Dip Lad Mr.Cartlidge ENG4U1-03 20 February 2018 Mark And Oprah Comparative Essay Mark Zuckerberg and Oprah Winfrey both with excellent speeches to the graduates and their huge accomplishments as a student. Zuckerberg and Winfrey are 2 successful billionaires and both delivering an inspirational message, but with 2 totally different speeches at commencement. Zuckerberg talked more on the side of purpose and the challenges of everyone having a sense of purpose while Winfrey talks about rising in anything in some point you will stumble and make mistakes. Zuckerberg and Winfrey both will similar and different rhetorical devices used in their speeches but Zuckerberg more on the side of the use of Pathos and Ethos while Winfrey is more on the side of Logos and Pathos. …show more content…
Something that Zuckerberg said in the speech which was pathos and showing emotion was “I swear getting into Harvard is still the thing my parents are most proud of me for”.(Pg1Zuckerberg) Similar to that in Winfrey's speech was, Not too many little girls from rural Mississippi have made it all the way here to Cambridge. And I can tell you that I consider today as I sat on the stage this morning getting teary for you all and then teary for myself, I consider today a defining milestone in a very long and a blessed journey.(Pg1winfrey) The similarities were that they were both pathos and showing emotion to when Zuckerberg’s parents were proud of him getting accepted into Harvard and Winfrey getting teary for the graduates and herself from the blessed and long journey that she and the graduates have made from starting and finishing school at the University of
Family: Beyonce is Beyonce lives at home with mother, mother's husband, Pablo Velasquez, and three siblings - Jose (age 15), Solange (age 13) and Tristin (age 12). Beyonce parents have been separated for a number of years. Beyonce father resides in Florida and she las limited contact with him. The family originally is from North Bergen before moving to Elizabeth NJ. Beyonce and Mrs. Crespo continues to have a volatile relationship. Mrs. Crespo seems to relate to youth in a negative manner and seems frustrated with her behaviors. Beyonce asks Mrs. Crespo if she can live in North Bergen with her aunt Amber and Mrs. Crespo became verbally abuse towards youth. Mrs. Crespo expresses her feeling towards Beyonce question in a verbally hostile tone, she used several different foul words to describe how she feels about youth and her behaviors in the home. Mrs. Crespo behavior language became so inappropriate CM and Sosa had to inform Mrs. Crespo that if she cannot talk inappropriate tone without using foul language we are going to have to end the phone call. It is clear that Mrs. Crespo and Beyonce continues to have a difficult relationship and that due to the lack of respect they both have for one another.
Zoe Yu uses the rhetorical strategies of anecdote and personification to affect the audience and achieve the purpose of motivating the audience to fight for native language loss. Yu uses the rhetorical strategy of anecdotes to achieve her purpose of motivating the audience to fight for native languages. A great example of an anecdote, is where Yu states, “Every summer evening at 8 p.m. sharp, my grandma and I plant ourselves in front of the TV. . . But what may seem like ordinary soap opera scenes are far more than melodrama and theatrics: Dialogued entirely in Taiwanese Hokkien, they’re artifacts of a once-dying language” (Yu).
“McCandless didn’t conform particularly well to the bush casualty stereotype.” Jon Krakauer, in his book Into The Wild, argues that McCandless was a unique personality who yearned for adventure. He supports his claim by the usage of epigraphs, interviews with McCandless’s acquaintances, and various maps that are indicative of where the protagonist travelled. Krakauer's purpose is to use an argumentative structure in order to convince the audience that McCandless was more complex than previously known. He uses a nostalgic and commanding tone in order to emotionally appeal to an audience who may have originally had different opinions on McCandless. In Into The Wild, Krakauer employs techniques of ethos and speaker in order to thoroughly convey
By doing this, Albright connects one on one with the audience and urges them to gather the bravery to fight for their nation and themselves and accomplish their lifelong dreams. Similarly, through the use of pathos, Albright is able to create a personal feel to her speech as she states, “ I have met in Sarajevo with women weighted down by personal grief. I have seen women taking the lead in efforts to avoid the fate of neighboring Rwanda. In Guatemala, I have talked to women striving to ensure that their new peace endures. ”(49-57)
Nonconformity allows people to go against a prevailing rule so that they may do as they please.
The rhetorical situation refers to “a situation in which people’s understanding can be changed through messages.” (Zarefsky, 12). The rhetorical situation analysis consists of four elements: audience, occasion, speaker and speech, each assessing the quality of speech. In this essay, I will analyze the rhetorical situation of the historical speech “The Challenger Address” delivered by the 40th president of the United States, Ronald Reagan.
