At a TED talk in July of 2014, Jarrett Krosoczka gave a speech which he named “Why lunch ladies are heroes.” His main focus during the speech was how lunch ladies put in an enormous amount of hard work that is rarely recognized throughout the community. He recounts how upon returning to his old elementary school and having his former lunch lady Jeannie still recognize him, he really started thinking about the recognition lunch ladies deserve but rarely receive. It made him think so much that he decided to create a lunch lady graphic novel series to help lunch ladies receive the recognition they deserve. It ended up becoming extremely popular. While Krosoczka 's speech seems to be a cheerful one at the start, he takes it in a different direction
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When he first begins speaking, his sentences are long and flowing. He is recounting stories and hooking the audience’s attention. In just one sentence he recounts almost an entire story, saying “When my first children’s book was published in 2001, I returned to my old elementary school to talk to the students about being an author and an illustrator, and when I was setting up my slide projector in the cafetorium, I looked across the room, and there she was: my old lunch lady” (Krosoczka). It is extremely hard to believe that this quote is only one sentence. There are a plethora of sentences like this at the beginning of the speech, but the longer he talks, the shorter his sentences become. Talking about lunch ladies feeling under appreciated at the end of his speech, he says, “And of course what she [a lunch lady] does is important. What they all do is important”(Krosoczka). The short structure of the sentences really emphasize the meaning in them, and force the audience to pause and really think about what is being said. Again, Krosoczka phenomenally transitions the changes in length, and because of that the speech is taken to another …show more content…
He used all of the writing techniques that have been examined effectively and to the best of his ability. He took every opportunity to make his speech effective while also making it interesting. The audience’s take-away from this speech was huge. If Krosoczka were to have followed each of those people home after his speech, he would have found an overwhelming amount of people who went home and thanked someone in their life who they have taken for granted. Krosoczka started out on a mission to give lunch ladies the recognition that they deserve, and not only has he accomplished this goal, but he has second-handedly given every underappreciated worker a little bit of credit. Krosoczka’s speech effectively pulled at the audience’s emotions and used sentence structure to pull the speech in all kinds of directions, and because of that he succeeded in writing an effective persuasive
When he first begins speaking, his sentences are long and flowing. He is recounting stories and hooking the audience’s attention. In just one sentence he recounts almost an entire story, saying “When my first children’s book was published in 2001, I returned to my old elementary school to talk to the students about being an author and an illustrator, and when I was setting up my slide projector in the cafetorium, I looked across the room, and there she was: my old lunch lady” (Krosoczka). It is extremely hard to believe that this quote is only one sentence. There are a plethora of sentences like this at the beginning of the speech, but the longer he talks, the shorter his sentences become. Talking about lunch ladies feeling under appreciated at the end of his speech, he says, “And of course what she [a lunch lady] does is important. What they all do is important”(Krosoczka). The short structure of the sentences really emphasize the meaning in them, and force the audience to pause and really think about what is being said. Again, Krosoczka phenomenally transitions the changes in length, and because of that the speech is taken to another …show more content…
He used all of the writing techniques that have been examined effectively and to the best of his ability. He took every opportunity to make his speech effective while also making it interesting. The audience’s take-away from this speech was huge. If Krosoczka were to have followed each of those people home after his speech, he would have found an overwhelming amount of people who went home and thanked someone in their life who they have taken for granted. Krosoczka started out on a mission to give lunch ladies the recognition that they deserve, and not only has he accomplished this goal, but he has second-handedly given every underappreciated worker a little bit of credit. Krosoczka’s speech effectively pulled at the audience’s emotions and used sentence structure to pull the speech in all kinds of directions, and because of that he succeeded in writing an effective persuasive