Rhetorical Analysis Of Amy Parody's Speech

The excerpt from Mary Oliver’s “Building the House” serves as a way to describe what happens during the poetry writing process. Although Mary Oliver believes that writing poetry is hard work, she uses extended metaphor, juxtaposition, and point of view to describe the writing process in comparison of building a house, which shows that Oliver sees poetry as something that involves mental labor which is a different challenge than physical labor .

Pink delivers a very well organized speech. He opens the speech very strongly when he states- "I need to make a confession…” – creating a mystery and drawing the audience in instantly. The hilarity woven into the opening invokes a strong amusement from the audience. He frames his speech as a case study and not a story, which emphasizes the purpose of the speech as a learning opportunity for the audience –"I don’t want to tell you a story. I want to make a case. I want to make a hard-headed, evidence-based, dare I say lawyerly case for rethinking how we run our businesses.” (1.34). with this thesis statement, Pink states his intention in a very effective manner drawing fully, the attention of the audience. He institutes a framework around

Amy Cuddy’s Ted Talk titled, Your body language may shape who you are, begins with Amy asking us to evaluate our posture. To evaluate the way we are sitting, are we trying to make ourselves smaller or are we more comfortable? Non-verbal expressions are the mostly unconscious way that we show our feelings. Some more dominant people tend to spread out and take up room while submissive types cross their legs or rub their neck. Her ideas are mirrored in graduate students that she teaches. The more dominant students come to class early, spread out, raise their hands high, and participate while the submissive students do the opposite. Amy questions whether it is possible to “fake it”, that is can we mimic the dominant people and in doing so make

Graduation caps fly into the air, cheers erupt, and diplomas are received. This is a typical graduation day. Not only did these ceremonial events take place for Tulane University's class of 2009, but Ellen DeGeneres was there to congratulate them as well! This class was dubbed the "Katrina Class" for being survivors of the devastating Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Katrina was named one of the deadliest Hurricanes, causing more than 1,836 deaths. Tulane University is located in New Orleans, Louisiana, where the most significant amount of deaths took place and 80 percent of the city was destroyed. These graduates have survived a lot , and Ellen wants to congratulate them on their

Margaret Thatcher, the former British Prime Minister, reflected on the benign qualities of President Ronald Reagan, with whom she worked closely with in office, in her eulogy to the American public. Her purpose was to emphasize Reagan’s hardworking, reassuring, and friendly personality through the use of different rhetorical strategies, in order to create a sense of pathos. Thatcher was able to pay her respects and covey her meaningful message by using anecdotes, parallelism, and contrast.

Alice Goffman, the speaker in this TED Talk, does a great job reaching out to her audience in a great number of ways. Her purpose in this TED Talk titled, “How We’re Priming Some Kids for College, and Others for Prison,” is to grab the attention of all people, but it is directed towards the younger generations, to show them that they have to work together in order for change to be made. The change would be to work together to help end the problem of mass incarceration; to help completely rebuild the Criminal Justice System. Throughout her talk, Goffman uses examples of logos, ethos, and pathos to reach her audience in an effective way, and to inform them of the problems going on with the United States Criminal Justice System.

Jane Addams’ speech explains her stance of George Washington's legacy as a soldier, statesman, and a Virginia planter. In this speech, Jane Addams references George Washington’s accomplishments in his past, including how things would be if he is to be present today. The most significant uses of rhetorical devices in this speech include hypophora, rhetorical questions, enumeratio, distinctio, and metaphors.

Ben Franklin is known for a slew of accomplishments in his life as a Founding Father of the United States. An inventor and author, among other occupations, Ben Franklin grew quite a fan base in his lifetime, despite having such progressive beliefs. One of his most progressive pieces of writing, “The Speech of Miss Polly Baker,” discusses the inequality surrounding laws against having children outside of marriage, specifically regarding how it impacted women. In Benjamin Franklin’s “The Speech of Miss Polly Baker,” Franklin uses wit to effectively argue that the sexist punishments of laws against having children out of wedlock are absurd by appealing to the reader’s ethos, logos, and pathos through the voice of Polly Baker (Baym). Ben Franklin

Florence Kelley was a United States social worker and reformer who fought successfully for child labor laws and improved conditions for working women. Throughout her speech to the Philadelphia Convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, she stresses the importance of changing the working conditions that are in place for children. By using child labor as her baseline, Kelley is able to talk about her main point, which is her suggestion for women’s rights with the help of repetition, strong word choice, and opposition.

