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Jack Ma

Recently, I listened to a speech performed by Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba Company, on youtube. It is very persuasive to me, so I want to share it. The topic was about how young people should do for now, and he tried to persuade us to think that, we should not complain about ourselves like “ Why do I not have the opportunities like others do?”, “How can I not be successful?”, instead we need to listen to others’ complaint, the opportunities are hidden inside of those complaint and work hard to accomplish our dreams. I am really affected by what he said.

It is not a long speech, but Jack Ma used a lot of his own experience in the speech, for example, when he told people that how to listen to other people’s complaint. He gave us an example of himself: when he tried to find a way out because he was poor, he heard that little company always complain that they can’t trade aboard easily, they could not even join the Fairs they wanted to, then he said to himself “ Maybe internet will help them” Then he start to work on how could internet change this situation. Personal experience is always a powerful rhetoric way to persuade people, it made me think about myself, I would ask myself, if I start to listen to other people’s complaint, would I be successful? So it is an effective rhetorical technique, it changed my view of myself. Also, in his speech, he used successful celebrities to support his points, he said “ Both Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg did not complain by themselves, that’s why they are successful.” It is effective because it did make me think of stop complaining, cause I want to become as successful as they are. Overall, this speech affected me a lot. And it contains a lot of rhetoric, so it made me think as what Jack ma wanted us to think.
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  1. AnonymousMay 31, 2016 at 3:02 PM

    That was a touching experience,that is why you said it is powerful, you found a good point to expaine Rhetoric, did very well.

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  2. AnonymousJune 1, 2016 at 6:00 AM

    I like this speech. A lot of people would be persuasive because he is succeed and his experience is imaginative

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  3. AnonymousJune 6, 2016 at 10:24 AM

    This is a good speech, yes I agree that complaining is useless for solving problems, rhetoric is used perfectly in this speech.

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  4. Brennan S.June 10, 2016 at 6:43 AM

    You did a great job of portraying this speech and showing how rhetoric was used.

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