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The speech I chose is a spoken word poem entitled, "Totally Like Whatever, You Know?" by Taylor Mali. I chose to do a spoken word poem over the previous speech i had, Robert F. Kennedy's Presidential Campaign 
_ Who is speaking?
Taylor Mali
_ Why was/is the speech important to society?
Mali discusses the way in which Americans today interact and speak. He claims that there is no longer any conviction in the way people speak, rather apathy and a general sense of underwhelming.
_ Why do you feel it is important or interesting? 
I think this speech is interesting because it is a funny approach to considering an issue that really is prevalent in American culture. It is also interesting because I think it's something that people don't consider, but are faced with daily.
_ What is the emotion, mood, tone, personality, feeling of the speech?
The overall mood of the speech is light hearted, funny, and sarcastic.
_ What is intonation, emphasis, what is loud, stressed, or soft. Where are there pauses... 
The overall speech is very varied in regards to emphasis, as that is a large part of spoken word. He used pauses to accentuate certain things and to create humor.
_ What do you FEEL should be loud or soft, long pause or rushed?
I feel as though there could be more more pausing in the latter part of the speech because it feels a bit crammed.
_ Is there a call to action? When listening to it what are key/emphasized words? 
The call to action is to be more assertive, to openly say what you feel. The emphasized words are "like" and "you know", the things that make speech casual and passive.
_ How does it make you feel? 
The speech makes me laugh and feel a little silly as I use the word "like" quite often..
_ How do imagine that the audience felt? 
I think the audience felt similarly, as the purpose of the speech is to be humorous and thought provoking.
_ Could there be another interpretation of the speech?
I don't think so, maybe condescending?
_ Write/find a short bio, of the person giving the speech. 

As a slam poetry performer, Taylor Mali has been on seven National Poetry Slam teams; six appeared on the finals stage and four won the competition (1996 with Team Providence; 1997, 2000 and 2002 with Team NYC-Urbana). Mali is the author of What Learning Leaves and the Last Time as We Are (Write Bloody Publishing), has recorded four CDs, and is included in various anthologies. Poets who have influenced him include Billy Collins, Saul Williams, Walt Whitman, Rives, Mary Oliver, and Naomi Shihab Nye. He is perhaps best known for the poem "What Teachers Make."

He appeared in Taylor Mali & Friends Live at the Bowery Poetry Club and the documentaries "SlamNation" (1997) and "Slam Planet" (2006). He was also in the HBO production, "Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry," which won a Peabody Award in 2003. Taylor Mali is the former president of Poetry Slam Incorporated, and he has performed with such renowned poets as Billy Collins and Allen Ginsberg. Although he retired from the National Poetry Slam competition in 2005,^[6] he still helps curate NYC-Urbana Poetry Series, held weekly at the Bowery Poetry Club.