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Tim Minchin's Speech Analysis

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The graduation ceremonies marked the beginning of the next stage in the lives of the graduates. An important feature to the ceremony is the occasional address during which the guest speaker imparts some words of wisdom to the graduating class. However an occasional address isn’t just any inspirational speech, the message of the speech must fits its audience, fit the speaker and fits the purpose of the event. Tim Minchin’s occasional address at the University of Western Australia is a perfect example of what an occasional address should be. Know your audience. He obviously knew who his audience are, the speech he wrote and delivered was for the youth who are yet to conquer the real world. His speech was easy to follow, it was short and simple.

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