Bravery: The Kidnapping You’ll Never Guess The End is written by Barbara Wersba. This book is about a young teenager named Joel. His story is that out of the ordinary‚ as his older brother becomes a celebrity overnight. JJ‚ his brother‚ lived the life of a typical teenager. Sleepless nights‚ video games and flirting with girls was part of his daily routine. Joel has lived in his brothers shadow ever since‚ as his parents mainly focused on JJ and his fame. Till one day‚ things happen and that changed
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recent discussions of the value of a Liberal Arts education‚ David Foster Wallace argues that the most important aspect of such is learning to have an awareness of one’s surroundings. In his address to a college graduating class‚ called “Kenyon Commencement Speech‚” he tells of his concerns that too much of our daily lives is focused on ourselves and too little on paying attention to things around us. We’re only concerned about our point of view when we should be open to more possibilities. An example
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gave his commencement speech at Dartmouth in 2011‚ congratulating the graduating class and imparting a few words of wisdom.During his speech‚ he appealed mostly to pathos and ethos‚ being as this was a commencement speech‚ there wasn’t very much need to appeal to logos using stats or facts. He used pathos to appeal to the graduating students by telling about his falling out with NBC and how he came back to fame with his talk show on TBS. He said “I am here to tell you that whatever you think your
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cherished. You never know what is going to happen in life‚ so we have to take it day by day. Life is a beautiful thing that could get taken away at any moment. The good things in life make it worth living‚ and nothing should be taken for granted. In Steve Job’s Commencement Address he states “Because almost everything- all external‚ all pride‚ all fear of embarrassment or failure- these things just fall away in the face of death leaving only what is truly important.” In other words‚ when you die you have
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Messimore Luis Marin English 1013-036 2 September 2014 Kenyon Commencement Speech David Foster Wallace gave a speech called Kenyon Commencement Speech to the Kenyon College in 2005. He delivered the message that a change in thinking can save citizens from the daily grind of their eight to five jobs. Wallace gave examples of this point in his speech starting with a fish in water‚ a person in a crowd‚ and how not to think. Wallace started his speech with a short story about an older fish asking a couple
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Nacional De Colombia Philology and Languages: English Written Communication IV August 20 – 2010 Steve Jobs Commencement Speech’s Review. “I’m honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told‚ I never graduated from college‚ and this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today‚ I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.” With these humble words‚ an American
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Holler if You Hear Me: Reflective Essay Mr. Michie was a unique and inspiring young individual for many inner city school students. These children had a difficult time surviving in life let alone in school a school system‚ because they did not have sufficient resources or a structural quality lifestyle. They came from poverty‚ gangbanging‚ parents without proper educations‚ and dysfunctional family structures. Many of these children did not have role models to guide them through the hardships
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that college attendance and the acquisition of a degree never oblige one to do anything. Rather‚ the choice belongs to the graduate. Throughout her commencement speech at Bowie State University‚ Obama repeatedly announces that graduates have the duty to educate future generations for the sake of giving meaning to their past; she urges them to keep alive the hunger for knowledge and improvement. In her Bowie State University Commencement Speech‚ Michelle Obama utilizes historical events to relay her
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In this commencement speech‚ Wallace talks about the idea of choosing what and how to think about things. To help illustrate this‚ he talks about living in the day-to-day existence of adult life and how the way you choose to think will keeping you from being absolutely miserable in it. Wallace talks about the default way of thinking; specifically‚ thinking self centeredly in the day-to-day routine. This thinking doesn’t help you cope or deal with the daily frustrations of real life and will keep
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graduation. He used one question at the beginning of the speech that caught the audience’s curiosity‚ "Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes?" He then branched out from there to discuss more important issues. This question helped him create an invitational environment. I think asking a question also helped him show a sense of organization and importance to the issue of why he was there. From the commencement of the speech‚ Billy Joel set a personable and comfortable tone. He spoke
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