Need Homework Help!

[iceteebone]

ok i'm in a speech class and we have to give a 10 minute presentation on any topic we wish. i chose the tigers because i know i can talk for 10 minutes about them, and know more about them then my audience. my dilema comes as i don't know what i should talk about. the tigers go back 100 years and there is so much i can talk about. most likely i'll talk about the 06 tigers and talk about the 03 tigers. i also wanna bring something to engage the audience but i'm not sure what. anybody got ideas of what i can do?

[ypsieast]

Focus on the celebration after closing out the ALDS. Put it in the perspective of how far the team has come since 2003, how much it meant to the fans, how the team celebrated with the fans because of the disappointing celebrationless end of the season. You can print pictures of the celebration to show/pass out.

[iceteebone]

i got access to a computer with a projector. i was gonna do a powerpoint and maybe play one of the youtube videos of magglio's walkoff against oakland, but youtube removed the video the one guy did on here where he substituted dickerson's call with the fox broadcast

[LeFlorean]

In 1990, I did a presentation on the Expos teams of the '80s ("A Decade of Expos"). But it's the wrong team and the wrong era. The speech is on an outdated floppy and the diagrams only work on specific overhead projectors. At any rate, five bucks plus S&H via Paypal and it's yours.

[Shinzaki]

I would focus on the celebration as a part of the team's unique relationship to the city and it's residents.

The Tigers and the Wings have never stepped foot outside the city limits. The 1968 team was credited with helping the city heal after the 1967 riots, the 1984 team gave the city it's first winner in decades and gave it a shot in the arm imagewise (that the rioting knuckleheads pissed away) the 2006 team spontaneously participated in the most heart warming and sincere celebration I've ever seen from professional athletes.

The Tigers have a connection to this city that not even 13 straight seasons of abject futility and mismanagement could sever...I would talk about that...

[Zakk_Wylde]

In 1990, I did a presentation on the Expos teams of the '80s ("A Decade of Expos"). But it's the wrong team and the wrong era. The speech is on an outdated floppy and the diagrams only work on specific overhead projectors. At any rate, five bucks plus S&H via Paypal and it's yours.

Excellent promotion of plagurism. Way to set a good example :cool:

[Tyrus]

That's a good idea, Shinzaki. I think if he focuses on the sociological aspects of the Tigers, and their effect on the community, he will hold the interest of people who may not necessarily be baseball fans.

As you said, he could talk about the 1968 and 1984 teams, and how they helped soothe some community problems, and bring that home to 2006, with Michigan's tough economical straits, and how people found a happy diversion with the Tigers.

You could have visuals...one of the papers printed a picture of a 1968 celebration, with a mixed-race crowd. Maybe a few pix of abandoned buildings in Detroit to illustrate how desolate things are....

[iceteebone]

most of my audience is in their early 20's so i don't know how much i wanna go back to 84 and 68. i was at game 3 of the alds so i can took about personal experience and show photos i took of the game. i know the audience doesn't know muc about the tigers cause i did a pre-presentation quiz and hardly no one could guess the last year they made the playoffs.

[Mr.MelissaG915]

Do your own homework. You have a brain. Use it.

Do something different. Don't just do the basic history blah, blah, blah, but do it from a different perspective. (bat boy, beer vendor, blade of grass, cigar smoking fan, etc.)

[iceteebone]

i'm not asking for people to do the work, i want ideas on what would interest people and what i should focus on. i'm more then capable of doing the work, this is brainstorming.

[jadefalcon]

I would focus on the celebration as a part of the team's unique relationship to the city and it's residents.

The Tigers and the Wings have never stepped foot outside the city limits. The 1968 team was credited with helping the city heal after the 1967 riots, the 1984 team gave the city it's first winner in decades and gave it a shot in the arm imagewise (that the rioting knuckleheads pissed away) the 2006 team spontaneously participated in the most heart warming and sincere celebration I've ever seen from professional athletes.

The Tigers have a connection to this city that not even 13 straight seasons of abject futility and mismanagement could sever...I would talk about that...

Yes, do this. This is a fantastic idea that can turn an okay topic into a great one. Go back and give historical perspective into how the Tigers affected the community and their place in the history of this community instead of just saying how awesome the Tigers are, even if they are, in fact, awesome (which they are :classic:).

[Corky]

Focus on the hobo with the sign. Build a presentation around him.

[iceteebone]

Yes, do this. This is a fantastic idea that can turn an okay topic into a great one. Go back and give historical perspective into how the Tigers affected the community and their place in the history of this community instead of just saying how awesome the Tigers are, even if they are, in fact, awesome (which they are :classic:).


i like that idea cause i don't have to harp too much on the 68 or 84 series, and i can quickly bring it back to current times

[Kdoogie24]

lol eat em up

[whitecapwendy]

Actually, if your audience is in their twenties, they probably know very little about the 68 season. It might be interesting to compare and contrast the two seasons. What the Tigers did for the community in 68 and how they reached out and celebrated with the community after the ALCS would be kind of fun. Especially since the baseball commissioner put a ban on spraying the crowd with champagne--that cannot happen again. a true historical moment. But a compare/contrast visual of the two seasons would even teach some in the classs that perhaps think they know a little about the team.