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Commencement Address By George Sanders Essay

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The text “Commencement address” by George Sanders is about kindness. Kindness is a quality you can be in possession of. Kindness is when you are treating other people with respect and when you are being friendly. For example when you are being generous to other people, by giving them something they either want or need then you will show kindness. In this excerpt, which is a commencement address, are aware of the message, which is kindness. We see the kindness because George Sanders are telling about his time at the university he re-grets that he hasn’t been kind enough he are establishing some actions where we should have shown kindness. For example at page 2 line 87-88 he says “What I regret most in my life are fail-ures of kindness” Here it’s clear to us as a reader that George Sanders are trying to tell the audi-ence that being kind is a great quality and one should try to accomplish it. For example he tells us about some of his mistakes in his life. He tells us something about a new kid in class who had a hard time; the people weren’t nice to her and George …show more content…

He also uses Hayden Carruth who’s a Syracuse poet says that if you get kids it will always help you becoming less selfish and therefore the love will take over. You will put your kids first and everything else doesn’t matter, which we see with our parents. Here George Sanders also appeals to ethos by making his ethos stronger by using a poet. George Sanders also uses comparisons, which makes the text more figurative and real. For example on page 3 line 211-213 “(success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it”) By that he also means that we shouldn’t let the goal about being kind grow ahead of us because we will just end up fail-ing and let it take over our

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