolutely not! Part of UV light will trigger some nutrition synthesis in skin, such as Vitamin D. And even if you stay in the house, you still expose to about 50% of UV light.
So what we should do is to put the stopper in the chain reaction! First of all, let's know more about UV light. We can divide UV into three categories, UVA, UVB and UVC. UVC will be absorbed by the ozone layer. And UVA has the weakest energy but will stimulate the production of melanin and tan our skin. The elastin and collagen will lose from your skin after exposing to UVA for a long time. So that you'll have wrinkles and your skin will lose its elasticity. Therefore, UVB will let you get sunburn, stimulate more melanin to produce and dry your skin. So no matter you're male or female, skin protection work is quite important to both of you!
So the targets of sun protection are UVA and UVB. And I will share two strategies with you.
Firstly, choose the right color to wear. According to the research, black clothes will screen out 91% of UV light while white clothes made of the same material will not intercept any UV light. So if you need to walk or drive under sunlight it's better to wear dark color of clothes.
Secondly, apply effective sunscreen. How can you tell effective sunscreen?
1. Read the sun protection label on the production.
SPF means sun protection factor. It's an index of its ability to absorb UVB.
And you can estimate the effective time of the sunscreen by this formula:
The time your skin getting inflamed without any protection × SPF factor
Some people will use fifteen minutes multiply SPF factor as a rough estimation.
PA means Protection Grade of UVA and can represent its ability against UVA.
PA+ means slightly UVA interceptive.
PA++ means medium UVA interceptive.
PA+++ means highly UVA interceptive.
So it'll be better to select PA+++ sunscreen if you need to do outdoor activities.
2. Find the effective composition.
It's the most important point for selecting sun block. There are two major types of the effective compositions.
(1) UV scatter: They will reflect UV, such as TiO2 and ZnO.
(2) UV absorbent: They will absorb UV, such as Cinnamates, Salicylates and Benzophenones.
Please check the ingredient of your sunscreen to make sure the effective compositions are included. Or it won't protect you from UV light even if it's very expensive.
(CONCLUSION)
Come closer! Come closer! You can come much closer! Would you like to look as young as me? You don't need to buy the expensive SKII. Just protect your skin by the right way! UV, stop!
Title: UV, stop!
*Objective:
1. Select new and useful information for presentation to the audience.
2. Organize the information for easy understandability and retention.
3. Present the information in a way that will help motivate the audience to learn.
Props:
(OPEN)a video of domino
When you walk under sunlight without any protection, the UV from sunlight will destroy our skin cells by a chain reaction as the domino show. Day after day, your skin color will become dark, you will have more wrinkles and even more seriously, you may have skin cancer.
(Body)
Does it mean we should stay in the house all the day time? Absolutely not! Part of UV light will trigger some nutrition synthesis in skin, such as Vitamin D. And even if you stay in the house, you still expose to about 50% of UV light.
So what we should do is to put the stopper in the chain reaction! First of all, let's know more about UV light. We can divide UV into three categories, UVA, UVB and UVC. UVC will be absorbed by the ozone layer. And UVA has the weakest energy but will stimulate the production of melanin and tan our skin. The elastin and collagen will lose from your skin after exposing to UVA for a long time. So that you'll have wrinkles and your skin will lose its elasticity. Therefore, UVB will let you get sunburn, stimulate more melanin to produce and dry your skin. So no matter you're male or female, skin protection work is quite important to both of you!
So the targets of sun protection are UVA and UVB. And I will share two strategies with you.
Firstly, choose the right color to wear. According to the research, black clothes will screen out 91% of UV light while white clothes made of the same material will not intercept any UV light. So if you need to walk or drive under sunlight it's better to wear dark color of clothes.
Secondly, apply effective sunscreen. How can you tell effective sunscreen?
1. Read the sun protection label on the production.
SPF means sun protection factor. It's an index of its ability to absorb UVB.
And you can estimate the effective time of the sunscreen by this formula:
The time your skin getting inflamed without any protection × SPF factor
Some people will use fifteen minutes multiply SPF factor as a rough estimation.
PA means Protection Grade of UVA and can represent its ability against UVA.
PA+ means slightly UVA interceptive.
PA++ means medium UVA interceptive.
PA+++ means highly UVA interceptive.
So it'll be better to select PA+++ sunscreen if you need to do outdoor activities.
2. Find the effective composition.
It's the most important point for selecting sun block. There are two major types of the effective compositions.
(1) UV scatter: They will reflect UV, such as TiO2 and ZnO.
(2) UV absorbent: They will absorb UV, such as Cinnamates, Salicylates and Benzophenones.
Please check the ingredient of your sunscreen to make sure the effective compositions are included. Or it won't protect you from UV light even if it's very expensive.
(CONCLUSION)
Come closer! Come closer! You can come much closer! Would you like to look as young as me? You don't need to buy the expensive SKII. Just protect your skin by the right way! UV, stop!
