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To complete this journal assignment, first you will choose  one of the following speeches that interests you. You should listen and watch this speech closely because you will be discussing the speech's rhetorical context. 

 (opens in new window): a speech by Emmett shear, co-founder of Twitch about why so many people watch other people play video games online

·  (opens in new window): a speech by America Ferrera, an actress famous for roles in  Ugly BettyReal Women Have Curves, and  Superstore about her early struggles to get cast as a Latina in Hollywood

·  (opens in new window): a speech by Gloria Chan Packer, a mental health advocate, about the dangers of blurring lines between our professional and home lives

·  (opens in new window): a speech by A.J. Jacobs about rewiring the brain to focus on the positive things through an emphasis on gratitude

·  (opens in new window): a speech by Tim Nevius, a former investigator for the NCAA, about the big business of college sports and how student athletes are taken advantage of 

Draw comparisons between the two texts above. Specifically, you might address the following points of discussion:

1. Who is the  specific intended  audience of each of these pieces? Discuss everything you can discern about the audience of each piece based  only on the content of the piece. How old are they? What is their worldviews? What are their education levels? Note that the intended audience extends beyond the people in the room.

2. What  agenda/ message/ purpose does the writer/ speaker have? Can you locate a single sentence in which the writer/ speaker articulates their overall purpose?

3. What are the limitations of the medium of this piece? In other words, what limitations exist in the fact that this is a  speech delivered with the option of including  visuals

4. What might change if the  speech were, instead, a  magazine article or even a  podcast? In other words, what would this same message look like if it were being communicated in another medium?

Expectations

The successful journal entry will address some or all of the above points of discussion as they relate to  both texts provided in a 300-500 word reflection.

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