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March 23, 2021 - Public Speaking Period 9 By Amber Li and Vicky Chen Chapter 8 and 9 Presentations Chapter Eight The presentation on Chapter 8 focused on the different techniques for supporting one’s idea to present a stronger argument. Amber talked about the importance of having examples and showed that having more details will make an argument more effective by presenting two statements, one with a vague sentence and another with examples. She also differentiated between a brief, extended, and hypothetical example. Examples, through statistics, testimonies, or personal experiences, can be used to reinforce ideas. Using vivid examples and practicing delivery by making eye contact will help engage the audience. Next, Ilya focused on statistics and emphasized to make sure the source is relevant, unbiased, and reliable, because sources can be easily distorted. Having a large sample size in experiments makes a source more reliable. He recommended that statistics should not b...

Monday, March 15th, 2021 - Public Speaking Period 9 By Ilya Avros and Zhixing Chen Healthy Lifestyle Tech Talks Kelly Lin                Kelly's presentation focuses on sustainable diets, encouraging the audience to work towards a more sustainable diet to benefit their own health and the environment. To do this, she suggests we cut down our red meat intake since red meat can be damaging to our body and the environment alike. In a 12-year study by the American Heart Association in 2014, older men who ate more than 75g per day of processed red meat had a 28% higher risk of heart failure compared to men who ate less than 25g. Furthermore, those who ate the most processed red meat had more than a 2-fold increase in heart failure. Additionally, she discusses the parts of a healthy eating plate through an infographic to help the audience better understand the main concept of cutting down meat intake. Meat lovers cant really adapt to a small portion...

 Friday March 5th, 2021 Period 9 Public Speaking By Gabriel Fanshteyn and Joe Tesoriero   Ilya Avros - His presentation was on the importance of taking breaks. He starts off his presentation by connecting his topic towards how we as seniors were under a lot of stress this past year due to our college selection process. Ilya mentions the commonly recognized idea that working countless hours will make most people as productive as possible. He says that as we are forcing ourselves to take on a lot of work, we are being less productive. We are making us ourselves more exhausted by stressing ourselves out. He compares it to nurses and how nurses are also stressed on the daily but they can regulate it while students have trouble regulating that stress. Taking a break to drink a cup of water and to socialize can help relieve stress.   Joe Tesoriero -  His presentation was about the benefits of positive thinking. He starts by having us learn about negative thinking, especial...

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021 - Period 9 Public Speaking By Allan Rikshpun and Philip Dulas  Healthy Lifestyle Presentations Alona Gulko - Meditation can be a positive force in one’s life. Meditation can improve mental, physical, and spiritual health. Throughout her presentation, she related facts and science about meditation to her own personal stories. She spoke about how her experiences with meditation helped her relieve stress, calm her nerves, and ease her mental state. When talking about the science of meditation, Alona showed a brain scan, comparing the amygdalae of two brains. The brain without meditation showed an aggravated amygdala, and the brain with meditation showed a much more calm amygdala. This showed that meditation is scientifically proven to be beneficial for us, since the amygdala is strongly associated with our fight-or-flight response. The science behind meditation was something completely unbeknownst to myself and many other classmates, further making the case ...