Response to Matt's Post

I am responding to Matt's post about a speech on obesity.  Matt did a great job responding to this speech.  I agree with all of his ideas.  He did a great job grabbing the audience's attention with all of the staggering statistics.  I mean 1.5 million people dying because of obesity just during his tenure in college is eye opening.  Already, just through his introduction, I can tell this is a problem that needs to be changed.  The increasing calorie counts and unhealthy soda drink consumption is again crazy.  It just shows how bad our diets have become.  The CEO's and presidents of these fast food restaurants do realize that people eat all those healthy foods everyday, they just fail to realize it because it would hurt their profits.  They want to make people fat that way they continue to buy their products.  He does well to state many, many facts about obesity, as Matt had pointed out.  The two places I do disagree with Matt is his opinion on the stumbles on his words.  I think that he should have practiced his speech more.  This way he would have learned all of the vocabulary and would have known where his speech was going at all times.  I also think that he was very mono-tone.  He had no emotion in his voice until the very end with the death statistics.  I think he could have used much more emotion through out the speech to emphasize the points.  If he were to use emotion, he could have really emphasized the important points making it easier on the audience to find important things to take away from the speech.  Because he didn't use that much modulation of his voice, the audience must really listen incredibly intently to his points.  I agreed with Matt's thinking that the speech is very good over all.