Contoh Pidato - Christina Sauer loves acting and performing, but when she heard about the American Legion Kentucky State Oratorical Contest, she wasn't interested. “I enjoy being up in front of people” when playing a role because she's someone else.
Naskah Pidato “I'm not used to being up in front of an audience being me,” said the 18-year-old Presentation Academy senior.
But Christina changed her mind and decided to enter the contest, both last year and this year, and “fell in love” with public speaking.
She won the state contest in February for the second consecutive year. She will advance to the national competition to be held in Indianapolis April 9-11.
Christina lives in Corydon, Ind., with her parents, Joseph and Cynthia Sauer, and her younger sisters Sarah and Rebecca.
When Christina was a junior, her U.S. history teacher, Deborah Hall, told her about the contest. “I looked at the Web site and saw you had to speak eight to 10 minutes about the Constitution with no notes,” she remembered, and quickly decided not to enter.
But over Christmas break, she began reading “Founding Sisters of the 19th Amendment,” a required book for her history class. “I spent three days reading that book; it was fantastic,” Christina said.
She liked the book because it turned facts into story. Also, she was inspired by Susan B. Anthony, herself an orator, and decided to give the speech contest a try.
Christina said she went through 10 drafts of her speech. Each time it sounded like a “boring history lecture.” So she returned to her original thoughts on the subject, the memory of enjoying Disney's “Mary Poppins.” She remembered the mother in the story “marching around wearing a banner” and singing about the suffragette cause.
“The wonderful world Disney created was far from reality,” she said. “What the suffragettes did was an incredible feat.” She said she admires those women for “taking responsibility for democracy, responding to a need and a call for action.”
Christina said she was surprised to learn of “the cruelty — what those women endured to get their basic rights.”
Naskah Pidato “I'm not used to being up in front of an audience being me,” said the 18-year-old Presentation Academy senior.
But Christina changed her mind and decided to enter the contest, both last year and this year, and “fell in love” with public speaking.
She won the state contest in February for the second consecutive year. She will advance to the national competition to be held in Indianapolis April 9-11.
Christina lives in Corydon, Ind., with her parents, Joseph and Cynthia Sauer, and her younger sisters Sarah and Rebecca.
When Christina was a junior, her U.S. history teacher, Deborah Hall, told her about the contest. “I looked at the Web site and saw you had to speak eight to 10 minutes about the Constitution with no notes,” she remembered, and quickly decided not to enter.
But over Christmas break, she began reading “Founding Sisters of the 19th Amendment,” a required book for her history class. “I spent three days reading that book; it was fantastic,” Christina said.
She liked the book because it turned facts into story. Also, she was inspired by Susan B. Anthony, herself an orator, and decided to give the speech contest a try.
Christina said she went through 10 drafts of her speech. Each time it sounded like a “boring history lecture.” So she returned to her original thoughts on the subject, the memory of enjoying Disney's “Mary Poppins.” She remembered the mother in the story “marching around wearing a banner” and singing about the suffragette cause.
“The wonderful world Disney created was far from reality,” she said. “What the suffragettes did was an incredible feat.” She said she admires those women for “taking responsibility for democracy, responding to a need and a call for action.”
Christina said she was surprised to learn of “the cruelty — what those women endured to get their basic rights.”
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