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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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    Nguyen COM 111-550 06/14/13 CHAPTER 16 REVIEW QUESTIONS 1. What is the difference between an informative speech and a persuasive speech? Why is speaking to persuade more challenging than speaking to inform? Informative speech is designed to convey knowledge of and understanding and persuasive speech is to either reinforce or changing people’s beliefs or actions. Persuasive speech is more challenging than informative because there are different points of view on the topic your discussing since

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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 David Foster Wallace’s “This is Water” he speaks about how most people are crafted with very similar thoughts in mind. According to Foster all people hold one same quality from birth. By looking at Wallace’s usage of “Default Setting”‚ we can see that their is ambiguous meaning but chiefly it is referred to as a quality that people are cursed with‚ which most readers don’t see; this is important because Wallace speaks on the notion that people are selfish and don’t consider how others feel‚ and

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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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    earth dead‚ broadcasting that what is created can be destroyed. Carbon’s malicious path did not end all those years ago‚ but instead it continues to destroy the earth and everything it inhabits. In the article "The Uninhabitable Earth"‚ the author David Wallace-Wells does an excellent job of showing what the horrific outcome of the plant will be. However‚ he fails to address the tremendous effort

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    Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech: http://news.stanford.edu/2005/06/14/jobs-061505/ (29.11.2016) (1) I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. (2) Truth be told‚ this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. (3) Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. (4) That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories. (5) The first story is about connecting the dots. (6) I dropped out

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    only that but they have to be organized. They need to be responsible and plan ahead for their speech; a speech just doesn’t make itself up the day before. Speakers also have to demonstrate writing skills. They’ll need to do extensive research in not only their topic

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    The content of the portion I feel will bring a different insight on how the elements of rhetoric are used and influenced FDR’s speech. Relating the specific elements of rhetoric to the actions taken by FDR. This can range from how he analyzed the audience using the concept of kairos‚ to the influence of Aristotle’s three forms of textual appeal and how it affected the audience. With the Roman canons of rhetoric‚ I tried to accomplish the same as with the other elements. Each canon fit in easily with

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