Emma Watson- UN Address

          I feel that Emma Watson has captured the essence of what equality represents. She recently delivered a speech on gender equality at a United Nations meeting advertising her newest feminist campaign called HeForShe. Her speech, I'm going to be honest, made me cry. The issue wasn't extremely close to home for me because I have not personally had an experience in which I was discriminated against, and the topic of gender equality isn't the most fragile or sincere, but the way her speech was delivered made an enormous impact on the crowd, as well as myself. Her one speech, made me want to revisit my views on how I rank gender equality. You would expect that as a woman, it would be ranked #2 or #3 at least, but I have recently found myself drawn to other issues. Because of Ms. Watson's speech, that issue has just become ten times more important to me, and it made me want to research more. It not only empowered me, but left me feeling fulfilled, as if all this time I had been looking for something and she had finally shown me the light. I would have never thought I would become such an advocate for women equality everywhere, but after that delivery, I would have to rethink my stance.

          I am currently enrolled in a Public Address class at Citrus College, and this speech has become my inspiration. I intend to work towards being as persuasive, confident and dignified as Emma Watson in her delivery.

          This relates to my Senior Project because as an attorney, determined by the type of the law one is involved in, one could present as often as 5 times a week in front of a courtroom crowd. Often being seated somewhere in the back, I know that those courtroom seats could hold a maximum of around 40 people in the smallest of rooms. Presentation skills are mandatory and extremely important in determining the success of your case because each time the attorney stands up and speaks, he is pleading for his client, and if he/she cannot improvise quickly enough to do impromptu speeches or fast, clever remarks, then failure in inevitable.

          I hope you enjoy this as much as I did- Emma's Speech