{"id":284,"date":"2015-08-23T10:28:29","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T10:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/?p=284"},"modified":"2015-10-11T17:24:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T17:24:30","slug":"activity-4-debate-competition-in-lit-hum-fest-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/?p=284","title":{"rendered":"Activity 4: Debate Competition in Lit. Hum. Fest | Creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I participated in the Inter House Debate Competition that was a part of the Literature and Humanities Fest. The topic of the debate was &#8220;Is competition necessary?&#8221; and our house had to speak AGAINST the topic.<\/p>\n<p>I was confident of my public speaking and debating skills and the competition gave me the opportunity to hone them. However, was apprehensive of advocating for something that I myself am against, but then I decided to analyse the topic from an emotional perspective , which is new for me, because usually I rely on well, researched, logical points in debates. This shift in method gave me the opportunity to develop a new skill, which is persuasion using pathos. I was able to use the techniques of persuasion (fear, shock value) that we were taught in English class while I wrote the opening speech for the debate, and it made me glad that I was able to apply bookish knowledge to real life.<\/p>\n<p>It was also a good experience to debate with a team, because usually when I go to MUNs, I am on my own. Debating collaboratively made me realize how different people are able to connect different real life situations and examples to a given topic which lead to to the understanding that different people have different ways of saying the same thing, and that all the ways are unique and correct.<\/p>\n<p>I was also glad that the competition gave me a platform to speak up about something I feel strongly about; the stress and harm that competitive exams inflict on students. It good know that teachers were able to empathize with the stress that students undergo. I hope that my speech changes the way we are burdened with homework and test!<\/p>\n<p>Overall, though the arguments that I made had a lot of room for improvement, I am happy with my participation and performance in the competition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_52221.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-289 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_52221-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5222\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_52221-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_52221-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I participated in the Inter House Debate Competition that was a part of the Literature and Humanities Fest. The topic of the debate was &#8220;Is competition necessary?&#8221; and our house had to speak AGAINST the topic. I was confident of my public speaking and debating skills and the competition gave me the opportunity to hone them. However, was apprehensive of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aashna-mehul-jain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}