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Bill Gates Commencement Speech at Harvard
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Bill Gates' Commencement Speech at Harvard
- A Close Reading Analysis
- "Is this argument effective and influential?"
Rhetorical Situation
Close Reading
Exigence: graduation
Gates has created an event
The audience is an a position to be influenced one way or another
Public has a shared interest of Harvard University
They have a choice to give back or not to give back and are now capable of taking action if they wish
Discrete whole
See the text as artistically dense
Example: "The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity."
Analysis and Interpretation
Elements of the effective speech:
Varying sentence structure
Repetition
Narrative- story about boring conference versus the exciting software release
Escalating speech and call to action
Background and Significance
- Bill Gates
- Harvard dropout
- Philanthropist
- Recognizes higher education as important
- Credible
- Harvard
- Well-known
- Prestigious
- Credible
- Place of innovation
The Speech
Gates strives to inspire, engage and encourage students and graduates to look beyond the diploma and see the inequities in the world.
He relates technology, his past, a few stories and the changing world to create a web of possibility.
Noted as one of the best commencement speeches
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