Spoken Word Reflection

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(I still have to film and upload spoken word)

Spoken Word:

Welcome to Tim Hortons, what can I get for you today? On second thought, I’ll decide. Today you will be having a manner lesson, and I will be explaining the basic common sense unspoken rules that most of you should already know, but many seem to not. If you couldn’t tell already I work at Tim Hortons, and it’s a pretty good job when costumers aren’t complete… fiddlesticks. You’d think people would already know how to treat another human with the teeniest bit of respect… but I guess I wouldn’t have a speech this year if they did.

My first and most important rule is one you all should have been taught since you first learned to talk. Use your manners! I’m not saying you need to add a please and thank you after every word, but maybe don’t start off our very first interaction EVER with an “I need a coffee”. You may very strongly want a coffee, but if coffee is on your need list you really need to start doing some charity work. Another part of manners is yelling. You need to understand that my co-workers and I control very little around the store, and you yelling at us for lights being out, menu boards not being updated, and not having certain items at the time is completely out of our hands. Heck, you should be happy about that, do you really want a bunch of teenagers controlling what happens to your food. Didn’t think so. We are simply the spokes people for your food. How many of you yell at Tony the Tiger for having too much sugar in your frosted flakes? Probably none of you. I hate to break it to you but yelling at us will have the exact same impact as if you were to yell at him. I’m not kidding when I say we control absolutely nothing, so save your breath. On the yelling note, we do not want you in there for more than 2 minutes just as much as you don’t want to be in there for more than that. We will do everything in our power to get everything you’ve ordered to you as fast as we can, but when you order the entire freaking menu in a rush. That more than likely won’t happen. I don’t care if you ordered “just a bagel” when there are 10 people in front of you who ordered “just a bagel too… AND MORE”. You nagging like a 2 year old princess won’t speed up your speed of service. It might actually slow it down, depending on if we decide to be petty or not. Now that’s just the inside, drive thru pfffff

Please don’t role up to the speakers and scream “HELLLLOOOOOOO”, I don’t do that at your work place, so don’t do that at mine. I don’t care if you think you’re being nice. Save the talk for when I am able to talk. Do you start talking to somebody when they’re sleeping, no wait for them to wake up, and don’t try to wake them up. It’s not that hard of a concept to understand. We know you’re there, and we’re trying to get everything the people in front of you ordered put together, so we can take your order and solely focus on you. Please understand that I have to grab every single thing they ordered before they get to the window, including smoothies, soups, doughnuts, Tim-bits, muffins, cookies, lemonade, lattes, iced coffee’s, yogurt, oatmeal, and croissants… Just to name a few. And if you don’t scream in my ear I could have it all done in less than a minute. Patience is a virtue, and I simply don’t care if you’re late to anything. Don’t wait in the line if you know you have somewhere to be. Also never ask me why the line is so long. I didn’t jump in people’s cars, and drive to Tim Horton’s for the sole reason of making a line. That’s on you, and you being in the line contributes to the length of it soo, please order your coffee, pay your bill and get the heckle out of my drive thru. Oh and have a great day!

1. Two things I did well

The first thing I feel I did well on was my speaking in general, I typically start to stutter and shake quite a bit when presenting in front of people, but this time I felt as though I had it a little more under control. The second thing I think I did well on was making it entertaining. My speech was definitely a lot of complaining, but I feel as though I did it in a humorous way.

2. Two things I need to improve on

I need to improve on my speed, I was talking very fast during my spoken word. I could also work on talking about less things but expanding much more on them.

3. Obstacles I encountered and the solution

An obstacle I encountered was that I had too many important things to mention, but wasn’t sure how to integrate them. I solved this by categorizing them, and then integrating them into the category that they could belong in. Another obstacle was having really bad stage fright, I solved this by practicing to the point where I could zone out and not have to worry about forgetting my speech. I didn’t focus on people looking at me, but rather the back wall.

