Cultural Rhetoric

Theme : Speech/Debate Abby: Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator Anna: How Humans Could Evolve to Survive in Space Brennan: Are Athletes Really Getting Better, Faster, Stronger? Carlos: Trusted and True Clayton: Rally to Fight Big Soda Dean: Michael Bloomberg's Harvard Commencement Eva: How to Build Your Creative Confidence Hannah: A Futuristic Vision in the Age of Holograms Jin: Republican Debate Hill: Cell Phones Kyleigh: All It Takes is 10 Mindful Minutes Mason: Hackers Are the Internet's Immune System Mauricio: Illegal Sneaker Dealing Micah: Using Data to Make a Hit TV Show Peter: Jack Ma Rachel: How We're Priming Some Kids for College and Others for Prison Young: HeForShe Campaign Zach: The Magician's Secret

The speech started with a story about the speaker's friend whose name is Brian when he was in third grade. How he was making a horse out of clay and got upset by a girl with some thorny words, it ended up with that he had never done that any more. When the speaker told this story to his students, he found that much people have had that kind of experiences. Then he introduced a famous scientist whose name is Albert Bandora and his special process which call 'guided mastery'. This process can help people come out of fear and to be able to build their creative confidence on many others things, too. After that, he introduced a technical person named Doug Dietz, who designs medical imaging equipment. He talked about how Doug Dietz's machine turned out really well but 80% of pediatric patients had to be sedated in order to not get terrified by how it was looking. At last, Doug Dietz changed how the machine looks like and every child wants to be examined by that machine. He...

  Speech refers to the public for a particular problem, bright, full published their own views and opinions, to clarify things, to carry on the propaganda of communicative activities. Sounds simple? Not quite. In order to touch and follow audiences' emotions, speechmakers should my different rhetorical ways to persuade people. Especially if speechmakers want to talk about a social problem, if he does not speak rhetorical, people are hard to understand. Now I am going to share a good speech talking about trusting.   This is a speech that I heard in my high school. Professor asked a question:" Nowadays there are many crisis of confidence, whether you also think the trust has ceased to exist?" " what is the value of the trusting?" Then he told us a story:" There was a young girl in preschool, one day someone reported that she steals money in her class's locker. Her teacher called her parents to come. After mother knew the thing, she asked her daughter a ...

Recently, the biggest issue in America is the presidential election. People talk about Donald Trump a lot and I wanted to actually hear his speech. This video was the debate between Republicans and Donald Trump. They started the debate with how Donald Trump illegally hired Poland workers. Then, they actually get into his plans. Donald Trump is obviously trying to persuade people to think he should be a president. Republicans are against him to be a president with reasons. For all the topics, I found many fallacies from both Donald Trump and Republicans. Donald Trump used the ad hominem abusive against Republicans throughout debate. When Republicans started to talk about his business, he said, “You are wrong, You get along with nobody.” He spoke against the person speaking instead of attacking their argument. When Republicans ask Donald Trump about his healthcare plan, he used the begging the question to answer. He repeated himself that he has a great plan by different ways. He does ...

Greg Glassman, the founder of Crossfit inc, has traveled around gyms across the country speaking about soda. Glassman has been talking about soda not in a negative way, but giving facts to the listeners about the negative side effects of soda. Glassman has been using rhetoric by trying to start a movement of the corruption of soda and what it does to the body. Glassman presented a bill that is trying to be passed to put a warning label on soda cans about the toxins soda releases into the body. Glassman is not trying to ban soda, but to inform people that the toxins that go into the body through soda are not benefiting the body in anyway. Glassman is using examples and facts throughout his presentation. He keeps the audience paying attention by humor in the middle of his speech. Once he gets the attention back to him by humor he gets back into the facts and presents more information attacking soda. Glassman is targeting the proper audience to lead the movement he is trying to st...

I found an interesting ted talk titled How Humans Could Evolve to Survive in Space. In this speech, Lisa Nip describes how the human body would have to develop in order to live soundly on another planet. I chose this speech out of my love for both biology and space; it caught my attention. This speech effectively used rhetoric- for good and for bad. She had successfully caught the audience’s attention by asking them whether or not they would live in the freezing outdoors for a couple months. She used this to lead into her talk about living on another planet in extreme weather conditions. This was a good introduction and a good use of rhetoric. She also successfully made her scientific terms understandable. Not everyone watching would be able to understand complex scientific words- so she always stopped to make it simplified. This made the speech interesting to more people. She did, however, have her downfalls. While her intent was to make the listeners inspired and i...

