Alison Lafaive Speech Analysis
Speaker: Alisen Lafaive, Gender Studies major at Clarkson University
Date of Speech: October 26th, 2013
Location: Clarkson University
Occasion: Gender Conference
Subject: Women advancing in the Physician Assistant Program
Alisen Lafaive started by informing everyone of how many educational and career opportunities the Physician Assistant (PA) program provides and that over half of the PA students are female.
For women, rise in education and the workplace was a struggle.
The first struggle was for equal education opportunities in primary school.
Still being denied the ability to attend college, women then fought for their rights for higher education.
Once in the working world women expanded into every field.
Although once restricted to men, medicine presented many new opportunities for women.
Women’s advance in the medical profession was a struggle of its own.
Women have been midwives forever, which has been …show more content…
It was very obvious that she was experienced in the art of public speaking and seemed very confident throughout her delivery. Her posture we very professional yet, remained relaxed making it seem very natural. Ms.Lafaive did not move around the stage at all but was often gesturing toward her charts and graphs, sort of letting the audience know what was relevant to what she was currently saying. There where a few times throughout the speech that I could not hear the speaker well, but it was more due to the loudness of the audience than the loudness of the speakers voice. Overall though, her tone, pitch and voice variety was engaging. Ms. Lafaive was dressed very appropriately; wearing neutral, almost plain colors, she looked very professional. Her eye contact was slightly sporadic and she looked at her graphs
Date of Speech: October 26th, 2013
Location: Clarkson University
Occasion: Gender Conference
Subject: Women advancing in the Physician Assistant Program
Alisen Lafaive started by informing everyone of how many educational and career opportunities the Physician Assistant (PA) program provides and that over half of the PA students are female.
For women, rise in education and the workplace was a struggle.
The first struggle was for equal education opportunities in primary school.
Still being denied the ability to attend college, women then fought for their rights for higher education.
Once in the working world women expanded into every field.
Although once restricted to men, medicine presented many new opportunities for women.
Women’s advance in the medical profession was a struggle of its own.
Women have been midwives forever, which has been …show more content…
It was very obvious that she was experienced in the art of public speaking and seemed very confident throughout her delivery. Her posture we very professional yet, remained relaxed making it seem very natural. Ms.Lafaive did not move around the stage at all but was often gesturing toward her charts and graphs, sort of letting the audience know what was relevant to what she was currently saying. There where a few times throughout the speech that I could not hear the speaker well, but it was more due to the loudness of the audience than the loudness of the speakers voice. Overall though, her tone, pitch and voice variety was engaging. Ms. Lafaive was dressed very appropriately; wearing neutral, almost plain colors, she looked very professional. Her eye contact was slightly sporadic and she looked at her graphs