I'm Nate. I have nothing interesting to say and you don't really want to waste your time reading it anyway.
bob marley speech 2.docx
Above is my second speech, if that doesn't work, just scroll down, i'll put a copy on this page.

SPEECH 1 OUTLINE

I. Introduction
A. I will draw on my chest…
B. The song, “No Woman No Cry,” was a very personal political song sung by the infamous Bob Marley as am attempt to end oppression in Jamaica.
C. I read numerous interpretations of the song, pages about the life of Bob Marley, and a quick speech about him was even given by Will Smith in a movie that I recently saw.
D. According to the New York Times, it was Bob Marley who spread the “Realm of Rastafarian Peace.”
D. The song “No Woman No Cry” reflects the life work of Bob Marley to end oppression and political turmoil in Jamaica. I suppose now I should run you through the standard exigence, audience, and constraints…
Transition: Here’s why that meant so much to him.
II. With a childhood of poverty and as a victim of prejudice he devoted his life to trying to bring peace to his land.
A. His father was a white skinned marine captain and his mother was a young black Jamaican. When his father died, they were left with no money and moved to the Jamaican ghetto of Kingston.
B. The government at the time was run by rich white people and it was failing miserably.
1. As a half black, half white child, he was discriminated against by people of both skin colors.
C. He left school to become a welder’s appreintice at the age of 14. In his spare time he started playing music with some friends. Neville “Bunny” Livingston, Joe Higgs, and Peter McIntosh
1. Joe was a devout Rastafarian and converted Marley to the cause. From there on out Bob Marley started writing music about peace, freedom, and love
D. The song mentions a man sharing porridge with him, and how his feet were his “only carriage”
1. These are real accounts of his teenage years when he wandered without a home.
E. Between 1962 and 1975 he released numerous albums. In 1975 the song “No Woman No Cry” made him an international hit. According to songfacts.com he often cried on stage while playing this song, so it obviously meant a lot to him. In 1978, he got two huge political rivals in Jamaica to join together on stage and shake hands.
Transition: Who was interested in his message?
III. Unfortunately his audience was also one of his biggest constraints.
A. It started with a small Rastafarian following in Jamaica and then spread globally.
1.(In case you didn’t know) Rastafarian fights to end oppression and for blacks to return to their homeland.
B. From England to the United States, Bob Marley spread his message of peace everywhere he could.
1. He actually got arrested in London for trying to transport a small amount of weed with him.
2. I can’t emphasize this enough, he was a great musician, and a great fighter for peace, he just happened to smoke a bit too.
a.(In case you didn’t know) Rastafarian fights to end oppression and for blacks to return to their homeland.
C. He developed a huge almost cult-following of drug abusers and hippies. They had good peaceful ideas in mind, but unfortunately Bob Marley eventually became associated with the smoking of ganga (weed) which made many people not take him as seriously.
D. The song contains the lines “Everything’s gunna be alright” which can be heard in many of his songs.
V. In Conclusion
A. As pointed out by Will Smith in “I am Legend” Bob Marley viewed hatred as if it was a disease and he intended on curing it through his music.
1. By his death, “No Woman No Cry” and many other reggae songs had brought his message into households all over the world.
a.I’m not going to ask, but it’s my bet that everyone in this class has heard of Bob Marley.
B. In my next speech I’ll go into more detail on the song itself.
C. Till then just, remember Bob Marley didn’t end all wars, and he did smoke some pot, but in the end he spread the message of peace into millions of homes and is considered by many in Jamaica to be a national hero.
Works Cited
Milloy, Courtland. "Bob Marley; Bob Marley and the Realm of Rastafarian Peace" New York Times 12 May-June 1981, sec. B: 1. University Park. 09 Feb. 2008. Keyword: Bob Marley.
Jude. "No Woman No Cry." Songfacts. 09 Feb. 2008 <http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1744>.
I Am Legend. Dir. Francis Lawrence. Perf. Will Smith. Warner Bros., 2007.

