...ITT-Technical University Rhetorical Analysis of Dr. Martin Luther Kings “I Have A Dream” (Revised) Introduction On August 28th 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave the “I Have a Dream” speech which was addressed to not only the 200,000 white and black Americans but people all around the world. The “I Have A Dream” speech has been considered one of the most greatest and powerful speeches in history. Why was it given? Simply to rectify that all me were created equal despite their race or color. In this Analysis I will be explaining some literary terms he used as strategies in his speech, and also explain how Dr. King used two rhetorical patterns to help him support his argument, those two patters are Ethos, & Pathos. Strategies Dr. King used many literary terms in the “I Have a Dream” speech such as Alliteration, which is the repetition of sounds. For example he says, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” The “c” in those three words of that sentence gives it a repetitive rhythm feel which will make that important part of the speech catch and memorable. Also from that same sentence he used Anaphora, which describes the most famous part of the speech, where in this case is “I Have a Dream”. Although he used it many times just buy naming this speech “I Have a Dream” it will make everything...
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...LIN 100—Marla Perkins, Ph.D. Fall 2012 While I’m at the Conference 1. Watch one of the following movies and write a short paragraph or list in which you note three things that you learned about language. E-mail me your paragraph/list on or before October 22 (marla.perkins@oswego.edu). • The King’s Speech (drama: about working through a speech impediment—phonetics/speech pathology/sociolinguistics) • The Gods Must Be Crazy (comedy: includes lots of a natively spoken click language—phonetics/typology) • Children of a Lesser God (drama: about deaf culture and American Sign Language—typology/sociolinguistics) • Rango (comedy: about creating identity through speech patterns—sociolinguistics/discourse analysis/phonetics) • Snowcake (comedy/drama: about what can go hilariously/profoundly wrong when pragmatic implicatures are not used/understood—pragmatics/morphology) • Kenneth Branaugh’s Much Ado About Nothing (comedy: a sample of Shakespearean English—pay attention to the ways in which language has changed in the past 400 years—history of the English language/diachronic linguistics /phonology/lexicon/syntax/semantics) • Kenneth Branaugh’s Hamlet (tragedy: as above—history of the English language/diachronic linguistics/phonology/lexicon/syntax/semantics) • Driving Miss Daisy (comedy/drama: class differences in language use and pragmatic implicature—sociolinguistics/pragmatics) • Bridge on the River Kwai (drama: learning to communicate across a language/culture/power barrier—sociolinguistics/discourse...
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...signal Speech Signal Processing Speech Production Speech Waveform Characteristics ● ● ● Loudness Voiced/Unvoiced. Pitch. – Fundamental frequency. Formants. ● Spectral envelope. – Speech Waveform Characteristics Voiced Unvoiced s s Short-Time Speech Analysis ● Segments (or frames, or vectors) are typically of length 20 ms. – – Speech characteristics are constant. Allows for relatively simple modeling. ● Often overlapping segments are extracted. The Spectrogram ● A classic analysis tool. – Consists of DFTs of overlapping, and windowed frames. ● Displays the distribution of energy in time and frequency. A spectrogram Short time ACF /m/ /ow/ /s/ ACF |DFT| Sound Propagation Sound propagates from the source to the receiver through a combination of four main propagation modes: ● ● ● ● direct propagation path reflection from walls diffraction around objects refraction due to temperature differences in the layers of air. For that reason sound is delayed and attenuated by different amounts. Reflection One happens when a sound wave encounters a medium with different impedance from which it is travelling in, for example when the sound propagating in the air hits the walls of a room (fig. 1). Sound reflects from walls, objects, etc. Acoustically, reflection results in: Sound reverberation - for small round-trip delays (less than 100 ms), Echo - for longer round-trip delays. fig. 1 ● ● ...
