Sunday, August 10, 2008

And the best presenter is.....

I think the best presenter is Dr Randy Pausch. In my opinion, he started his speech with the pictures of himself when he was a child. He captured the audience with his amazing attention getter. First of all, he started by telling about his health concern - cancer - that soon be taking his life forever. Apart from that, he talked about his childhood and about his dreams and ambitions. His touching speech really amazed me because his speech was mainly about life and how to life to the fullest. Besides that, he also mentioned how to achieve our own dreams, by having good parents to support us. I have learn a lot of things from his speech, firstly,never be afraid to tell the public your problem and do not be shy with it. Furthermore, his speech was aspiring and give me some confidence to talk in public just the way he did.

In my opinion, the Microsoft dude was the worst presenter among all that i have seen. He talked as if he was talking to himself. Besides that, his voice was not clear enough to be heard and he had no eye contact with the audience. His body language showed that he was not a good presenter because he was hugging his own body.

my presentation

Florence Nightingale


I admire Florence Nightingale for her courage to live a different life from her wealthy family. She even believed she had a divine calling from the Lord to help the poor and sick and the wounded. From her beliefs, she committed herself to nursing though been discouraged by her family. During her time, nurse profession was considered dirty and filthy job for a well-educated people. She had a great interest in statistics and had made many contributions in medical profession. Besides that, Florence Nightingale also wrote a book using her own theology though the 3-volume book was never published except for the section Cassandra. She trained a lot of nurses for the Crimean War Campaign to help the unattended wounded soldiers. However, she was believed to be suffering chronic fatigue syndrome that caused her to bedridden. She died at the age 90 on 13 August 1910 and her birthday is now celebrated as the International CSF Awareness Day.