Steve Jobs's Commencement Speech

Steve Job’s commencement speech in 2005 at Stanford University, which is one of the best university in our country was very memorable and inspiring for Stanford graduates and also for audience listening to speech. In his speech, Jobs inspires students and audience to pursue their dreams and always to follow their heart no matter what even though things don’t always go according to plan and never give up. Steve Job is mainly known for his contributions in the technological world but along with that he is also recognized for his world-renowned presentations. Jobs’ simplicity in delivery and extensive use of rhetoric makes his speech effective and comparable to speeches of famous narrators. In this commencement speech, Jobs uses simplicity in the structure of his speech along with the use of rhetoric such as ethos and pathos besides usage of personal stories to make this speech effective in inspiring his audience and making it memorable.

Steve Jobs, a businessman in Silicon Valley, gave the Stanford Commencement Address in 2005. Rhetorical tools are used to persuade the audience. Ethos deals with the speaker's credibility, Pathos appeals to emotion and Logos appeals to logic. Steve Jobs’ successfully used the rhetorical tools Ethos, Pathos, and Logos throughout his speech.

People need to have a certain type of voice to make a speech effective. To make a speech effective it depends on your tone of voice and how you deliver your speech. If you deliver your speech effectively, it could be memorable and even make a great impact on the world. An example of a speaker that made a great impact on the world is, Martin Luther King Jr, who delivered the famous I Have a Dream speech. Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights activist and he wanted to make a change in America. King wanted American’s to treat each other equally and not have discrimination against people depending on what race they were. King’s speech is effective because of the tone and rate he uses, his reasonable arguments, and his use of repetition

In David Foster Wallace’s Commencement Speech, he opens with a short parable about how a fish greets two other fishes and ask them how’s the water today, this parable introduces us to his message which is changing that default setting which is hard-wired into our brains to have a life worth living. I agree with his statement because this is’nt just the first time this formula has been brought to our attention. Many success people have said this statement in some form or fashion, we can even look at David Sedaris’s commencement speech.

Jobs starts his speech with humor. He said, “I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the

Washington starts off his speech with pathos. Pathos is appealing to the emotional side of the audience and trying to get an emotional response from them. Washington begins his speech on why he is doing the speech in the first place. His son went to Penn U, so he was already officiated with the school. Him sharing his information about his past with the school makes the crowd feel more relax and less anxious. Knowing the person who is speaking, understands what you are going through helps a lot in building a connection with the Washington. With a smooth beginning, Washington begins to tell jokes about the staff and how everyone here hates the Yankees. Washington, first establishing baseline with the audience, was key to conveyance his message to the spectators. Washington evens tells the people, that he is nervous and uncomfortable for he has not done this kind of speech before. The feeling of knowing this man in front of you is speaking to thousands of people is afraid, even though he is such a famous actor makes you feel empathy for him. This connection is strong for even though he is famous, he can still get nervous like all the graduates. Washington brings up ideas he had for this speech, making jokes about his co-workers and stories of them. He did not decide to use one of those because he wanted to leave a message worth leaving for the graduates that will last a lifetime. Washington even connects with the parents, by saying “I always like to check how my money is getting used, am I right parents?”. (Penn's 2011

Usually a great speech brings together three aspects- the right speaker, with the right message, at the right time. Sometimes you may be the wrong speaker, or your message isn’t right or even the timing of the speech isn’t perfect. Obama, in the DNC, showed to be

Speeches, for the most part, posses various arguments the speaker attempts to make evident throughout the text; occasionally, these do not become simple to detect and require much deeper interiorizing. David Foster Wallace delivers a commencement speech to Kenyon College Class of 2005. Wallace touches on a myriad of points including important realities, religion, different views, arrogance, and the real value of education revealing how an individual can submerge themselves in the hostile way of thinking about the day to day life becoming arrogant and unaware of the essential things hidden in plain sight.