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...Coletha Mack CST 100-040W 3/5/12 Self-Analysis #2 My overall feeling about my persuasive speech is not a great one. I felt like I could have been more prepared and organized. While I was delivering the speech, it seemed as if I wasn’t holding the audience attention. I must say out of all of the speeches I was more afraid to perform. It could have been because it wasn’t a topic I was really comfortable with. During the speech I keep it upbeat. I brought in positive energy, while keeping everyone laughing. I projected my voice rather nicely. I used my hands to show emphasis on the subject. If I had to do the speech all over again, I would use notes cards. Doing it at the minute would not have been an option, regardless of what was going on with my personal life. Next time, I will stick with one subject and build from there. In comparison to my other speeches I think this one was the worst. I set goals for myself and I think I only deliver on keeping the energy up. For this speech I decided to use a cause and effect. To me cause and effect speeches are easier to write because it shows how something you do can cause you something bad to happen or good. You really don’t have to try to persuade too much because the truth is in the pudding so to speak as long as you have creditable sources. I wanted to come across nonchalant but seriously about the subject. The reason I said nonchalant because people would be more receptacle of what I have to say, the subject of cosmetic...
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...Plan of the project: 1) What is hippotherapy? 2) Analysis of the organization 3) SWOT analysis 4) Target Audience 5) Objectives PR campaign 6) Task of PR campaign 7) Plan of the PR program 8) Work plan of preparation for the conference "Hippotherapy-riding to health" 9) Information for controllable mass media 10) Information for non-controllable mass media 11) Budget 12) Press kit: * Press release * Information about organization * Biography of the CEO * List of quotations * Logo * Questionnaire for journalists What is hippotherapy? About hippotherapy known since the time of Hippocrates. He claimed that the wounded and the sick get better faster if they ride on horseback, and melancholic part with their dark thoughts. In the middle of the XVIII century the encyclopedist Denis Diderot, in his treatise: "About riding and what it means to maintain health and to find it again", wrote: "Among the exercise the first place belongs to ride. It can be used to treat many diseases, but may also prevent them befores they appear." Hippotherapy is a comprehensive and multi-method of rehabilitation, a form of physiotherapy (physical therapy), where tools for rehabilitation are the horse, the process of riding and exercising that a person does during riding. While riding all the major muscle groups of the body receive a work out. This occurs at a reflex level, because sitting on the horse, moving along with it, the...
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...algorithm to be effective, it must be stated in a manner that its intended executor can understand • a recipe written for a master chef will look different than a recipe written for a college student – as you have already experienced, computers are more demanding with regard to algorithm specifics than any human could be 3 Designing & Analyzing Algorithms • 4 steps to solving problems (George Polya) 1. understand the problem 2. devise a plan 3. carry out your plan 4. examine the solution EXAMPLE: finding the oldest person in a room full of people Understanding the problem initial condition, goal and assumptions – room full of people – identify the oldest person a person will give their real birthday if two people are born on the same day, they are the same age if there is more than one oldest person, finding any one of them is okay 1. we will consider 2 different designs for solving this problem 4 Algorithm 1 • Finding the oldest person (algorithm 1) 1. 2. 3. line up all the people along one wall ask the first person to...
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...A language sample analysis (LSA) is a tool that generates the coding and transcriptions of a language sample to document the language used every day in various speaking situations (Miller, Andriacchi, & Nockerts, 2016). Language samples are typically 50-100 words in length and are voice-recorded and then transcribed by the clinician. Language samples are done using spontaneous speech, such as typical conversation, or narrative contexts, such as story or event recalls (Miller, Andriacchi, & Nockerts, 2016). The speech-language pathologist (SLP) will take the recording and write out, in the exact words of the child and clinician, every utterance (Bowen, 2011). The SLP will then "code" the sample. Coding the sample consist of marking inflection...
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...George Tenet and the Last Great Days of the CIA George Tenet was the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1997-2004. He was good at what he did; he was so good that he was asked to stay on as the Director of the CIA when President Bush won the Presidency. The one thing Tenet experienced with the Bush administration that he did not experience with the Clinton Administration is he became part of the President’s inner circle. Once George Tenet experienced the inner circle, he no longer was able to focus on rebuilding the agency (Stillman 2000). In George Tenet and the Last Great Days of the CIA, Richard White, Jr. gives us the rise and fall of the CIA under CIA Director George Tenet. With any profession ethics always plays an important role. We run across many ethical situations and it always come down to what should you do? In George Tenet’s case it was no different. During his political career Tenet had faced many ethical dilemmas, some of those ethical dilemmas include him serving as a go-between person making his job politically complicated, not being able to openly disagree and communicate with the members of President Bush administration, even when he knew the President was wrong he still backed him, and being in a cross road for performing the duties of his job and being loyal to the president. Tenet had always seen the role of CIA as an “honest broker that avoided direct involvement in foreign policy making” (Stillman...
