Reflections of a Speech

The last presentation I went to was one about the Maya calendar. The speaker was discussing how the calendar in no way represents the end of the world in 2012. He used a power-points indicating how the Maya’s used astronomy to calculate the days and years into these calendars. That’s right, there’s more than one. I felt like for the audience, his lecture was designed for listeners who were majoring in the same field. Some of it was difficult to understand, even with the media presentation. I think he tried simplifying his speech by integrating images and graphs into the media. It would have been nicer if he broke down the mathematical aspect better. For a two-hour lecture, he did fairly well. Eventually, he ended up discussing Single Impact Theory which completely threw me off. His ending didn’t recap what he discussed earlier and left a lot of questions to be desired. Luckily, he did have a Q & A towards the end, so that was nice.