...Speech for teenagers in Harlem Dear fellow citizen my name is Precious and I am coming here today to hold a speech for you, about what my point of view is how it is to live in this part of the city Harlem. I would like to do it so that I can get my opinion out to you all. I would also like to do it so that I can explain how we can help each other to make it a better place to live in. Harlem is a ghetto and probably the worst one in New York. The reason it is, because people like some of you are giving the street a bad reputation. There are too many crackers that are selling drugs when they should obey the law and there are also to many of you that are buying and taking the drugs while making crimes. Harlem has one of the biggest crime rates in New York. And that make it dangerous to live in. Many of us also have a bad social live here in the ghetto. Some of us because we have parents that are bad to us while other of us because we are making crimes with others or because joining gangs we think are “cool” to join. But gangs and crimes are only leading to bad influence on your lives. Some of us are also not guilty in our bad lives we can have poorly live because our parents are not threating us well. For those reasons I would try to say to all of you how we can make this a better place to live in. A good advice is, do not join any gangs because it will slowly evolve into worse thing’s for instance drugs, burglary and much other worse things. My life has been hard...
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...B – Back to school by Barack Obama The text “back to school” is a speech held by the president of the United States, Barack Obama, in September 2009 at a school in Arlington, Virginia. The speech is about education and how important it is to this generation to have an education, if they want to succeed in the future. If everyone has some goals in life and a good education, it’s both good for the individuals, but also for the generation and the whole country. The intended audience of the speech is, of cause, the youngsters in the USA, because it’s them, who form the main part of the generation, who’s responsible for the future of the USA. Barack Obama, who is the speaker of the text, is talking on the behalf of the country in the speech. His purpose with the speech is to encourage the young people to take an education and to be responsible for themselves and the country. His intention is also to persuade the young ones to give priority to education, by being a role model to them. He identifies with the young ones by telling about how it was through his own education and about all the good and bad things about it. The youngsters need to encourage themselves, because their parents and teachers are only a part of it, and the students need to do the main part themselves. Obama addresses the audience, the youngsters, by using a lot of examples from his own life, or from other people, who has achieved their goals and a good education, in spite of challenges in their life and no...
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...bigger and bigger for every year. Many youngsters choose the wrong places to find help or acknowledgement because their parents have given up on them. Some choose drugs to forget their horrible lives while others choose to murder people or steal to get an inner satisfaction. There could be many reasons for why people do all these things and some we will never understand. On May 20th, 2000, J.C. Watts held a speech in North Carolina about young people seeking help in all the wrong places. J.C. Watts was a former congressman for the Republican Party but today he is the chairman in his own company which is a large multi-industry in Washington, DC. In his speech he talks about parents not giving their children the kind of attention and love that they need. And because of that more children are choosing the wrong path, doing drugs and killing each other. “(…) children growing up with very little parental discipline and guidance, which is crucial for helping them develop self-control” – because of this many young people don’t get to learn the differences between right and wrong. He also says that religion has a lot to do with this problem and it has got to be irrelevant among the youngsters. And he thinks that’s the reason why children nowadays are violent, sexually obsessed and undisciplined. He also mentions that civilians carrying guns is a big problem because some people misuse it. There are logos and pathos in the speech especially where he talks about guns and...
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...features found in spoken language, and the issues arising from the public attitude to spoken language. First paragraph:- I, myself have grown up in the Aylesbury bucks district. A very small, quiet town, where the youngsters terminology is mainly influenced by other places in the UK. London would be one of the main places in the UK where the youth of Aylesbury pick up their slang words and "ghetto talk" from. Like words such as "enit", "bruv", "wagwarn" etc are the most common words interpurated from East London. Many phrases such as these may not be familiar with the elder generation as their use of slang is very diffrent to the 21st century terminology of slang words. Along the years slang words have become more and more informal and harder to understand for people who are not common with those types of words. Slang is mainly used amongst people of the age group of 25 and younger. Slang is not used all the time in every day life, it is most commonly used amongst friends and other youngsters who are familiar with that fashion of speech. However, I would, (along with many other youngsters), change my idiolect for those who are older than me, or when I'm in a much more formal situation such as an interview or when I'm speaking with a teacher or my parents. My speech is changed from slang to appropriate English grammar to match the level of formality I am surrounded within. For example around my parents limited amount of slang still exists, such as "mum, we're meeting Aunty jenny...
