Note: This was a draft that I half-wrote back when we were writing our rhetorical analyses but didn't publish. Now I've finished it and published it.
I think my enjoyment of this assignment will depend largely on how engaged I am with the speech. This means I'll need to pick a speech that either I love or I hate or I'm very interested in the topic. Or I can find a speech that's easy to write about and just plug through the assignment without actually learning anything new. Obviously that's not my first preference.
The two speeches I'm considering writing about are 'We should all be feminists' by Chimimanda Adiche, which was a TED talk, and Donald Trump's presidential bid announcement speech. Here's why I would pick either one:
'We should all be feminists' is a speech about a topic that I care about–feminism–by a woman from extremely different circumstances than me. Feminism is important to me, but as an American woman in university I am not treated differently than men on a regular basis. However Adiche, an African woman who lives in Nigeria, absolutely is. She is extremely passionate about feminism, and this comes through in her speech, and it would be very interesting and inspiring to analyze.
Donald Trump's speech would be somewhat less inspiring, but still interesting. I can't stand Donald Trump. Listening to the man makes me nauseous. And I have a really hard time understanding why he's popular. I'm sure it has something to do with the way he speaks, so I'm thinking that perhaps clues lie in this speech. Hopefully analyzing his announcement speech would help me solve the mystery.
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