Rhetorical Analysis Of Commencement Speech

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This artifact is a rhetorical analysis about a commencement speech from Steve Jobs to the Stanford graduating class of 2005. The commencement speech was broken down into his three stories. I used these three stories to summarize his overall message which is to follow your passion in life using anecdotes, pathos, and ethos.
This artifact relates to this page because this is one of my writing sample I wrote in my English 12 class. I feel like the paper was easy to write because all I had to was summarize his speech using rhetoric.
I learned that a lot of people can learn from this speech. Jobs lived a difficult life. He was fired from the company he created. He was living with cancer. All these obstacles and he still was able to overcome