The most central facet of my life is family. My family has always shown me love and support in everything that I do. According, I have presented a link to a speech I gave that describes the impact of the relationship my younger brother and I shared as teammates on our high school swimming teams.
This I Believe Manuscript
This speech is one of my more raw, unrefined pieces and I presented this just as I was beginning to learn more specifics and details required to be a successful orator. However, I chose this speech because personal beliefs and stories are topics that I am most at ease presenting. I have never found it easy to communicate many of my ideas in a formal speech or formal essay style but the general informality of personal anecdotes fits my gregarious and down-to-earth demeanor.
Though I was very excited about the topic of this speech, my final product was not as polished as it probably could have been. My speech lacked a definitive thesis which reflects my natural writing style. I do not like to present forceful or obvious opinions to strangers so I tend to speak in generalities. However, I also need to work on identifying a definitive direction for my writings so that my audience can easily recognize the overall message of the work rather having to infer or guess my stance.
