Rhetorical Analysis Of Dr. King's Speech
a. What were the speaker’s goals of the speech? (Recall the three main goals that we discussed in class).
To pose a question for society and try to answer it in the best way he can but also in hopes for someone to find an exact answer one day, also to reignite the people to think more about space and future interactions with our people or other beings.
b. Discuss the historical or societal context in which this speech falls. For example, Dr. King’s speech was delivered during a time when marginalized communities were searching for a leader to move them out of discrimination.
The societal context in which this speech falls under is that one, it is held at one of the iconic TED x talk conferences in 2008 and is a speech that brings in …show more content…
I have been very lucky that my disability has not been a serious handicap. Indeed, it has probably given me more time than most people to pursue the quest for knowledge. The ultimate goal is a complete theory of the universe, and we are making good progress.” As we can see Stephan hawking starts from his disability then starts talking about a pursuit for knowledge then ends of to find a complete theory of the universe, Stephan also uses antistrophe we see this in “The first is that we have fossils of algae from 3.5 billion years ago. The Earth was formed 4.6 billion years ago and was probably too hot for about the first half billion years. So life appeared on Earth within half a billion years of it being possible, which is short compared to the 10-billion-year lifetime of a planet of Earth type. “Stephan is constantly using the billion mark to reiterate how long ago the formation of earth took, Stephan also used hypophora, hypophora is a figure of reasoning in which one or more questions or objections is asked or stated and then answered by the speaker, reasoning aloud Stephan Hawking throughout the beginning of this speech used hypophora in the beginning he made questions and then attempted to solve them. “Where did we come from? How did the universe come into being? Are we alone in the universe? Is there alien life out there? What is the future of the human
To pose a question for society and try to answer it in the best way he can but also in hopes for someone to find an exact answer one day, also to reignite the people to think more about space and future interactions with our people or other beings.
b. Discuss the historical or societal context in which this speech falls. For example, Dr. King’s speech was delivered during a time when marginalized communities were searching for a leader to move them out of discrimination.
The societal context in which this speech falls under is that one, it is held at one of the iconic TED x talk conferences in 2008 and is a speech that brings in …show more content…
I have been very lucky that my disability has not been a serious handicap. Indeed, it has probably given me more time than most people to pursue the quest for knowledge. The ultimate goal is a complete theory of the universe, and we are making good progress.” As we can see Stephan hawking starts from his disability then starts talking about a pursuit for knowledge then ends of to find a complete theory of the universe, Stephan also uses antistrophe we see this in “The first is that we have fossils of algae from 3.5 billion years ago. The Earth was formed 4.6 billion years ago and was probably too hot for about the first half billion years. So life appeared on Earth within half a billion years of it being possible, which is short compared to the 10-billion-year lifetime of a planet of Earth type. “Stephan is constantly using the billion mark to reiterate how long ago the formation of earth took, Stephan also used hypophora, hypophora is a figure of reasoning in which one or more questions or objections is asked or stated and then answered by the speaker, reasoning aloud Stephan Hawking throughout the beginning of this speech used hypophora in the beginning he made questions and then attempted to solve them. “Where did we come from? How did the universe come into being? Are we alone in the universe? Is there alien life out there? What is the future of the human