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¶ … Ellen at Tulane Commencement 2009
After a warm and lengthy introduction that includes many notable achievements, Ellen is brought to the podium to begin her speech. Ellen was incredibly entertaining during her commencement address to the Tulane graduates of 2009. She has an innocence about her character that is coupled with confidence which equates to a likable personality. She is humble and personable which is evident from the introduction to the end of the commencement at which point she begins dancing and running through the crowd of students. She opens by acknowledging guests include the distinguished ones, as well as the undistinguished ones and mentions "you know who you are" (Tulane University, 2010). The entire speech is embedded with short jokes such as this.
After greeting the guests, Ellen talks about her process of accepting the commencement invitation. She admits that she did not know what a commencement was so she broke down the word into pieces -- "common cement." She also mentions that she did not go to Tulane, or any other university, and subsequently mocks the students by implying that they wasted their time and money since...
After this short joke she then transitions into the central message of the speech by sharing what she has learned through the school of hard knocks.
She begins the next transition with another round of humor and mentions that generally people who are in robes at ten o'clock in the morning have "given up" (Tulane University, 2010). She then talks about her humble career beginnings and all of the odd jobs that she had taken in her youth. Her goals at this stage in her life was to have basic cable, but even that was optional. Next she introduces tragedy to the speech.
She mentions that her girlfriend was killed in a car accident when she was young and how this prompted her to do some "soul-searching." It seems evident through the speech that this process is what sparked her career. She wrote a letter to God which was the basis for a stand-up routine that eventually lead her to the achievement of one of her first goals -- to appear on the Jonny Carson show and be the first woman to be invited over to sit after the stand-up performance. She also mentions that she was the first and…
References
Sigl, A. (2015). Ellen DeGeneres' Tulane Commencement Speech: Is She Getting Through to Anybody? Retrieved from Digital Commons: http://digitalcommons.wou.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1041&context=pure
Tulane University. (2010, March 4). Ellen at Tulane Commencement 2009. Retrieved from YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e8ToRVOtRo
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