3MP Competition
I loved to listen a bit to the work
of my fellow students, one spoke on a poem about feminism, he posed an
interesting question at the end of his speech, “are the advancements of the
feminist movement an actual achievement or is it the allowance of a patriarchal
society?” (I came in towards the end of his speech, but what I heard was good)
Another
student spoke about a book of the Vietnam War, she summarized that the book was
very negative about war in general listing all the negative things that come
from such an event. Though the general idea of the book was negative she argued
that men could learn to friendship one another during war and to learn to love
more if allowed to keep a positive outlook despite the horrors of war. She
argued that war can have positive things come from it despite the bad things.
One girl
spoke on the Hunger Games trilogy and more specifically on the genre of
dystopia. She argued that though it seems to have more mature content than most
adults want their kids to read, it can have a good impact on teenagers. The
idea that adults are content with what is and do not want to change things, but
teenagers can show the world themselves what is wrong and help correct it. This
genre helps open the doors for teenagers to want to do better and to “change
the world”.
I didn’t get
to listen to all of the speeches in the competition, but I wish I had been able
to because to listen to the arguments of my fellow students was a breath of
fresh air. I gained some new insights to how I can change my own rhetoric and
also gained more insights to different things of the world of writing.
