Phil Klay's Speech Analysis

“So God made a farmer” (Harvey). This famous phrase was originally spoken by a famous radio personality Paul Harvey, and last year was heard by many on the night of the 2013 Super Bowl in a Rams truck commercial. It is impressive that a speech that was originally written and spoken in 1978, reached out to an audience in today’s age and is still relevant to people with many different backgrounds. In this essay, I am going to analyze Paul Harvey’s speech and delivery by discussing what rhetorical strategies he used and why these tactics worked, and finally how the speech could have been improved.

Demagoguery is polarizing propaganda that motivates members of an ingroup to hate and scapegoat some outgroups. In the two speeches “Inaugural Address” by Governor George Wallace, and “Share Our Wealth” by Senator Huey Long, both use similar demagoguery strategies. The Governor of Alabama George Wallace gave speech while entering office, argued that Alabama deserves the “freedom” to stay segregated. As then Senator of Louisiana Huey Long gave his speech with a insight to get Americans out of the Great Depression his main argument was to share wealth throughout society to bring a fair well balanced society, that is a fair chance to life, liberty, and happiness. Claims that Wallace makes are, segregation should be kept forever, Alabama is an honorable state, and desegregation can be dangerous also a few claims that Long’s makes are; to care for the veterans of our wars, to limit poverty, and lastly to limit fortunes to a few million dollars.Wallace and Long share the same strategy of demagoguery as they both are seen though Nationalism meaning love for one’s nation. Wallace and Long also use fallacies as Wallace uses False Analogy while Long uses a different strategy which is Straw Man. Wallace and Long’s claims both represent demagoguery as they both have political leaders and seek to gain power by both using Nationalism. The effect the claims might have on the audience toward Long’s claim is the state will appreciate and continue to support long opposed to wealthy people might feel irritated as they losing money, and the effect on Wallace’s claims on the audience are mostly negative as because wallace wants Alabama to stay segregated.

The short story “Speech Sounds” is a science fiction story written by Octavia Butler. This essay portrays a central theme that really opened my eyes as well as many others. This theme is to never take your ability to communicate for granted. Communication is a huge part of our culture and civilization. I never truly realized how important communication really was until reading this story. Without it, we cannot express our feelings in a correct manner. Not being able to connect with other individuals results in it being very hard to cooperate with others, causing chaos amongst society. In a short amount of time, the world would turn on each other causing mass amounts of violence. Likewise, this is similar to the story “Speech Sounds.” There are many takeaways one can have after reading this story.

The document that I selected to analyze is document 25-1. Document 25-1 was a speech made by Former President Franklin D. Roosevelt that addressed Congress in 1941. The reason as to why the document was written, was because Former President Franklin D. Roosevelt was explaining to Congress how the feelings felt by the Americans the day after Pearl Harbor. A historical theme that relates to this is the United States involvement in the Second World War. Before the attack, many Americans made it clear that they did not want to be involved in another foreign war. Former President Franklin D. Roosevelt did his best to not involve Americans in another foreign war, however, after the Japanese surprise attack l on Pearl Harbor, eased the American hesitations

On Thursday, October 19th I found myself in the Brazos Valley African-American Museum to hear Kim Olson, a candidate for Texas Agricultural Commissioner. She was a woman of tremendous military stature and was truly one of the best public speakers I have had the honor of hearing. The subject of her speech covered many key points of modern agriculture and a few mentions of the modern political situation as a whole, especially in local government. Her potential platform as the Tex Ag Commissioner would allow her to go before congress and argue for the farm bill in Texas to be raised which would allow us to reach new heights of small farming in our great state. Along with this Kim picked at a few common misconceptions of locally grown food, and

Dr. Marc Lamont Hill gave the 2017 All Bonaventure Reads keynote at St. Bonaventure University this past Monday. During the summer, the freshman class all read Hill’s book, “Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on The Vulnerable from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond.” In the book, many thought-provoking events that are a part of America’s history were discussed. The theme of the keynote was why people are put into the category of a “nobody.”