Comments:
Caitlin Leahy: Nice attention getter and great research...you really knew what you were talking about! Work on your eye contact a little bit and watch the movements you make cause that can be a little distracting. Sometimes you seemed to get a little off topic but the information was very interesting. Great job!

Whitney Trompeter: You had a really funny attention getter, but I might have just done it without referring to it as my attention getteer. It was really nice how you were very conversational and it went along well with your topic, however, you might want to speak a little louder and a little more clearly. I thought you speech was actually interesting. I didn't know a lot of the interesting facts like about the pourage or that he didn't have to die if he just amputated his toe. good speech!

Michael McKenna: I understand that you were nervous and all, because I get very nervous as well, but no one could really tell that you were nervous, you spoke clearly and loud enough that you seemed poised. The eye contact was on and off--what I mean is that you showed really good eye contact for a lot of parts, but then you would look down for a while, but nevertheless you had generally good eye contact. Try working on the fillers such as "like" and "umm." You knew much about the topic which shows you felt passionately about the subject or did a lot of research. Good job!

Jess Mannion: Your speech was conversational and you put a lot of your own personality (and stomach) into it, which was great! Try to work on maintaining more eye contact and slowing down. Some of your points were really interesting, but I'm not sure if people really heard them because you said them kind of hurried. Overall, good job I learned a lot about Bob Marley that I never knew, it was really interesting!

David Oh: I liked your introduction. It was very creative. Your speech was very casual and the flow was great however you were moving around and playing around with your zipper. You knew your information very well. Good Job

Laura O'Neal: Obviously, as everyone's been saying here, your attention getter was great- it was funny and you seemed really relaxed. I think your topic is really interesting, especially because only a few other people have chosen songs, so I'm interested to hear your second speech and how you interpretted it. You seemed really personable and casual. The only "criticism" I have is that this speech had a lot of the content of your topic, and I think that's supposed to be more in the second speech. But, otherwise, you did great and you didn't need to be nervous!

John Galvin: Hey its hard to say anything without repeating what others have said. You did have a unique attention getter, and know a ton about Bob Marley. But, your speech seemed more like a biography of his life than an assessment of the rhetorical situation of NWNC. You seemed confident up there because of your jokes, despite saying how nervous you were. Overall very fun speech to watch though.

Siama Manzoor: Hey Nate, cool name. I enjoyed watching your speech, you were very conversational and your attention getter was very effective. You said um and like a few times and you seemed to have nervous movement. You had great background information on Bob Marley and seem very knowledgeable about him, but I'm not really sure what exactly your artifact was. I really liked your conclusion and I think you picked a very cool topic. Good job :)

Enrique Ortiz: Your attention getter was definitely useful, and was able to fruitfully acquire everyone’s undivided attention. I felt that your speech was not as formal as other speakers, but it seemed to work for your topic, and certainly resonated with the audience. You did a terrific job, and I expect you to do better in the upcoming address. My only suggestion would be to mind the filler words, such as like, and all should be swell for the 2nd speech.

Scot Brown: I understand that some conversationality was necessary, but try to tighten it up a little bit next time. This is still a speech, even if is supposed to sound like a conversation. You mentioned Marley and Ganja, but didn't elaborate on how Marijuana is connected to the Rastafari religion, which is significant. And work on controlling the nervousness.

