Your help...Help... And you will make a huge impact on the life of the street, the town, the country, and our planet. If only one out of four of each one hundred of you choose to help on any given day, in any given cause - incredible things will happen in the world you live in." (Hanks 7).
Hanks therefore attempts to move his audience to action by emphasizing that the action they need to take is very small, but will have great benefits. He does this progressively, by infusing his speech with small to large images. The life of the street becomes the life of the planet with a single choice by a single person to do something helpful on a specific day.
Both Reeve's and Hanks' speeches are therefore suited to the specific outcomes they wish for in the hearts and minds of their hearers. Hanks for example impresses his college graduate audience not only with the sense of hope and apprehension with which they are entering the world, but also with the intellectual appeal of powerful statistics. He wishes them to enter the world and their respective professions on the basis of power at their disposal. He appeals to their potential to make a difference for the future of the world, and upon their sense of hope.
Reeve's desired outcome for the audience is that they'll make use of their current abilities to help. His focus is, as mentioned above, much more specific than that of Hanks, because the average age of his audience is more advanced. The hearers generally have already made their mark in the world, and are more likely than not in powerful positions to help by means of resources in terms of both money and time. Because of his narrower focus, Reeve is able to appeal to his audience in a much more practical, specific way. He therefore calls for specific actions targeted towards empowerment for the disabled. He calls for actions that would provide these people with more than just being alive. He can do this from an authoritative position, as he is himself disabled. This makes his speech all the more powerful.
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