King's introduction is blunt: "One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. hen the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir." (King, 1963)
The introduction, however, although not as famous as the speech's conclusion, serves not merely as a crowd-pleaser or an attention getting device to rally the weary souls of the marchers of the movement King lead, but does actually state, quite explicitly, the real, concrete physical goals of the march. King's idealistic conclusion is remembered, but he did not merely call for racial equality, he…...
mlaWorks Cited
King, Jr., Martin Luther. "I Have a Dream." August 23, 1963. From Great Speeches,
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King, Jr., Martin Luther. "I Have a Dream." August 23, 1963. American Rhetoric.
Full e-text. [1 Nov 2006] http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm
Dream
I have been asked to offer an assessment and analysis of the famous "I Have A Dream" speech as spoken by Martin Luther King Jr. The speech was delivered more than fifty years ago but it still resonates very strongly despite the amount of time that has passed since then and King's untimely death due to an assassin's bullet. His speech came after the abolition of slavery after the Civil War, after the Brown v. Board of Education ruling but just before the Civil ights legislation that came later in the 1960's. This brief report will evaluate the speech based on its content and the associated content. King was an obvious proponent of the founding documents and the country itself but he also clearly believed that the freedom of black people had not yet been secured.
Analysis
I say that King most definitely believed in the foundation of the United States…...
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Bedard, P. (2016). Study: Blacks with white friends are 'less black'. Washington Examiner.
Retrieved 15 May 2016, from http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/study-blacks-with-white-friends-are-less-black/article/2546046
King Jr., M. (2016). Martin Luther King I Have a Dream Speech - American Rhetoric.
americanrhetoric.com. Retrieved 15 May 2016, from http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm
Art That eveals How Technology Frames eality Speech Analysisoman philosopher Cicero, in De Inventione, argues that there are five tenets of the rhetoric of effective communication. Originally, these tenets were created with a focus on oration and public speaking, even though some are also applicable to different stages of the writing process. These are invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery. The invention is the process of coming up with what to say to persuade the audience about your view (University of Arkansas, 2019). This stage involves brainstorming in the pre-writing stage of preparing what the presentation should entail. Jiabao Lis TED Talk Art that reveals how technology frames reality focuses on how technology mediates how we perceive reality (TED Talks, 2019). She states, And lately, Ive been thinking a lot about how technology mediatesthe way we perceive reality.And its being done in a super invisible and nuanced way (TED Talks,…...
mlaReferencesTED Talks. (2019). Art that reveals how technology frames reality [Video]. Retrieved 25 May 2022, from University of Arkansas. (2019). The Five Canons of Rhetoric [Ebook]. Retrieved 25 May 2022, from https://walton.uark.edu/business-communication-lab/Resources/downloads/The_Five_Canons_of_Rhetoric.pdf . https://www.ted.com/talks/jiabao_li_art_that_reveals_how_technology_frames_reality/transcript .The
SPEECH OGANIZATION Speech OrganizationDoes the introduction include the speakers credibility and speech overview?The speech selected is 10 Ways to Have a Better Conversation by Celeste Headlee. Headlee does not introduce herself per se, but mentions that she is a professional interviewer and has had the opportunity to interview influential persons including Nobel Prize winners, billionaires, and heads of state. This creates speaker credibility and builds the audiences belief in her ability to teach them how to have great conversations. She states in the instruction that she will teach the audience ten rules that will help them have great conversations without wasting time and offending others. With this, the audience can already tell that the speech will be focused on strategies that drive great conversations. Therefore, the introduction does include the speakers credibility and also provides the speech overview.How is the speech organized?The speech is arranged topically. The speaker breaks down…...
