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How words can change the world?

“Words can change the world”. We may think this sounds cool that through words we can faze everyone’s thought. It perhaps happens when we deliver speech in front of a huge of people as president. However, it’s also possible for everyone unexcept students to do the same. Before having a real thousand fascinated audiences, we may begin with joining speech contest. Many people do not know that speech contest change or even develop some skills. Even for the students, speech contest enhances the student’s crucial abilities in term of both personal and practical skills.

People occasionally think the first impression is when they listen to somebody else at glance. Moreover, students as the academic people, they are required to have good communication in temrs of interacting with people. It allows students to communicate with others clearly and effectively. If students are unable to express the idea, people may have a hard time to understand their thoughts. Therefore, through this speech contest, students accustom to speak on the stage and know how they can develop their communication skill in order to influence and convince audiences. In speech contest, students are also able to sharpen their self-confidence. Some students have good communication, but when they have to face a huge of audiences, they get tremble. It is because they are not ready yet to show themselves. Therefore, self-confidence actually can be built by speech contest where the speakers have to defeat their fear and being nervous on the stage. In addition, speech contest is the place to share ideas, informations and also opinions. Through this way, students are trained to be critical thinkers on how they react and respond the phenomena around them.

On the other hand, speech contest is not only developing personal skills, but also practical skills. Words can influence people thoughts. It’s exactly can exist when the speakers talk and the audiences have to listen to only the speaker’s speech. This is the chance to affect the audiences by the well-organized words. Therefore, it’s great for the students to practice this earlier before they finally live in the real life. While sharing the ideas, speech contest is somehow the place to entertain the audiences. The speakers are asked to present the speech as interesting as possible. Therefore, in this case, the students will apply the steps to deliver a good speech in term of how the speakers have to choose the tittle, arrange the speech, and attract audiences. Like other contest, we will also denitely find many participants wo will join it. This widely opens a chance for the students to have larger network.

Someone will be considered as the great person when she or he changes the world. It is seemingly impossible for the students to change the world. Nevertheless, by 40 years later students  will have been the stakeholder of the society even can change the world. Due to the fact that speech contest can improve and develop some skills which directs the students to be the leader, so as early as possible, students are recommended to join speech contest. Mr.Obama’s statement “Words can change the world” strongly proves and affirms that through speech contest, students may change people’s thought and the world.