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...At the beginning of his speech, Harvey Milk tries to convince people to join his fight for gay rights. As a gay man, he describes the things that he will not tolerate anymore; he calls out, “an anti-gay smear campaign”, and explains that this is not the kind of future he wants for his community. He is tired of the silence that comes as one of the many burdens of being gay. Beginning his speech, Milk knows that there are not a lot of people on his side, therefore he wants to show that they are, “coming out to fight” and that they are, “tired of the silence”. Through these strong words of force he is showing his audience that he is passionate about fighting for gay rights, his rights; he is showing that he will not take the lies and the myths....
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...British Stammering Association The BSA is a national membership organisation established in 1978, for adults and children who stammer, their friends and families, speech and language therapists and other professionals. Based in London, it is run by people who stammer. BSA promotes awareness of stammering, offers advice, information and support to all whose lives are affected by stammering, initiates and supports research into stammering and identifies and promotes effective therapies. It describes stammering as a neurological issue and estimates that about 700,000 people in the UK have a stammer. In September 2010, the Association announced that Labour front-bench politician Ed Balls MP, who is now Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, had become a patron of the Association. BSA chief executive Norbert Lieckfeldt paid tribute to him for having been very public in his declaration that he too knows what it's like to stammer and has at times struggled with his speech. Lieckfeldt describes stammering as "the hidden disability", said the charity had received calls from members who said people were asking them about their stammer for the first time, because of The King's Speech. The film had created a "good opportunity" for people to talk about stammering. He said: “Suddenly it has become a thing that can be talked about, which is very important for us...For those people who are engaged in conversations about it, their situation will have changed for the better. However, the Association...
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...Detail: Convectional ideas are not questioned such as healthy oppositions based on sound valid premises and it is costly as it takes a lot of time and resources to implement the censorship activity in place. e.g.: when people compare the old times with the current era they find a lot of changes and have resources as to why it is happening thus do not question its existence. Disadvantage two: works against human rights Detail: teachers being banned to punish students. e.g.: empowering student, Lack of respect, As a result, exam result a bad….. Disadvantage three: Freedom of speech is compromised. Detail: Limitation on freedom of speech. When people put limits on what is not okay to express it. This sets up a slight slope where people’s right to freedom of speech will be limited and controlled more severally. e.g.: the current situation in Fiji whereby people have less or no freedom of speech due to the military government. However, there can also be benefits of censorship for a society. Some people agree strongly with the need for censorship that they argue it protects societies. Firstly, Censorship of...
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...Audience Analysis 1. Time Constraints: I feel that the time constraints will affect our upcoming informative speech in many ways. Especially with time constraints because we may not have enough time to add all the information we need in our speech. A time constraint could restrict us from thoroughly explaining all that we need. On the other hand it could also be a problem time for us to reach. We may in fact not have enough information to add in order to meet the time needed. This could lead to the results of someone talking really slow or in fact lead them to repeating themselves and lose the audience’s attention. 2. Physical Environment: I don’t feel this will have much of an affect on our upcoming speech. Since we are not in a physical classroom we don’t have to worry about our fellow students staring us down. Instead we are on our own and don’t have to worry about making awkward eye contact with anyone. 3. Composition of the Audience: Our size of the audience seems to be quite small but there are factors that can affect this. You must be able to grasp the attention of almost everyone regardless of the topic. Whether it’s a small or large group anyone can lose interest if your topic is not intriguing or you do not present your speech well enough. From what I can see the average age ranges from 18 to 24. There is quite a difference with these age groups, but then there is not. Many know of the same things and or news that is going on around their environment...
