In his emotionally charged speech given to the 2018 graduating class at Lesley University‚ Jason Reynolds inspires and encourages his audience through the telling of a personal story and the repetition of similar sounds to share the importance of being there for others while still striving to be their best. Jason Reynolds tells a personal story in order to catch the interest of his audience. He tells the story of a high school teacher who taught him that “sometimes doing the right thing has consequences”
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Faulkner’s speech was short. He introduces his main point at the beginning of the second paragraph‚ “Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it.”.He was speaking in 1950. The Cold War between the United States and the U.S.S.R. had begun. Both sides were building more and more atomic weapons. The U.S.S. R. was building enormous long-range missiles to deliver the atomic warheads anywhere in America. The U.S. had short-range missiles
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Madelein Albright‚ the United States Secretary of State‚ gave a commencement speech to the graduating class of Mount Holyoke College in 1997. With that being a women’s college in Massachusetts‚ Albright uses emotional appeal‚ examples‚ descriptions and metaphors to inspire and motivate the graduating class to continue achieving greatness‚ especially as women in society. To begin‚ Albright starts off her speech by appealing to the audience’s emotions. She does this by saying‚ “as individuals‚ each
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President Trump’s Inauguration Speech President Trump started by accusing the administrations that have been there before him‚ including that of Barrack Obama‚ of minding their own selfish interests leaving the people of America to bear the costs and sufferings. He talked of politicians prospering while many people are jobless. However‚ by January 2017‚ statistics show that there more people employed in the US that any other time in the American history. This statement by Trump only speaks to how
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Nixon for the positive first term momentous national victories he achieved or for his dedication to the American people. His final speech in office was an emotional appeal to the people to retrieve some of his dignity and to quell the sourness left by his crimes. Nixon’s pathos becomes a crutch for him in this final speech. In listening to the vocal reading of the speech there is heaviness to his words as he reflects upon this solemnly‚ “I would have preferred to carry through to the finish whatever
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what he is saying by the end of his speech. Gladwell‚ in the speech on school shootings is very convincing. There are three main devices he used in order to get his point across which is reasoning‚ emotion‚ and credibility. Here I will be explaining how he has come to use each device to win over the majority of his audience. Gladwell uses reasoning throughout his speech and does so very well to get his audience on a foundation of facts. One part of the speech he talks about is a person’s thresh
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universal themes that are significant despite the period in time and the audience to which they are delivered or in our case‚ studied. They challenge their audience’s perception of society and inspire them to ask questions and seek answers. In order for a speech to achieve textual integrity it must have ongoing contextual
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Purpose: General and specific purpose (and implied if different from stated purpose) The general purpose for the speech is to urge all countries to join the Convention on Cluster Munitions for starters. Essentially a ‘cease and desist letter’ to both producers and consumers of cluster munitions. On other hand‚ specific purpose of the speech is to demonstrate aside from the obvious fatalities caused by cluster bombs‚ there are adverse effects as well on the survivors and their communities. Non-verbal
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British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain gave this speech to the House of Commons on September 1st‚ 1939‚ hours after Hitler’s troops had invaded Poland. Chamberlain and others had spent years negotiating with Hitler in order to prevent another war in Europe. The point of this speech is too inform people of what Hitler has done and of what the British response will be. In the beginning of his speech‚ Neville Chamberlain reminds you of his qualifications and actions as leader by stating‚ “Eighteen
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On November 19‚ 1863 the 16th President Abraham Lincoln recited a speech long to be remembered in the great nation of America. Lincoln makes major statements throughout the duration of the speech; He also shifts from the focus of honoring the soldiers with this ground to telling the people that “we” as the people need to honor this nation by committing to its survival. In this speech Lincoln states at the end of the second paragraph “We have come to dedicate a portion of that field‚ as a final resting
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