Graduation Speech: The Importance Of Speech By Ellen's Speech

Ellen’s speech, in my opinion, was informative. She commenced to tell the audience about her life before stardom, letting everyone know that she worked several different jobs that paid about minimum wage. Almost every college student can relate to that scenario, going to classes and working one or two jobs just to make ends meet while in college. Then she went on to talk about how she had no ambition and felt lost and didn’t know what she wanted to do. What college student hasn’t felt that way before? How many times have college students changed their majors because they weren’t sure if that was what they wanted to do for the rest of their life? Besides, not just college students that feel lost and have no idea what they want to do or should do with their lives. The point is that most of us have been there at one time or another and we are all doing fine. …show more content…
By doing that she kept the graduating class and the audience engaged. By adding some “real world truth” in non-intimidating ways, it seemed more casual, down-to-earth, and entertaining. Ellen didn’t bore us with mundane ideas that one might find in some commencement speeches. While positioned behind the podium, there was no walking around or leaning on the podium. She did, however, turn her head to face a section of the audience making good eye contact and used some small hand gestures. The inflections in her voice added to her speech, something that I need to work on, made it even more interesting. Unfortunately, there were some vocalized pauses in her speech where she used the words “um,” “and um.” Rather than vocalizing she should have just paused and left it at that.

While watching the video of Ellen DeGeneres giving the commencement speech at Tulane University, I found myself relating to almost everything she was saying, not just what she was saying, but was how she was saying