Go Back To Where You Came From Persuasive Speech

Every day individuals can encounter discoveries, which may have been planned or unintentional. These discoveries can be fresh and intensely meaningful for an individual, allowing them to speculate about future possibilities. Through my analysis of ‘Go Back to Where you Came From’ by Ivan O’Mahoney and ‘You Are Not Your Body’ by Janine Shepherd, I have been able to explore how texts can display how the ramifications of the individuals’ discoveries differ from each other due to their previous social contexts and values. These texts, therefore, allow an audience to see how the individuals’ breakthroughs offer them with new understandings of themselves and others.
Individuals can be given opportunities that allow them to be placed in new situations where they can gain a fresh and new perspective of the world. This is what the documentary TV series ‘Go Back to Where You Came From’ by Ivan O’Mahoney did. The TV program allowed an audience to follow the confronting journey that six
A discovery like this, allows an individual the chance to embrace an opportunity to find themselves and also reassess who they are. “You are not your body” is an empowering and moving speech given by Janine Shepherd about how the recovery from her accident changed her forever. All the way through this speech, she uses a variety of language techniques which provided a chance for the audience to feel engaged as they invited into her self-discovery. Janine utilises rhetorical questions to emphasise her vulnerability at moments and to show her changes. “Why me?...Why not me” are two rhetorical questions she makes to show the audience a time of self-acceptance after her accident when she begins to makes her change. The personal discovery she made here, allowed her to have a change of view as she realised that the direction from rock bottom, is