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
2007/07/03 Darlene's C9 speech
C9 speech (Persuade with power , 5 to 7 minutes)
Title: I believe I can
“ I believe I can fly, I believe I can touch the sky…..” every time when I hear the song, I always feel that belief can make anything possible. Human is the most intelligent and creative animal, so they will create something to help their dreams come true. For example, they want to fly in the sky, they create airplane, for visiting other planet, they create space shuttle. We make everything impossible to possible, do you ever think about why we can make it? I thought about it. Because we have dreams, and we have belief, in order to make our dreams materialized, so we set our goals, and force ourselves to achieve it. And I believe the most pathetic is the one who doesn’t have dream, he even doesn’t have any goal in his life, it’s really waste of time, and even will hurt other people.
Why do I say that? I remember a story, three men lost in the desert, one day when they are walking, they find a magic lamp, so they rub the magic lamp and there comes a genie. He says “ Oh~ thanks for set me free, then each of you can make a wish, then I will make your wish come true.” A says I wish I can have a lot of money and send the money and I back to my country. Then he is gone. B think a while and says I wish I can have many beautiful women and send the women and I back to my country. Then he is also disappeared. Then C talk to genie that I don’t have any wish, just give me some wine, so the genie give him and ask “ Are you sure you don’t want any wish?” then he says drink alone is lonely, I wish my those two friends are here. Then all of them still back to the desert. See~ does he hurt other people? Don’t laugh, the story has part two. The other day when they are finding the way out, they find the magic lamp again, and they still rub the lamp, and still comes out a genie. The genie still give each of them a wish. Due to last experience, so A and B let C to make a wish first, C still talk to genie that he doesn’t have any wish, just give him some wine, and the genie give him and ask “ Are you really sure you don’t have any wish?” then he replies that I really don’t have any wish, so you can go now. Then the genie is disappeared.
Most of us always think what we have, then we will do something, and become the person you want to be. But actually, it’s totally inverse. You should set a goal about what kind of people you want to be then you do something, then you will have what you want. For example, like join toastmaster, you can’t think
I don’t have English abilities, so I can’t join it. You should think I would like to be one of the great speakers, so I want to join toastmaster, then I will have my English abilities, right? We also read some news that junkman donate money to tsi-chi or orphanage, although they don’t have lots of money, but they still do the charity. Why? Because they want to be the one to help others. Having dreams is important, and believe in yourself is important, too. To motivate your potential, to create your own value, that’s the most important. So what’s your dream? What’s your belief? Just do it now~
Title: I believe I can
“ I believe I can fly, I believe I can touch the sky…..” every time when I hear the song, I always feel that belief can make anything possible. Human is the most intelligent and creative animal, so they will create something to help their dreams come true. For example, they want to fly in the sky, they create airplane, for visiting other planet, they create space shuttle. We make everything impossible to possible, do you ever think about why we can make it? I thought about it. Because we have dreams, and we have belief, in order to make our dreams materialized, so we set our goals, and force ourselves to achieve it. And I believe the most pathetic is the one who doesn’t have dream, he even doesn’t have any goal in his life, it’s really waste of time, and even will hurt other people.
Why do I say that? I remember a story, three men lost in the desert, one day when they are walking, they find a magic lamp, so they rub the magic lamp and there comes a genie. He says “ Oh~ thanks for set me free, then each of you can make a wish, then I will make your wish come true.” A says I wish I can have a lot of money and send the money and I back to my country. Then he is gone. B think a while and says I wish I can have many beautiful women and send the women and I back to my country. Then he is also disappeared. Then C talk to genie that I don’t have any wish, just give me some wine, so the genie give him and ask “ Are you sure you don’t want any wish?” then he says drink alone is lonely, I wish my those two friends are here. Then all of them still back to the desert. See~ does he hurt other people? Don’t laugh, the story has part two. The other day when they are finding the way out, they find the magic lamp again, and they still rub the lamp, and still comes out a genie. The genie still give each of them a wish. Due to last experience, so A and B let C to make a wish first, C still talk to genie that he doesn’t have any wish, just give him some wine, and the genie give him and ask “ Are you really sure you don’t have any wish?” then he replies that I really don’t have any wish, so you can go now. Then the genie is disappeared.
Most of us always think what we have, then we will do something, and become the person you want to be. But actually, it’s totally inverse. You should set a goal about what kind of people you want to be then you do something, then you will have what you want. For example, like join toastmaster, you can’t think
I don’t have English abilities, so I can’t join it. You should think I would like to be one of the great speakers, so I want to join toastmaster, then I will have my English abilities, right? We also read some news that junkman donate money to tsi-chi or orphanage, although they don’t have lots of money, but they still do the charity. Why? Because they want to be the one to help others. Having dreams is important, and believe in yourself is important, too. To motivate your potential, to create your own value, that’s the most important. So what’s your dream? What’s your belief? Just do it now~
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