and I believe we have not subsided from these ideals completely. These key ideals by our founding fathers can be seen daily in our American lives. I strongly believe that the key ideals of the enlightenment still apply today in our country. Before we used reason and logic to answer our questions and conclude our ideas‚ we used thoughts of superstition. These thoughts were later seen as ineffective and not credible. To emphasize the use of reason and logic Patrick Henry states in his speech‚ Speech
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I think the speech I connected with the most in the opening ceremony was the main speech given by Dr. Marie LePage. It was not the whole speech‚ just one paragraph. Doctor LePage said that even though she had all this expertise in her field‚ sometimes she had this doubt that she belonged there with her colleagues‚ or even that she did not know she was doing. I missed a large portion of the next part of the speech because I was stuck ruminating on this confession of Dr. LePage. I had been struggling
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During Kennedy’s speech‚ he addresses the audience of the news conference‚ and he tries to inform the public about the inflation of steel prices and the effect on the public because of it. Throughout President Kennedy’s speech about the rise of inflation on steel prices he puts all of the blame on the companies to attempt to make them feel sympathy. In Kennedy’s speech he first explains to the public how these companies are practically taking the money right out of the public’s pockets. President
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Commencement speech‚ Jobs divides his speech into three parts. Trust in your future‚ don’t give up on what you love‚ and keep having the desire to do your passion. Overall Jobs urges us to see great value in our lives. Understanding what Steve Jobs has experienced‚ I feel compelled to agree with his statements about how we should live our lives. Within the three divisions of his speech‚ Jobs also has the other messages for those who have read and or heard his speech. In his first part of the speech Jobs
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The speech I chose to analyze is Steve Jobs’ speech at the Stanford University Commencement Ceremony in 2005. The speech was available for viewing online and was about 15 minutes long. Steve Jobs’ speech was captivating‚ effective‚ and relevant in many ways. Jobs’ exercised an effective use of organization‚ tone and rate‚ and audience awareness. Jobs use of clear organization provided for a speech that was easy to follow and maintained the attention of his audience. From the beginning‚ Jobs got
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Informative Speech: Dreams I. Introduction A. Attention Getter: “Dreams feel real while we ’re in them. It ’s only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.” (Inception‚ The Movie) Everyone dreams‚ but we all wonder “Why we have the dreams that we do?” or even “What do our dreams mean?” B. Relevance of topics to audience: Dreams are something you can’t just avoid‚ everyone has them if you want to or not. Even if you don’t remember them you still have them. Most of
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In Douglass’ speech‚ his tone mainly appeals to emotions. He engages the listeners emotionally by stating his opinion over the topic of slavery. Douglass states‚ “My subject‚ then‚ fellow-citizens‚ is AMERICAN SLAVERY. I shall see this day and its popular characteristics from the slave’s point of view‚” (52-54). This quote from his speech goes to show that he is standing up as a person who has actually experienced times of slavery. There is a great deal of credibility in Douglass’ writing because
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Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech. He was a man of courage and conviction. He was a revolutionary and a peace-maker. Most of us wouldn’t think we were capable of dreaming these BIG DREAMS – a grand vision for ourselves and for the world we live in. But I challenge each of us to do just that today‚ in memory of a great man. Each of us carries a dream within us. Our job is to give it voice. Let’s have the courage and audacity to dream and claim our own BIG DREAM. Better yet‚ write it
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The key phrases that I have identified are Negro and America from the beginning sentences. The correlation that I notice with the use of these phrases is that he is expressing to the public that a change needs to occur for America to create unity and equality for the Blacks to be included in society. In the following sentences from his speech‚ he expresses how no change has happened over the course of time towards the Black population. “But one hundred years later‚ we must face the tragic fact that
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scholarship to study in America. He goes on to speak of his mother a young girl from Kansas. Obama speaks of his grandparents who had bigger dreams for their children. With this statement Obama shows that America is the land of opportunity‚ where people from different countries get a chance to live their dreams. When he speaks of his parents having bigger dreams for him stating “They imagined me going to the best
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