“I can be pretty persuasive if I believe in something strongly enough” (Brainy Quotes). This quote by Rashida Jones describes the importance of passion in a speech. To persuade an audience, the speaker must incorporate passion and meaningful body language in order to convince people of their beliefs. If the speaker fails to present a clean speech, the audience may lose concentration and become unaffected. Brené Brown presented a speech with intentions of persuading the listeners that vulnerability is normal and common in everyday life. Sugata Mitra offered a persuasive speech in which he was attempting to inform the crowd of children’s ability to teach themselves. Both speakers felt passion for their topic, yet each presented his or her speech differently. Sugata Mitra is an educational researcher and a professor of Educational Technology. He gave a speech titled “Kids Can Teach Themselves” in February of 2007 with the intentions of convincing individuals that children are capable of teaching themselves. People who wanted to be informed on education came to watch Mitra speak. Mitra began his speech with the goal of showing how children can teach themselves if adult figures would step back. Throughout the speech, Mitra was able to persuade the listener by providing ethos through his experiments. He explained an experiment that he began six years ago which he called the-hole-in-the-wall experiments, randomly placing a PC in an “urban slum” area (Mitra). Mitra used hand
When Tim Collins begins his speech in regards to Marie Fatayi-Williams speech, he immediately identifies and relates to her speech. He explains that Marie speaks out in desperate hope of finding her son and stopping the terrorist attacks on innocent people. Tim Collins also relates back to his history of loss, killing and speaking to his men when describing how he could relate to Marie's story.
Barbara Jordan was a keynote speaker for the Democratic National Convention in 1976. She mentioned that about 144 years ago that the members of the Democratic Party first met in convention to select a presidential candidate; since then, the democrats have continued to meet once every four years and nominate a presidential candidate. The convention is a continuation of that tradition; but, there is one thing that is something different that night – Barbara Jordan was the keynote speaker. In 1832, no one would have asked Barbara Jordan to deliver the speech, especially if it was a woman. She didn’t want to spend during her speech – having the time to praise the accomplishments of the Democratic and attacking the Republicans – and she didn’t
In May of 1990, Barbara Bush gave a speech that made waves throughout the United States. The First Lady was asked to give a commencement address to the graduating class of Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Her audience was filled with soon to be graduates and their families. As a public figure, her speech was also reproduced to be read and listened to by thousands of people. Being a commencement address, the speech was about life, the future, and the graduates’ time at Wellesley. She explicitly stated, “Today you meet on Severance Green to say goodbye to all of that, to begin a new and a very personal journey, to search for your own true colors.” Her purpose was to impart wisdom onto her audience. Barbara Bush’s speech was an
His only interest is what will solve the issue for the audience. Make the audience believe that you are selfless. While arguing, act as if the conclusion happened upon. The persuader should express that what he is doing for the audience does harm to him. It also helps to show doubt in your own rhetorical ability, become the underdog.
In the TEDx Talk “The Magic of Not Giving a F***”, Sarah Knight guides the audience through her journey to living a carefree life where she is happy because as the title says she doesn’t “give a f***”. She does this by doing what she would prefer to do with her time and money, if there is an option to do so. She tells the audience her experiences and later goes on to teach and guide the audience through the process of not “giving a f***” or say no to things they don’t want to do in a polite and honest manner so that they too can live a carefree life like her if they so desire it. In a brief analysis of the different modes of persuasion, ethos, pathos, and logos her speech was very interesting and had many strong points; however, there were points throughout the speech that really did detract from the overall quality of the speech and potentially the affected the experience of the listeners as well.
had to set a tone where can persuade the audience by appealing to their emotion.
On July twelfth, 1976, Barbara Jordan delivered a speech to the National Convention. She was the first African American to do so. Barbara represented the Democratic party. In her powerful speech, she addressed equality in everyone, response to change, and the future of America.
I feel the usage of pathos is the most powerful in persuading others to do something to change their minds. When one decides to change someone’s perspective on a certain topic, they must decide their audience. For example, a pastor wouldn’t want to persuade his followers that their religion is false and inaccurate. The pastor would want to persuade the non-believers that whichever religion they follow isn’t correct, and try to guide them to his/hers faith. Pathos is one of the world’s leading tactics used this day and can be seen in remotely any area. Humane societies use pathos on their heart-jerking commercials. Food banks use pathos on persuading common folk to give a dollar to feed starving children. Even more commonly, parents use pathos
Persuading an audience is not a simple feat to accomplish as some may think. In actuality, it forces people to look beyond themselves and their
What exemplifies a speech in which persuasive appeals and devices convey emotion and persuade audience members without using false information? Antony's speech in Act III of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare exemplifies a speech in which persuasive techniques work to achieve the speaker's goal. Mark Antony's speech consists of several persuasive techniques that amalgamate to form an effective piece of persuasive rhetoric. Antony's speech is an effective piece of persuasive rhetoric because he uses ethos, pathos, and rhetorical questions.
Barbara Bush gave a speech unlike any other, a speech to an audience that had gone as far as to protest her even coming to speak to the point where her husband the President of the United States had to stand up for her (Eidenmuller). A speech that combined the use of Aristotle's Ethos, Pathos, and Logos in such a manner that each aspect grew the next. As one aspect developed in her speech it boosted the other up as well, allowing her to come from behind and present the True American Dream - the individual's personal dream. To an audience that despite her individual accomplishments looked down on her because of her Title First Lady.
Michelle Obama is giving a speech at Bowie State University. The location and reason of the speech is part of the “Reach Higher” initiative to encourage education beyond high school. Michelle Obama begins the speech by thanking the University the Opportunity to be there and the staff. This includes Freeman Hrabowski, a professor who won the Presidential Medal of Excellence. Next, Mrs. Obama thanks the class of 2013 at Bowie State and give them recognition for being the few who have been able to continue the education while also maintaining the personal life and matters. After she gives recognition the class, she then begins to mention historical context including the first African Baptist Church and how it helped begin offering many African
“Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson. In the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare, there are two instances of speeches that persuade, convert, and compel the audiences. Both of the speakers had beliefs that were polar opposites, and both speeches brought forth many emotions and convictions that drove the crowd to nearly killing others.
The speaker is Sara T. Smith. Sara T. Smith was an abolitionist during the slavery period. We could assume that she was from the north and that she wanted everyone to have equal rights because everyone is equal the color of their skin doesn't change that
Michelle Obama’s 2016 Democratic National Convention Speech was beautifully presented; as she spoke about the issues that faces Mrs. Clinton as well as herself, education, health and welfare of this nation as a whole and why Hillary Clinton should be the next president of the United States of America. As I listen to this speech I realized that Michelle Obama uses rhetorical devices and appeals throughout this entire speech, and frankly since her purpose is to persuade the people of the this country to vote for Hillary I think Michelle Obama took the right approach. I get a strong sense of honesty from the first lady as she talks about why Ms. Clinton is worthy enough to take on the mantle of leadership for our great nation. After listening to my speech multiple times I notice how Michelle Obama also uses amplification, which is the expansion of detail to clarify a point. Then as I continued to listen to the speech I also realized how the first lady also uses anaphora, which is the repetition of one or more words at the head of consecutive phrases, clauses, or sentences. Next I saw how the first lady utilizes both ethos and pathos to help convince the citizens of America that Hillary Clinton deserves their vote. Through the use of these rhetorical devices and appeals, Mrs. Obama’s speech is made very strong and convincing.