Craig Kielburger choosed to change the world when he was 12 years old, and he never stopped trying to make life easier for the children all over the world. Even nowdays, he's still very engaged : his fondation are still active, he often make speeches to open the eyes of the world about the issues of children's rights. Craig Kielburger is very invested in his battle against child labor and social inequalities. At this point, since he saw the article in the Toronto Star news paper, he devoted his entire life to change the situation, to stop child labor, and he's doing it pretty

In Phil Klay’s short story, “Redeployment” the reader is introduced to a, “dog person” who after a tour in Iraq, is adjusting to life back on US soil. This whole story in itself speaks upon a topic in which most people are not used to hearing that is the soldier’s return home rather than the fighting on the battlefield after losing his best friend was KIA. Klay allows the reader to see the thoughts of a man who a week ago was on guard at every moment, for if he was not then one of his men or himself would be dead, return to a life of sitting at home with his dog, watching tv, and going shopping with his wife. The simple yet powerful statement of , “Getting back feels like your first breath after nearly drowning.” (Klay, 2014, p. 9), shows how much this man has just gone through. I mean after living in fear every single day for almost a year, to being back at home as if nothing has happened is unimaginable. He then goes on to express how can he walk around an area to go shopping around people who have lived their lives at white (safety) and have no idea what it is like to be at orange, full of fire fights, explosions, and death all around you. Then he goes on to kill his sick dog because he would rather do it than paying some doctor to do it instead. In being the hell he has been in after losing his best friend in Iraq then having to lose “man’s best friend” back at home one can fathom the pain the man is feeling. By the end of the story as a reader there is no

The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995 not only changed the lives of Oklahomans, but also changed the lives of individuals all over the world. The Oklahoma City Bombing killed “168 people, including 19 young children who were in the building’s day care center at the time of the blast. More than 650 other people were injured in the bombing, which damaged or destroyed more than 300 buildings in the immediate area” (History Staff, 2009). This terrorist attack on U.S. soil left many mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, etc. with an empty spot in their heart.

As a little girl, I would stand in front of my mother’s mirror, grab the television remote and pretend to deliver a speech before my stuffed animals. There was no question whenever I was asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” that I’d quickly respond with, “the president of the United States.” Although that childhood dream quickly diferred, as a college freshman at the age of 19, I would experience an event that may someday be written down in history books because it was not an average event of entertainment in seeing J. Cole perform live at a coliseum or Dwayne Wade in a Miami Heat Jersey at the American Airlines Arena. This was an event that have affected the lives of many and brought about more awareness of the oppression America

Foremost, Stephen Kumalo continuously seeks and lives in the presence of the Lord. Kumalo prays and asks God for help on a daily basis. “Tixo (God), watch over me, he says to himself. Tixo, watch over me (48).” Later, Kumalo’s prayers are answered and the readers can sense a

Afflictions come to test a person’s worldview. Paton illustrates how Kumalo struggles with his faith after the heavy weight of his son’s crime burdens him:

A couple weeks ago I went to a speech given by the president of seventh generation's john repogle. Mr. repogle started his speech by giving a brief overview of his company and what its mission is. He told the audience about how his company deals with improving sustainability, and that what we need to do is done through purpose driven leadership. In an attempt to relate to his audience which was mostly college students he started off by telling a story about him being in college and not knowing what to do with his life. After telling this quick story he talked about the number of the great challenges that are of our time featuring human rights water shortage health crisis well-being gap and climate change and loss of biodiversity. He concluded his introduction by asking the audience questions which helped him gain a better understanding his audience as well as keeping us involved in the presentation.

Paul Kalanithi wrote a memoir about his last year of life when he discovered he was diagnosed with stage five lung cancer. He realized that life is a gift from God, and we’re all made in the image of God. He writes about his past, his journey to his career and his suffering from cancer. In this memoir, we see Conscience, Ethics, and Morality and Sin and Forgiveness.

The speaker was able to connect her key points and remain consistent throughout her lecture. A summarization and preview of her main points could have been included but nevertheless, the speech was powerful and well received. Furthermore, If I had the opportunity to go and see these speakers, I would most definitely go and I will be willing to pay as much as they are asking for. I don’t have a specific amount but anything between the 100-200 range. To sum up, I enjoyed Sue as a speaker and her speech was extremely poignant and compelling, touching on the importance of mental disorders particularly suicide and murder-suicide. What stood out to me the most was the statistic that individuals that are in a extreme suicidal state, are in a Stage