The speech, Kenyon Commencement Speech, by David Foster Wallace was delivered to the graduating class of 2005 at Kenyon College. Wallace talks about how important it is to have a degree that is more than “just a material payoff”. He tells the students that in order to be more successful, they must know how to think correctly. Wallace uses a story of two fish in which a young fish asks an older fish about the water. The older fish does not understand what the younger fish is talking about. He uses
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The speech “This is Water” was given by David Foster Wallace at Kenyon College as a commencement speech for the class of 2005. This short summary will discuss the rhetoric Wallace introduces in his speech and whether or not it is successful. Although the traditional rhetoric style of commencements speeches is optimistic in their nature and hopeful in their message, Wallace explores the harsh and mundane realities of everyday life through symbolic narratives and metaphoric stories about fishes, suicide
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What a successful and memorial 6th Annual CAD Oktoberfest event! Monumental thanks to you who joined us to drink variety of beers, sipping wines, devour delicious brats, and mingle cheerfully. Our appreciation to the volunteers on the committee who helped made this event successful and the donors who came to the event making a difference for Colorado Deaf Youth. Let this tradition continue endlessly! On behalf of the Colorado Association of the Deaf Oktoberfest Committee, I want to extend a heart-felt
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The “commencement speech” is a genre of writing that does not like to color outside of the lines. In them, you will hear platitudes such as “this is the beginning of the rest of your life” and “go change the world” that never fail to make the audience roll their eyes. In the vast sea of mediocre commencement speeches, only a few stray from the typical commencement speech formula and are considered exceptional. One of these notable commencement speeches is “This is Water” by David Foster Wallace.
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My name is Pamela and I am 18 years old, I just recently graduated from my hometown high school in May of 2011. I chose to get my degree online because I work 2 jobs to support myself since I have neither of my parents and I’ve had to raise myself. The reason that I’m trying to get my degree is for my older brother to be proud of me he is the one person that has showed me that it can be done being a sergeant in the army and recent grad from college with his new profession of a police officer showed
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lalala Berkmar Student Council Officer Application GUIDELINES FOR OFFICER POSITIONS A. Qualifications in general: 1. Has been a member of the STUCO for at least two years (freshman and sophomores 1 year). 2. At the time of candidacy and during the term of service, officers must not be on academic or disciplinary probation. 3. Officers must have and maintain a B average. B. Duties of the executive officers 1. Student Body President a. To chair
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My most enjoyable college experience thus far would have to be making new friends. I came into ASUN-Jonesboro only knowing about 10 people. Coming from a small town with a graduating class of 99 students, everyone knew everyone. I am not a shy person by any means but I was way outside of my comfort zone starting out. Being the girl who sat by herself was not something I was used to! There was always someone who I knew to sit with in high school but that was not the case now. After the first week
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Bono Rhetorical Essay Rock Star and AIDS activist, Bono, in his commencement speech to the ’04 class of UPENN (entitled “Because We Can, We Must”) explains that since we are able to, we should find a cause and fight for it. Bono’s sole purpose is to inspire the UPENN graduates to make a difference in this world.. He adopts an informal tone in order to connect with and motivate his primary audience, the graduates, and to engage his secondary audience, the family (parents, grandparents, etc
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Job Satisfaction I tend to agree with a lot of the statements in this article. I especially like the part where the one nurse wrote, “Please take the busyness of patients into account when scheduling.” This finding corresponds with Oermann and Moffitt-Wolf’s (1997) observation that new graduates experienced stress during orientation due to lack of experience, lack of organizational skills, and new situations. (Halfer & Graf, 2006) The inability to handle the intense working environment
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In his Commencement Address, Because We Can We Must, Bono Vox, Co-founder of DATA (Debt AIDS Trade Africa) and lead singer of U2, employs repetition, rhetorical questions, humor, and similes to persuade his audience that they can make a change using what they have been taught. Bono’s speech is full of passion and hope meant to inspire people; in this case he is speaking to a group of college graduates. During Bono’s Commencement Address he conveys that every generation can recognize
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