In November of 2012, Andy Puddicombe gave a speech at the TEDSalon in London called, All It Takes is 10 Mindful Minutes. During this speech he discussed the benefits of meditation and slowing down our lives. He started his speech off by asking the audience a question about the last time they did nothing. He related to the audience through humor and situations that happen to all of us. After he describes these situations he states the fact that we do not take time to take care of our minds. Since we do not slow down to take care of our minds, we get stressed which causes us to get overwhelmed and distracts us from the wonderful things in life. He tells the audience about a person experience he had as a child about going to a meditation class with his mother. After explaining his experience, he uses a metaphor to compare meditation to aspirin for the mind. He then gave another personal story about when he was around 20 years old because a lot of things were happening in his life at th...

I found a speech by Tim Urban on ted.com. It sparked my interest as soon as I saw the title, Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator. I immediately became interested in this speech because I procrastinate every single day of my life, and it is honestly the most frustrating thing to me. So I decided to watch it. It turned out to be quite hilarious and very relatable. He decided to write a blog about procrastinators and why they are the way they are. He then goes on to illustrate the difference between the brains of a procrastinator and of a non-procrastinator with funny yet simple drawings. He uses the character of a ‘rational decision maker’ and an ‘instant gratification monkey’. The speaker then goes on to say that even though they can overlap, procrastinators tend to spend much more time doing the monkey’s ‘easy and fun’ activities, and he calls that place ‘the dark playground’. He says the fun that you have in the ‘dark playground’ is not actually fun because your mind is ...

In her speech she talks about how even those kids who live in a bad neighborhood and end up in jail deserve to be treated differently. She says that these kids deserve a chance to go college and not end up jail. By putting these kids in jail, taxpayers end up having to pay for these kids to go to jail. These kids are coming home with a criminal record, which makes it even harder to get a job. Alice Goffman uses many examples to prove what she is talking about. One example is how kids in these neighborhood play games where one kid is a cop and the other run from him. If the cop catches them the cop would push them to the ground and beat them. She talks very passionately about her topic. She shows a lot of emotion, by pausing after she said something important, that she wanted the audience to understand. Alice gave many examples of what these kids go through. This speech seemed persuasive because the audience liked what she had to say. By adding emotion she made people feel bad for ...

Recently I watched a TED talk done by speaker Alex Kipman on the topic of modern technology, more specifically the topic of holograms. He went on about how today’s society, despite being as advanced as we currently are, are still like the cavemen, first discovering charcoal and making markings on cave walls. No one in today’s day of age wants to be behind on the latest and newest technology, so by claiming that we are still living as though ancients, people are more motivated to listen and acknowledge. Continuing in his presentation, Kipman proceeds to demonstrate the Microsoft HoloLens. By doing so, he provides the audience with visuals of what technology can really accomplish. Although while this was occurring, I found myself more focused on the holograms being displayed rather than what the speaker was actually presenting, leading me to simply assume the speaker was saying relevant and intelligent things. Upon rewatching the presentation, I focused more on what Kipman was sayi...

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 hel...

Today I watched a speech from TED website , there was a speaker talking about phones and some tips to cell somebody or get some information , the whole speech was clear and funny.  According to that speech , the speaker was using ethos through the speech , he gave audiences many videos to support his point. For example , he found people still on phone call when they are moving from Wi-Fi to cellular tower , the phone in that video which just changed to cellular tower in mid-call. That video was really authoritative, because that was really event happened in his video , it was a good way to make more sense for what was he trying to explain or support. Not only many videos were help him , but also some example by using pathos. There is one example gave me a deep impression , it was a scene about people leave a message to somebody , but that person needs to listen 15 seconds of instruction, then he really made that conversation between him and the talker from phone. That made everyb...

I watched a speech about feminism. Emma Watson, British actor and UN Women Goodwill Ambassador, co-hosted a special event for UN Women’s HeForShe campaign. The HeForShe campaign is a solidarity movement for gender equality which calls upon men and boys to help end the persisting inequalities faced by women and girls globally. Emma is saying ‘I am reaching out to you because we need your help.’ This sentence makes people curious about the speech. She said ‘We just don’t want to talk about it. We want to try and make sure that is tangible.’ When I heard that sentence, I felt there is a problem that has to be changed. Feminism is one of the most important issues today. In this speech video, I think men can easily think that Emma is trying to be on the side of women. According to Wikipedia, Feminism is a range of political movements , ideologies , and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve equal political, economic, personal, and social righ...

