Statement of Intention

STATEMENT OF INTENTION. Danny Cronyn. The following cogent set impart be written in the form of a deliverance to be presented at a school assembly. Addressing the prompt we correct to stereotypes and expectations far more than we think this linguistic process go forth investigate the long impact that social expectations and stereotypical averages have on a someones identity and show the true extent to which we subconsciously correct to them. My speech contends that we just now accept what the majority and masses do as the norm and adjust to said norm with by even cerebration twice astir(predicate) it and that in doing this, we limit our ability to be individuals.The purpose of my speech is to illustrate how alineing to stereotypes and societal expectations screwing have a homogenising ready on identity and restrict our capacity to be individuals. I c are to show to my listening how the innate human need to belong is so strong that we subconsciously align in o rder to belief a sense of connection and how external factors more(prenominal) as societal norms, stereotypes, rituals and traditions can be defining factors of our identities, even if we do not realise middling how much.This will be done through using examples of these factors to which we intuitively correct, much(prenominal) as being clothed, getting presents on Christmas, girls shaving their legs and not picking our nose or farting in public. These examples of things to which we conform to without questioning will display to the audience the magnitude of influence that stereotypes and expectations have on our identity.Writing in the form of a persuasive speech was the best method of communication my purpose and contender (that we scarcely accept what the majority and masses do as the norm and conform to said norm without even thinking twice about it and that in doing this, we limit our ability to be individuals) to the audience as I am competent to persona expressive skills such as voice and facial gesture to strengthen and support my arguments and am withal able to physically see the audiences response to my piece.The use of a questioning tone and concerned and confused facial gestures will act as visual and physical representations of the tone of my piece and through this, I will push the audience to question their route of keep and drive them to see the conformity and error of their homogonised identities. By acting my speech to a live audience, I will be able to play off of audience reaction and cater my tone and strength according to their mood and response to the issue.My concerned, questioning and confused tone will reflect the bureau I feel about conformist lifestyle and my strong-worded and assuring language (must, indubitably, alarmed) will push the audience to believe that I have a well developed and highly thought out contention and assure them that being a non-conformist individual is the best way to live their lives.Throug h contrasting the benefits of uniqueness and individuality with the restricting aspects of conformist living, and along with my strong-worded arguments, I anticipate that the audience will side with me in accept that we patently accept what the majority and masses do as the norm and conform to said norm without even thinking twice about it and that in doing this, we limit our ability to be individuals.I have aimed my speech at the common man because the everyday person bland, boring, conformist and easily persuaded is the perfect candidate for my speech, which will hopefully push them to question their conformity and to wedge their individual identities. It is aimed at them because I believe that these people are blissfully unaware of how their standardised and by-the-book lifestyles are negatively impacting on their lives. I tender to show them how embracing individuality could greatly improve the way they feel about themselves and the way in which they live their day-to-day lives.Meaning and my substitution brain will be conveyed through these contrasting lifestyles and through highlighting the homogenising answer that conforming to stereotypes and expectations has on our individuality and identity. My central idea and contention that we simply accept what the majority and masses do as the norm and conform to said norm without even thinking twice about it and that in doing this, we limit our ability to be individuals was inspired by the collection of poems sometimes Gladness by Bruce Dawe, in hich it is proposed that belonging to parliamentary law statuss our identity, but in doing so, also has a homogenising effect and that the rituals and traditions of the society of which we are a part, also shape us. I agree with this idea and believe that being conformist and homogenised beings is a negative thing, that we dont question societal norms, expectations and stereotypes to the highest degreely enough, we merely accept them without even consideri ng the possibility that they could be slander and that rituals and traditions of our culture shape us more than we notice.These key ideas (belonging to society shapes our identity, but in doing so, also has a homogenising effect and the rituals and traditions of the society of which we are a part shape us), which are presented in the poems record Without So Much As Knocking and Condolences of the Season are the concepts which influences my central idea that we simply accept what the majority and masses do as the norm and conform to said norm without even thinking twice about it and that in doing this, we limit our ability to be individuals.In the poem sneak in Without So Much AS Knocking the idea that belonging to society shapes our identity, but also has a homogenising effect is explored through showing the life cycle of a person from birth to death and how he conformed to societal norms his entire life. Through showing how we conform to day-to-day commands and norms such as WAL K. DONT WALK. TURN LEFTNO BREATHING shut out BY ORDER. BEWARE OF THIS.WATCH OUT FOR THAT, Dawe shows the homogenising effect that conformist lifestyle has on people and the ways in which they conform to stereotypes and expectations far more than we realise. In Condolences of the Season Bruce Dawe shows how our identity is like a kit, a puzzle to be put together. He shows the ways in which rituals, family and other external factors shape our identity through showing generations of a family pointing our similarities in a abject child at a family gathering.These features will be reflected in my speech when I talk about how external factors such as family traditions and rituals (presents on Christmas) and societal expectations (wearing clothing) influence our identity greatly, sometimes without us even realising. The geomorphological element of lineage and ending a piece with a near identical statement which is shown in Enter Without So Much AS Knocking and Soliloquy For One Dead wi ll be reflected in my piece by beginning and ending my speech with my contention (we simply accept what the majority and masses do as the norm and conform to said norm without even thinking twice about it and that in doing this, we limit our ability to be individuals) to show a distinct beginning and ending to my piece and also to reinforce the contention. I want my contention to be the first thing that the audience hears when they come in and the snuff it thing they hear when they leave so that it stick in their mastermind and is something they are forever considering.Another structural element from Dawes poems that I will include is illustration. Metaphor is shown in The Tackle Box through the use of a hook to be symbolic of/a metaphor for the distress that a father inflicted on his family. I will use the metaphor of sheep in my speech to represent how people flock together much like sheep and simply follow what the majority are doing without question. This metaphoric comparab ility between human beings and sheep (an animal) will push the audience to look unfavourably upon their conformist actions and sway them to make individual choices.My speech supports the prompt (we conform to stereotypes and expectations far more than we think) by showing the ways in which we conform to societal expectations with no questioning as to why, we simply just do it. My speech takes the prompt and presents the idea that social norms, stereotypes and expectations have a spacious impact on identity formation and shows the ways in which we simply accept what the majority and masses do as the norm and conform to said norm without even thinking twice about it and that in doing this, we limit our ability to be individuals.