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Yet Colbert has the life experiences to back it up and the self-deprecating humor wins over the audience.
At the beginning of the speech he parodies the self-absorbed nature of society today by promoting his own Twitter account and mentions he will be tweeting during the keynote. This is both a parody of the self-absorbed nature of baby Boomers he mentions later in the speech and also shows he completely understands the mindset of students about social media. A lesser speaker would have gone down a pedantic path on this point yet Colbert uses parody and self-deprecation to make the point.
After having established credibility and a connection with the audience, Colbert transitions into the core messaging of his speech. Instead of taking the easy path of being pedantic or worse, using his celebrity...
The bottom line of the speech is that one must always make a path for oneself, as he says "decide to choose the hard path that leads to the life you want" encouraging students to throw off the expectations and constraints of others and follow their own path. These points are delivered using some of the most powerful, moving words Thomas Jefferson ever wrote, deliberately meant to encourage students to not seek others' paths but be brave and take their own. He essentially calls the students to greatness, calling them intellectual heirs to Thomas Jefferson and telling them there are no secret societies or guides to the future, they have that in themselves already.
He further solidifies this point of humility and self-deprecation of personal stories showing how he has always admired the university and how he sees the students as exceptional. Having crafted this platform of trust and ensuring there is a strong resonance with the audience, Mr. Colbert gets even more daring and pokes self-deprecating humor at Thomas Jefferson's own unique behavior. Only after building such a strong foundation of trust does
Next, Colbert skewers Donald Trump. In his role as a conservative newscaster, Colbert begins with feigned outrage that Trump is not running "Who is going to tell OPEC the fun is over?" he cries when Trump is shown making his announcement that he is not running for the presidency. Colbert mocks Trump's hyperbolic self-promotion with his own hyperbole. Additionally, this is another example of how Colbert's deliberate, humorous false analogies
Changes within a text are accounted for as transformations in the synchronic system, and this meant a tendency to fail to deal with time and social changes, which concerned many of the method's critics from the beginning. Ferdinand de Saussure offers an explication of the linguistic approach and the meaning of language and contributed to the development of structuralism. He sees the nature of communication as deriving from ongoing processes
Stephen Colbert's Speech at the White House Correspondents Dinner, 2006 In this speech comedian Stephen Colbert gives a hysterically funny account of the Bush administration and the White House Press Corps. President Bush and the member of the press are co-agents. Often he takes an idea of Bush's and carries it to its ridiculous conclusion and "gives people the truth, unfiltered by rational argument." The message seems to be that together
Meanwhile, Huckabee supports local political jurisdictions passing laws that punish undocumented immigrants, and he asserts those laws "protect the economic well-being, physical safety, and quality of life" for citizens in those communities. By using "physical safety" Huckabee frames this issue in the context that immigrants are criminals out to harm people. But the Immigration Policy Center (IPC) (Rumbaut, et al., 2007) reports that "Foreign-born Mexicans" had an incarceration rate" of
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