Dan Murphy

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I have been teaching middle school social studies for 17 years. On many occasions, my students and colleagues have commented on how they enjoy listening to me speak. Furthermore, I recently finished law school and while completing the program many professors and classmates said that I would be an effective trial lawyer because I have a voice juries would like to listen to. Recently, at a graduation ceremony where I gave a speech, a woman in the audience approached me and suggested that I should do voiceover work. Bachelors in American Studies, Masters in Education, Juris Doctor None. My experience in the classroom doing "5 shows" a day has taught me that I am as much an entertainer as I am an educator. How I say it can be equally, if not more important than what I say. If "my audience" does not want to listen to me then the content is irrelevant. Furthermore, in my training in law school, I learned that my success was not wholly dependent on the facts of the case I had to argue for or against. My demeanor, as well as voice projection, inflection and modulation would also play an important role in persuading the judge and/or jury.