In 1997‚ Madeleine Albright‚ United States Secretary of State‚ presented a commencement speech to the attendees of a graduation ceremony at Mount Holyoke College. Albright presents her points through a political lens‚ uses repetition‚ and appeals to emotion to motivate the graduates of the women’s college‚ the next generation of women who can make an impact on society. Albright utilized American‚ political achievements in order to motivate the graduating class. In paragraph 6‚ Albright says that
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In analyzing David Foster Wallace’s commencement address we find truth behind the myths and stereotypes of liberal arts degrees. I thought his commencement address was excellent. To me the main idea of his speech was showing the audience liberal arts degree curriculum is designed to allow you‚ the individual the opportunity to think outside of the box and allow you to tools to show you can think and shoes the right way to think about the most significant topics. Wallace even makes
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Careful He Might Hear You‚ by Sumner Locke Elliot‚ is a complicated novel‚ revolving around the story of a six year old boy named PS and his search for personal identity amidst the conflicts of his closest relatives. The narration of these conflicts‚ as well as the history behind their origins‚ forms the basis of the novel‚ and while the different types of relationships between the characters are not the main focus of the novel‚ the author links them with each of the characters’ sense of identity
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A Commencement Address Joseph Brodsky It is unavoidably true that evil consumes the world we live in. We see the presence of evil in the masses whether it is through the news or with our own eyes. Encountering evil is inevitable‚ and that is a thought that both Joseph Brodsky and I share. Brodsky writes‚ “…for the most interesting thing about Evil is that it is wholly human”. He insinuates that’s the root of all Evil is innately human‚ which provoked me into questioning the validity
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J.K. Rowling’s commencement speech conveys the good in failure‚ while also telling the importance of imagination through informing the graduates of her own personal experiences and explaining how both can make a positive impact in a person. Rowling relates her fear of failure‚ and her parents fear of her living in poverty. Both factors tie together. She then goes on to tell how she did end up failing. This helps the audience to realize failure is okay because someone with as much success as her
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I’ll Cover You in the first song I chose to write about‚ it is also the song I chose to represent homosexuality. While Collins never verbalizes that he is a gay man- he does fall in love with Angel. Granted we don’t Angels "official" gender identity. I’ll Cover You was my song of choice because even though they don’t blatantly talk about being homosexual in this song it is a song about their relationship. Ultimately they are talking about wanting to be together and care for each other no matter what
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From between the story Holler If You Hear Me and the book Introduction to Teaching (chapter 6) one of the biggest connections that can be made is teacher preparation. In the story Mr. Michie began subbing in 1990 at Ralph Ellison Educational and Vocational Guidance Center and just kept coming back and became a familiar face in the establishment. Eventually a Polish woman in her fifties decided to take on a new course in her life and tried to tackle the inner city of Chicago’s schools and as she exited
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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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STADIA ll JULIE MEHRETU (2004) Ethiopian artist Julie Mehretu was born in 1970 in Addis Ababa‚ Ethiopia. She lives and works in New York‚ she operates with abstract detail in her large-scale paintings to create an architectural sense of perspective. One of her most notable piece‚ Stadia ll‚ created in 2004. The piece helped me visualize how there are different mass show two dimensions of history and how is can all be hidden in different forms at times. Her experimentation with abstraction explores
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choose what to think about. In David Foster Wallace’s commencement speech to college graduates‚ he explains to them that they must become more aware of others and by doing that must learn how to think. Getting educated doesn’t only include learning subjects such as science or math‚ but also controlling what and how you think about your everyday life and surroundings. Changing the way you think influences how you view others and the way you experience life. By changing their thoughts to take account
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