Live Life Like It’s Your Last Day by Samantha
Purpose outside: to encourage people to spend everyday like it was their last day on earth inside:the title, the anecdote about her mom, “I believe people should live everyday of their life like it is their last. ”
Persona outside: teenager:regretful;mournful inside:“I really did not want to go to school”; If I had lived everyday like it was mine or her last, I would have spent every last second I had with her”; “the hardest person to lose in life is your mother.”
Audience outside: people searching for meaning in their life that need purpose and are just going through the motions inside: “if i died tomorrow, would i have regretted going to school…”, “There are plenty of reasons to live your life like it’s your last day, but she was mine.”
Argument outside: do everything that you want to do now because you might not get a chance later on inside: ”Your mom she…died durring the night”, “you don’t know what you’ll encounter next so be ready for the unexpected.”
Growth That Starts From Thinking by Eleanor Roosevelt
Purpose outside: to encourgage others to think for themselve and question everything inside:”it didn’t do you any harm to learn those things, so why not let your children learn them? When they grow up they’ll think things out for themselves.”
Persona outside:sage;inquisative
inside: “I came to the conclusion that you had to use this life to develop the very best that you could develop.”; “But as I grew older I questioned a great many of the things that I knew very well my grandmother who had brought me up had taken for granted.”
Audience outside: americans, people wanting to think for themselves when everyone else believes there is one right way and that they are correct, non-reigouspeople inside: she is an american icon, “I don’t know whether I believe in a future life.” (relatable to others)
Argument outside: be the one thinking for yourself, what is going to happen will happen so let it. inside: “You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.”
