First Speech Question

1. Public speaking is the number one fear in America. Death is number two. Why? what make public speaking so scary to people?

   In my opinion, people afraid to public speaking for several reasons. First of all, most of the people do not familiar to public speaking, and don't used to speak in front numbers of people, and that create a pressure.  People feel stress to do it.  Next reason is the risk of being rejected, people afraid of speaking in public because there is a a risk of being rejected.  For example, a politician share one of his politics which wasn't so welcomed to others.  The others dislike the politician because of it even though the politician might has others good politics.  Public speaking is so powerful and also effective, but it also has the negative affect.
   My own experience, my past english class often had presentation, and I had to present my idea in front of the whole class, even that was a 20 people class I could feel the stress. I was afraid that people would feel bored during my speech, maybe they don't want to listen to me, or they disagree with me, maybe they have better reason and make my speech seems meaningless.  There were many other reasons I felt stress. The way I over came the stress is keep telling myself I am only talking to 20 people and i just need to say what I had prepared and I don't need to care the others.

2. In your opinion, what makes a speech good/interesting? What makes a speech bad?

   For me, a good speech it has to connect with the audiences in someway.  It doesn't matter it is a informative, persuasive, entertainment, or any other type of speech.