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Link to speecheshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TQmz6Rbpnu0https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Q2wCTgss4bYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=APdSHPBPLLYAny help at all would be fine, thanks in advanceThe Girl Who Silenced The World For Five MinutesThe speech by David Suzuki’s daughter, Severn Suzuki, is written to be emotional and deliver the message that we should look further into the future to guarantee that the safety of the generations and species wont be hard. Suzuki begins by stating what she wants to accomplish, which is to make adults change their ways of how they live; this appeals to Logos. Suzuki then begins telling stories of how our planet is going downhill due to the greed in developed countries and the pollution produced. This immediately appeals to pathos because it develops emotions in the crowd, and since no one likes the idea of starvation, death or extinction, she sort of forces them onto her side, which appeals to pathos again. Suzuki also says this in a very loud, angry, and disappointed voice, which definitely captures the audiences attention. She also appeals to ethos by talking about how she is unable to eat fish caught from the stream because it is full of cancers, and that she is afraid to go out into the sun because of the holes in the ozone caused by humans. Suzuki then appeals to logos by giving a logical and modest message that if you don’t know how to fix it then you shouldn’t break it. Suzuki then appeals to ethos again by talking about a poor child that she had a conversation with in Brazil. The child said that if he were rich, he would use the money to feed the people of Brazil and remove the hunger. This also serves as a contrast to Northern American ideology where more money for yourself is always better, which generates guilt in the audience. This helps her speech because by making the audience feel guilty about how greedy they are, it immediately makes them want to change their ways, which is her entire goal of the presentation. She further makes the audience feel guilty by mentioning the rules that everyone was taught in kindergarten, and how the grownups cant even follow the simplest rules that a kindergartener could. By the end of the presentation, through appealing mainly to ethos and pathos, she has convinced the audience that everyone should make their actions reflect their words; meaning that if you say that you love someone, then you should build a better future for them. Speech to InformThis speech about the rhapsody music service by Scott Tauber is well worded, but lacks many good presentation techniques. At the beginning, Tauber asks people whether they use netflix or on demand services, which is a question that is almost guaranteed to get the majority of hands up. He then announces the rhapsody music streaming service and how it offers unlimited music for very little per month. This appeals to pathos because almost everyone enjoys and loves music. Tauber then explains the service; such as the different plans that they have available. This appeals to logos because its a fairly cheap service which gives you unlimited songs to listen to. A big downside to the speech is that he fills the speech with many unnecessary pauses, which slows the speech down immensely and doesn’t help him identify his main points. The most notable pause is when he goes to switch around the poster on the wall, which takes almost half a minute. A good use of pauses would be whenever you mention a very important point, but Tauber has a pause every few seconds. This is also paired with a very monotonous voice, which makes the speaker look uninterested, thus boring the crowd and causing them to focus their attention elsewhere. However, even though he uses very few presentation techniques he does maintain good eye contact throughout his speech. By doing so he wins back some of the interest he lost from the audience. The writing of the speech done quite well, but there is lots of unnecessary information in it, such as the end part which drags out very long and is hard to understand why you would go through all the trouble to do what he is explaining. This does not appear to logos because it just seems like a complete waste of time to hook up everything together, instead of just putting your speakers on full. He also appeals to ethos by stating that there is nobody in the class who is more passionate about music then himself. In doing so he tries to convince the audience that if its good enough for him, then its good enough for everyone else; portraying himself as a trustworthy figure. Awesome Funny High School Graduation SpeechThis speech is by a graduate from high school and is meant to entertain the audience. The speaker begins by cracking some jokes to set the mood for the speech. This loosens up the audience and makes them more relaxed so that they know what to expect from the rest of the speech. He continues to crack jokes throughout the speech and then speaks about how far they’ve come along from what they entered school with. This makes everyone feel uplifted and good about themselves since they have accomplished so much. Most of the speech is about telling uplifting stories and cracking jokes while doing so to make all the graduates relaxed for their last day of school. The graduate leaves off with saying that no matter where your aspirations take you, he wishes that you will have a good time.

Clive · Accepted Answer

Here's a very general comment.

Instead of one huge paragraph that just seems to ramble on, you need to organize your ideas into paragraphs. Each paragraph should start with a topic sentence that broadly tells the reader what main point you are going to discuss in that paragraph.

Doing this will make it easier for the reader to understand your analysis. It will also show that you are able to organize your thoughts well.

Is this a new concept to you, or have you already studied how to write in paragraphs?

Clive

Anonymous · Answer

Thanks Clive. Ive made the essay flow better and split it into paragraphs like you suggested. Teacher gave me an 85% which is great for me.