mlaReferences Aquino, F. O. (2002). Effective speech and oral communication. Goodwill Trading Co.Headlee, C. (2015). 10 ways to have a better conversation. TEDx Creative Coast. https://www.ted.com/talks/celeste_headlee_10_ways_to_have_a_better_conversation?language=en
Technology Speech Science
Speech Quality Tests: An Analysis and eview of the Literature
The speech measurement technology to be evaluated in this research is a speech quality test. According to the research, a speech quality test is "a routine procedure for examining one or more empirically restrictive quality features of perceived speech with the aim of making a quantitative statement on those features" (). Essentially, people are constantly using undirected speech in ordinary conversations in order to exchange information through spoken sentences. Yet, when speech becomes directed by some third party or director, the speaker's speech may end up being modified by these directions. Here, the research suggests that "by using specific directives, the experimenter can, in directed communications, adjust the influence of each quality feature" (). A speech quality test can ascertain how biased perception may end up being in the case of directed speech. There are four primary types of…...
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Springer Science Media. (2011). Speech Quality Measurement Methods. Web. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CDsQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springer.com%2Fcda%2Fcontent%2Fdocument%2Fcda_downloaddocument%2F9783642184628-c2.pdf%3FSGWID%3D0-0-45-1132963-p174099663&ei=FoN6U6PWOpOwoQSK-YCYCQ&usg=AFQjCNFpupv9bFCayRPt7dUNuB3u52LPeQ&sig2=0YtNG6fsnBc4royONWXuLg&bvm=bv.67229260,d.cGU
Stan, A., Yamagishi, J., King, S., & Aylett, M. (2011). The Romanian speech synthesis (RSS) corpus: Building a high quality HMM-based speech synthesis system using a high sampling rate. Speech Communication, 53(3), 442-450.
Valentini-Botinhao, C., Yamagishi, J., & King, S. (2011, May). Evaluation of objective measures for intelligibility prediction of HMM-based synthetic speech in noise. In Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2011 IEEE International Conference on (pp. 5112-5115). IEEE.
The commercial shows that advertising does not have to have one appeal or appeal to only one audience. Anyone, young or old, who is a fan of the film will immediately see the parody, and will understand the appeal of the commercial.
The values of U.S. society are different even from 1984 when the film first aired. Technology is extremely important today, and hardly anyone is without a cell phone. So, it is not unusual for a child of Ralphie's age to want one. It would have been in 1984. Our values have changed with the advent of technology, and along with them, society has changed. The film seems very quaint and old-fashioned by today's standards, and the characters, (especially the parents) seem simple at best. In the commercial, their concern is all monetary, which also shows a big difference in values. In the film, the parents were concerned about…...
Presidential Speech
The Presidents accused of scandals in the history of American politics have been known to make memorable apology speeches. Even though, the speech that the Presidents made were done by different people and in different times, marked similarities and patterns have been noted. The Lewinsky scandal was basically a political sex scandal that occurred in 1999. This scandal came out because the President was accused of having a sexual relationship with an intern in the White House, Monica Lewinsky. The Watergate scandal occurred in 1970 because five men were caught at the Democratic National Committee and further investigations led to President Nixon being found guilty of committing fraud. Another fraud that highlighted a President as the causative agent was the Iran Arms and Contra Aid Controversy. This scandal occurred when President Reagan was in the administration and the officials in charge were accused of selling arms to Iran secretly.…...
speech of a public institution's faculty member to be protected under the Pickering/Connickline of cases, what criteria must be satisfied? Do these criteria suitably balance the interests of faculty members and the institution in the higher education context?
There are really two key principles that must be satisfied. The first is that the court determines whether the speech in question hinges on a matter of public concern. If it does, the court takes further criteria into consideration such as:
Whether the statement impairs discipline in school or harmony amongst superiors or amongst cookers.
Whether the statement has a negative impact on close working relationships
Whether the speech interferes with the way the operator usually conducts his business,
Yes, these criteria take the interests of faculty members and school into consideration.
