A great speech

Hi readers! Due to my CA1 exams and homework, I haven't been able to update my blog that often so I apologize about that. But today I am writing this blog post for another one of my English assignments about.....a good speech! If you were to ask me what my definition of a good speech is, I would tell you that a good speech is a speech that can inspire people and evoke the audiences' feelings to make them think in great detail about what the speaker just said. But to me, a good speaker is more important than a good speech as a good speaker would be able to capture the audiences' attention and convey the message to the audience more clearly. However, a good speech is also important in its own way as a good speech can help to influence and inspire the audiences. To me, an example of a good speech is the video found above as the speaker, Randy Pausch, delivered his speech in such a way that he inspired the graduates of Carnegie Mellon University and many other people, including me.

After hearing Randy Pausch's speech, I will always remember what he said: "We do not beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, but instead we beat the Grim Reaper by living our life well." In the speech, Randy talks living our life well by doing things that we've always wanted to do. He also said that on their deathbed, people often do not regret what they've done, but instead they regret what they have not done. This speech is good as it catches the audiences' attention and makes them think in great detail about their lives. This kind of speech is persuasive and encouraging as in the speech, Randy Pausch emphasizes about two things: passion and living life well. He also encourages all the graduates of Carnegie Mellon University to never give up and keep finding their passion and true love as from his experiece, passion cannot be found in things and especially in money. I also think that this speech is good as it inspires and influences people and most of all, it is not boring like most other speeches.

Finally, I would like to learn more from Randy Pausch and become an inspiring speaker like him in the future. So that's all for this blog post. Bye bye!