He also gives examples of situation that makes the reader or listener understand more on what he is talking about. He supports everything he is talking about with details that connect to his main points. He also uses a paper to help him remember what he is talking about, but he doesn’t keep his eyes on paper. His eye contact was good; he didn’t keep his eyes on paper for a very long amount of time. For example, he looked down for a second then looked back at the crowd. He keeps the same tone and energy throughout the whole speech. He went through everything without rushing His pace was slow in the beginning but as he talks his pacing began to be okay when he was stating the things that were happening. His tone was a higher on the main point that would make the audience be more into the points that he is trying to make. His posture was better good for the speech; he wasn’t doing anything but standing. However, this speech was one of the good ones that was given in the past

A Rhetorical Analysis of Steve Jobs Commencement Speech for Stanford University's Graduating Class of 2005: Jobs titled his speech "You've got to find what you love." Steve Jobs is best known as an American entrepreneur, inventor and industrial designer. He was the cofounder, chairman and CEO of Apple Inc. and founder, CEO and chairman of Pixar Animation Studios. Jobs and cofounder of Apple Inc. Steve Wozniak are wildly recognized as pioneers of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.

At the very beginning Obama takes an oath to execute faithfully as president of the United States. This already gives him credibility to his ethos because taking this oath is a big deal. He also states how he mindful and ready to take on the task that are ahead of the nation and that he is ready to take them on. He begins to establish trust with his audience by showing them that he understands that he has a big job in front of him, but that he is ready to do it. When he says these things he takes short pauses, which creates anticipation, drawing the audience in more. President Obama then moved on to talk about the nation and he began to create an emotional appeal to the audience by speaking about slaver, segregation, and the war in Iraq. He was able to tap into the audience’s pathos by bringing out emotions, like sadness, excitement, and hope. When he said “Our God given promise, that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to receive their full measure of happiness”, the audience began to cheer and clap because he was able to tap into their emotions. A statement like that was able to receive an emotional reaction, which helped build on President Obamas deliver, and

Jobs’ gave his commencement address at Stanford students graduation ceremony in 2005, which had an audience size of about 23000. The audience is composed of immensely diverse groups of people including the graduating students, their families and friends, faculty, honored guests and other Stanford afflicted groups. For this analysis, however, I am going to a particular part of the audience, the graduating class, to whom I believe the

The speaker is clearly intending to motivate the audience to achieve higher. This is clear as the entirety of the speech is dedicated to him trying to motivate everyone to shoot for perfection and stop fearing failure.

It may seem quite peculiar that the 2007 “Harvard Commencement Speech” was delivered by an individual who once dropped out of the university. However, once it is established that this very individual is “Harvard's most successful dropout,” as well as founder of microsoft computers; Bill Gates certainly constitutes as qualified for the deliverance of this speech. Bill Gates “Harvard Commencement Speech” encourages the new graduates that “humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries— but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.” Gates asserts this claim by following it with specific examples, such as delivering medicine to countries in poverty. In order to reduce the world’s hardships, Gates poses the question “how can we do the most good for the greatest number with the resources we have.” He addresses the graduating class of Harvard using emotional appeal to ignite compassion within the graduates, logic and reasoning to provide attainable solutions to reduce the world's inequities, and strives to establish his personal credibility in order to support the claim that the purpose of discoveries is not for personal knowledge or self improvement, but rather for the world’s betterment.

Conan O'Brien’s 2011 Dartmouth College commencement speech was an inspirational but at the same time a comedic presentation. He uses jokes to get his point across and motivate the future graduates. The linguistics that he uses are different from any other speaker at a graduation speech, however he has his own method of delivering his message. Conan O’Brien’s seems very comfortable conveying his commencement speech ,with great posture and eye contact, mostly since he is a talk show host and has experience talking in public. Overall, his speech was unorthodox, however the graduating class and the public enjoyed it and there was a lesson behind his speech.