Speech 2 Outline

1) Play Video Clip
2) Introduction
A) Today I’m going to build off of my first speech and go into the details of Bob Marley’s Song, “No Woman No Cry.”
B) I researched it even more this past week, and got some incredible insight into this song, including some from a book written by his wife.
C) I’m going to try to discuss the enormous amount of content in this song.
D) It contains more than your average song in that it spreads a religion, brings up issues such as poverty and starvation, and ultimately spreads the message of hope.
Transition: Because all of Bob’s ideals reflected in this song flow from his religion, I’ll try to explain that first.
3) Body
A) Religion played a huge role in all of his music.
1) Rastafari!
2) “Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally discredited and abandoned...WAR! So that is prophecy, and everyone know that is truth. And it came out of the mouth of Rastafari.”-Bob Marley
3) Swagga.com, a Rastafarian website, states that Rastafarianism started due to the oppression of blacks in Jamaica.
4) Followers of Rastafari generally want all races to live together in peace.
Transition: According to this religion, if you do right, you will transcend whatever level of life you are on, find a more pure existence, and keep doing so until you reach Zion.
B) Poverty is a key issue in this song.
1) Bob Marley thought that he actually “transcended” out of poverty and into a higher quality life.
2) In the song he states, “I remember when we used to sit, in the government yards in Trenchtown.
a) This was literally a disease and crime infested ghetto in Kingston, Jamaica.
3) When he sings, look at his face as he remembers everything, it’s really quite moving.
Transition: You can tell he gets really emotional about his past, especially the parts that involve the other people in his life.
C) He sings about helping others and receiving help from others.
1) People helping other people, especially the fortunate helping the unfortunate.
2) He claimed not to want money, just to spread love.
a) True to his word, he acted on it by giving a man named Vincent Ford credit for writing “No Woman No Cry.”
1) Bob Marley wrote the song, he just wanted Vincent Ford to get the royalties because Vincent Ford ran the soup shelter that literally kept him alive during his childhood in Trenchtown.
Transition: Bob Marley and his wife were with Vincent Ford on his deathbed, and he is quoted to have told her, “No Woman, No Cry” which brings us to the title.
D) The title confuses people.
1) No Woman No Cry does not mean that if there are no women, there will be no reason to cry.
a) In my research, I’ve found that an embarrassing amount of people falsely believe that.
2) Jamaican language has some funny words.
a) The word no, in this case, means don’t. Think of it as , No woman, don’t cry.
3) The whole song is him trying to point out that when things get rough, you shouldn’t cry and be upset, just hold on and know that things will get better.
Transition: Who’s the woman in the title?
E) The woman is…of course…his wife.
1) Although the song is for everyone, the woman he mentions is his wife, Rita Marley.
2) She was one of his three backup singers and I’ll point her out in the video in a little bit.
3) Rita wrote a book title, “No Woman No Cry,” about her life with Bob Marley.
a) She mentions that he had around nine mistresses, but she doesn’t seem especially bothered by this.
Transition: This may have something to do with their religion which tells them that everyone has the same life force in them, and that everyone shares “one love,” which is coincidentally the name of one of his most famous albums.
F) The song “No Woman No Cry” appeared first on an album called “Natty Dread”, then on “One Love,” and finally his most popular albums “Forever Bob Marley,” and "Legend."
1) In 1999 "Legend" received its tenth platinum record, meaning it had sold over 10 million copies.
2) The Times Leader recognizes “Forever Bob Marley” as the best selling reggae album ever, with the next two slots taken by his son’s albums.
3) This shows that even after death, Bob Marley is spreading his message.
Transition: If you pay attention to the song, you’ll realize that there’s more to his message than just poverty and a sad past.
G) In the end Bob makes sure to point out his favorite part of the message, which is that “Everything’s gunna be alright.”
1) In this video, note that the song goes from a slower part revolving around sad reminiscence, BUT THEN! the song speeds up and turns happy as he tell us to hold on, because everything is going to be alright.
a) Play Video Clip
Transition: The energy he has when he performs, makes it hard to feel anything other than comfort in his words.
4) Conclusion
A) The message Bob Marley delivers through this song is moving.
B) His charisma makes every word he says convincing.
C) He manages to spread the themes of his religion, encourage acts of selflessness, and most importantly, he puts the comfort of hope into the hearts of those who need it.
D) He started with nothing and through his music, changed the world.
E) With songs like No Woman No Cry, Bob Marley spread his message relentlessly.
F) I’ll leave you know with a quote that I think really embodies the message that Bob Marley tries to spread throughout this song, and many of his other songs.
1) When Bob Marley performed a concert two days after him and his wife were shot, when he should have been in a hospital, he was asked why he did it. He said, “The people who are trying to make this world worse are not taking a day off…how can I? Light up the darkness.”
Thank You

