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This I Believe

Posted by: alyssagendron | January 5, 2009 | No Comment |



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.”

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