Campus Speakers Monday
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7:00 p.m."Ghost riders in the sky: understanding
insect dispersal by flight (and why we care),"
Thomas Sappington, USDA-ARS, Campanile Room,
MU
8:00 p.m. "Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America,"
Susan Faludi, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Sun
Room, MU
Campus Speakers Tuesday
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4:00 p.m. Iowa Caucus Workshop, Tuesday,
November 13, Sun Room, MU
 Gordon Fischer, former state chair of the Iowa
Democratic Party
 Mary Ann Spicer, president of the Polk County
Republican Women
4:00 p.m. "'Never Again' Must Mean "Never'," Ellen
Kennedy, Genocide Intervention Network, MN,
Campanile Room, MU
6:30 p.m. "The Globalization of Higher Education,"
James Duderstadt, President Emeritus of the
University of Michigan Alliant Energy-Lee Liu
Auditorium, Howe Hall
Campus Speakers Wednesday
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6:00 p.m. Oded Shenkar, the Ford Motor Company
Chair and Professor of Management, Ohio State
University, Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe
Hall
7:00 p.m."How Did Petroleum Source Rocks
Accumulate? Insights from Deep-Sea Sediments,"
Phillip A. Meyers, professor of geological sciences at
the University of Michigan, Gallery, MU
8:00 p.m. LAS Dean's Lecture, "The Physics of
Baseball," Eli Rosenberg, Professor of Physics Sun
Room, MU
8:00 p.m. "The Best of What We Are: John
Brentlinger and the Painters of Solentiname,
Nicaragua," Gary Tartakov, ISU curriculum and
instruction, Pioneer Room, MU
What is the nature and function
of speeches to inspire or to
entertain?
What is my next assignment?
Sample Speech
Ronald Reagan, “Challenger Speech” January
28,1986. (W p. 83)
Jot down the values you hear praised
What
was special about the people being honored?
How does their example teach or encourage us?
Special Occasion Speeches
The ancient Greeks called
this epideictic oratory.
Special Occasion Speeches
aim to inspire or to entertain
through
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BUILDING COMMUNITY
USING IDENTIFICATION
USING MAGNIFICATION
When we aim to inspire, we
celebrate what we hold in
common in our community.
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We reaffirm the values
We recommit ourselves to live
according to those values
National Day of Remembrance
September 14, 2001 (W pp. 85-86)
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Identification
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“They are the names of men and
women who began their day at a
desk or in an airport busy with
life.”
Values discourse
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We respond to tragedy with grief,
prayer and resolve
“Our fellow Americans are
generous and kind, resourceful
and brave.”
“We have seen our national
character in eloquent acts of
sacrifice.”
Oprah Winfrey honors Rosa
Parks Oct. 31, 2005
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Magnification to Identification
“I grew up in the South, and Rosa Parks was
a hero to me long before I recognized and
understood the power and impact that her
life embodied. I remember my father telling
me about this colored woman who had
refused to give up her seat. And in my child's
mind, I thought, "She must be really big." I
thought she must be at least a hundred feet
tall. I imagined her being stalwart and
strong and carrying a shield to hold back the
white folks. And then I grew up and had the
esteemed honor of meeting her. And wasn't
that a surprise. Here was this petite, almost
delicate lady who was the personification of
grace and goodness.”
Expressing Specific Purposes and
Central Ideas
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SP: To inspire my audience through
celebrating the example of Rosa Parks.
CI: Rosa Parks inspired us all to act
more responsibly in the world as we
imitate the spirit of courage and
conviction embodied in her example.
A Speech about U.S. Veterans
SP To commemorate
America’s veterans
with my audience.
CI America’s veterans
have demonstrated
remarkable courage,
sacrifice, and
determination all
around the world.
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A speech about a parent
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SP: To inspire my audience to live life to the full
like my mom.
CI: My mother taught me to find my own path in
life through hard work, endurance and optimism.
A speech about personal challenges
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SP To inspire my audience by demonstrating
how taking on challenges helps us grow.
CI My friend Mike, my brother and my mom
have each shown me how taking risks and
overcoming challenges gives a person the
chance to accomplish more than they ever
thought they could.
When we aim to entertain, we
laugh together and so bond
our community.
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we can laugh at ourselves
we can entertain through
observations about human nature
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A speech about drivers
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SP To entertain my
audience comparing drivers
in the East Coast and
Midwest drivers.
CI Since being transplanted
to the Midwest I have seen
that good and bad driving
habits have more to do with
what kinds of driving
conditions and stresses
people deal with than with
regional differences.
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A speech about school
memories
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SP To entertain my audience
by talking about our favorite
elementary school memories.
CI Elementary school was a
magical time filled with show
and tell, marvelous lunches
and recess.
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A speech about my term
abroad
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SP: To entertain my
audience with tales from
my semester in Spain.
CI: My study abroad
experience was full of
amazing and bizarre
events, but I learned
more about myself and
how to deal with
differences than I ever
expected to.
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A speech about my
family
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SP: To entertain my
audience with stories of
my family’s summer
reunions.
CI: The characters in
my family sometimes
do outlandish things,
but I wouldn’t trade my
time with them for
anything.
To accomplish these goals we
use strategies such as:
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creative language
creative examples
mood-creating delivery
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE
SPECIAL OCCASION
SPEECH
(See pp. 78-82 in the workbook
for further details.)
