With this, she wants to say that if in 1968 people were able to accept people with disabilities, why can’t we do that now?

With this, she wants to explain that anyone could help

With this, she wants to encourage people to participate even if they don’t want to coach

She uses this to make the audience want to help them and kind of to make them feel guilty if they don’t participate

 

        

To include the audience with strong vocabulary she said: “one of the kids who ran through that finish line could have fallen into your arms or maybe one day could be your own child”. As well she evokes the participation  of the audience as volunteers with rhetoric questions: “What can you do to help? She highlights the need of volunteers several times. One effective argument to convince was: “think of their happiness and their support from one of another”.  She was aware about what she was saying and she knew that she was convincing the public  because she used statistics and her own positive experience: “1.3 million people participate in Special Olympics around the world, participants must be at least 8 years old and be identified as having a cognitive disability”.  "So as Special Olympics continues to grow so does the need for volunteers".
Finally  she  gave credibility to the public by going straight to the point: “let me win but if I can not  win, let me be brave in the attempt”.

“One of those kids could have fallen into your arms” “your own child”

 

She uses logos to give data about the need of volunteers and the people that participate 

Use of rhetorical  questions 

Your contribution can last for a day, a year a lifetime, is used to make people believe that if they help their reward will be huge. 

She uses ethos by telling her own experience, and she does it to sound relaible when saying what she gain from participating. 

 

She starts telling a shocking story in order to catch the attention of the audience and to connect with their feelings and emotions. With the story, she introduces the theme of speech: The Special Olympics.

 

Then she explains and gives facts about The Special Olympics: “Founded in 1968, Special Olympics invited the world to let go of limiting views… and to embrace the idea that they can be respected, valued, contributing members of society”.

 

Besides, she uses inclusive language and she also makes the audience think: “Just think one of those children who ran through that finish line could have fallen into your arms, or maybe one day could be your own child”. After this, she also encourages her listeners: “I’d like to encourage you to become involved as a volunteer for the Special Olympics”.

 

 

 

She starts giving information, facts and statistics: “According to the Special Olympics website, more than 1.3 million people participate in Special Olympics around the world. Participants must be at least 8 years old and be identified as having a cognitive or intellectual disability…”

 

She involves and tries to persuade her listeners discreetly: “There are currently 200 Special Olympics programs running in over 150 countries, so Special Olympics continues to grow, so does the need for volunteers”. “There’s always a need for more volunteer coaches or for loads of other volunteers as well”.

 

She uses rhetorical questions to involve the audience: “Now you know the need for Special Olympics volunteers, so what can you do to help. The answer is become a coach”. 

 

If the listeners had any doubts about being volunteers, she gives them more information to convince them: “Special Olympics offers a general course on the principles of coaching”. “If you don’t want to be a coach, there’s other ways to help as well: you can work by assisting in fundraising or organizing events, or…”. “It is important to know that your contribution to Special Olympics can last from a day to a year, to a lifetime, depending on the level of commitment that you’re ready to make”.

 

She tells her own experience and assures that it is going to be well: “I guarantee you that working with the Special Olympics will be immensely rewarding”.

 

To support their arguments, she appoints an author: “Brown Vanderslice, author of the article -Special Olympics, beneficial to all-, reports that individuals who get involved in sports and recreation through Special Olympics, develop… and receive social support”.

 

 

This experience not only benefits athletes, but also volunteers: “But it’s not just the athletes who benefit from Special Olympics”. 

 

She gives her experience to support the previous argument: “In my case, working with Special Olympics is one of the most gratifying things I have ever done in my life”. “Because not only do I have the satisfaction that comes from helping others improve the quality of their lives, but I’ve met so amazing people and met so many great friends”.

 

She directly addresses listeners to engage them: “Now you know the need for Special Olympics volunteers, some ways that you can help out and the benefits for the volunteers and athletes alike; so, I’d like to ask you to take the step of getting involved with the Special Olympics”. 

 

She offers more information for those who were interested: “If you want more information, you can check out the website… or visit the local headquarters… I also have brochures with contact information that I’ll be handing out after the speech”.

