The speaker in this television show is able to powerfully convey a message using allusion and props. He bring in a brown bag with a bottle in it and sets it on the podium at the start of his speech. He pulls a bottle of beer out and starts explaining the use of brown paper bags; after the law stated that drinking alcohol in public was illegal. He refers to the prohibition as metaphor between drugs today and alcohol in the past. During his presentation, he does not stand still, he continues to move around the room and use hand gestures to assist him in captivating his audience. He maintains eye contact during the entire speech, looking around the room at everyone. This topic resonated with me because I had never heard a police officer with this opinion before. It was interesting to hear a police officer talking about the things that they allow people to do so that they do not have to arrest them. He explained that police officers do not want to have to deal with petty crime. The speaker's opinions of these methods is an interesting perspective of civil compromise. I believe that the speaker was able to captivate his audience and get his message across. During this process he convinced his audience that there needed to be some change, or a brown paper bag for drugs.
The Luddite Argument in my mind is the most unreasonable. When the government asks for information from the public which compromises our own privacy in the first place, and is unable to protect that information from anyone who might be trying to use it against the public actually compromises the security of the public. If the government does not fully understand the equipment that they are asking to use, they should not be given permission to use it.
| AuthorJeff Sutcliffe, 17 years old. Currently attending grade 12 at Collingwood School ArchivesCategories |
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