   In universities ' graduation ceremony, there are always some famous people have speeches. Normally people who have a speech in ceremony are give some suggestions and hopes. But at Harvard University 's 363 rd commencement in 2014, Michael Bloomberg the ex-mayor of New York City and Originator of Bloomberg L.P who had a different speech with other people had.     He was attacking the situation in American society and Universities that unorthodox ideas be repressed. At the same time he encouraged students open their mind and listen advice from other people which their even do not agree with.    At first he said great universities' purpose is not only to advance knowledge, but to advance the ideals of nation. He thinks great universities are places where people of all backgrounds, holding all beliefs, pursuing all questions, can come to study and debate their ideas freely and openly. Then he gave students his topic that how important it is for that f...

I decided to look for a talk about technology since it is so important in our society. And I found a ted talk from Keren Elazari, a cyber security expert, on hackers.  Keren was speaking about how hackers are not always bad, and are actually very helpful to everyone.  She used rhetoric in her persuasion by using examples about how they are helpful through things we all use.  She used the example of privacy on facebook, and a wireless router.  Both things most people use she showed how they found holes in the system and were able to alter people information, and told the companies ways to fix them.  She used these small examples to build up into a bigger example of how they expose corrupt parts in government and advocate for our rights. Showing ways they are helpful, but also spoke about how some of those hackers use their skills for their benefit.  In ways like taking money or stealing identities which is an uprising threat.  The way Keren used per...

                The speech begins with the speaker, Sebastian Wernicke, explaining to the audience that Roy Price was the senior executive with amazon studios. Roy is in charge of finding TV shows for amazon. Sebastian then goes on to explain that Roy needs to find the right TV show for viewers, a well written, addicting TV show if he wants amazon to be successful. The first thing that Roy has to do is select eight shows that are deemed worthy candidates. Then he puts the first episode of each one of these shows online for free. Because the episodes are free, millions of people will see them. While the people watch the episodes, Roy and his crew record the viewers’ actions: when they press play, when they press pause, what parts they skip, or what parts are re-watched. They then record the data that they receive and decide which show would best succeed.         ...

Since I had to write a blog on a speech or debate, and I don’t really remember any speeches from school, I went on Ted.com and listened to a TED talk. I choose a talked that peaked my interest and it was about sports. The speech was by David Epstein a sports science reporter and his speech was: Are athletes really getting faster, better, stronger. David Epstein was trying to prove that athletes are not really gaining in attributes but are better because of three reasons: Innovation, Democratization, Imagination.  The first point of innovation he face an example of Jesse Owens and Usain Bolt. In 1936 Jesse Owens was the fastest man in the 100 meters, but if Jesse Owens would have ran with Usain Bolt he would have finished 14 steps behind Bolt, which is a lot in the 100 meters. This wasn’t because Usain Bolt was purely faster but because of innovations like starting blocks and synthetic tracks, Jesse Owens had to run on a cinder track which was pacted ash and he had to dig divo...

Magic is my passion and my art form.  As a magician I am constantly looking to improve my magic, and one way I do this is by watching and listening to other magicians.  This way I can expand my knowledge of how to deceive, astonish, and do what I love.  One of my favorite magicians in particular is a man named Francis Menotti. He has a very strange, but at the same time brilliant performing style and personality.  He also has profound insight into the realm of magic that I enjoy listening to. In the summer of last year Francis did a TEDx talk at the University of Penn titled, “The magician's secret: Why everyone should embrace child-like wonder”.  In his speech he talks about why exactly he does magic, which is to instil child-like wonder into the minds of his audiences.  He is an excellent speaker and conveys his thoughts and ideas very well.  He uses a total of three different effects (tricks) to help demonstrate his points.  For example, w...

Hey kids!  Let’s talk about illegal sneaker dealing.  I recently watched a ted talk called The Secret Sneaker Market- And Why It Matters.  In this speech, Josh Luber talked about how popular sneaker brands, like Nike, dominate the secondary sneaker market.  He analyzes this sneaker market and compares it to the stock market. He starts the talk by revealing that he is a sneaker collector and keeps track of the sneaker market.  This is showing ethos.  He proves that he is credible.  He also makes it interesting for the audience by having pictures and having a chart.  He makes his speech interesting by describing the hype that sneaker collectors cause in the market. He did, however, use rhetoric in a bad way consistently.  He compared the illegal selling of sneakers to drug dealing.  He said that this act was encouraging kids to start illegally selling things.  This was a false analogy.  Sneaker selling is not similar enough ...