Cultural Rhetoric

Theme : Debate/Speech Alaina: How to Stay Calm When You Know You Will Be Stressed Caleb: Is Hip Hop a Cancer or Cure? Christian: President Trump's Address to Congress Claire: Trump v. Clinton - Late Term Abortions Court: Does the World Need Nuclear Energy? Darcy: Having a Disease Doctors Can't Diagnose David C: President Trump Addresses Congress David J: How to Live Before You Die Hysheem: The Future of Creativity and Innovation is Gamification Jake: Why You Should Talk to Strangers Jason: Military Robots and the Future of War Lexie: What a Driverless World Would Look Like Maddie: A Life of Purpose Mike: JFK's Civil Rights Address Riley: Do Schools Kill Creativity? Sam: Climate Change Sarah: Changing My Legs and My Mindset Soo: I Got 99 Problems... Palsy is Just One Sophie: The Surprisingly Logical Minds of Babies Wade: Lift Off - Harvard Graduation Speech

The speech starts out with a sad paragraph about the past deaths due to heat waves and other things related to the effects of climate change. He goes on to use quotes and data proving the effects of this, he says that it is hard for most people to explain climate change in a way that the average mind can understand why they should believe. After hearing what he had to say about this topic, I was slightly more informed but i still do not believe it entirely. I still think it’s there and I do want to bring more attention to the issue so we can research how urgent this is. The speaker uses ethos when citing who he is and his scientific background, pathos when giving statistic from other credible scientists, and logos when referencing the deaths caused by climate change.

I actually enjoy watching TEDTalks in my free time, I think they're fascinating. One day I came across a TEDTalks called "what happens when you have a disease doctors cannot diagnose”. It's about a woman named Jennifer Brea, 33, and how she has a disease called chronic fatigue syndrome. She began by speaking about her life five years before that day and how she was a PhD student at Harvard, she loved traveling, and was engaged. One day she had a fever of 104.7. She didn't think anything of it and one day her fever broke, she became so dizzy that she couldn’t even get out of bed or walk to the bathroom. She went to the doctor and he told her nothing was wrong, but it got worse and she lost ability to write certain letters or draw complete circles. Sometimes she couldn't speak or move and she went to multiple specialists for everything you could think of. One day she walked 2 miles home from the neurologist and when she walked in the door she collapsed and her bra...

Steve Jobs has always been of interest to me because of his influence to many people. His work from being the CEO of Apple has really impacted a lot of people. Almost everyone knows who Steve Jobs is and what he has accomplished; being the founder of the world’s largest information technology company by revenue, by total assets, and by phone manufacturing. By 2014, this large-scale company has been the first to be valued at $700 billion. This TED talk that I found is called; “How to live before you die,” and it is a speech given by Steve Jobs. He doesn’t say anything too complicated. In fact, all he does is tell a story. Steve Jobs and his parents were not the wealthy family back in his school days. While unsure of a career, he attended a college in which he couldn’t afford, making him drop out. However, he could attend a class on typography for computers and this interested him. This lead Jobs on to the development of the first Macintosh pc. As Apple soared high for about a ye...

In this debate, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were asked about Roe vs. Wade and late term abortions. Trump takes the stance that abortion should be illegal while Hillary defends women having the right to choose. Trump avoids the speaker’s first question by dancing around his answer about overturning the Roe v Wade agreement while Hillary is very adamant that she strongly supports Roe v Wade. Hillary immediately accuses Trump of using “scare” rhetoric when he describes abortion as “ripping a baby out of its womb”. I believe that personal beliefs should have been set aside and the concerns of society should have been their main focus. There did not seem to be many instances of rhetoric used during this debate as it was more straight forward with the opinions of the opposing sides. Pathos was present slightly on Hillary’s behalf when she gets deeper into the emotional stress the choice of abortion is for women. In conclusion I would agree that Trump did use scare rhetoric but on ...

I remember, quite some time ago I was introduced to a Ted talk titled “Do Schools Kill Creativity?” It is still one of the most popular Ted talks ever published to date, and not without reason. The speech was by a man named Sir Ken Robinson, and he is, quite frankly, one of the most brilliant speakers I’ve heard in my life. He has an uproarious sense of humor, with a large helping of sarcasm, but at the same time, he can communicate a very serious message. His speech, as his title suggests, is about how the school system effectively educates society out of creativity. He walks onto the stage at the very beginning seeming rather awkward, even confused, and begins addressing the conference members about the events prior to his speech. It seems irrelevant at first, but he artfully brings it back to education, the topic of his speech. This seemingly clumsy opening gives a sense of exposure. It gives an impression that he is up-front, and not some genius that we can never live up to. T...

The speech I decided to write about is president John F. Kennedy's Civil Rights Announcement, given June 11, 1963. In this speech, Kennedy speaks about the racial inequality taking place in America at the time for African Americans. He begins with an example of injustice that had taken place at the University of Alabama. Two black residents had to be admitted to the University by the National Guard, even though they undoubtably had the necessary qualifications. The case had to be decided in court. President Kennedy spoke of how this was unfair to the students, who should be permitted to attend whichever school they desire without being escorted by military. He made the point that when our country is in need of troops, we do not ask for only whites, so why do we treat anyone with any less respect because of the color of their skin? The president asked that ever man, no matter what color they are or where they come from, to examine his conscience regarding the matter of racial ine...