Rhetorical Analysis Of Steve Jobs 2005 Commencement Speech At Stanford

Hook: I never knew that one day, one idea could have such a big impact. That one thing could change the history, set up the rest of the country to follow suit with this specific topic, and things that need a change in general.

In the Commencement Address at Morehouse college in 2013 given by President Barack Obama, he was able to connect with his audience by using Rhetorical appeals. The three strategies Obama focused on was pathos, ethos and logos, by using those he was also able to reach and persuade his audience to follow his advice and guidance. Each strategy that President Obama used had a different meaning. He would use pathos to make them feel certain emotions, logos to persuade the audience by the use of arguments that they will perceive as logical and ethos that would be perceived as credible (or not).

Many people share the same point of view as Steve Jobs. People such as Robert Ebert agree that death is imminent and that death always pushes us to our boundaries. Ebert also believes that death forced him to see his life in different ways. Ebert asserts, “When I am writing my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be.” (par.18) Ebert’s fatal cancer had forced him to look at life differently. Instead of looking for happiness in other things, he was able to find happiness by focusing on the things he has now. His assertion is agrees with Jobs’ assertion because Ebert no longer is constricted by his thoughts. Death has pushed him to be more open and more receiving of the other

January 20th 2017 marked the day that president elect Donald Trump took his oath to office. Perhaps one of the most controversial electoral processes in the history of the United States’ presidency, the possible implications of Donald Trump’s leadership will most likely make this one for the history books. His speech seemed surprisingly reasonable, astonishingly efficient, and very impactful in comparison to what many were expecting from him, because of the negative and possible detrimental image he has created in the minds of many Americans. Regardless, Donald Trump delivered a strong, decisive speech using unifying diction, well directed symbolism and varied syntax.

Walking into graduation, every graduate expects to hear the same speech with little variance about reaching an important milestone in life but still having many more milestones. Paul Hawken delivered a different message with his commencement address, You Are Brilliant and the Earth Is Hiring. His message was filled with hope for the future since people are working together to build a better world for all.

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.

Study hard in school. Be focused. In the end it’s your own responsibility to succeed. The teachers, the government and your parents can be supportive without you being supportive of yourself. The only one who can fulfill your responsibilities is you. You have to pull yourself together and be active in school. Everyone can be something great if they just study hard enough. That’s what the president of the United States, Barack Obama, says in his speech from 2009. He visits the first day of school in Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia, and tries to give the students a pep talk. He wants the students to be hardworking and take responsibility for their own lives. It is so important that the students give themselves 100% to their schoolwork – according to Obama.

The 44th President, Barack Obama, in his 2009 Inauguration Address, describes his plan to help America. Obama’s purpose is to show America that he’ll be a good leader. He adopts a concerning tone in order to attract his audience, The world.

Throughout history, speeches have been remembered by how the speaker connects with his or her audience. In Steve Job’s commencement Speech, his use of rhetorical devices created a bond between his message and the intended audience; precisely through the structure of his speech, his use of ethos, and pathos. The use of rhetorical devices is used to help reinforce Jobs’ arguments.

President Barack Obama’s speech was very informative to those who watch the speech and those who thought it wasn’t interesting. President Obama and his associates guaranteed that the current year 's State of the Union location would be characteristic, and he conveyed on that guarantee. It was a somewhat unusual speech. Surprisingly committed to countering Republican possibility for president, unusually free and clever, and somewhere else extremely clever, leaving behind the tragic peaks of past locations for a wonky and clever however no less passionate request for civics and a superior governmental issues. I believe the objective of the speech, assistants said in reviews, would be for Obama to start to case his own legacy for the antiquarians. He would avoid the standard reiteration of strategy thoughts for a more extensive take a gander at what

President, Donald Trump, in his inaugural speech, Presidential Inaugural Address, explores the possibility of a new America. Trumps purpose is to manipulate the American people into believing his bullcrap excuse of being a president. He adopts a confident tone in order to persuade his followers while also using repetition, patriotism, and anger.

Before a thorough assessment of the a specific speech given by Donald Trump a republican presidential candidate in Las Vegas, Nevada, the analysis of the audience has to be observed in terms of demographics, psychographics, rheterographics. The audiences were people of all ages, races, and gender, majority of the audience were trump supporters who wholeheartedly came out to listen to what he had to say, and the atmosphere for the speech Trump was going to dispose was supportive and alive because in the video the first twenty-seven minutes was filled with people awaiting the arrival of Trump and his speech. This goes to say that the overall speech was heavily anticipated and supported which bolstered Trumps speech. The next aspect to examine is the tone of the speech from the beginning to its closing remarks; this tone varied severely throughout it was bitter, whimsical, and deliberate. The speech is disposed to be semi-formal because he does not use appropriate terms and he abbreviates words such as “we’re” and so on. He effectively acknowledges the audience to show his gratitude for the support they are expressing towards him for instance “what a crowd!”

The designated survivor for this speech was David Shulkin, the United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Overall, throughout his speech, Trump was greeted with generous applause from the Republicans and minimal applause from the Democrats. There were however some issues to which both parties agreed and applauded too. The Democrats also booed Trumps at times, such as when he spoke on immigration.

In 2005, Steve Jobs gave the commencement at Stanford University’s graduation ceremony. Just a year before the speech, he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer (Peña). Jobs used the speech as an opportunity to inspire the students to, in a way, follow in his footsteps. He is most known for his creation of Apple, and in order to achieve that and the things he did he had to follow his own dreams and make himself happy (Jobs). In the speech, Jobs is arguing that life is too short for you to not live it for yourself and make yourself happy. The appeals of logos, pathos, and ethos; narration of the three stories he tells; and use of cause and effect give make his argument persuasive.

“If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible - tonight is your answer.” (Obama, 2008). Barack Obama was elected president on Nov 5, 2008. He argues in his speech that whatever was going on in the country, it is going to change, it was a dawn of a new beginning. He begins by building his credibility by showing that others who doubted the people of his country, tonight was their answer, and telling an anecdote about a old lady who had seen the country progress. Ultimately at the end, he ends his speech strongly by making the audience say “Yes, we can”, and getting applauded by the audience.