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Journal 6.1: Fears

2/6/2017

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What is your greatest fear about giving a speech?
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Nick Hoover
2/6/2017 09:20:37 am

My greatest fear about giving a speech, is the fear that I will stumble over my words and freeze up. I normally have no issue with giving speeches, but whenever I mess up, and say something I didn't mean to, I end up turning into stuttering mess. My fear of coming off as unprofessional and sloppy, is what causes me to slip up and not recover from it, however I hope these speeches will help me get use to talking, and possibly messing up, in front of people.

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Josh Sevrey
2/6/2017 09:21:34 am

My biggest fear about giving speeches is that I will get choked up or embarrass myself. It is a fear that almost everyone has and it has made speaking in front of a crowd very difficult for me. I hope to overcome this and become a better speaker in the future.

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Rodrigo Huerta
2/6/2017 09:24:54 am

Right away i fear messing up and people laughing at me. I also dont like everyone looking at me either I just get al nevous and things of the sort. I also fear sluring my words

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Kathryn Jennings
2/6/2017 09:33:35 am

My greatest fear about giving a speech is not knowing what to say or forgetting what I was talking about. Anytime I am explaining something or telling a story, I forget mid sentence what I am saying or I can not find a way to put what I am thinking into words. When speaking in front of others, I try so hard for this not to happen, it ends up happening more than it should because it is all I am thinking about.

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Liliana Porras
2/6/2017 11:27:59 am

I also tend to have this type of problem when it comes to communicating. I get really nervous as well and it makes me mess up even more.

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Luis Rodriguez
2/6/2017 09:40:23 am

One of my greatest fears about giving a speech is messing up. If I start messing up I'll know that I'll keep making mistakes and make it even worse. Then once that happens all I think about is messing up and it'll just bother me for the rest of the day.

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Eduardo Villarreal
2/6/2017 10:31:15 am

My greatest fear about giving a speech is probably not thinking before i say something. i don't want to say something thats going to offend anybody or that it might make me look bad. I also fear that is a stutter on a word , it wouldnt really sound professional if i cant say it right.

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Nathanial P. Eason
2/6/2017 10:37:43 am

My greatest fear about giving a speech is that people might insult me and throw stuff at me.

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tristan hantsche
2/6/2017 11:01:18 am

My biggest fear during a speech would be realizing I was off topic the whole time. Not knowing were I left off or tripping.

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Krystina Marquez
2/6/2017 11:04:40 am

My biggest fear about giving a speech is not being to say anything and freezing up. Whenever I have to talk in front of people my voice ends up getting shaky and not very loud, so hopeful I'll be able to work on that.

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Lindsay Griffin
2/6/2017 11:06:22 am

My greatest fear about giving a speech would have to be messing up some of the information. That could be leaving something out or saying something that is untrue.

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Liliana Porras
2/6/2017 11:23:08 am

My biggest fear when it comes to giving a speech is freezing and not knowing what to say. I also start to feel really awkward when people are staring at me so that makes me even more nervous.

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Jayla Goodman
2/6/2017 12:09:33 pm

My biggest fear when giving a speech would be to forget what I needed to say or say something wrong and looking unintelligent in front of my peers. When I get nervous my voice tends to shake and I get self conscious about that which makes it worse.

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angelica pace
2/6/2017 12:42:00 pm

My greatest fear about giving a speech having everybody look at me I dont like tobe lookedat. i cant be the center of attention. I sart to cry when i see people stairing at me.

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Haley west link
2/6/2017 01:42:03 pm

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Bryan Vazquez
2/6/2017 07:01:35 pm

I have a few fears about giving speeches. I would say my highest one is when I go up to give a speech is when people look at my. Like I feel akward them just stating at me I think on my mind if they could just stop and turn around.

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Andres Sanchez
2/6/2017 08:22:19 pm

My biggest fear about giving a speech is if I said something wrong and then everyone would laugh at me.

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Abigai Villanueva
2/6/2017 09:33:18 pm

My greatest fear when giving a speech, is speaking in front of a huge group of people. Im used to speaking in front of a group of 15 due to being VP of a club, but speaking upon a class of my peers frightens me.

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Hugo Espinoza
2/6/2017 10:55:09 pm

My greatest fear when it comes to giving a speech it's probably mispronouncing a word and making fun of. Especially since im limited English its hard for me to pronounce words correctly. I fear that people will be in the back of the classroom making jokes about me.

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Tanner Dunn
2/6/2017 11:00:26 pm

My biggest fear about giving a speech is losing my train of thought and going blank. Embarrassment is something that I have always feared. Being in front of a large group of people makes freezing in the middle of a speech all the worse. I would also fear people talking about my incident way after it had happened.

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Kristen Gittens
2/6/2017 11:00:36 pm

My greatest fear of giving a speech is probably talking in front of my classmates. I can talk all day and night to my friends but it's just something about getting infront of a crowd I'm not use to makes me super nervous. When I become nervous I begin to shake and get timid which I hate so much.

