Rhetorical Analysis Of Larry Page's Speech

Larry Page is an internet enterpriser who founded one of the world’s largest search engines, Google Inc. with his cooperator Sergey Brin. He graduated from the University of Michigan and also received a PhD degree of computer science at Stanford University. Larry Page is a Michigan native. In 2009, he went back to his alma mater and addressed a commencement for the graduating. I think this live speech is truly impressive after I watched it online. Live speech is the channel public speakers use to deliver their information to a large amount of audience. Larry Page shows his actions, eye contact and strong emotions to the audience through his speech. I can see students applauding and cheering for him from the video. Even I am touched and impressed by him when I’m sitting behind the screen. All of these express that Larry Page successfully motivate us the audience with his concise and wise statements throughout this speech. If I will prepare a formal public speech in the

He leads the audience to understand his principles better by simply telling his own stories. In addition, Page suffers from the rare disease of vocal cord paralysis, so he is a man of few words in order to protect his vocal cords. Thus, he has to organize his words well in his mind before speaking for reducing unnecessary words. So I think this is one of the reasons that he is good at telling stories to the audience and guide them to understand him. Larry Page’s clear and genuine attitude of giving out speech is what I would like to emulate for my future public speeches. Because I believe the genuine attitude and wise statements behind every little stories happen in life are matters what truly influence the audience. They are more persuasive than the slick talking. Since the audience hopes to learn and to have more inspirations from the speech, I would not waste their precious time but to work hard on giving out useful