Maggierabbit · Answer

Persuasive Speech Analysis

The speech by Severn Suzuki, a Canadian girl, then 12 years old, is made at UN Summit 1992. The purpose of the speech is to persuade the adults to look further into the future and change the way of how they treat the children and the environment. In the introduction part, she establishes her ethos by telling the audience that they are a group of 12 and 13 year-olds from the Environment Children’s Organization to come 5,000 miles to the adults to change their ways. She points out some examples of deteriorating environment that she has experienced in her home—Vancouver, which also appeals to ethos because it convinces the audience about what the animals and plants are undergoing in the eyes of a child. She adopts the repetition in stressing her worries “ I am afraid to go out in the sun now...I am afraid to breathe the air…” , and an imagery to portray a harmonious coexistence of humans and nature by saying : “ In my life, I have dreamt of seeing…”, which appeals to pathos. This engaging introduction not only piques the interest of the audience but also arouses their concerns about the problems she is talking about.

To develop her idea more effectively, she starts her body paragraph by raising a rhetorical question “Did you have to worry of these things when you were my age?” , and then appeals to logos by saying : “ if you don’t know how to fix it, please stop breaking it.” Suzuki uses “you don’t know…” three times to emphasize her point of view that adults should change their way of doing things to our environment because once something is done, there is no way to reverse or it will take several generations to restore. Suzuki then appeals to ethos again by giving an example of a conversation she had with a poor child in Brazil. She contrasts the way the people in her country are doing and the wishes the street child had. This contrast helps her speech to vindicate the greediness of the adults in pursuit of their endless extravagant lifestyles regardless of how badly they have done to the environment and how impassive to “share with the needy”. The repetition in the body paragraphs “I am only a child…” appealing to logos strikes a chord with the audience and makes them feel guilty. Even a child has such strong will to see a change of the way the adults are doing. Let alone the adults themselves. This is her entire goal of the presentation.

In the conclusion part, Suzuki appeals to ethos to point out the paradox between what the adults have done to the children in educating them and what they have done in the reality. To emphasize her strong persuasive point, she also uses pathos by invoking her father’s quote “ You are what you do, not what you say.” to urge the adults to make their actions reflect their words.

It’s obvious that Severn Cullis-Suzuki puts the time and effort to plan the speech for the intended audience and successfully and effectively organizes her persuasive ideas and builds up the structure of her speech by using rhetorical triangle and devices in her presentation.

Informative Speech Analysis

This speech made by Scott Tauber about the rhapsody music is informatively worded. To begin, Scott starts off his presentation by making sure about the popularity of using Netflix or on-demand services in the crowd. Therefore, the beginning of his speech piques the interest and captures the audience’s attention. Afterwards, he introduces Rhapsody music streaming service and talks about an access to millions of songs by thousands of artists only costing the inexpensive price of $ 13 a month. This appeals to pathos because most people love and enjoy music. Then Tauber talks about Rhapsody music streaming service. This appeals to logos because the service can provide a very instant access to those who love and enjoy music in terms of their favorite music and artists in that low price.

To elaborate Rhapsody music, Tauber talks about the history of rhapsody, how rhapsody works and how to optimize Rhapsody experience through a second diagram, which is every effective to give the audience a detailed introduction of Rhapsody music and how the audience can benefit from using the Rhapsody Music Service. That is also the purpose of his presentation.

In the whole presentation, Tauber’s flow of speaking and his diagram demonstration are very effective to help the audience grasp his heavily detailed information, even though he does not use many presentation techniques. In the end, Tauber appeals to ethos by introducing his way of booming his system and saving a lot of money because maximizing the capacity of the system and saving money is almost everyone’s wishes, which makes his information more valuable.

Throughout the whole speech, Tauber does not use a note as a reminder, which demonstrates his knowledge as an expert and fanatic figure in Rhapsody Music as he boasts proudly in the end “ I don’t think that anyone is this room was more passionate in music than I am.” This also appeals to ethos.

Entertaining Speech Analysis

This speech is made by an anonymous high school graduate at a graduation ceremony, which is meant to entertain he audience. The speaker starts off by cracking some jokes to stir up the cheerful mood of the audience and also to calm down his nervousness. Coming back to his point, he reminisces with his fellow students about the flying past time at school by using simile “ Time flowed by… it seems like just yesterday.” It makes his speech resonate with the audience with the feeling deeply attached to the adolescent time. This appeals to pathos because almost everyone regards his innocent adolescent time as the most precious moment in his life. By metaphorically referring to the period of their growth as a time of a child who wets his bed and soaks his pants to an adult, he vindicates his fellow students how much they benefit from the education offered by the school and how much they have accomplished on the way to be the “future doctors, business leaders and Wal-Mart executives”.

Most of the speech is about telling uplifting stories and cracking jokes, in which he exudes a young man’s confidence and hope for his future. He also illustrates some of the misfortunes and setback when Thomas Edison made light bulbs, Soujia Boy made their gold hit song and his “senior class had hundreds of after-school detentions before learning how to effectively circumvent the attendance policy”. This appeals to logos because the pains of growth and arduous journey to be successful are unavoidable in life.

During the presentation, the speaker also interacts with the audience by making faces to uplift the vibe of entertainment. He demonstrates knowledge of the characteristics of an entertaining speech. He closes his speech by wishing his fellow graduate a good future no matter where their aspirations take them. This is an entertaining and inspirational speech that has been perfectly structured, organized and presented.

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