Spoken Word Presentations

I thought that the other presentations that went on Thursday were all really interesting and that the videos shown were all really helpful. I was particularly struck by the spoken word/slam poetry videos. It was so impressive how much emotion and what issues and feelings people could get across through just speaking. I had no idea that there was still a culture of people doing things like that, even though I'd always seen it in movies. I think that the performers shown had an incredibly effective way of getting their message across, and I think more people should watch things like that and think about the issues they brought up.