Karen Thompson Walker

The session that I attended was Dolores Huerta speech, which was very interesting. Dolores Huerta was born on April 10, 1930, she is a labor leader and civil rights activist who, along with Cesar Chavez, co-founded the national Farmworkers association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW). Huerta has received numerous awards for her community service and advocacy for workers, immigrants, and women’s rights. She is truly a leader, working tirelessly to help the poor and women and children. She talks about war, genocide, Mass incarceration, and poverty. During her participation in non-violent protest she was arrested 22 times trying to make changes in society. Her main question was what can we do as people to solve things in the

Thesis: In Maus, by Art Spiegelman, the message of fear is to overcome fear and not to let fear overcome you.

Brown uses many stories and inspirational quotes added to her presentation for a more vivid or emotionally loaded language that gives striking mental images for a more graphic imagination and helps to appeal to the audience and her viewers. In more ways than any Brown tells many stories in the TED Talk and are quite amusing to hear, but with the amount of stories and events she presents, it comes to show that she is more of a “story teller” than a researcher. An example would be, from speaking of an experience in a grocery store to another story involving Brown and her friend from college all within a two-minute time frame of the presentation. Anyway, as Brown speaks in the beginning of her TED Talk she evokes an emotional response from the audience by the persuasion of emotion and sets the tone as more optimistic and avuncular towards the audience and her viewers. For example, “….my life did end when that happened. And maybe the hardest part about my life ending is that I learned something hard about myself, and that was that, as much as I would be frustrated about not being able to get my work out to the world.” (Brown 3:16) This example provokes an emotion of sympathy and compassion for her and the presentation itself. Though Brown does not use anecdotes or narratives about her emotional experiences and events

Chisholm seemed to have used notes to help present her speech. It seemed that she referred to her notes quite often, but she did maintain a certain amount of poise throughout the speech. The focus of her message and interest was not lost.

Queen Elizabeth I’s speech was called “Speech to the Troops at Tilbury”, written in 1588. She gave her speech in order to make her people fight against Spain, and to prevent them from invading the border of Britain. In her speech, she used pathos, words with strong connotation, and plain folk. She wanted to stop their enemies from invading her own country and if they would win, she would’ve offered rewards for the soldiers. She used pathos in the speech very well.

Fear propaganda is common in today’s world, but sometimes we do not even realize it. “There are four elements to a successful fear appeal: 1) a threat, 2) a specific recommendation about how the audience should

From a communication and speech analysis stand point Ms. Alexander kept her self poised, keep her tone of voice smooth and inflecting when she needed to drive certain points home. She kept the audience engaged by moving around telling personal anecdotes that related to her topic to allow the persuasiveness of her speech to drive home about the problem of the criminal justice system and race as a whole. Her first point that really captivates and hooks you in within a matter of minutes of listening to the speech is when she says, “ People of color are the main ones incarcerated…Put in cages and treated worse than animals.” Right their she captivates and audience that otherwise believe she's crazy talking about race in the criminal justice system. Ms. Alexander managed to captivate and all WHITE audience on a topic that most had already made up there minds on. Her speech was effective in that all statistics about her topic she

Her most powerful use of rhetoric in her speech was by far pathos. She has used herself being shot as an advantage into the audience's emotions.

Storytelling helps other people to emotionally connect themselves to the author so that they know they are not the only ones who are experiencing a painful or exciting experience, and are able to share the same emotions. It often helps other people to know what they should do in order to get over it when it comes to a painful experience. Maya Angelou’s I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings explores the life of Maya Angelou and the struggles she has been throughout her childhood to her adulthood. Richard Wagemese’s Indian Horse explores the life of Saul Indian Horse and the struggles he has been through after departing from his family. The power of storytelling can unfold questions which ask the audience of how and why are the events are unfold the

Once again his overall posture and confident level was excellent. The speaker shows passion for the subject he is speaking on from the hand movements when he speaks on poverty and domestic abuse as being trivial (a means to an end). The speakers volume was just right he spoke high enough for the back of the room could here, and the speech was easy to understand. When given a speech a speaker should consider his audience in the wording of his speech, is he giving a speech to children for educational purposes or a group of college students, this is call no one left behind so the entire audience is on track.

The storyteller is able to keep his or her memories fresh and alive through the act of telling stories. At the age of forty-three, Tim O’Brien is still able to remember his childhood friend, Linda, who died when he was nine. “Even now I can see her walking down the aisle of the old State Theater in Worthington, Minnesota. I can see her face in profile beside me, the cheeks softly lighted by coming attractions.” Linda is given the gift of life through death by the power of the story. She not only lives in the mind of Tim O’Brien, but now Linda can live in the mind of anyone of whom he tells the story to. O’Brien’s audience is even graced with the pleasure of imagining what Linda looked like, “There were little crinkles at her eyes, her lips open and gently curving at the corners.” The audience can nearly see Linda, nine years old, standing in a childlike manner before

When I read ‘The Perils of Indifference’, Elie Wiesel really made me feel like I was there. He started off with a story that was very descriptive. He talked about how this young Jewish kid woke up 54 years ago in a place call Buchenwald. He was finally freed by US Military. The child was so grateful for what they had done for him even though he did not speak the same language of them. (Elie Wiesel, 1999) This was his introduction paragraph. He started out with a story. Really grabbing you and pulling you in. Making you feel like you were actually there. “Why tell stories in speeches? Because they are interesting, they help people remember what you say, and they are a good way to convey

As Walker concludes the short story, she incorporates many details and descriptions. This is an effective way to support her purpose of describing how her lifestyle change stemmed from her inner thoughts. Although there could have been too much information for readers to comprehend, her syntactical choices prevent this from occurring. This is shown after Walker describes her countless memories. She writes “But mostly, I remember this:” and talks about a meaningful event

The power of storytelling can create connections between people and allow individuals to find their inner

During the introduction she uses short direct sentences as to keep her audience engaged. Then she begins to tell us personal stories about the books she read as a child and how she started to write stories at a young age. She also makes some jokes in paragraph two such as, ‘All my characters were white and blue-eyed, they played in the snow, they ate apples, and they talked a lot about the weather, how lovely it was that the sun had come out,’ she makes these jokes to keep the audience entertained throughout her speech. In paragraph three she is still introducing the speech but in paragraph four she