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...President Barack Obama is very aware of this and has made it an important subject and goal in his presidential career to inspire youngsters in the right direction, both for their own sake and their country’s. Barack Obamas’ speech “Back to School” at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia was held in September 8, 2009. The age of the present audience varied to children from kindergarten and all the way up to twelfth grade. In addition to that, the speech was also broadcasted to students all over the country. The audience is obviously extremely great, and the speech will therefore have a tremendous impact on several individuals. The first thing Obama seems to focus on in his speech on the first day of the children’s school day are in fact the children themselves. He speaks directly to them, and initiates the whole thing by telling everyone that being nervous is perfectly normal. He has obviously tried it himself when he was their age. Very easily he finds a way to make everyone relate to him by telling stories from his own life. Barack Obama did not grow up under the best circumstances. He was raised by a single mother whom was very passionate about doing what was best for her son. She even sought to homeschool Obama, when he wasn’t at school. She wanted to make sure he would have the best possible future. This particular section of the speech did quite possibly have a good impact on certain students who probably see big politicians as people who have had everything handed...
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...”Back to school event” In Barack Obama’s speech “Back to school event” his main topic is how important it is to focus on your studies. He is not only encouraging the students that are present in the room, but also every person in America that are currently in school to keep strong, even though the odds are against you, so you can finish your education. To get out the importance of the speech, Barack Obama is taking a heavy use in the rhetoric forms. For an instance, one of the rhetoric methods Obama is using is ethos. It is important that you trust, believe and feel with the person who is trying to get his words through to the listener. Here Obama is being highly successful with his connection to the people in the room, due to the fact that he is using himself as an example in his speech, which makes it more trustworthy. He makes an example of himself as an example as to why it may seem hard to study at the moment, but how it will be worth it in the end. He uses himself to get the message out that if you are heading towards a bad road, focusing on completing your studies will take you back to a more even and safe path. He is refers to education as your safety net, your only safety net. He simply let down all other options to succeed in life. Education led him to where he is today, so he wants to encourage the young society to continue pursuing their studies. Another rhetoric method Obama takes into use is pathos. The tone in his voice, his body language, and his passion for...
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...The commission discovered building reports, dated before the shuttle's first flight, that demonstrated shortcoming in this configuration, and the commission finished up NASA's choice making procedure was genuinely defective. In conclusion, the events above all informed the famous rhetoric speech “The Challenger”. “The Challenger,” exemplifies the four components of rhetorical situation on audience, event, speaker, and occasion. Work Cited Reagan, Ronald Wilson. “Challenger Speech.” White House. 28 Jan. 1983. Lieurance, Suzanne. The Space Shuttle "Challenger" Disaster in American History. Berkeley Heights, N.J.: Enslow, 2001. Describes the effect of the disaster on American space efforts; suitable for younger readers. Vaughan, Diane. The "Challenger" Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture,...
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...of Gorgias in front of two other people? When Gorgias and Socrates talk about rhetoric at the beginning of Plato's Gorgias, Gorgias says that rhetoric is about speeches. Most importantly, speeches that are about other speeches. Gorgias did not mean every speech, because the speeches that only pertain to another form of art belong to that other art and not to the art of rhetoric (449E-451D). Gorgias tells Socrates that the speeches used for rhetoric are about “The greatest of human affairs” (451D). In the text, Plato’s Gorgias, page 41, section 457D, it may seem like Socrates takes the time to make sure that Gorgias does not get upset once he refutes what he once said during another speech. Socrates states, “I think that Socrates was trying to be snarky when he refuted Gorgias. Even though he goes into a long speech about how he would not be a good student if he did not refute him and he would want someone or Gorgias to refute him as well. Socrates states, “Because I consider a greater good, insofar as it’s a greater good to be set free oneself from the greater evil than to set someone else free, since I can imagine no evil as being so great for a human being as a false opinion about precisely those things that our speech is now about” (458A). There really isn't a nice way to tell someone that they are wrong. Even though Gorgias says that he does not mind that he refuted him, you can just tell by the tone of his words, he did not like it. He refuted him because he was jealous...
