Rhetorical Analysis Of Bill Gates's Speech

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A commencement address is an opening speech that given to graduating students and their family members when they obtain the degree. The person given such a speech is known as a commencement speaker, who is often a famous and elite person as well as would like to share their life experience, values and advice during the speech. This is a platform for speaker to say amazing and unlimited things to attract audiences.
Bill Gates has stated at a positive and inspirational college commencement address at Harvard University while getting his bachelor degree on 2007. Due to the information and technology limitation when he was young, Bill Gates had no chance to get a real awareness of the awful inequities in the world until he left Harvard.
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In the meanwhile, Bill Gates has appealed Harvard students in the address to “think about a question-how we can finally take on these inequities and solve them” (Bill Gates, 2007). In order to make sure the normal functioning and balance of the society, reducing inequality is the highest human achievement as Bill Gates clearly claimed at his address, and he put forward to a four-step cycle method to find a solution for inequality.
The following section will examine the Bill Gates’s tone through analyzing example sentences and specific words of his commencement address. Tone is generally conveyed through the choice of words or the viewpoint of a writer or a speaker on a particular subject. Recognizing the speaker’s tone can help audience understand the attitudes and purpose for the address.
Bill Gates’s word choices can determine the tone of attitude. In the college commencement address, he created different tones throughout the commencement address, including plain, humorous, anxious, positive, and inspirational. In addition, there are multiple tone creates in a single
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Moreover, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates have many things in common, such as academic life, working on Internet industries. Therefore, these two speakers have more comparison than any other else. Comparing with Steve Jobs, who delivered a commencement address at Stanford University on June 2005. His address exists some similarities and differences from the address that Bill Gates

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