Immobile like a statue, silent like a mute, eyes looking up, trying to find the answer to the question - “What’s the next line I suppose to say?” Three years ago, I was standing in front of three judges and a hundred of spectators struggling to remember a line from an oratorical piece that I had memorized. The attention of the audience was undivided. Everyone’s eyes were staring at me, waiting patiently for my mouth to open and carry on with my speech. All ears were expecting to hear a word to utter. For a few seconds, my mind went blank; a deafening silence remained. This was a moment of failure, mortification, and disappointment. Nevertheless, this moment had contributed to my personal growth and intellectual development.
It was a nightmare,
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She conversely ordered me to memorize it, which I complied. I spent an enormous amount of time to completely learn it. After I memorized the speech, my teacher ordinarily demonstrated and taught me how to recite the speech with the correct emotions, intonations, and diction. In addition, my teacher provided me pertinent tips and techniques to become a better orator. Obediently, I implemented everything she taught me and I felt …show more content…
It was a real life lesson to inculcate in me that failure is a stepping stone to improve myself. Ralph Waldo Emerson once stated and I quote, “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but rising up every time we fail.” Notwithstanding what happened that day, I continued joining in a contest similar to this. In the same year, I joined a declamation contest and won fifth place. I screwed up, but I never gave up. I failed, but I stood up and kept moving. This failure taught me that life is not just about memorizing things. It’s about applying the concepts we learned to have a better understanding about it and to gain experiences that are far easier to remember than sentences printed on a piece of paper. It is about putting our hearts and being passionate in what we do. Life is not always about success. It would be tedious if that's the case. Life needs curves in order for us to grow, develop, and improve. We need to undergo failure to attain success and to become wiser and stronger
Chase Mielke’s spoken word piece, “What Students Really Need to Hear”, shines many lights on the purpose of school and how students contribute to said purpose. There are a myriad of important points, although the central idea stands out above all. More specifically, the idea that the point of school is not to memorize facts, but to learn how to deal with difficult times properly. He writes, “It is your resilience in conquering the main event- adversity- that truly prepares you for life after school.” Mielke illustrates this concept using rhetorical devices such as pathos, or emotions. Simply, the author’s use of pathos emphasizes the idea that school’s ‘main event’ is to instruct students on how to keep moving in the face of seemly insurmountable harshness.
Director Steven Spielberg and auther Markus Zusak, in their intriguing production, movie Saving Private Ryan and book The Book Thief, both taking place during World War II. However , in Saving Private Ryan Spielberg focus on a lot of complications that occur during war , but guilt was one difficulty that stood out to me. Zusak, on the other hand , showas that having courage during war can be a advantage and also an disadvantage depending on the situation. Both director and author grabed the audience attention with emotional and logical appeal.
In October 2012 President Obama was reelected as President of the United States of America. Famous for his exceptional speeches in his first term as president there was some pressure on Obama to deliver a notable acceptance speech after such a nail biting election. By using rhetorical strategies in his speech Obama had to reach every audience member whether they were democratic or republican. President Barack Obama grasps every member of his audience by using ethos pathos and even some logos in his 2012 acceptance speech, his very first speech in his second term as president.
President Obama’s Address to the nation was presented on January 5, 2016. His speech was shown on all of the major network stations. The main goal of his speech was to get the point across to the nation about the increasing problem of gun use. His speech really focused on the issue of gun control and if it would benefit the country. Overall, the biggest idea of his Address was that gun control is a large issue in the United States. The way to prevent deaths caused by firearms can be prevented in other ways than taking peoples guns away. The examples brought up in this Address really stood out to me. The use of personal, national, and global examples really made his speech stronger on the topic of effectiveness.
Throughout more than two hundred years Americans have witnessed more then fifty-six inaugural addresses. In those speeches presidents have been utilizing rhetoric to make their points and outline their positions on important issues before the nation. Both of President Obama’s Inauguration Speeches successfully craft rhetoric through
A rhetoric analysis can be defined as the breakdown of components used to make a persuasive argument or judgment on a particular subject or topic. The ability to make a conclusion or decision on a given thought or idea in a moment of seconds is a result of rhetorical analysis. “Because media rhetoric surrounds us, it is important to understand how rhetoric works. If we refuse to stop and think about how and why it persuades us, we can become mindless consumers who buy into arguments about what makes us value ourselves and what makes us happy”. In Carroll’s essay “Backpacks Vs. Briefcases: Steps toward Rhetorical Analysis”, she discusses the nature of rhetorical analysis, how it affects our everyday lives and explains the role context plays.