Requirements:
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TIME LIMIT: 4.5 minutes
GENERAL PURPOSE: To Inspire or To
Entertain
TOPIC
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Due this Wednesday by 11 p.m.
MANUSCRIPT:
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2 copies due on the workshop day (11/30)
2 copies of the final version the day you deliver
the speech.
Manuscripts must include the specific purpose
and central idea
Manuscripts must include 5 stylistic devices
you must label and highlight them.
Requirements
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DELIVERY:
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Use a delivery manuscript or a speaking
outline (see workbook p. 94 for advice on
manuscript delivery)
Continue to aim for a conversational style
ORGANIZATION
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Usually topical (maybe chronological)
Introduction, Body, Conclusion
FOCUS OF ASSESSMENT:
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creative use of language
creative ideas
sense of structure
good delivery
connection with/impact on audience
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accomplishing the goal of the speech
whether it be to inspire or to entertain
originality of thought and expression
MAJOR DANGERS OF THE
ASSIGNMENT (aka how to earn
a C or less):
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sounding informative, e.g. doing a
straight biography
inappropriate or ineffective humor
reading the speech to the audience
plagiarism
Veteran's Day Examples
“My Crazy Aunt Sue”
To inspire my audience by
showing how my aunt lives life
fully in the face of a painful
disability.
How does the speech fit the
assignment?
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Striking attention getter (using parallel
structure and repetition)
Vivid descriptions
Focus on values: strength, lack of complaint
in adversity, humor, energy, determination,
joyful.
Elevated language use
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Repetition/Parallelism: “the strongest person I
know” ; “It hurts to”; “I complain about”
Alliteration: “whereas most would wallow in their
misery”
Metaphor: “demon of a disease”
Denotation vs. Connotation
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Denotation is the dictionary definition.
Connotation is the cultural meaning-what the terms suggests or implies.
"House" vs. "Home"
One feature of vivid language
is imagery.
concrete words
 simile
 metaphor
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Imagery
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Concrete words and Metaphor (W p. 83)
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Metaphor [and quotation]
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Reagan “We will never forget them or the last time we saw
them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and
waved good-bye and ‘slipped the surly bonds of earth to
touch the face of God.’”
Bush “Today we feel what Franklin Roosevelt called ‘the
warm courage of national unity.’” (W p. 86)
King “Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksand of
racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.” (T A-8)
Simile
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Hibinger “Just walk into any home and there it is, sitting like an
idol. We elevate it on top of special furniture; seats are arranged….
Members of households gather to worship.” (W p. 87)
Miller She “turned to me with spoon in hand, pointed like a loaded
gun, and said, ‘Lick it off.’” (W p. 90)
A second feature of vivid
language is rhythm.
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Alliteration
Antithesis
Repetition
Parallelism
Rhythm
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Alliteration
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Repetition of the initial sound in close or adjoining
words
Miller “artificial, aromatic, Avon perfume”; “After 20
min. of these dramatic displays an overwhelming
feeling of guilt would hit and we would all pile in the
car to the dreaded destination doom.” (W p. 89)
Antithesis
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Juxtaposing contrasting ideas, usually in parallel
structure
Kennedy “Ask not what your country can do for
you; ask what you can do for your country.”
Kennedy “Let us never negotiate out of fear, but
let us never fear to negotiate.”
Bush “This conflict was begun on the timing and
terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an
hour, of our choosing.” (W p. 85)
Rhythm
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Repetition
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Repeating the same key word or set of words at the
beginning or end of successive clauses, sentences, or
paragraphs.
Bush “They are the names of…” (four times, W p. 85)
King “I have a dream”; “One hundred years later”; “go
back to”; “We will not be satisfied.” (T A-8)
Lacina “He didn’t just speak of….” [compassion,
tolerance, and courage] (W p 84)
Parallelism
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A repetition of structure that may or may not use the same
words.
Reagan “There will be more shuttle flights and more
shuttle crews, and, yes, more volunteers, more civilians,
more teachers in space.” (W p. 83)
Bush “Americans are generous and kind, resourceful and
brave.” (W p. 86)
Lacina “lived and worked and loved and died” (W p. 84)
Parallelism (Barack Obama June 4, 2005
Commencement Speech)
“As people around the world began to hear the tale of the
lowly colonists who overthrew an empire for the sake of
an idea, they started to come…to try and build their own
American Dream. This collective dream moved forward
imperfectly—it was scarred by our treatment of native
peoples, betrayed by slavery, clouded by the subjugation
of women, shaken by war and depression. And yet, brick
by brick, rail by rail, calloused hand by calloused hand,
people kept dreaming, and building, and working, and
marching, and petitioning their government, until they
made America a land where the question of our place in
history is not answered for us. It’s answered by us.”
END
Dan McCarney’s resignation
speech
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http://www.cyclones.com/
To my players, past and present, thanks for putting
such meaning behind the words Cyclone Football
Family. You’ve been classy and humble and heroic
in victories and you’ve been classy and unselfish
and mature in the losses we’ve had. I’ve tried to
teach you to reach higher, to impact your mind, your
hearts and your lives, and you’ve done a lot more of
that for me than I have for you. You will never know
what an honor it’s been for me to be your head
coach as we’ve tried to bring honor and prestige and
respect to Cyclone football through the years.