He shares his story to the audience by taking them on the journey with him from when he “juggling a dozen projects” (DuBrul 10) at once to his current state of stability and desire to make a change. For example, his sentences are long and full of information. In paragraph three Dubrul writes, “I seem to have a new idea every couple of hours and would lie in bed unable to sleep while the thoughts shot back and forth … like a pinball game…” (DuBrul 10). The lack of punctuation emphasizes the inability to control his thoughts and emotion, which is a symptom of manic depression.
In our English 12 class, we have to do a rhetorical analysis of the Steve Jobs commencement speech that he delivered to the Stanford Graduating students of class 2005. In this analysis essay, we have to look for the strategies that the author used in his text to make his audience understand his claim that he made in his speech. Moreover, we did the SOAPSTone and the close read of the article to have a better understanding of the text. Consequently, we look for the ethos, pathos, logos, and literary devices that the author used to prove his point. I learned a lot through this assignment.
Charges were filed yesterday by the Animal Defense League against a merchant by the name of Bob Jones who owns a local farm- and his stablehand. According to police reports, they are accused of strapping a donkey to a plow almost too heavy to be dragged by a bull and whipping it violently until it pulled the plow across the field. This abuse continued for several hours, until the donkey was practically on it’s deathbed. When asked, the merchant’s wife claims that he has always been a bit unwell. “It’s gotten especially bad in the past few weeks.
His speaking skills, eye contact, and posture make the audience confident in his ability to improve their lives, making up for the lack of logic, and adding to his ethical and emotional appeal. The audience was so entranced with his speaking abilities and caught up in his message, they missed how the information seemed to jump around. The transitions between main points were seamless, so when only listening the first time it is not noticeable. It is the topics that are not put in a logical order and overall make him seem like he is not a credible
I apologize for not being able to contact you sooner. When we returned to Clemson on December 4, Sayuri’s parents wished to keep her in Los Angeles. We were not able to convince her parents to let Sayuri return to Clemson even though we repeatedly emphasized that Clemson is a better place for raising children. Thus, I would like to officially withdraw Sayuri from Clemson Elementary School.
McConaughey uses organization throughout his entire speech to ensure that his message was clearly understood by the audience. He begins
Great Storytelling Lu Jia Delivered on a campus in California to an audience of a few thousands, yet it ended up inspiring tens of millions from both U.S. and worldwide; worshiped by Silicon Valley as the ultimate career talk, yet it embodied many aspects of life - chance, love, loss, and ultimately death. Short but smart, targeted yet universal, poignant and timeless – thus is Steve Jobs’ 2005 commencement address at Stanford. Some attribute its success to Jobs’ personal influence and charisma – they do add significant weight to the speech, undeniably. But close inspections from the lenses of rhetorical analysis allow us to appreciate this speech from a different perspective – in particular, how the speech was crafted into a fitting response to its rhetorical situation and how Jobs managed to strike a chord with his audience through the masterful use of logos, pathos and ethos, whether planned or not.
Have you ever heard of a man named Donald Trump? Well, I have. Actually I researched some facts about him, like his education, background, and his success. He has a wife and five other children. He must have a interesting life.
The sentence structure was medium where slow learners or fast learner both can understand and grasp the topic. No complex sentences were said by him. While describing the scenario, he used long sentences. But most of the time he made everything short, and explained it to the audience. Many transformational leaders like Bill Gates have special abilities in their leadership styles.
When he says “John Kerry believes [...] John Kerry believes [...] John Kerry believes [...] And John Kerry believes [...],” it creates the clear picture that John Kerry has many positive ideas to better the country, and therefore compels the
Co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc, Steve Jobs, in his commencement speech at stanford university, illustrates three distinguishable points of his life. Jobs’ is very successful in his approach to inspire the graduates by speaking on the experience and insight he has gained. Jobs has a simplistic yet elegant tone and diction to convey his hardships to communicate how much life has to give and teach us in an inspirational way. Jobs begins his speech by dethroning himself as the well-known self made billionaire to create a connection to the graduates. He starts by putting the audience on a higher plateau with “I am honored to be with you”(1) and “ this is the closest I have been to a college graduation”(2) and when speaking of himself and his speech, he states it is “No big deal”.
love Steve Austin. I instantly took a liking to him when I first saw him perform back in the old USWA in 1990. It's hard to describe what that intangible is that makes one a superstar, but whatever it is, Austin had "it". Fast forward to the end of 1995. World Championship Wrestling, more specifically Eric Bischoff, had a different opinion and decided to release him.
Throughout his speech, Jobs’ main goal was to connect with the audience on different levels and build trust so they believe him when he says if a person works hard and always follow their dreams, they will be successful. He establishes the connection through his style of writing by using ethos, pathos, diction, and repetition. Steve Jobs needed to prove to the audience that he was a credible person to talk about following dreams, and working hard. He used ethos to demonstrate how he is
INTRODUCTION START SPEAKING HERE I. ATTENTION GETTER – Opening Statement/Question? How many of you have used Microsoft Word in the past 24 hours? Or used a Microsoft PowerPoint? Or Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets? Odds are, everyone here has used these recently.
In the speech “Steve Jobs Commencement Address to Stanford University, Class of 2005” , Apple CEO Steve Jobs provides his audience with personal experiences and the rough periods he went through in his early years before founding apple that helped him succeed. With the use of his stories Jobs creates a character that prevails through obstacles and manages to achieve his goals, which inspires his audience to look up to him and show that failure is sometimes necessary to succeed. At the beginning of his speech, Steve Jobs begins describing his life with a series of stories that helped him reach his success, this helps Jobs create ethos because his audience will understand the hardships he went through to be where he is today, instead of just thinking of Jobs as the founder of Apple and not really knowing about the struggles he had to go through.
