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Analyzing Charles Fishman's Speech From 'The Big Thirst'

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i. The author of the book The Big Thirst Charles Fishman Delivered his speech at 7 pm in the Icardo Center that is located at CSUB. He began his speech by reading some negative comments that some high school students made on twitter. This automatically captured the audiences attention. His audience was greatly considered through these simple comments because he seem much more relatable,with these opening comments he presented a sense of a welcoming environment. ii. The speech was well developed but ,since I had read the book it was not as impactful as opposed to ,if I had never read a book. I however found it that for someone who may not of read the book would value water more. iii. Charles fishman was very energetic and he seemed to be very passionate on …show more content…

This speeches purpose was to talk about the book The Big Thrist and to speak about the issues that concern water.
The topic was about water and the problems surrounding it.
Fishman began his speech by reading “mean tweets” then after that he read some tweets that defend the book. The introduction did not contain any keep parts.
Fishman had a relevant and memorable attention getter reading mean tweets about a book that you have write takes courage. I was automatically interested in the speech because it seem as though the speech would be very fun.
The speakers main points were what one question lead him to make this book. His second main point was the research he set out to do to learn more about water problems and describe d some of them.His last main point was how not everyone is as fortunate as Americans to have an indoor water system.
His examples were relatable. He used the example of Bakersfield that an individual in bakersfielld uses twice as any one else in the country. He used this example to show how a town that is not as big as other cities uses twice as much.
Fishmans wording was very effective. His ideas were explain properly because they were well structured. The coherence of the speech was

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