Analyzing Lewinsky's Speech

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Lewinsky’s talk about the progression of the internet's impact by the means of the extent of humiliation and the boundaries going from an isolated few to the whole world was extraordinary. Lewinsky’s personal account of her experience with public humiliation made the talk stronger by having someone personal to being humiliated on the internet talk about the process of coping with the shame. Lewinsky’s purpose in the speech at the beginning focuses mainly about her internet humiliation but toward the end Lewinsky’s experience was only a small part of a bigger purpose of the speech.The intention of the talk was to help Lewinsky come to terms with the mistake that was made in her past and to use her experience to inform the audience about the

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