July 15
Speaker Critique of George Lucas Inspirational Speech This video is in the speech held by Academy of Achievement. The Academy of Achievement is a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit organization that aims to bring high profile, successful people from various fields together with "young achievers" to inspire them to succeed. The speaker of this video is George Lucas, which is the creator of Star Wars and it is in Aug 12, 2013, Washington D.C. George Lucas talk about his life experience and the advice for entrepreneurs and students for about 11 minutes long. In his speech, I feel he really want to share his personal suggestion based on his life experience. He want his audience could accept his suggestion and makes his suggestion be helpful for his audience in future. He always give suggestion after he give a story of his successful life experience. For example, He suggested his audience “do what your parent don’t want you to do but do it inside you” because he is succeed in film industry but his father didn’t want him to do this. The occasion in this speech has two parts. First one is audience expectation. Because the Academy of Achievement is a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit organization that aims to bring high profile, successful people from various fields together with "young achievers" to inspire them to succeed. The audience in this speech want to be inspired by his speech and his life experience. They want to learn the key that these people can be succeed in life. Therefore, they really want to hear suggestion from him. The second part is surrounding events. Because of Academy of Achievement is a series of speech, many speaker gave speech before him. He mentioned these speaker talked about happiness in their speech. Then, he give his own opinion about happiness. He consider these two point in his speech. Therefore, he mainly talked about his success in life and give suggestion. Because of the properties of the Academy of