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...Identification Analysis Date | September 15, 2011 | Department | Athletics | Number of Employees | 34 (18 female, 16 male) | Promotion | Director of Physical Program Services | Initial Wage | $30,000 | Period of Training Required | 2 day overnight retreat | Number of Immediate Supervisor | Victor Manuel Ayala | Name of Analyst | Melissa González Montañez | B. Position Summary The Girls’ Physical Director manages all functions necessary to efficiently operate a well-organized and successful girls’ athletics program. The Girls’ Physical Director is the program coordinator for the Healthy Living Club, a nutritional program focused on healthy eating and being physically active. In addition, this position holds primary responsibility for program budgeting, part-time employee supervision, database management, and equipment inventory and management. The Girls’ Physical Director works directly with parents of club members and volunteers and is responsible for developing and fostering interpersonal relationships with them in order to promote a positive community environment. The Girls’ Physical Director is also expected to lead and motivate all subordinate staff members and child members of the club. C. Job Duties The Girls’ Physical Director typically: * Arranges and coordinates all scheduling, management, program budgeting, equipment dispersal and travel arrangements for girls’ sports teams. * Maintains database for 100 participants of...
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...Essay – Barack Obama,”Back to School” What are some of President Barack Obama’s methods for successful speeches? How does he manage to gather the attention of his audience? Is he really just throwing out slogans at people or does he really deliver a mark after they’ve left the audience? This essay will embark on some of these questions through an analysis of his speech presented at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia at an event called, “Back to school”. President Barack Obama’s speech is about the importance of education, and an efficient infrastructure in the USA. He gathers his audience’s attention by emphasizing on how important it is for each individual in America to have an education – not only for their own sake, but also for their country’s sake. Throughout the speech he addresses his audience in a specific way while advocating for some values. These values are different; however, they have an equal significance since they all contribute to the success of an eminent society. I’ll highlight the way he addresses his audience and the values he advocates for in his speech, respectively. “The president: Hello everyone – How’s everybody doing today?” [l.1] This statement used by Mr. Obama clearly states that he wants to create an impact in these young Americans’ heart. He isn’t speaking academically towards them but rather in a language that everybody speaks and understands, so they can easily relate to each other. Obama’s intention must have been not to elevate...
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...Essay – Barack Obama,”Back to School” What are some of President Barack Obama’s methods for successful speeches? How does he manage to gather the attention of his audience? Is he really just throwing out slogans at people or does he really deliver a mark after they’ve left the audience? This essay will embark on some of these questions through an analysis of his speech presented at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia at an event called, “Back to school”. President Barack Obama’s speech is about the importance of education, and an efficient infrastructure in the USA. He gathers his audience’s attention by emphasizing on how important it is for each individual in America to have an education – not only for their own sake, but also for their country’s sake. Throughout the speech he addresses his audience in a specific way while advocating for some values. These values are different; however, they have an equal significance since they all contribute to the success of an eminent society. I’ll highlight the way he addresses his audience and the values he advocates for in his speech, respectively. “The president: Hello everyone – How’s everybody doing today?” [l.1] This statement used by Mr. Obama clearly states that he wants to create an impact in these young Americans’ heart. He isn’t speaking academically towards them but rather in a language that everybody speaks and understands, so they can easily relate to each other. Obama’s intention must have been not to elevate...
