Graduation Speeches

sake of something beyond itself; it functions ultimately to produce action or change in the world”.1 Jobs’ speech was the product of a unique rhetorical situation. First of all, it was a commencement speech by nature. Compared with other ceremonial speeches such as a testimonial, a commencement speech is much less restricted in terms of topic. It is, however, bound by the occasion and the audience. Jobs’ commencement speech was made on June 2005, after his return to Apple and the successful launch of

“This is Water” is a commencement speech given by David Foster Wallace at the Kenyon 2005 graduation. While the speech is unorthodox in terms of commencement speeches, Wallace’s words challenge the graduates to think about what the education they've just received will help them accomplish in the future, and how that education will empower them to find meaning in their adult lives. Wallace starts off his speech with a parable about two fish oblivious to the fact that they live in water, which addresses

looking for my tassel. My graduation could not be tassel-less. I was overwhelmed. I’d worked so hard, gone the extra mile, had sleepless nights all in preparation for this one day. Time was running out. The principal was blowing up my mom's phone while my friends were blowing up mine. Digging through drawers, searching my mom’s car, and retracing steps filled up my morning. One bundle of string decided to hide on the day it was most needed. My mother, my tassel-less graduation cap, and I rushed into

Wallace at the 2005 Kenyon graduation ceremony. The purpose of his speech was to validate how important a liberal arts education is and how it will affect the rest of their lives. David Foster Wallace talks about how the commencement speakers should speak about why they were chosen to give the speech. And why they are where they are basically how the college has made them accomplish. Every graduation anyone has ever been too everyone always belittles the commencement speeches

Graduation day is one of the most important days of any students’ life. Once you get to college you start to think about the job you want or even if you will find a job after college. The Tulane University graduating class also called the “Katrina Class” of 2009 got very lucky having a successful woman, Ellen DeGeneres, give her congrats and a commencement speech. It was a friendly hostile environment. She is a rich and successful celebrity who came from nothing which is the ethos that she brings

Graduation day is one of the most important and exciting events in the life of any student. Universities invite politicians, notable honorable citizens, artists or even celebrities to be the keynote speaker. The speaker has the freedom to express himself/herself

Graduation day is one of the most important and exciting events in the life of any student. Universities invite politicians, notable honorable citizens, artists or even celebrities to be the keynote speaker. The speaker has the freedom to express himself/herself

David Foster Wallace delivered his commencement speech for the Liberal Arts graduating class from Kenyon College in 2005. As was expected from the author of complex post-modern novel Infinite Jest, which later was named by Time magazine as one of “100 Best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005”, the speech was full of his usual captivating genius and brilliant rhetoric. I’ll already answer the question of this assignment: yes this speech was successful. Wallace himself says “I know that this

asserts that the value behind an education is learning how to become aware of what we choose to think, and in doing so it brings freedom and vitality to an individual. His speech is very unorthodox, the structure is very different to normal graduation speeches, making his oration unique and special. Wallace uses rhetorical appeals to speak with recent graduates. The first rhetorical appeal used is Pathos. This is the rhetorical appeal he uses the most and can be found throughout his whole speech.

During a typical high school graduation, speeches are given by a select few, notable students. These notable students normally include the two students who earned the highest grade point averages out of all the students in their graduating class - the valedictorian and the salutatorian. Imagine a graduation, however, with no valedictorian or salutatorian speech. Imagine if there was no valedictorian or salutatorian. Imagine if there was no distinction of students ' academic performance during commencement