Analyzing communication messages through late-night shows varies. Mixing humor with specific news stories provides an interesting message, depending on the audience. Last Week Tonight With John Oliver uses specific news segments and analyzes it through the use of extensive research and humor. This includes his segment on the New York Yankees, where he makes it very clear which position he is taking on the issue. This segment dives into the elitist practices of the Yankees organization, which include not allowing fans to print out tickets at home and opening the elite Legends Club with expensive premium seats. Through the use of effective theories and
George Will appeals to the use of logos by using logic and information to back up what he is stating. At the end of the article George Will states that The United States, China, Russia, and India hold 60 percent of the world’s coal this is already a very large percentage and will continue to grow as an Australian company plans to build the Cowlitz facility and another company signed a contract to give China Australian coal. By stating these facts he is able to get across the point that this much coal is not good for the world as there is already an estimated 6 billion tons being burned.
Throughout history, the biggest reforms in government, philosophy, and behavior have been made by freethinking and outspoken people. People such as Ghandi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Nelson Mandela changed the world with their actions and words. While others, including Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Walt Disney implement their talents to business to change the world. All are spoken highly of and are highly regarded. One name that is wrongly ostracized from this list is Kanye West. Kanye West is an intelligent person whose actions and outbursts, despite the media’s attempts to make them look incoherent and uncivilized, actually come from a place of goodwill and promote a platform of freethinking.
Americas greatness is a controversial topic on the worlds standards of living. In the opening scene of the television show “The Newsroom”, Will McAvoy the news anchor, is in an auditorium participating in a panel of politically knowledgeable people. McAvoy who is the protagonist of the show, he avoids answering one of the questions asked by a student “Why is America the greatest country in the world?”. He finally does answer “it is not the greatest country in the world.” By analyzing the video “The Newsroom Opening Scene” the viewer sees how McAvoy appeals to ethos, logos and pathos to express his answer.
The first thing most people think of when they hear the name Tom Hanks is a toy cowboy, but there is so much more to him. He has a lot more to tell the listeners then just how to get beyond infinity; he can tell listeners how anyone can change the world. Hanks gave a commencement speech at Yale University in 2011 to the graduating class. Hanks talks about how, even through fear, anyone can change the world for the better. He emphasizes that people should work to make the world better instead of posting and tweeting everything people do in the hopes to become famous. Hanks uses a little bit of ethos and pathos when he used his credibility as a famous person to make the graduates listen, an example of ethos, and uses pathos to not only make
Trevor Noah, a mixed race South African born during the apartheid uses comedy to reveal his perspective on American culture. Throughout his time in America he has encountered different situations revolving around race and social status. For Trevor, home was not as functional as a young child. During his stand-up act, he states how he was “born a crime,” his father was a white man from Switzerland and his mother was black from South Africa. As, a biracial child within his “South African”?
Oprah Winfrey, the first African-American television correspondent in Nashville, Tennessee, was born into poverty and struggle and lived a childhood of abuse and neglect. Everyday, Winfrey had obstacles to conquer, similar to how everyday “from the time the Joshua tree was a tiny sapling, it had been so beaten down by the whipping wind that, rather than trying to grow skyward, it had grown in the direction that the wind pushed it” (21) because of it’s rooting. Winfrey's capacity to remain humble all through each and every crack and crevice of her life show how much of a hard-worker and how determined she is to grow and prosper, which earned her the title of being one of the richest women in the world with a net worth of three billion dollars. This compares to the Joshua tree’s toils of how it stayed alive and prospered for many years which, in the end, symbolizes perseverance and diligence to accomplish peace and balance in one’s
Is a news source as trustworthy as some people may claim it to be, or is it all based on political standings nowadays? In today’s world, news can be very shady, and most of the time makes an attempt to sway a person’s political standings. Although Buzzfeed can be a good source of news and entertainment simultaneously, it’s not always reliable, biased, and can provide faulty information based on hastiness to attract the younger audience.
“Thank You” Icon, Oprah Winfrey gave a eulogy for civil rights activist Rosa Parks to honor her. Winfrey wants the audience to remember what Rosa Parks did and why it is important. In the eulogy she uses tone, logos and reputation to get that effect from the audience. Winfrey, uses a respectful tone in the eulogy to declare how much Rosa is respected and how much deference she has towards her.