Specifically, what was the fatal flaw in the instructor's speech? Was it the profanity itself? Or was it the belittling nature of the speech? Or…...
speech, and I believe that this effort largely paid off. I began by thoroughly researching my topic on the internet. After going to a few search engines to get some ideas, I then got some reputable scholarly articles to reinforce what I had learned. After I had done the bulk of my research, I then prepared a formal outline for the speech -- this way I was able to ensure that I discussed all of the topics that I intended to. The outline was extremely useful for the actual writing of the speech, which consisted of my talking about the various points outlined by using the information I researched. Lastly, I performed the speech in the mirror several times and even before family members. The execution of my speech was fairly decent. I was extremely nervous and experienced "stage fright" (Grassi 21), yet tried not to show it. I…...
mlaWorks Cited
Baker, Millie, Kingsley, Daniel. "Authentic Public Speaking." Training Journal. 2014. Print. 23-27.
Grassi, W. "Improve Your Speaking Skills: Maximizing the Speaking Club Experience. Canadian Manager. 38 (3): 21-22. 2013. Print.
Prud'homme, Patrice-Andre, Hensley, Brandon. "It Takes More Than Public Speaking: A Leadership Analysis of the King's Speech." Organizational Learning & Leadership. 11 (1): 19-28. 2013. Print.
Speech or Letter
Currently there is a great deal of controversy surrounding the issue of the reinstatement of the draft in the United States. There are rumors and whispers rampantly floating through the media that are frightening the general public, while the officials who are actually in the know about the subject are categorically denying such intentions. In an article written just a few days ago the Coastal Post (with no byline) contends that a military and civilian draft is inevitable by spring 2005. (Coastal Post nline (http://www.coastalpost.com/04/07/01.htm)
The title of the article in and of itself is inflammatory "Military and Civilian Draft Expected in 2005 For 18- to 25-year-olds." The article goes on to state that there are two pending bills in the House and Senate (twin bills: S. 89 and HR 163) meaning Senate bill 89 and House of Representatives bill 163. The article states that those two bills,…...
mlaOne of the last bits of evidence offered by the unknown author is associated with the language of the proposed (and historically unsupported unpopular) legislation, "Congress brought twin bills, S. 89 and HR 163 forward this year...entitled the Universal National Service Act of 2003, "to provide for the common defense by requiring that all young persons [age 18 -- 26] in the United States, including women, perform a period of military service or a period of civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, and for other purposes." This is not a bill to reinstate a draft it is an unpopular and historically unsupported demand for compulsory military service. Voluntary service has been the popular stance since the Vietnam Era.
This work is obviously and inflammatory and unconvincing attempt at persuasion, written by someone who will remain anonymous. It dismisses the opposition by taking away its voice and clearly does not deal with counter evidence. The rhetorical appeals of the work are associated with highly emotional and trigger happy conspiracy theories, and unknown sources and experts. The article on a whole is not persuasive and despite its strong title it did not scare me at all.
Coastal Post Online "Military and Civilian Draft Expected in 2005 For 18- to 25-year-olds," July 13, 2004 at http://www.coastalpost.com/04/07/01.htm
Speech Is a Carefully Crafted Act of hetoric
Introduction and Biographical Background
An effective speech is a carefully crafted act of rhetoric. The most artless speechless are quite often those that in reality are the most studied in their preparation. We can ourselves come to understand the reasons underlying the effectiveness -- or lack of efficacy - of a speech by studying its structure through careful rhetorical analysis. That is the purpose of this paper, to provide just such an analysis of Hillary odham Clinton' speech, "Women's ights are Human ights."
Clinton's speech can be seen as belonging to a line of similar speeches in American history, include speeches urging women's enfranchisement given by Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony. She relies heavily on the idea of enfranchisement, which lies at the heart of democracy - so much so that we tend to use the word as synonymous with empowerment.
We hear in…...
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Though he is not the first to tell people they will need to make sacrifices he was one of the first who demonstrated his own limitations and the limits of the actions of the government without the full investment and wise actions of American consumers.
This thesis did not win him any favors, he was not elected for a second term, as to the credit of most consumers even today it is easier to look toward the government for failures of change than to look to themselves and see how their own actions have supported and furthered problems in the economy or elsewhere. To his credit he was honest to a fault, rather than making campaign promises during his term of office as many others do. His wisdom has been a model for later officials and the public has responded to them in the same manner, by continuing to believe…...