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...do. He tells us how lucky we are to have freedom, and what we have to do to keep our “homeland” safe for our children of today. He speaks on behalf of his people, and what he will do to keep his people safe from our enemies who “hate” us, because we choose to be free! As President, he is sworn to protect his people, and to keep everything in order in our country. He travels the world to try and promote peace among us and other countries. In this speech that was given by the President, he is speaking to everyone. The General Public, Professionals, Students, and every other citizen. He speaks of freedom and how to protect our “homeland”. He states “the enemies hate us because we have freedom”. (P. #3). As Americans we have the freedom to live where we want to, and how we want to. Most of all we have the “Freedom of Speech”. We voice our opinions when we feel it is necessary, without being punished by the government. In America, we stand together as one nation, to keep peace and freedom! Identifying the structure of Bush’s speech is ways to keep peace and freedom among everyone. In order to keep our freedom, we need to work together to keep our enemies out. He incorporates on how to eliminate all the “bad guys” one by one, so they will not hurt us again. Bush points out three main reasons to keep peace and freedom; 1.) Protecting our homeland! 2.) Hunting down the enemies. 3.) Preventing the killers from hurting America again. Protecting our homeland is a...
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...local issues? How are these issues represented directly or indirectly in the scenes? Fruit Chan’s independent film has depicted disaffected or problem youth touched upon global and local issues especially with his 1997 Trilogy referring to the lives and reactions of Hong Kong youngsters in response to the 1997 hangover, which induced local and global issues. This essay is going to focus on Made in Hong Kong, which youth characters are dominant in it. I will firstly discuss how the local issues being represented by scenes and then shift to the global one. As an independent film, Made in Hong Kong shows the anxiety and confusion of marginalized youth in the society, they are a group of people who may easily be ignored by the society. Fruit Chan has successfully depicted the local issues through the film by using visual motif, monologue, settings and graphic blocking. He has brought up the youth problem, the grass-rooted family problem and the identity problem arose by authority change in 1997 to the society. In the 90s, a rise of gangster movies certainly promoted a sense of heroism for the youth. The society idealized the images of being a gangster and overlooked the panicky side of the youngsters. The main characters Moon, Ah Lung, Ah Ping and Susan in the movie represent the problem youth in the society. The monologue of Moon at the very beginning unveils the failure of educational system in Hong Kong. As an exam-oriented society, elites with good academic results are...
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...Essay A “One stair up” by Campbell Nairne The fragment describes how two youngsters, representatives of the working class, - Rosa and Andrew, went to the cinema. We see them in the hall of the cinema, after that observe them in the showing room. There is relatively little action in this story. The author’s attention is mainly focused on the details, so that we could see, smell and feel everything that surrounds the main characters. The text can be described as partially narrative and partially descriptive. The exposition is rather long. The author’s aim is to plunge us into the atmosphere of the luxurious salon: we can even hear the “soft whirring of fans” and “a cup grate on a saucer”, feel the “hot darkness” and draw a realistic image of the showing room. The complication begins with the Rosa’s question “This a comedy?” Now our attention is fully devoted to the leading characters, depicted skillfully by the author. Campbell Nairne reveals the nature of his characters through actions, details, dialogues, and, mostly, through showing their thoughts. He uses interior monologues to build up the thought patterns of both the main characters. The tension grows as we “hear” what Rosa thinks of Andrew, because her thoughts come in strong contradiction to his ones. The culmination takes place when Andrew breaks out, “forgetful in his excitement”. Full of delight, he wants to share his impressions with Rosa, but meets only cold misunderstanding. He...
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