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David Wallace gave a unique commencement speech to the 2005 graduating class at Kenyon College. This is Water was not a typical commencement speech a person would except to hear at a college graduation. Nonetheless, Wallace’s speech help deliver the reality of how a typical adult life goes. It helped me realize that paying attention to others is vitally important The video to “This Is Water” had a different and unique approach to sending an extremely important message. Wallace’s speech talked

that teachers tend to focus on and understand what more they can gain. Throughout David Foster Wallace’s speech “This is Water,” Wallace primarily employs “didactic little parable-ish stories” along with hyperbolic examples to enforce the idea that the true benefits of education come from learning simple awareness rather than knowledge. Almost immediately, Wallace inserts the opening to the story that gives his speech a title, speaking about “two young fish” that eventually come across an an older

Foster Wallace, who’s well known for his novels and creative writing delivered a commencement speech at Kenyon College in the year of 2005, titled “This is Water.” The message that David Foster Wallace was communicating to this graduating class is that humans generally think about themselves in every situation they’re in without giving a second thought to what might really be happening. That people tend to miss what’s real or important because, well, it’s not always that obvious to them. Wallace utilizes

David Foster Wallace was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist, as well as a professor of English and creative writing - at least that’s what Wikipedia says. Anyway, he had graduated from Amherst College and majored in English and Philosophy. It was at University of Arizona where he gathered a masters degree in creative writing; and then going to graduate school in Harvard for philosophy. He had a wife, lived under a roof in his youth through two English professors with his sister;

Alfred Russel Wallace was an important figure in biology and made discoveries that forever changed biology. He was an interesting person to learn about and how he came up with the discoveries he made. Some of the things I found interesting about Alfred were his major contribution to science, what inspired him to do the work he did, and what the world knew about this topic at the time Alfred was working on his discoveries. Alfred Russel Wallace was born on January 8, 1823 in Monmouthshire, Wales

are occurring, John Steinbeck wins a noble peace prize, Nixon and Kennedy have the first televised debate, Mohamed Ali wins a gold medal and the Civil Rights Movement is at the precipice in America. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Governor George C. Wallace are two prominent figures throughout the Civil Rights Movement. Individually, they deliver historical speeches concerning civil rights, however the dialogue encompasses completely different messages. Comparatively, the two speeches will be presented

kind, or in fact less self-centered? George Saunders and David Foster Wallace mention the importance of being kind to one another and the steps necessary in graduation speeches. Both writers state that acting in kindness, ultimately leads to new freedoms and creates an enlightened human being. In the Commencement Speech, “This is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life,” Wallace claims that people are naturally self- centered. (235) We only tend

(Luke 1:37). Through struggle comes strength, but not the kind of super hero strength expected. The strength received through hard times is none other than that of the love from the one above, God. In the short story, “Good People” by David Foster Wallace, it is shown that not everything in life can be controlled and that, sometimes, a little faith is all that is needed in hopes that whatever it is works out. The two lives of a young Christian couple are slowly unraveled within eight hundred and

There were two pieces of text I recently read, one is “This is water” by David Foster Wallace, and the other is Letters to a young poet by Rainer Maria Rilke. I will be discussing the contrast between these two texts and tell the audience what they were precisely thinking about. For Wallace, his passed commencement speech to share advice to people who here at a college graduation. In his speech, he delivered the reality of how a typical adult life goes. His statement also talked about decision making

In “David Foster Wallace, In His Own Words,” David Foster Wallace talks about the liberal arts cliché and its full analysis. In the article, Wallace is clear about all of his reasons for people misinterpreting liberal arts, and I agree with the fact that everyone is surrounded by their own self-centeredness and it can be fixed by becoming well-adjusted. However, the liberal arts program cannot simply provide an individual with information on seeing past his/her own thoughts. Wallace begins his commencement