Bibliography
"Bob Marley." Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 2007. 28 Feb. 2008 <http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/bob-marley>.
Humphries, Patrick. "No Woman No Cry." Sold on Song. 2003. 25 Feb. 2008 <http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/soldonsong/songlibrary/indepth/nowomannocry.shtml>.
Marley, Rita, and Hettie Jones. No Woman No Cry: My Life with Bob Marley. Hyperion, 2004. Google Book Search. 25 Feb. 2008 <http://books.google.com/books?id=wT7tgAHcC6MC>.
"No Woman No Cry Bob Marley Legend." YouTube. 23 Feb. 2008. 23 Feb. 2008 <http://youtube.com/watch?v=4u2GpQzEu3Y&feature=related>.
"No Woman No Cry Lyrics." Elyrics. 23 Feb. 2008. 23 Feb. 2008 <http://www.elyrics.net/read/b/bob-marley-lyrics/no-woman-no-cry-lyrics.html>.
Okara, Obi. "Rastafari." The Afrocentric Experience. 23 May 2005. 28 Feb. 2008 <http://www.swagga.com/rasta.htm>.
"Rastafari Quotes and Quotations." ThinkExist. 2006. 28 Feb. 2008 <http://thinkexist.com/quotes/with/keyword/rastafari/>.
Reggae Honors For Marley Family. The New York Times, December 18, 2007 Tuesday, Section E; Column 0; The Arts/Cultural Desk; ARTS, BRIEFLY; Pg. 2, 183 words, By THE NEW YORK TIMES

comments:

Michael Chiang: I really liked your visual aid and the amount of information you gave us. I like your casual tone especially when you're talking about Bob Marley. However, i found it difficult to tell your main points. Good speech!

Michael McKenna: You had a very good credibility statement. You set up your main points very well in your intro. You used hand gestures and had creative transitions with use of the song to keep the audience interested and paying attention. The conclusion was very good too and it provided closure.

Nicole Ritschel- I dont think I'm supposed to critique your speech, but I just wanted to say I love Bob Marley and your reasoning and conclusions on the song were so interesting! I loved the research you did and thought your speech was SO interesting. Watch swaying back and forth because you are nervous, other than that, I loved it!!!!

Liza McKenna- I think it was really good how you used quotes from Bob Marley himself to support your argument. Your visual aid and soup kitchen example were both good too but you move around a lot which could be kinda distracting.

Joe Belack - Your volume and tone throughout your whole speech were very good and clear. Intro and conclusion were both well put. The only citicism I really have is that you eye contact could improve.

Christina - I think you improved greatly from your last speech. I found your speech very interesting plus I love Bob Marley. You had good detail, but you looked at your visual aid a little more than the audience. Overall you did great, and I like how you ended with a quote.

Liz Peters: This speech was much improved over the last one. You had a lot more confidence! You still need to work on eye contact because you were staring at your visual aid, but you definitely connected with the audience. Great job!

Scot Brown: The only thing I can suggest is to not look at your visual aid so much. Otherwise, nice job.

PAPER 2!!!