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...8 | Regulations A. Late Submission * A 10% deduction per day of total coursework marks (excluding weekends and public holidays). * Late submission between 5 to 10 days, results in a 50% deduction of total coursework marks. * Late submission past 10 days results in an automatic 0% for coursework and the student will be barred from the final examination. B. Deliverables Students must submit all materials supporting their coursework listed in the deliverable section. * Plagiarism is presenting somebody else’s work as your own. It includes: copying information directly from the Web or books without referencing the material; submitting joint coursework as an individual effort; copying another student’s coursework; stealing coursework from another student and submitting it as your own. Suspected plagiarism will be investigated and if found to have occurred will be dealt with according to the procedures set down by the university/college. The coursework must be done in group of 3/4 students and must be entirely your own work. Please make sure that you are aware of the rules concerning plagiarism. If you are unclear about them, please consult your program coordinator/lecturer. * The coursework should exhibit formal research skills i.e. with a table of content, proper citations, references, and appendixes. * The coursework write up must be able to demonstrate critical analysis and application of both theory and practical issues to the case that...
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...Management Examination Paper MM.100 Business Communication Section A: Objective Type (30 marks) This section consists of multiple choices and Short Notes type questions. Answer all the questions. Part one questions carry 1 mark each & Part Two questions carry 4 marks each. Part one: Multiple choices: 1. __________is an essential function of Business Organizations: a. Information b. Communication c. Power d. None of the above ANSWER: Communication 2. Physiological Barriers of listening are: a. Hearing impairment b. Physical conditions c. Prejudices d. All of the above ANSWER: All of the above 3. Which presentation tend to make you speak more quickly than usual: a. Electronic b. Oral c. Both ‘a’ and ‘b’ N d. None of the above ANSWER: Oral 4. What is the main function of Business Communication: a. Sincerity b. Positive language c. Persuasion d. Ethical standard ANSWER: Persuasion 5. The responsibilities of the office manager in a firm that produces electronics spares is: a. Everything in the office runs efficiently b. Furniture and other equipment in the office is adequate c. Processing all the incoming official mail and responding to some d. All of the above ANSWER:All of the above 6. Labov’s Storytelling Model based on: a. Communication through speech b. Language learning c. Group Discussions d. None of the above ANSWER:Communication through speech 7. Diagonal Communication...
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...Chapter 2 Problems 1. Look at the newspapers for the past few days. What new economic statistics have been released? How do you interpret these statistics? Poverty levels in the US will continue to rise as long term unemployment numbers continue to increase. The societal problems that are associated with high unemployment will continue to increase. 2. A farmer grows a bushel of wheat and sells it to a miller for $1.00. The miller turns the wheat into flour and then sells the flour to a baker for $3.00. The baker uses the flour to make bread and sells the bread to an engineer for $6.00. The engineer eats the bread. What is the value added by each person? What is GDP? Farmer’s VA = $1 Miller’s VA = $2 Baker’s VA = $3 GDP = $6 3. Suppose a woman marries her butler. After they are married, her husband continues to support him as before (but as a husband rather than as an employee). How does the marriage affect GDP? How should it affect GDP? GDP is affected because the husband is no longer employed and GDP will be reduced minus his salary. 4. Place each of the following transactions in one of the four components of expenditure: consumption, investment, government purchases, and net exports. a. Boeing sells an airplane to the Air Force. Government purchases b. Boeing sells an airplane to American Airlines. Investment c. Boeing sells an airplane to Air France. Net exports d. Boeing sells an airplane to Amelia Earhart. Consumption ...
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...Luther King Jr. speech. For other uses, see I Have a Dream (disambiguation). Martin Luther King, Jr. delivering "I Have a Dream" at the 1963 Washington D.C. Civil Rights March. | "I Have a Dream"30-second sample from "I Have a Dream" speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. | Problems listening to this file? See media help. | "I Have a Dream" is a public speech by American activist Martin Luther King, Jr.. It was delivered by King on August 28, 1963, in which he called for an end to racism in the United States. Delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the speech was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement.[1] Beginning with a reference to the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed millions of slaves in 1863,[2] King examines that: "one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free".[3] At the end of the speech, King departed from his prepared text for a partly improvised peroration on the theme of "I have a dream", possibly prompted by Mahalia Jackson's cry: "Tell them about the dream, Martin!"[4] In this part of the speech, which most excited the listeners and has now become the most famous, King described his dreams of freedom and equality arising from a land of slavery and hatred.[5] The speech was ranked the top American speech of the 20th century by a 1999 poll of scholars of public address.[6] Contents [hide] * 1 Background * 1.1 Speech title and the...
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