Mitch Albom described in the book did not resemble the Mitch Albom in the movie production. American author and sports columnist Mitch Albom in his memoir from Tuesdays with Morrie (1997) records his weekly conferences with his old, diseased professor for his final thesis about life. He develops his tear-jerking chronicle by first describing Morrie before Lou Gehrig’s disease, then addressing his new lifestyle with the disease, then listing their discussion topics in chapter title form, and finally recounting how Morrie’s wise words have impacted the way Mitch lives and encounters life. Albom’s purpose is to raise money and awareness of the disease in order to pay for Morrie’s medical bills. He establishes a buoyant tone for the general public. However, although this memoir to a man’s favorite professor is a success and a best-seller, no book is complete without a movie, in Hollywood. In 1999, talk-show host Oprah Winfrey produced a film dedicated to the narrative written by Albom. However, this film did not closely resemble the memoir for entertainment reasons. Mitch is not completely portrayed correctly; the film would be boring if the story was identical.

In the essay about Ellen Terry the author uses a variety of rhetorical devices to create an image of Ellen Terry. The focus of the essay is her ability to excel at whatever she attempts, whether it was acting, writing, painting, cooking, or even parenting. The use of anaphora, personification, and rhetorical questions assist the reader in understanding how truly incredible her work was in the various crafts.

On August 25th of the year 2008, Michelle Obama gave an outstanding speech at the Democratic National Convention. In her speech she talks about her husband's progress in the election as well as his background, political experience, and social activism. She also talks about her upbringings as well as Barack’s. Eight years later, Donald Trump is running for president and his wife Melania has the honors of giving a speech at the Republican National Convention. In Melania's speech she as well speaks on how deserving her husband is of being the president and she also talks about her upbringings. About three minute into her speech you start to hear word for word the same exact things Michelle Obama said in her speech eight years ago. Both of their purposes were to convey the idea that their husbands would make a great leader, but why were the speeches so similar. The purpose of this essay is to examine how the two speeches given

In the Ted Talk Video “Your body language shapes who you are”, Amy cuddy discusses how non-verbal will shape how others think about us and how we think and feel about ourselves. It was a motivational and persuasive speech about how individual can feel more powerful, confident, assertive, optimistic by pretend he or she is powerful or by exercising two minute power pose which portrays confident and power. Cuddy depicted how human bodies changes their mind, and tried to imply the importance to look confident even if you are not. Also, she use the term ‘fake it till you become it” which proves humans fake confidence overtime can unconsciously boost up real confident level,

On March, 7, 2017, I watched the TED Talk of Amy Cuddy, a researcher. She argued that body language does affect how others see us, and it can also play an important role in the way we see ourselves. Specifically Cuddy claimed that a certain posture of confidence, even when we don't feel confident, can affect our testosterone levels to result in having a higher chance at success in whatever fields there are. As she said “ if an individual needs to take over an alpha role sort of suddenly, within a few days, that individual's testosterone has gone up significantly.” Although some people believe that we can simply fake our feelings and postures until we simply become like them, Cuddy insisted that our postures do play a vital role in the way we

In this video, Amy Cuddy talks about the effects of changing body language on ourselves. She talks about how high power posing can actually make one feel powerful and confident even if the person does not feel powerful. According to Amy, maintaining a high or low power pose even for two minutes can affect the levels of testosterone and cortisol levels in the brain. Furthermore, she gives an example about how nonverbals govern our thinking process. For example, a person who does the high power pose is more likely to believe that he will win if he gambles while the person who performs the low power pose tends to believe that he will lose. Thus, the body language conveys the message to our brain about how one feels meaning our body can change