Nathan Scarbrough CAS100C 4-25-08
Analysis of Requiem for a Dream
It is a darker night than most. Violins are playing in the background… staccato notes… an eerie melody. A crazy lady, strung out on speed and diet pills spasms on a hospital gurney from some electro-shock therapy. A man curls in a bed in a dirty prison cell, going through painful heroin withdrawal, crying, and thinking about his mother. This man’s friend (also the lady’s son), lies on an operating table. His arm, with infected track marks from shooting up heroin, is being amputated. On top of this, he knows he has just lost the love of his life. The love of his life prostitutes herself, doing unthinkable acts with another strange girl, in front of a crowd of jeering businessmen… all of this for a small bag of heroin. Only seconds of each scene are shown at a time. The music becomes faster and louder…more intense every second. The camera switches between scenes quicker and quicker, till it all blurs together in a frightening, terrible montage. This is the climax of “Requiem for a Dream.” It is brilliant, and horrifying.
Darren Aronofsky is inarguably a film genius. Known for directing strange, deep, and entrancing film such as π and The Fountain, Darren Aronofsky doesn’t fail to move the audience with his captivating Requiem for a Dream. Darren Aronofsky utilized quite the number of film techniques to mold this movie into the unpleasant masterpiece that it is.
The movie centers around four main characters. It’s important to realize that all of the characters follow the same pattern throughout the film. Although they play different roles in relation to each other, being a mother, son, friend, and girlfriend, all these characters have very similar personality traits. One important thing to note about these characters is that they’re all kind, rational, loving people who show at some point in the film that they care very much about another character. It’s one of many interesting story-lines in this movie. They all care about another character, fight for and protect that character, and then ultimately lose them forever because of their addictions. It was a realistic touch for Darren Aronofsky to make sure it was understood that although they were hard-core drug users, the rest of their personalities were kind and loyal, not really the bad-guys most movies portray drug addicts as.
Unfortunately, that just makes it even easier to sympathize with the characters, and henceforth feel awful when everything falls down around them. See, probably the biggest storyline here is the one directly about the drugs. The funny thing about this is, although it’s what most of the movie is based around; none of the characters themselves seem to realize it. They all recognize emptiness in their lives, they’re all failing at accomplishing dreams, and they are all sacrificing themselves a little for the sake of someone they love, but ultimately, they never seem to admit that the drugs are their problem. There are some scenes where characters blame their troubles on the other one. Heck, they may even whine about how they need more drugs and eventually get angry at the other one, the whole time not realizing it wasn’t the other one’s fault. Then, they will try over and over again to fix their relationships. Not once will they consider trying to fix the source of their problems… their addictions.
This movie shows a scarily accurate representation of addiction. As someone who has had not-quite- as-severe problems with this in the past, I can honestly say that he nailed it. This movie brings to the surface a fact that most people don’t get. You can’t plan not to be addicted to something, because when once you start getting addicted, it literally changes your mind-set to a point where you defend your habit to yourself, and don’t even realize that you are becoming dependent. I think that the point Darren Aronofsky was trying to make with this film was to show how easily it is to become addicted to something, then how quickly it can turn your life around and keep you from realizing your dreams. I’ll tell you, once I have kids; I’m going to show them this movie because I have faith that this movie alone will be influential enough to keep them from swallowing pills, or putting needles in their arms. It is a work of art.
One of the aspects that will make this piece of art stand out, is that way that contrary to most main-stream, Hollywood movies, it has a tragic ending. Like Romeo-and Juliet, or Titanic, the terrible ending completed this tale in a more memorable way than any happy nonsense would have. If you think about it, it’s the only way this movie could have ended. The whole point of the movie is that it gets worse and worse. In the end, the mother is institutionalized and a hundred percent insane. Her son curls up, without an arm, crying for his love. She is too far away to hear, and cuddles on a couch with a bag of prostitution-earned heroin. Their friend cries in a jail cell. The movie ends. If one can watch that movie, and even think about hard drug abuse afterwards without getting sick, I compliment their desensitized will and stupidity.
There is a story-line in this film that I believe is intended just for that purpose: to help give the audience a connection with the characters so it is all the more tragic in the end. This is the “dream aspect”. When the story begins, all of the characters have a dream they wish to fulfill. They all make a bad choice, with the thought that it will make things better. In the long-run, their dreams begin to look less and less likely. Things get worse and worse, until the end. At this point, they all realize that their dreams have slipped away. It’s really interesting to see how they all deal with this information. The mother denies that her dreams (of seeing her son become successful) will never come true. To cope, she literally goes crazy, and lives the rest of her life in a fantasy world where her son has a good job and gets married to a nice girl. This is far from the inconvenient truth. The son and his friend go into a state of despair at losing each other and their significant others. They both end up curled in a bed, going through heroin withdrawal, and crying in agony. Finally, the girl (whom the son at one point wished to marry) moves on past this dream entirely, and tries to find happiness in the bag of heroin in her hands. The story ends as a perfect tragedy in everyway. Darren Aronofsky successfully made the polar opposite of a “feel-good” movie.
