Summary Of Bloomberg's Arguement Speech By Michael Bloomberg

Out of the three articles, I found Michael Bloomberg’s commencement speech the most appealing. It clearly conveys Bloomberg’s thoughts and beliefs into a reasonable message. Bloomberg gives statistics and reasonable statements as to why freedom of speech, especially on college campuses, should be protected and valued. He states “Tolerance for other people’s ideas, and the freedom to express your own, are inseparable values at great universities.” Bloomberg speaks on how important different ideas and conflicting opinions are vital to human growth. He also criticizes professors and university faculty members for being to homogenous in their political views. To conclude his commencement speech, Bloomberg pleads with the graduating students to
One could argue that Bloomberg’s criticism of University faculty was too much and was a weakness of his dialogue. Bloomberg seems to have included on fallacies in his speech.
Bloomberg uses a proportional amount of emotional appeal to keep an audience with varying beliefs interested. He references the mosque building protests in our post 9-11 world to make an emotional appeal to the audience, which is a prime example of Aristotle’s pathos reasoning of argument. Bloomberg’s speech has the perfect balance of light-heartedness and thought-provoking depth. His speech does not lack personal emotion which makes it easy for his audience to pay attention.
Bloomberg makes use of polls and statistics in his speech. He references the Federal Election Commission’s 2012 presidential race data which reveals ninety-six percent of campaign contributions from Ivy League faculty members were donated to Barack Obama. He makes use of this last statistic to make a logos appeal by saying that Americans should pause and wonder whether students are getting exposed to a diverse range of political