Speech 4: Praise
GLOBAL FIGURE, EFFORT, CAUSE, or ACCOMPLISHMENT
This final speech is a 3-5 minute presentation that praises or eulogizes a public figure, effort, cause, or accomplishment, which has made some kind of global impact. The rhetorical purpose of this speech is to be both informative and persuasive: the information you present should increase the audience’s knowledge about this figure, effort, cause, or accomplishment and persuade the audience that the person, item, or phenomenon is praiseworthy. For more information about this assignment see the corresponding pages in the handbook.
*You will need the evaluation form from the STUDENT HANDBOOK for this presentation.
Possible Praise Topics:
Ayk Sbaihat, Palestinian Human Rights Lawyer
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Women Executive Director
UN Women Organization
Audrey Azoulay, Director General of UNESCO
UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization)
Regina José Galindo, Guatamalan Performance Artist
Ana Medieta, Cuban Performance Artist
Tania Bruguera, Cuban Performance Artist
Liu Xiaobo, Chinese writer, critic, and human rights activist
Befeqadu, Ethiopian writer, blogger, human rights activist
Behrouz Boochani, Kurdish journalist, filmmaker, and human rights activist
Mai Khoi, Vietnamese musician
John Logie Baird, Scottish inventor of mechanical television
Tei Shi (Valerie Teicher), Argentian-Colombian musical artist
Diamond (Alice Coelho, Jeni Loyola and Mariana Alves), Brazilian musicians
Zuzuka Poderosa, Indonesian-Brazilian musical artist
Guillermo González Camerena, Mexican electrical engineer, inventor of color wheel
Juliana Rotich, Kenyan Technologist, founder of software platform, Ushahidi.com (Links to an external site.)
Rapelang Rabana, South African Technologist, co-founder of Yeigo Communications
Nagwa Abdel Meguid, Egyptian Geneticist, identified genetic mutations causing “fragile X” syndrome
Nashwa Eassa, Sudanese Nanoparticle Physicist, founder of “Sudanese Women in Science”
Godliver Businger, Ugandan Civil Engineer, works with “Global Women’s Water Initiative”
Marie Curie, Polish-French physicist and chemist, discoveries and contributions to field of radioactivity
Rita Levi-Montacini, Italian neurologist, awarded Nobel Prize 1986 for discovery of Nerve Growth Factor (NGF)
Kazuo Ishiguro: Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 2017
Svetlana Alexievich: Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 2015
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN): Awarded Nobel Peace Prize, 2017
Juan Manuel-Santos: Awarded Nobel Peace Prize, 2016
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