Another feature that this story has which makes it scarily believable is how possible the problems and dreams are. I’ve mentioned that they’ve all had dreams that didn’t come true. What I didn’t mention is how reasonable the dreams were. The mom was simply very lonely, getting old, and wishing her family would be there for her. Her son simply wanted to marry a girl he loved. The friend just wanted to make some money to get out of the ghettoes. None of their dreams were unfair or unreasonable to ask for. None of them were impossible either. Unfortunately, their addictions drove their dreams into the ground, and in the in the end, all was lost. This just shows how real and possible these problems can be.
The composition of this film was most likely the most creative composition I’ve ever seen. It broke standards right off the bat, by not following one straight story all the way through, but by following four stories, in short clips, all intertwined in chronological order. In a sense, there are eight actual points of view, blending into four. The story follows each of the four characters, when they are sober, when they are living in their drug influenced, fantasy worlds, and finally at the point when they lose grip of reality and it all blends together. From the mom, who goes crazy and is nothing short of hallucinating, to the other three young adults, who deny an addiction till it’s too late, they all find a way to deny reality in one form or another until the harsh reality crashes in all around them. When Requiem for a Dream begins, they spend roughly ten minutes on each character before they switch to the next one. The clips get shorter and shorter as the characters lose control of their lives, and by the end they are just millisecond shots of each of the characters switching so rapidly that just like the in the characters’ lives, it becomes impossible to focus with all the mayhem, and one is just left with an overall feeling of hopeless depression.
For most of the film there is a very clear difference in between the scenes where the characters are under the influence of their drugs, and what I call the “sober scenes.” The drug scenes are easy to spot in many ways. For the heroin users “high scenes,” they almost always include a more reverberating sound quality. Also, the lighting is predominantly blue when the users are on drugs. More natural sounds, such as wind, can be heard, and many times the characters actually picture themselves in nice places such as the boardwalk. The point of the sounds, sound quality, colors, and the actual atmosphere in these cases is to display the ultimate and euphoric comforts they are experiencing with their drugs.
Similar effects are used for the mother, but because she is on diet pills and “uppers,” which most likely include speed, the effects are a little different. The sound and light is still distorted, but slightly differently. While the heroin users got gentle echoing sounds, music, and lights, the mother isn’t so lucky. Her sounds are still comforting to her, but not in a gentle kind of way. Hers are the sounds straight from her best dreams. She hears an audience cheering for her and a talk-show host congratulating her on her great family. The colors are the greatly contrasting bright lights and black background of a stage.
While the ways he filmed the “high scenes” were creative, I think the “sober scenes” were done even better. All of the characters started out like normal, sober people. But, what happens as the story progresses …gets far more interesting. See, even the scenes where the characters are sober, aren’t close to normal. When the drug abuse gets really bad, even the drug abusers’ sober realities are changing. As the characters fall deeper and deeper into their addictions, their sober lives are affected by their dependence. The real world starts to look much less nice of a place. Uglier colors are used, scarier sounds are used, and the story-line itself gets kind of nasty. These parts of the film help the audience understand why the drug-users are so eager to escape their reality (which is becoming increasingly worse) and go to their peaceful, happier, drug-induced states. Much brighter lights are used at this point to make the characters look more pale and sickly. The story line goes deeper and the characters lash out at others due to their dissatisfied addictions. As the story goes on, the characters begin to look progressively more ill, while the background colors become darker and darker. The mother, who is an old lady, begins to wear a slightly revealing, bright-red dress around everywhere, which is as ridiculous as her dreams of having a happy family life. The way Darren Aronofsky made the scenes contrast more and more, and also mixed them together faster and faster all the way to a horrible, spiraling end, made the climax absolutely spectacular.
This beautiful film is similar to many other great movies, in that not only does it tell a story, but it spreads a message, and encourages a reaction. I have asked many people of their opinions of this movie, and not one of them could avoid being moved by its content. As a good friend of mine said, “It’s just one of those films that when it ends, everyone sits there in silence for a little while.” What’s incredible is that Darren Aronofsky must have counted on that. As the credits play, the film, just like the audience, is silent. Unlike many movies, there are no bloopers, no funny credits, and most shockingly, not even any background music. It’s as if the director predicted the silence of the audience, and chose not to ruin it for them.

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