Richard&Roy&Vera

= Richard, Roy, Vera = .

**Post your feedback here**: . Richard: I am so glad to receive these useful feedbacks. I will keep in my mind so as to improve upcoming toastermasters and other speechs.

Vera: It's my first time doing a presentation in formal dress, and cooperating with others in a title under "culture". The discussion and the presentation make me learn a lesson (actually, more than one lesson!) First, as a member in this team, I should have reminded of it, although it is embarrassing to interrupt, I'll try to find a better way. Second, I think I should enhance the gesture and practice "transition" more to let the speech go smoothly. And thanks to the advice from teacher so that I can notice the problem which I had no idea before. By the way, I'm glad that there's no negative comment on PPT. To sum up, I hope I can be more confident and prepared through the experiences.

Roy: Thanks for all your kind comments. Although we had a bad time control, I’m still very appreciated your attendance and suggestions. We could have talked more about this topic. However, due to time, we still have something more interesting that were not presented to you. I’m glad that you are interested in our topic. That does encourage us. I will prove the skill of oral presentation after this unforgettable experience.

. The followings are comments from the classmates & me. To present their comments precisely, **I do not change any of their wordings**. Please take the comments positively. J

Read the comments carefully. Some comments are contradictory; you should think about those comments more carefully to figure out the reasons. ** After reading the comments, write down your feedback to the audience. **

1. Sufficient content. 2. Very interesting topic. 3. Bad time control! 4. Pay attention to time control. 5. If time allows, I would like to hear more about the topic. 6. They can stand at different places and make more contacts with audience, such like eye contact or use obvious gestures to describe significantly important part.

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**The Proposal of Informative Speech ** **Roy, Richard and Vera ** **Definition of Culture ** Culture is a living way of a specific group of people. These people share the common values, beliefs, attitudes and so on. It also constructs the identity and coherence of people.

**Topic ** //Different Styles in Japan—Western and Eastern Japan //

**Rationales ** The tsunami and devastating quake had made horrible hurt in northeastern Japan, destroying the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, having made Eastern Japan stuck in the lack of power. Many foreign people thought why Japanese didn’t transit the available power from western Japan to eastern Japan so as to cope with the problem of power lacking. However, there are different companies generating power in different areas and the systems are different. Therefore, it’s hard to transit from Osaka to Tokyo without enough equipment. From this unfortunate disaster, we found that there are actually many differences in Japan although it seems the same in appearance for foreigners. Eastern and western Japanese have different personalities and often argue with each other because of different living styles. The east-west problems are always popular. We can often hear people discussing that “Osaka people are friendlier”, “Tokyo people are overcautious”. Therefore, we want to find out more interesting differences between Western and Eastern Japanese.

**Previews ** In the beginning, we will state an overall view about Japan, giving same attributes in eastern and western Japan. In the second part, we will provide the different characteristics between eastern and western Japan in several points. Basically, there are 6 dimensions discussed in the speech. The range of these dimensions will include from their daily life, eating, clothing and traffic systems to the inside of Japanese culture, such as the accent, personality and educational system. After contrasting, we will make a general conclusion in this topic.

**Significance ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Comparing with other countries in the world, Japan is a <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">highly homogeneous country <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">for several factors, such assinglerace origin, isolated environmentand the lack ofcolonization by other countries. According to academic material,the Yamato Japanese ethnic group comprises 98.5% of the population. Thus, many <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">foreigners regard Japan as the country with less diversity, considering that <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Japanese peoplespeak same language, having samelivingstyle.In fact, Japanese life style can be divided into west Japan (Kansai) and east Japan (Kanto). The two parts vary from the following, food and cooking, fashions, education, accents and people’s characters. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 30pt;">Japan is an obvious model discussing the different styles in one culture. The different life styles do not mean that they are dissimilar culture. On the other hand, it reveals that even in the nearly monotonic country, people develop their own habits and viewpoints. In addition, Japan plays an important role in Asia and World, not only for the strategic location in pan pacific, but also for the economic power. In Taiwan, there are diverse characteristics and customs distributing in the cultures, they all deserve to be respect and protection.