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Carter, Jimmy Address to the Nation on Energy (November 8, 1977) http://millercenter.org/scripps/archive/speeches/detail/3400
Braitenberg and Schuz (1998) stated that the average number of synaptic connections per neuron in the human cortex is approximately 10,000. This knowledge implies a huge potential for referential and recursive relationships between mental representations of elements like words and rules of syntax. Consider how the study of speech errors such as anticipation and perseveration are an important aspect of research on speech production. What is the most significant characteristic these types of speech errors reveal about the speaker's processing of intent into spoken words? Why?
Language is a characteristic of humans: every normal human being speaks; animals do not (Joyshree, 2014). That is, language is limited to humans only. While other animals interact with each other through a rigid collection of symbols, no group of animals possesses human language's combinatorial conventions, wherein symbols permute into an indefinite number of combinations, all of which have determinate meanings (Joyshree, 2014).
Sequencing faults in…...
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Croot K., Claudia A., Amy H. (2010).Prosodic structure and tongue twister errors. In Wook K.C. And Melissa A.R. (2012). The distribution of speech errors in multi-word prosodic units. Laboratory Phonology. 3(1): 5 -- 26.
Joyshree S. (2014). Lack of Syntax (Recursive Abilities) in the Natural Communication of Non-human Primates. Retrieved from: http://www.academia.edu/252113/Lack_of_Syntax_Recursive_Abilities_in_the_Natural_Communication_of_Non-human_Primates
Keating Patricia A, S. Shattuck-Hufnagel. (2002). A prosodic view of word form encoding for speech production. In Wook K.C. And Melissa A.R. (2012). The distribution of speech errors in multi-word prosodic units. Laboratory Phonology. 3(1): 5 -- 26.
Levelt Willem J.M. (1989). Speaking: From intention to articulation. In Wook K.C. And Melissa A.R. (2012). The distribution of speech errors in multi-word prosodic units. Laboratory Phonology. 3(1): 5 -- 26.
Interview for the Analysis of Ageing
Mae was a first generation American aged 90. Mae was born on June 1927 in Bethlehem, PA. When Mae was a young girl, she moved to Queens. Married at the age of 18, Mae well-being and general health issues are normal with no major health problems despite the usual high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and stents that come along with old age.
The objective of this essay is to explore the experience of late adulthood and ageing using the case study of Mae. This study analyzes the interview questions to identify the health and social issues associated with old age.
Analysis of Interview Question
One of the problems associated with old age is health issues. However, findings from the interview with Mae reveal that Mae is still in a good health despite her age, and she does not have any major health issue. However, she confirms that she…...
21st century worker: Keeping employees motivated in a global economy
Employee motivation is critical in today's hyper-competitive, global business world; as such it is an appropriate topic for the speech to be presented to Hongkong Electric Holdings. Please find following the brief for this presentation. In this brief you will find the many factors that were taken into consideration, in its preparation. These include the best approach for this specific audience, how the topic had to be developed and limited to again fit with this specific audience's needs, what cultural adaptations were made for this presentation, and what aspects of the speech will connect with the company.
The 21st century worker: Keeping employees motivated in a global economy
Introduction:
Employee motivation is critical in today's hyper-competitive, global business world; as such it is an appropriate topic for the speech to be presented to Hongkong Electric Holdings. Please find following the brief for this presentation.…...
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Doyle, T. (1997). Analyzing your audience. Retrieved June 1, 2004, at http://www.abacon.com/pubspeak/analyze/analyze.html.
Earle, H.A. (Dec. 2003). Building a workplace of choice: Using the work environment to attract and retain top talent. Journal of Facilities Management, 2(3). Retrieved June 1, 2004, from Business Source Premier database.
Recruitment. (No date). Retrieved June 1, 2004, at http://www.heh.com/recruit/index.htm .
Simons, J.A., Irwin, D.B., & Drinnien, B.A. "Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs." Psychology - The Search for Understanding. (1987). Retrieved June 1, 2004, at http://www.abacon.com/pubspeak/analyze/analyze.htmlhttp://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/maslow.htm .
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