Experiment with the Strategies in This Chapter - ? Consider the following descri

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Experiment with the Strategies in This Chapter - ? Consider the following descriptions of possible audiences for your next speech. After each description, list at least one strategy you might use to adapt your speech to the audience. Explain why you think each strategy might work. Your audience consists of undergraduate students between ages 18 and 23 who attend your school: Your audience consists of local community members between ages 40 and 65. All of them have completed at least two years of college: Your audience includes local community members and students from ages 20 to 70. Half of them voted a straight Democratic ticket in the last presidential election;the other half voted straight Republican

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NOTE for the below answers : Not exactly sure why this is under Other Math but this is a Pre-Algebra textbook. So I'll try seeing it that way. You can apply the concept of probability to the below answers to make a decision probabilistically. For part 1), if there is a 0.8 chance that you think your audience is more or less in a state of uncertainty, then you need to decide if that's a good enough odd to go ahead with the according content.

For part 3), it's a universal crowd of all ages and all political demographics. So, probabilistically, there's a very less chance of a possibility to cater to one section of the crowd without alienating the other.  

1) When your audience is composed of undergraduates, you have to imagine the state of mind of the general audience and what they're looking for. You need to judge probabilistically as to the content of your speech as obviously you can't relate to every single audience member, but the majority of the audience you can. The age in question is that concerned with confusion and uncertainty, undergraduates who aren't really sure what to do with their lives and in a moulding age. Thus, the strategy that needs to be employed is that of a guiding voice, and to really say something that you wished you had heard back when you were 20. The advice given would definitely go a long way in someone else's future and that's the strategy plan to execute in that situation.

2) In this case, a lot of emphasis needs to be given on the respect you give your audience. They are senior members of society and you can't go around throwing around your opinion. A word that would be well suited is cautious optimism. You've got to place yourself in a position that it's clear that you respect everyone's opinion and are nowhere close to being arrogant or narrow minded. Your message needs to be communicated well enough keeping in mind their varying education levels as well and it needs to be simple and universal such that it reaches out to your audience.

3) This seems likea normal homogenous crowd in a way that there's no specific demographic here. It's anyone and everyone here at this point, and in my opinion, since there's no real section to cater to, your speech should be as universal and as relatable as possible where in a 20 year old under grad and a 70 year old stauch army veteran might appreciate it. The message of the speech cannot afford to be specific or something only a section of audience will relate to.

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