THE SPEECH ANALYSIS REPORT
(Looks aren’t everything. Believe me, I’m a model)
In 2012, Cameron Russell, who has been a model for Victoria’s Secret and Chanel, and appeared on many magazines, gave speech about “Genetic Lotteries” and how it effected her life on TED. The main aim of this speech was to make people realize being a model was just a legacy from their ancestors and it didn’t always make them happy. Generally, I found her speech interesting but I thought sometimes she had difficulties in engaging to her topic.
Firstly, the introduction was really nice. The speaker used her voice at exactly right level and made the listeners get interested and laugh a couple of times although she seemed really nervous at the beginning.
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She was constantly changing the subject and it was hard to understand the real problem: Was she unhappy because she gained all this money because of the legacy? Or because the fashion industry turned models into unconfident women? Or was it because little girls only dreamt about being super models?On the other hand, she mentioned 4 questions that she was being asked all the time which she explained clearly. After the question “Do they touch the photos?”, she answered and then showed her photoshopped pictures and regular pictures as the child she was at that time. This was really sincere; so personal and touching. She was using a great voice, trembling a little but easy to understand. Also she used her hands frequently and had a nice posture. To sum up, even if she had some problems with keeping up with her topic, she was quiet well.
I had a lot of problems in the conclusion part, because it was really hard to understand that she was concluding. The ideas she was talking about were clear and she supported them as usual but it didn’t feel like they were really connected to her speech. Also she didn’t use any visuals in this part and even though it wasn’t really long, it would have been nice to see something on the screen. Her voice was loud and clear and her posture and eye contact were impressive. To sum up, I didn’t like her conclusion part because it wasn’t well connected to the speech and there were no visuals.
To conclude, the speech of
approval. In describing her years of baring her children and raising them, the reader can see just
had a petulant and pestering tongue. She sometimes had the wounds all over her better half perpetrated upon her.
Adichie definitely grabbed my attention from the very beginning to the point of leaving me with a desire to read more about her and her story. The arrangement of her speech was precise
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.
something wrong, but do not know what. I imagine she was going through this pleading with
Besides wording like this, her writing is easy to read even for someone who has little to no background knowledge of what she talks about.
In the beginning of the book, that she explained her experience and life, which she was struggling because she showed her emotions
saw her as being a determined individual that knew what she wanted. Everyone saw the same
It is a genetic lottery. Russell quotes, “Being a model is out of one’s control and it’s not a career path.” The ethos part is how she states she’s been in the industry for ten years and we can trust her because she has done thousands of photo shoots. The pathos appeal is that she says this strongly because she wants kids to find something they have a chance at. The logos appeal is used when Russell states she it is a lottery. She has to be born with a certain model Criteria. This has an honest effect on me because although maybe harsh, she wants to let children know that it is not up to them if they can do it, it is up to their
use of short sentences and abrupt observations clearly show that she is trying to convey
During the entire speech, her pathos was very dominant to the argument. She starts out her speech with an anecdote, so she can establish a personal emotional connection with her audience. In her second paragraph she uses the sentence, “... decades before valet parking, fondue lunches, and gear
emphasis, per say contrary to how she portrayed her manic thought. In addition her focus was much
and her ability to read the signals before her competitors did. The most significant recent signal had been
had no time to care about her appearance, and she just wanted to put all her attentions
When she moved, she always did so purposefully and efficiently. Her voice, which was sharp and penetrating, always gave the impression that she knew what she was talking about, even when she didn’t. That was how a wom ought to be. " (11).