4. Stuff to work on next year

Next year I will work on making my spoken word less funny and possibly more serious. I will also work on controlling my pace and fiddling. I will also try to make it a little bit shorter, but with more detail.

3 Reasons Why I Think Lord Of the Flies is Dumb

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Lord of the Flies is one of the most controversial books of all time. Many people seem to love it, while others hate it. Personally, I fall on the hatred scale. There are so many things in the book that completely make me question why people love it so much. I also can’t comprehend how anyone in their right mind could find Golding’s ideas true. They’re just ideas, with no scientific proof whatsoever showing that people will actually behave like that. Here are just 3 reasons why I think the book is straight up dumb.

 

Reason 1: People believe it

I fully do not understand how anybody could believe that humans are all born evil, and the rules are what make us good. Last I checked we were all born knowing absolutely nothing, and our experiences and environment is what shaped our personality. If someone were to only be exposed to positivity, they would have no idea what evil is. I believe that all the stories on the news, and social media is what exposes us to evil today, and let’s not forget that the boys in the book were in the middle of a war and seeing violence everywhere. Also, they got a dead parachutist as a message from the adults, if that doesn’t scar a kid, I don’t know what would. I read that Golding served in WWII, and fully believed that humans were good before his war experience. After the war is when he started believing that humans were evil. However, let’s not forget that being stranded on a peaceful island, with no real hardships besides not having personal hygiene, is not even remotely similar to a war. Now, you could argue that there have been tests based on Golding’s book such as the Stanford Prison Experiment, or Milgram’s experiment, but both of those experiments were based on people being told that it was for scientific research, and that the blame would not be put on them. In both experiments the people volunteered and were told that if they did not do it, they would be ruining the experiment. They were told to play the part in order for the experiment to work. The boys however, were put on the island involuntarily and chose to do the things they did without being pressured in any way. I think people are forgetting that Lord of the Flies is just a book filled with one person’s ideas, and just because Golding wrote a book about it doesn’t make his ideas true.

 

 

Reason 2: In what way does it represent the human race?

Golding wrote this book with the intention of convincing the reader that he is right, but how could he represent all of humanity when he doesn’t even include women? Golding said that he is basing his book entirely off of his own experiences, and what he has witnessed working at an all boys school. Since the book is based off of his experiences, there is a chance that his experiences are completely unique compared to everyone else, and he also must have had some pretty messed up students. This also means that he has more than likely spent absolutely no time working with girls, implying that he has no idea how a girl would act in any situation whatsoever, let alone being deserted on an island. Not only that but the boys only range from age 6-12. That’s much less than even half the population, considering majority of the population is not a boy aged 6-12. Another reason it doesn’t even remotely represent the human race is that the book is in no way, shape, or form culturally diverse. The boys are all British white boys, attending an all boys private school. At this point the book probably does not even represent 20% of the population because very little of the world is a white British boy aged 6-12, attending a private school. If they can represent the entire population, then why can’t they vote, drive a car, or even have a job?

 

 

Reason 3: Their age

The boys ages range from 6-12, none of them have even hit puberty yet, and the majority of their “problems” are from not getting their way. Boys at that age are sensitive and over dramatic, yet they can represent all of humanity? Think about it, Piggy got killed all because Jack got called a thief after stealing glasses. When it comes to brain development children at that age feel powerful and invincible, they will also show crazy inconsistent behaviour. When you are aged 12 mood swings and irritability are inevitable, yet once again, they can some how represent how the entire world will act without rules? Maybe, just maybe, it’s the rules that make us bad in the first place. What I mean by that is that people feel the need to rebel when they’re compressed. For example, kids are more likely to become alcoholics when they’re older if their parents are insanely strict with not letting them try alcohol when their younger, since they have never been allowed to get a taste it’s scientifically proven that they go overboard when they are legally allowed to drink. Also, Jack started to become a crazy dictator when Ralph got mad about the fire going out. He freaked out when Ralph got mad about him not following the rules when all he wanted to do was hunt. Lord of the Flies has so many flaws, that I find it impossible to take Golding’s message seriously.