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Austin White
2/6/2017 11:20:40 pm

The scariest part of speaking infornt of people is reading the speech. I don't mind talking before a crowd but I hate not knowing exactly what I'm going to say. I have never been the best reader, but when I read with my peers I begin to stutter a lot and mess up.

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Shadrian Rosser
2/6/2017 11:37:46 pm

Giving a speech in front of a group is scary because their all looking at you. What if I forget exactly what I've practiced or pronounce a word wrong, many things could go wrong in my head. Im a very shy and quite person so giving speeches isn't going to come natural to me in a day.

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Abby Bankston
2/7/2017 09:03:26 am

My greatest fear when giving a speech is not being able to put my thoughts into words. When I speak in front of others I get nervous and forget what i am saying. My thoughts always blur together and I do not want to do that in front of everyone.

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Alonso Ramirez
2/7/2017 09:05:07 am

My biggest fear about giving a speech, is the audience not liking what I say. Judging my words and what I say It might offend them. Who knows but it is just scary, knowing they are watching you and listening to your shaking voice.

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Ede Angel
2/7/2017 09:10:38 am

My biggest fear is that I will forget what I'm talking. This has been my biggest fear about giving speeches. Another thing is that I get really nervous and my hands start shocking because of that.

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Jaila Molina
2/7/2017 09:29:02 am

My biggest fear when giving a speech is looking at everybody and I start getting nervous because you don't know what there thinking.

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Aldo Ramirez
2/7/2017 10:01:53 am

the thing i"m most nervous about is going up to the front and not making sense just words coming out of me that make no sense

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Dilon Welch
2/7/2017 10:08:38 am

My biggest fear when speaking out loud is that im going to mess my words up and turn all red. I hate when people are looking at me it makes me so nervous.

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Angelica Mendenhall
2/7/2017 11:31:26 pm

One of my greatest fears, like many others, is stumbling over my words and having grammer or spelling errors in my presentation. Another fear is that I won't hit the topic quite like I wanted or someone doesn't understand. You make the presentation to convey a thought or an idea. If those you are trying to present to do not understand your topic, then you have failed your presentation.

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Jesse Borrero
2/8/2017 09:13:45 am

My greatest fear while giving a speech is not figuring out how to put my words together and saying "um" throughout my sentences. I want to work on conquering that as I give my speeches. It would probably take a while to get in the habit of not doing that but I believe I can do it.

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Lailee Bayatar
2/8/2017 10:10:21 am

My biggest concern about giving a speech is that i won't know what to say once i'm up there.Talking in front of people doesn't bother me, but making a complete fool of myself bothers me. A long as i'm well prepared to speak in front o a group of people, i'm fine.

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Hayden Teel
2/8/2017 10:13:49 am

My greatest fear of giving a speech is that I'll mess up and make a fool of myself in front of the whole class. I also have a bad habit of panicking and rushing through my presentation when I get nervous.

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Haley West
2/8/2017 10:15:35 am

My biggest fear about giving a speech is that I will free up or people laugh at me, or get a bad grade.

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Kiera Jones
2/8/2017 05:17:48 pm

My biggest fear about giving a speech would be not knowing what to say or forgetting what I was talking about. Anytime I am explaining something or telling something . I forget in the middle of the sentence what I am saying or I cant get it out the right way.

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Patricia Hernandez
2/10/2017 02:04:42 pm

What i fear most about giving speeches is the fact that I'm speaking to my peers. I think for me it would be easier to give a speech to people who are a different age then be. Speaking in front of my peers scares me because us as a whole aren't very nice people.

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Jessenia Ricardo Rosas
2/19/2017 02:50:10 pm

My biggest fear about giving a speech is the look on the crowds face when they look at me. As I'm speaking they might yawn or look at me in a weird way. I also get really nervous and start studder and I can't look directly into their eyes. I also don't know how to give a speech I repeat so many things Andy hands start to shake.

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Kyson Chapman
2/22/2017 09:28:46 am

My biggest fear with giving a speech is making eye contact,with the audience. When giving a speech I usually don't know the audience. This makes it awkward trying to make eye contact and present to them.

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raymeka williams
2/24/2017 09:40:44 am

my biggest fear is getting in front of allot of people and just breaking down like not being able to talk an i am just stuck there like that would be the worst day of my life.

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Jesse Borrero
3/3/2017 09:49:44 am

My fear while giving speeches is using the words "like" and "um". I have a tendency to use the word as I'm telling stories or just talking in general. I want to work on getting over that throughout this course.

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Jada Zavala
3/9/2017 10:21:54 am

My biggest fear about a giving a speech is just freezing up or forgetting what i was supposed to say, and just standing there awhile everyone is either laughing or talking bad about me.

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