by Steve Jobs in one of his speeches‚ which signified the level of confidence and faith he had in his work. The only way to be satisfied is to do great work‚ which can be attained only by loving your own work. This was the main idea of his commencement speech in Stanford University. He was a born hero as even after going through serious difficulties in his career life‚ he still had that faith and confidence in himself‚ which made him the CEO of a two billion dollar company. He dropped out from college
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ENGL101 Final May 15‚ 2012 Invention Conan O’Brien gave his commencement speech at Dartmouth in 2011‚ congratulating the graduating class and imparting a few words of wisdom.During his speech‚ he appealed mostly to pathos and ethos‚ being as this was a commencement speech‚ there wasn’t very much need to appeal to logos using stats or facts. He used pathos to appeal to the graduating students by telling about his falling out with NBC and how he came back to fame with his talk show on TBS. He
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crowds go wild at the very mention of his name. Girls swoon each time he flashes his bare torso on screen (which is quite often). Gossip rags work overtime fishing out juicy tidbits from his personal life: a brawl here‚ an alleged affair there.... And Salman Khan keeps mum through it all. The eldest son of writer Salim Khan claims he isn’t here to please anyone‚ and doesn’t care what the world thinks of him. He hates the press and loathes the idea of answering questions. But he’s one of Hindi cinema’s
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Messimore Luis Marin English 1013-036 2 September 2014 Kenyon Commencement Speech David Foster Wallace gave a speech called Kenyon Commencement Speech to the Kenyon College in 2005. He delivered the message that a change in thinking can save citizens from the daily grind of their eight to five jobs. Wallace gave examples of this point in his speech starting with a fish in water‚ a person in a crowd‚ and how not to think. Wallace started his speech with a short story about an older fish asking a couple
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graduation. He used one question at the beginning of the speech that caught the audience’s curiosity‚ "Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes?" He then branched out from there to discuss more important issues. This question helped him create an invitational environment. I think asking a question also helped him show a sense of organization and importance to the issue of why he was there. From the commencement of the speech‚ Billy Joel set a personable and comfortable tone. He spoke
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degree never oblige one to do anything. Rather‚ the choice belongs to the graduate. Throughout her commencement speech at Bowie State University‚ Obama repeatedly announces that graduates have the duty to educate future generations for the sake of giving meaning to their past; she urges them to keep alive the hunger for knowledge and improvement. In her Bowie State University Commencement Speech‚ Michelle Obama utilizes historical events to relay her point which states that graduates have the obligation
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Javier Hernando Ortega Cuellar Universidad Nacional De Colombia Philology and Languages: English Written Communication IV August 20 – 2010 Steve Jobs Commencement Speech’s Review. “I’m honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told‚ I never graduated from college‚ and this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today‚ I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories
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In this commencement speech‚ Wallace talks about the idea of choosing what and how to think about things. To help illustrate this‚ he talks about living in the day-to-day existence of adult life and how the way you choose to think will keeping you from being absolutely miserable in it. Wallace talks about the default way of thinking; specifically‚ thinking self centeredly in the day-to-day routine. This thinking doesn’t help you cope or deal with the daily frustrations of real life and will keep
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Commencement for Women’s Rights On May 22‚ 1983‚ Ursula K. Le Guin delivered a commencement speech to the graduating class of Mills College in Oakland‚ California‚ the first women’s college west of the Rocky Mountains (Graveline). Le Guin took an unusual approach to this commencement speech‚ focusing her words on the controversial topic of gender equality. This speech not only empowered the women of her graduating class‚ but also highlighted the extreme differences in the qualities of women compared
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“Americans are likely to share Rushdie’s enthusiasm for migration‚ for the ‘hybridity’ and the transformation that comes of new and expected combination of human beings and cultures.” (27-31) Scott Russell Sanders does not agree with Salman Rushdie nor does he see the positives in migrating to a new place. He develops his views by showing how society has pushes migration all throughout history and explains all the potential harm that could come to environments and species. Sanders also takes the
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