is very straightforward. Education is not knowledge which people have. It is actually an awareness. Therefore, an individual person 's education is the actual human value of learning how to think, not just a material payoff. During "Kenyon Commencement Speech" by David Foster Wallace, he explains mainly about the actual purpose of education. According to Wallace, people do not know what the absolute goal of education is.…
Kennedy gave an impassioned commencement speech at American University. His speech was not filled with inflammatory rhetoric, like calling the Soviet Union an “evil empire” as Ronald Reagan famously would. His speech instead, called for peace, disarmament, and cooperation between the two countries. Not a utopia, but a realistic peace. Though it was a commencement speech at American University, it was really addressed to people throughout the entire country. In his speech he successfully…
Dat To A Response of Steve Jobs Commencement Address One of the wonderful speeches that inspired a thousand graduating students of Stanford University belonged to Steve Jobs, who was the CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studio. In his famous speech, he inspired many college students and urged them to think deeply about their future by telling them three lessons from his own life experiences. Steve did an amazing job by breaking his lessons into three points: How to connect the dots,…
obstacles that lead nowhere near the flourishing of life. When facing the world through the daily routine of life, the way you think will shape your happiness. In Wallace’s “Kenyon Commencement Address” he gives a powerful speech to graduating seniors on the options they can choose on how to live. Wallace states in his speech that learning how to think “means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience” (Wallace 3).…
college with their desired degree. Reaching commencement is an honorable achievement. In most ceremonies, honorable people are chosen to give a motivational speech to the aspiring students. Bowie State University’s Commencement speech was given by the United States’ first lady, Michelle Obama. Michelle Obama has a very strong educational past and has earned numerous degrees of her own which makes her a seemly valid candidate to give this speech. Obama’s speech is successful at motivating…
off, the way she introduces herself for the commencement speech lacks the professionalism of an experienced public speaker. This would be fine to do on special occasions, like an impromptu speech at a family gathering of some sort, however, this is a speech reflecting one’s academic excellence. Barbara begins her first body paragraph with, “Thank you so much to all of you guys who are important out there.” This isn’t necessarily a bad way to start a speech off, but it would have been better if…
A commencement speech is a speech given to graduating students at a university. The term commencement is used to illustrate a new beginning for the graduates as they embark on the journey that is the rest of their lives. J.K. Rowling and Suzan-Lori Parks are both famous women who have given similar commencement speeches to graduating classes. Though each discuss relatively different topics within their speeches, the overall message between both is to provide helpful insights to the graduating…
David Wallace Foster’s Kenyon College Commencement Speech is extremely successful for a multitude of reasons. It is not so much inspirational or revolutionary or epic, just simply honest. His speech is blunt about what people will face in their life after education. That adult life is boring, repetitive, trivial, tiring. Yet despite being adult life being unsatisfactory, Wallace always says it will only be those things because of your perspective. He shows his claims by using metaphors,…
Commencement speeches are usually given by famous, rich and successful people to inspire graduates to become like them someday, but these speeches are not always effective if the speaker does not reach the audience. Michelle Obama, however, gave a powerful and effective commencement speech at Bowie State University for the class of 2013. Mrs. Obama discussed the educational issues affecting African Americans. The First Lady compelled me to analyze her powerful speech in which she used the…
Goddard College, the school he had attended. Abu-Jamal delivered a pre-recorded commencement speech that made headlines. “An outcry of criticism from victims, law enforcement, and even the state legislature— not for its content, but for no other reason than Abu-Jamal’s words had been provided for public consumption” (Zoukis, 2015). ‘On October 16, 2014, less than two weeks after Abu-Jamal delivered the commencement speech, the Pennsylvania legislature passed the Revictimization Act, also…