On November Monday 17, 2003 Arnold Schwarzenegger gave his inaugural speech as the newly sworn in Governor of California. Standing at the podium in his expensive three piece suit with his dutiful wife standing behind him he thanked the citizens for believing in him and giving him a chance to fix some of the damage that has been done to their great state. Schwarzenegger is no stranger to public speaking or facing large crowds of people and his comfortableness showed throughout his acceptance speech.
Schwarzenegger did not have the overwhelming support of the public when it first got out he was interested in politics. The public still saw him as the bodybuilding champion and the ultimate action hero in Hollywood. He had to convince the public that he could do what he set out to do. If there were any doubts in the publics mind before his inauguration speech he brought a few disbelievers to change their tune and give their support.
Schwarzenegger prides himself of being a man for the people and that's how he wants his term in office to be seen. He shows this by how he relates to the camera and what words he chose to express himself with. His choices of words were words of a man not a politician. He stood tall and faced the cameras and the people and got his message across.
His message is that he is a smart man despite his past movie roles and could believes he can make a difference in the world for the better. He fought for his chance to show California what he can do and his inaugural speech was just the beginning.
He used words that would emphasize his feelings and how they could relate to his constituents. According to Craig White at the Center for Participatory Change your want to connect with your listeners and that is what Schwarzenegger did created a connection. He continuously grouped himself and the citizens of the state of California as a whole. He created the picture that collectively they are on solid unit fighting the outside forces.
His speech was called, "It's a jungle in there. ... These aspects can create a powerful and moving speech. As you proceed to the next few paragraphs, I will be critiquing the speech I witnessed. ... Then, he had a great transition into the body of the speech. ... I tried to adapt that formula for my first speech. ...
Initially, one is led to believe that to critique something accurately, whether it is political or not, one must be presented with the facts. ... These facts are equally important as dates and names as they too provide an insight, something essential to critique. ... By looking at documentary through the perspective of the expose, one is able to see how the transcripts of speeches made by Martin Luther King Junior and Malcolm X provide us with examples of "emotional reportage", enabling us to make a political critique of 1960s America. ... This, whilst being emotionally and personally based, m...
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Taking Saussure's linguistics as our point of departure and bringing to bear Derrida's critique of the metaphysics of presence, we can begin to raise epistemological as well as political questions about language's epistemic status as a lens through which we may access reality. Humans are capable of uttering an infinite number of random noises one after another in a disorganized fashion; that is, we are free to play with speech and to substitute any noise for any other noise unrestrained since all noises are equal. The function of language, for Saussure, is to organize these ut...
Self-Critique Informative Speech Going into my speech I had mixed feelings. ... I felt okay though, giving my first formal speech because we had some practice when we did the expert speeches. ... My speech sounded well organized for the most part. ... I performed extensive research for this speech and it showed in the body of my speech. ... For the next speech, I will practice giving my speech more. ...
Should Hate Speech Be Censored? ... I am speaking about Hate Speech. ... If I were to criticize my teacher and point on the errors in his methods of teaching and all his flaws and petition for him to get fired that teacher would be inclined to think that my critiques of him and speeches are of Hate. But to those who agree with my point of view, my critiques and speeches, would be thought of as the truth. So who is to determine what is Hate Speech? ...
Finally, use the gap between the rate of speech and your rate of thought. ... Critiquing speeches is a good tool for the self improvement of the speaker. ... Public Speaking Page 3 Always begin your critique with a positive statement. Public speaking is very personal and starting your critique with a positive can establish a healthy atmosphere for constructive criticism. ... Suggest an action plan to improve on the next speech. ...
The purpose of an allegory is to inform an audience about something whilst at the same time critiquing its contents. ... Old Major's speech alludes to Karl Marx's surplus theory of communism. His speech was about his dream of an animal paradise where the farm animals are free from the tyrannical rule of Farmer Jones, who has no regard for the well-being of his livestock. ... Both speeches revolved around the same idea of "rebellion," however, hypothetically speaking, it would be much more interesting to listen to Old Major's speech as it was more clear, engaging and f...
Individual Critique The consumer affairs programme I took part in was called "resolved", I chose the role of presenter and I was placed in the script writing team. ... I split up her long drawn out speech and involved myself, as a presenter into the convosaion by asking her questions. ... I also noticed that the presenters acknowledge each other, in speech and in the form of body language. ...
