Commencement speech

thing to do. Therefore, the girls should strive to be more like the Mennonites and reciprocate their service by being kind to the Mennonites in return. Although Saunders missed his chance to show kindness like the Mennonites, the main point of his speech was to not miss opportunities to show kindness to those around you. He may not…

Steve Jobs was the CEO of Apple and Pixar. He made his Commencement speech during the Stanford graduation in 2005. His speech was directed to the graduates of that time and could have also been directed to many others. The purpose of his speech was to inspire these graduates to follow their dreams. The main point in his speech was to never give up and, as printed on “The Whole Earth Catalog”, “beneath a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on…

Most commencement speeches are boring and talk about how proud the speaker is towards the class, and the cliche notion of how hard they’ve worked and how much they deserved to be graduated. Steve Jobs, however, gave them an unorthodox bit of wisdom. He simplified his speech into three stories, all with different didactic representations. He speaks effectively by relying on his personal anecdotes, reputation, and logistical understanding of his past to appeal to his audience as well as grab their…

Steve Jobs turned out to be very successful even though he wasn’t a college graduate. Steve Jobs’ Stanford Commencement speech is considered to be very effective and moving, because of his use of his rhetorical devices. Steve Jobs shares three stories of his past to play upon his rhetorical strategies. While speaking to the Stanford graduates who are ready to start a new chapter in their life; Jobs uses love, loss, discovery, death and adversity to persuade them not to give up as they continue…

“About all a commencement speaker can really do is to suggest a couple of things that [he or] she believes really matters” (“Graduation Wisdom”). Sue Monk Kidd stated this while addressing the graduates of Scripps College. On May 21, 2005 Kenyon College graduation welcomed David Foster Wallace, an American novelist, for their commencement address. A prime example of Kidd’s statement, Wallace stated in the address that “suicide’s [victims] are actually long dead before they pull the trigger”…

Patrice Tseh E102 Professor Worke 02/18/2018 Rhetorical Analysis Essay Steve Jobs' “You’ve Got To Find What You Love” Speech In the speech “You’ve Got Go Find What You Love,” by Steve Jobs, the author talks about certain events in his life that led him to become the successful CEO of Apple computer and of Pixar Animation Studios. He explores with great details, the fact that he dropped out of college, was fired from a company that was founded by him, and how he feared he was going to die after…

across the stage in their caps and gowns to receive their college diplomas. Prior to the commencement, one of the most triumphant and revered entrepreneurs in the world gave a indelible speech that will forever be remembered. Steve Jobs, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., stood in blue jeans and tennis shoes and astonished his audience with his remarkable stories and inspirational advice. Jobs opened the speech by complementing the audience and confessing that he never graduated from…

The 2005 Commencement Address at Stanford University written and spoken by Steve Job’s was a speech about the things he’d learn when being close to death and the things he valued in life after that. He delivered the speech describing that his near death experience taught him the importance of his life and made him learn to take more risks. He advocated that life is too short to turn down opportunities because it is a risk factor in life. We should always have the mentality of “What would I do if…

Steve Jobs was chosen to give the 2005 Graduating Class of Stanford their commencement speech. Jobs aimed to inspire this next generation to use their intuition and follow their hearts to success and happiness. In doing so, he successfully convinced the class to pursue their passions by telling them three stories of connecting the dots, love and loss, and death. By filling his speech with ethos, pathos, and logos he gave a speech that was motivational and inspiring to the 2005 graduating class…

The CEO of Apple Computer and Pixar Animation Studios, Steve Jobs, delivered the Commencement address to the 2005 graduating class of Stanford on June 12, 2005. In his speech, he addressed life lessons he had learned that kept him going through hard times and inspired him to succeed. The purpose of his speech was to excite and inspire fresh college graduates about their world and futures. His first piece of advice is to trust in something in order to keep going. His second is that the only way…