President Obama’s Inaugural Speech: Rhetorical Analysis. Barrack Obama’s inauguration speech successfully accomplished his goal by using rhetoric to ensure our nation that we will be in safe hands. The speech is similar to ideas obtained from the founding documents and Martin Luther King’s speech to establish ‘our’ goal to get together and take some action on the problems our country is now facing. As President Barack Obama starts his speech, he keeps himself from using ‘me’, ‘myself’, and ‘I’ and replacing it with ‘we’, ‘us’, and ‘together’ to achieve his ethos.
My biggest accomplishment throughout high school so far has been learning how to fail. Not necessarily falling flat on my face in a viral video, but instead just barely coming up short and not being able to reach a goal, despite my best efforts. Although I was unaware of it at the time, failing my driver’s test on my first attempt would become a life altering incident.
"Graduation" is an excerpt of the autobiographical book, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, written by Maya Angelou. While the book is autobiographical in nature, this particular excerpt is much discussed amongst literary circles because of Angelou's use of both objective and subjective narration.
Many would argue that President Obama is one of the most effective speakers in the decade. With his amazing speeches, he captivates his audience with his emotion and official tone.
Remarks by President Obama at the eulogy for the honorable Reverend Clementa Pinckney; A man who was killed when an another man rushed into a church in South Carolina and killed 9 people while they were immersed in an afternoon mass. President Obama created different appeals and feelings through the use of different Rhetorical Devices such as Logos, Ethos, and Pathos. The use of logos ethos and pathos help the president convey his central idea which is to ensure the people of South Carolina and the people of the United States that not only are they safe, but they will unite to take this opportunity to create a more united U.S. This will happen through the establishment of new gun reforms.
Imagine a society where education isn’t entirely dependent upon the merits of one’s personal knowledge. Where the learning environment is utilized for personal development and growth rather than competition and separation. A sanctuary composed of unity and equity among peers. A place where college isn’t the only goal, but rather personal identity and initiative are established along the way. Such a society, fully embodies Baldwin’s ideology regarding education, and the prejudices therein. In his speech, “A Talk to Teachers” Baldwin delivers a compelling argument, in which he criticizes the problems and prejudices within the educational system in his day. However, through his sagacious philosophies and eye-opening opinions, Baldwin manifests the cruel, unspoken truth within his speech, that the hindrances and prejudices experienced in his day are still existent in 2016.
In June of 2011, Conan O’Brien gave the commencement address to the 2011 graduating class of Dartmouth College. O’Brien uses humor and anecdotes to deliver a powerful speech which resonated with most viewers. O’Brien also used many literary devices for the graduates to better understand his primary points. Conan O’Brien delivery of his commencement address was effective because of his use of pathos, ethos, and antidotes, which contributed to his fantastic speech.
Failure is something that can be make or break your life. The one fact of failure that is ultimately true is that failure is something that can always teach you a lesson. Henry Ford was a wealthy man during the 1900’s who invented one of the first automobiles.“Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently” Ford said. Henry ford built his first car in 1896 which took him about twelve hours to build. Time and time again Ford had to make cars by hand taking him hours, but he never gave up and continued to work toward an invention that changed the world completely. In 1913 the assembly line was invented by Henry Ford, this machinery was a way to mass produce parts; now you can build one car in two hours instead of twelve. I admire Ford for this invention and the years it took him to discover how to fail and start over again. He never gave up on his dream of providing every American with a way of easy transportation. Over several years of building cars by hand Ford continued to fail. Ford had to fail and learn from his mistakes to become successful. Failure for me is something that changed my mentality about life just like it did for
The lessons we take from failure can be fundamental to later success. Recount an incident or time when you experienced failure. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience?