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    In poet Rita Dove’s 2016 commencement address‚ she outlines a large difference between what the definitions of a commencement speaker and a poet are – that is to "dispense life advice" or leave well wishes with the graduating class – to introduce the structure of her speech. Through the use of personal anecdotes describing her success with these "wishes"‚ as well as providing examples of other successful public figures‚ Dove encourages the University of Virginia at Charlottesville graduating class

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    livelihood of most life on Earth‚ it could be considered an “important reality.” In David Foster Wallace’s commencement speech‚ “This is Water” to the 2005 graduating class of Kenyon College‚ Wallace states that “the most obvious‚ ubiquitous‚ important realities are often the ones that are the hardest to see and talk about.” (Wallace) Despite the necessity for air‚ most take its beautiful existence for granted. Wallace believes unawareness leads to unhappiness‚ and thus wants his audience to actively

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    sets Antony in motion to deceive his murderers into allowing him to speak to Rome. In his speech to the Romans‚ Antony turns Rome against Brutus using repetition to convey the irony in his own speech and discredit Brutus‚ as well as‚ applying meter to add emphasis to the mutiny‚ and contrast Brutus’s speech allowing him to connect with his countrymen. Repetition is used powerfully throughout Antony’s speech to convey a multitude of thoughts‚ however‚ the repetition particularly lends to the irony

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    Through the speech‚ you are expected to change the audience’s point of view within a short period. It may seem difficult‚ but‚ in reality‚ it is not. Remember that the key lies in the speech topic that you have chosen. It is essential to look for a speech topic that is contemporary and fascinating to the audience. Persuasive speech topics should be based on themes and ideas that the audience strongly feels about or may easily relate to. You should choose a topic that interests you. It will be

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    "The Commencement Speech You’ll Never Hear" Reading Journal” In the essay written by Jacob Neusner‚ “The Commencement Speech You’ll Never Hear" it talks about the way that schools do prepare students‚ which the writer mentioned it as something that is not useful. Furthermore‚ in the essay‚ the writer mentioned that Many schools and colleges nowadays do prepare students for the unreal world and does not make people ready for the real life. Moreover‚ he said that in the college if a person faced a

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    the public to a particular point of view. Heath defines rhetoric as the art of persuasion. Likewise Elwood defines rhetoric as “the communicative means that citizens use to lend significance to themselves and to extend that significance to others‚” claiming that public relations itself is a rhetorical practice. Sproul (1988) has his own explanation and description of the “new managerial rhetoric.” Sproul explains that historically‚ rhetoric has been a tool focused on more greatly‚ but not exclusively

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    Rhetorical Situation and Kairos Lloyd F. Bitzer described the concept of the rhetorical situation in his essay of the same name.1  The concept relies on understanding a moment called "exigence‚" in which something happens‚ or fails to happen‚ that compels one to speak out. For example‚ if the local school board fires a popular principal‚ a sympathetic parent might then be compelled to take the microphone at the meeting and/or write a letter to the editor. Bitzer defined the rhetorical situation

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    William Wallace Analyse the different ways in which the life‚ career and death of William Wallace has been presented over time. Support your response with source that you have studied in class. William Wallace is portrayed in many different ways‚ as both a good and bad man. There isn’t much historical evidence about William Wallace‚ so people just make up most of the information about him as you could tell such a great story. Some people believed that William Wallace was a heroic man‚ so wrote

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    In writing this parable‚ Wallace intended to remark on young people losing touch with the world around them. The older fish and the young fish are obviously representative of older and younger generations of people‚ respectively. Water surrounds fish and is quite necessary for them to survive -- basically‚ it is their life -- and the younger fish’s ignorance about this essential thing serves to represent the author’s view that younger people have grown removed from their surroundings and from essential

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    Wallace Stevens(October 2‚ 1879 – August 2‚ 1955) Career and Life * Stevens was born in Reading‚ Pennsylvania on October 2‚ 1879‚ and died at the age of seventy-six in Hartford‚ Connecticut on August 2‚ 1955.He attended Harvard as a special student from 1897 to 1900 but did not graduate; he graduated from New York law school in 1903 and was admitted to the New York bar in 1904. * The same year he met Elsie Kachel‚ a young woman from Reading‚ whom he married in 1909. They had one daughter

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