Policy Speech Review The Policy Speech was interesting to listen to because we got to see everyone’s viewpoint on different issues in society. This speech was also intriguing to do because I got to research a topic I had interest in and see what policies are in place and what we could do to change them. Everyone in the class did a very good job at convincing us what they thought should be done about policies ranging from legalizing marijuana to abortion. I was assigned to watch Dylan and overall I thought he did a very good job. Dylan did his policy speech on legalizing gay marriage and approached it by talking about the separation between church and state. I think that he did an efficient job at portraying what he thought should be changed in the current status of gay marriage. I thought it was memorable because he started his speech of by saying, “discrimination” and then paused. This slight pause and single word stuck out to me because he discussed how homosexuals don’t have equal rights and that’s unconstitutional. He went through the history of marriage and how it was originally a separate entity from the church, which made his argument very convincing. I also thought it was very memorable and effective how he referred and related the legalization of gay marriage to Plessy v. Ferguson, which was a civil rights case that said that blacks were “separate but equal” to white people. Relating these two different cases made it very easy to follow what he was saying and he had me agreeing with him after this reference. All in all Dylan used very strategic methods to convince the class of his views on legalizing gay marriage. While the speech was very good I would say it was memorable for negative reasons because it didn’t have a clear thesis at the beginning that stated what his policy was so I was left wondering for a couple minutes into the speech what he thought the solution was to legalizing gay marriage. A better approach for Dylan would be to keep his same good opening then state specifically a synopsis of what he thinks the policy should be and steps to approach it. By doing this it would give the class a clearer view of what exactly he wanted to do about changing the policy of the legalization of gay marriage. Overall Dylan did a fantastic job at delivering his speech. His tone was casual and he wasn’t nervous in his voice. His pace wasn’t rushed and he was very convincing and easy to relate to. For his next speech I would just make sure that he has a more structured speech and clearly states what his thesis and preview are in the beginning to give the listeners a better view on what he is going to speak about.