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.