Living Life Biblically Forum

A. Arnold Steven Jacobs, born March 20th 1968, in New York City, Ny. he is an editor at Esquire magazine and the writer of 3 New York Times Best Sellers The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, and My Life as an Experiment.

B2 Ethos the speaker was well know for his speeches on his radical life "Quests" the speaker did not demonstrate intelligence nor good taste, and I'm doubting on common sense. Because most the things in which he told were on the same level of a book report or summary of what he wrote. he seemed taken aback with some of the questions from the crowd, as they quoted his book and asked for clarification of his messages from his year of living biblically.  

B4. The Entire speech was based on a religious cultural perspective. making the overall presentation seem like a repeating record.  It just kept looping back into how he followed most of the Bible as strictly as he could. 

C. His Speech relied on give and take, there was no order he just talked about some of the things he did while he was on his life quests. That's all he did and all he planned to do was answer questions about his life. going over the highlights of his biblical year.

D1 The Speaker used a street style of voice did not use any tone that demanded formalness. it was and hour long time spent of a man talking about his past as if it was a story we already know the plot of.

D2 Mr.Jacobs used a slide show type power point to move along his presentation so he could somehow move to a different topic he could boast about, without the audience's trigger. the images were mildly interesting drawing further attention away from the speaker. 

E1 The forum was given in an inpromtu format with now locked in course, and was much guided by pictures and the audience .
E2 the speaker was stiff and remained hidden behind the podium for the entire presentation. he was very much segregated from the audience.
E3 his appearance seemed business casual, a striped shirt how the audience responded i can not much tell because a majority of them viewed the prior forum that morning.
E4 I can not judge much on the audience's perception of the speaker, they did not telegraph their expressions. 

F the audience seemed to be able to take in some message that Jacobs was speaking about. weather it was from them reading his book prior to the lecture; or being genuinely  interested in the subject.

G  I was in no way wowed with his visual presence. I found his natural vocal tune and pitch to be unpleasant and difficult to listen to. I was very much displeased with the entire event that he was on stage. i would not say that i would not read his book, it seemed to be an intriguing autobiographic work. This presentation has entered into my top 10 disappointments of religion related professional speaking. I would not willingly view that again unless i was reassured of improvements.