Thursday, February 4, 2010
Debate
Just let it be known that I officially hate debates! I'm in the process of trying to write my first ever actual debate; it's not going well. It's on the right to know with my position being that there should be a right to know. My classmate Renee, who is taking the opposite side, will give her side of the debate and then I have to talk for 8-10 minutes on my side with numerous great examples of why there is a right to know. After that Renee gives a 3-5 minute rebuttal about what I said and then I give a rebuttal on what she said. Then we're done. Let's just say that I cannot wait until 11 a.m. tomorrow when it will be over. Then I have until March 24 before I have my second and final debate in Mass Comm. & Society. I absolutely and definitely can't wait until that date passes and I am forever free of having to write/make official debates.
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"Where did you come by all this goodly speech?"
ReplyDelete"It is extemporae, from my mother-wit."
- Taming of the Shrew (and I'm not gonna take the time to cite it properly)
WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS THIS:
I never prepared for debates in high school. At least, not really. I did, kinda, but not really.
I just . . . relied on the skill God gave me (one of the three that I have discovered: writing, singing, and being really mean in really creative ways without preparing ahead of time).
Well, neither did I, but still, this is college, and some people like to have ideas beforehand.
ReplyDeleteJust write what you believe (or what the other side believes), Ali. It'll work, and then you can read Shakespeare and have a goodly laugh. Don't psych yourself out. You have "mother-wit."
Ugh. Sounds awful.
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