Do What You Love Speech Analysis

It’s “about death”, it heralds on how he got cancer and how he responded to it. when it was diagnosed, he suddenly felt a sense of mortality, therefore, Jobs started living life to the fullest. However, during a check-up, his “wife was in tears”, as doctors found out it was a type of cancer that was curable by surgery. The disease was cured and he was saved, the vital lesson he learned never faded from memory. He uses this story as an allegory the lesson he learned: Live every day like it’s your last; you don’t know what will happen tomorrow, a key fact that many young college graduates

The Steve Jobs commencement speech was a speech that was given by the former Apple Inc. CEO to Stanford University during the 114th commencement on 12th June 2005. The speech Steve Jobs gave Stanford University is a very effective speech, because of his use of rhetorical devices. Jobs especially use his background and childhood to play upon his rhetorical approach. In Steve Jobs, he tells several stories about love, detection, death, loss. The main part of the Speech is how Steve Jobs encourages the students to pursue their dreams, and do what makes them happy, even if it all doesn’t go after the plan.

This artifact is a rhetorical analysis about a commencement speech from Steve Jobs to the Stanford graduating class of 2005. The commencement speech was broken down into his three stories. I used these three stories to summarize his overall message which is to follow your passion in life using anecdotes, pathos, and ethos. This artifact relates to this page because this is one of my writing sample I wrote in my English 12 class. I feel like the paper was easy to write because all I had to was summarize his speech using rhetoric.

Johnny died at the young age of seventeen after a constant struggle to fight his brain tumor. When Johnny was first diagnosed with a brain tumor and Dr. Penfield confirmed it, John narrates that, “with everybody listening Penfield cut through all the euphemisms and said directly, 'Your child has a malignant glioma, and it will kill him.” (Gunther, 55). At this moment is when it is known that the cancer is real and he has a limited time to live. John Gunther said that “Cancer is a rebellion- a gangster outbreak of misplaced cells”(Gunther, 78).

For ocular symptoms we immediately performed laser photocoagulation to all the heamangioblastomas in four quadrants, and feeder vessels were successfully cauterized. In addition intravitreal bevacizumab was administered and subsequent injections were scheduled, which not only subsided macular edema as shown in fig 3 but also improved her vision to 6/9. Discussion: It is a rare disorder consisting of benign tumors in multi-organ systems which haspotential for malignant transformation. In the presence of a positive family history, VHL disease can be diagnosed clinically in a patient with at least one typical VHL tumor.

Her doctor collected cancerous cells and healthy cells from her cervix and gave them to the cancer researcher, George Otto Gey, who was trying to keep cells alive for more than a couple days. Henrietta endured intense radium treatments, but she still died at the age of 31, leaving her husband and five children behind. An amazing discovery was made Henrietta’s cell were immortal. Racism is prevalent in this book through the limited availability of healthcare, unethical behaviors of the doctors, and how racism affected her family. During this time, there was an extensive lack of medical care for colored people.

Unfortunately, there are two types of lung cancer that numerous people struggle with every day. To fully interpret the two types of lung cancer, one needs to know what cancer is. In science class most learn about biology and the fact that the human body consists of not only blood, bones, and organs, but also cells. It is these cells that cancer can form.

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi is a unique three-part narrative that follows a variety of perspectives while following the transformation – both physically and spiritually – of Kalanithi. Following his diagnosis of Stage IV metastatic lung cancer, the Stanford University neurosurgical resident found himself once again questioning: “What makes human life meaningful?” Through his education, both in the humanities and the sciences, Kalanithi found that literature and medicine supplement one another. By having the relationship he does with literature and medicine, Kalanithi is a step above other physicians from a humanistic standpoint. By focusing specifically on the significance of the passage above, the way in which the two subjects complement one another can be further analyzed and appreciated – a concept that arguably seems to be lacking in modern medicine.

At the end of the story Robert observes, “He is buried in the cemetery out back. Years have passed-we are living in the future, and it's turned out differently from what we'd planned” (Cunningham 242). After his brother’s death Robert is able to come to the conclusion that not everything is fun and games because every action has consequences. His big brother took many risks that eventually caught up with him, leading him to his death. Robert is left alone with the responsibility of taking care of his parents who are devastated by the loss of their first born.

In 2013, my grandfather started struggling with back pain. It soon became so bad he decided to go see a doctor. He had received the worst possible prognosis the doctor could have probably given him. My grandfather soon told my family and I that he was diagnosed with stage four Pancreatic cancer.

Almost every individual has had an experience where they or someone they know have battled a disease. No matter what the disease is, the patient typically is associated with negativity; however, in this memoir by Suleiki Jaouad, the author places a different view on cancer. Suleiki Jaouad developed (AML) acute myeloid leukemia, due to a bone marrow disorder, at the age of twenty two. Throughout her story, Jaouad discusses the impacts of developing cancer and how she coped with her disease. Her most precious asset was her long, wavy hair, and she knew once she began her chemotherapy treatments that she would not be able to keep her long hair.

Growing healthy and cancerous Samples of cervical tissue. They ended up taking Henrietta’s samples, but his coworkers were sure they would die altogether. After the procedure, Henretta Returned home and resumed her normal life once again. Her family had no idea she was sick. Henretta kept her sickness a secret,

This book has encouraged me to do what I want to do. I realized that everything is possible, but to being successful I have to work pretty hard. Randy Pausch, the book writer, had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer; consequently, he was really concerned about what he were going to do. He had two sons with Jai, his wife. Jai used to encourage him, but when he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer he started to think about himself, about what he had been, and about what makes him unique.

When the teenage boy “crosses the threshold” the cancer finally catches up to him. He goes through all these trials of his girlfriend breaking up with him cause she said, “Its to hard for me.” and he has to go through all these treatments including chemo. As goes for Beowulf, he goes up against Grendel and his mother to the death. Beowulf saves his experiences by being able to tell his story and he keeps a part of Grendel as a gift or treasure.

In July of 2007, Roberts’s life would forever be changed when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Robin faced surgery, eight rounds of chemotherapy, and six and a half weeks of radiation therapy ("Robin Roberts - Abundantly Blessed - CancerConnect News"). She was starting to lose her hair, so she just decided to shave her head. She took viewers with her and when they saw her tears as her hair slowly disappeared, they knew she was just like them, an ordinary person, facing her own battle. Robin thanked God, her family, and friends for helping her beat breast cancer.