 

She counterattacks her argument to re-affirm it later: “I know that you may not have a lot of time available right now, but you can volunteer for the time that fits your schedule”.

 

 

 

At the end, she recapitulates again the story that she told at the beginning, and also makes the audience think: “Remember the nine children I mentioned at the beginning of this speech. Think of their happiness and their support for one another; think of how much they gained from running in that race; and think of how you can help others experience the same benefits as they strive to fulfil the motto of the Special Olympics.”

She ended the speech with a powerful phrase to convince, for the last time, her audience. The phrase is the motto of the Special Olympics: “Let me win, but if I can’t win, let me be brave in the attempt”.

 

• Then she explains the benefits of working in the Special Olympics and in what this would consist.

 • Appeals to people sensibility and involves them by using expressions such as, “Just think”, or phrases like “could have fallen into your arms” or “could be your own child”.

 • She gives data and numbers, apart from telling her personal experience to support her argument.

 • Presents the activity as something that everyone could do, since the working hours could be adapted to the schedule that best suits people.

 • She uses authority arguments.

 • Gives the audience different ways to find the information they want to know.

 • At the end she returns to the story she told at the beginning of the speech to, again, appeal to the audience’s emotional part.

She starts her speech telling an emotional and shocking story about a group of kids with special needs. By doing that, she catches the attention of the audience because she introduces the topic in a dynamic way making the people listen to her and wanting to know more about the story and the speech. During the talk, she mentions that the organization needs volunteers to coach the athletes. She also appeals that they could be your children, what includes the audience with an emotional connection.

She chose three arguments, which are very clear. She first says that the opportunity of having their own competition meant a lot, because it made them (the kids with physical or intellectual problems) feel like valuable and respected members of the society, declaring to the audience that this organization and this project is really important to them. Then she appealed to the spectators with the emotional connection of the possibility that their own kids could have physical problems and you could need help from this association. Finally, she did an objective research on statistics on a reliable web. This research said that there is a lack of volunteers because these kids have special needs, which takes time and people willing to help. Throughout the speech, she is always unbiased and never subjective.

When she is finishing her talk, she had a last chance to convince. It is then when she says that there are multiple ways of helping these people. The principal way is by becoming a volunteer coach and that they don’t need to know a lot of the sports because the organization will give them professional coaches to learn from. She restates her thesis by remembering the emotional story from the beginning and saying that they can help them. She calls to action clarifying that people do not need to act in that same moment, they can help when they have time according to their own schedules. At the end, she asks a question to the audience making them reflect.

-She begins her speech with an emotional story to catch the audience attention and gain heir empathy. 

-She maintains the emotional line with the sentence “one of the kids could have fallen into your arms, or maybe one day could be your own child”, used to move the audience and make them relate to what she is saying. 

 

-She has 3 main arguments or topics: “why is your help needed”, “what can you do to help” and “what are the benefits”

-She speaks directly to the audience using the pronoun “you” in sentences such us “I encourage you” or “Your contribution can last…” 

-She changes the pronouns and refers to herself with “I” to talk about her personal experience and offer an insight view to the audience to try to convince them to join her.

-She uses facts and statistics and talks about doing research for the speech, to make it seem trustworthy.

-She uses rhetorical questions like “What can you do to help?” to maintain the audience’s attention. 

-She uses phrases such as “It would be immensely rewarding” to convince the audience of the benefits it has for them. 

-She asks the audience directly to join and help (“I ask you to take the step to get involved”).

-She tells them that she would be handing papers with information, that’s a way of keeping them thinking of what she’s offering after she has finished her speech, and also to convince people who are not 100% sure with just her speech, the papers offer visual support. 

-When she’s about to finish she goes back to the emotional story from the beginning to get back to the emotional line and makes them think of that and how they can help.

-She finishes her speech with a memorable phrase to impress the audience and make them think of what she is saying: “If I can’t win, let me be brave in the attempt”

Then, continues his speech by asking volunteers to coach the athletes, therefore, she tries to convince them that they could be the volunteers, by using the technique of appealing to their sensibility with phrases like “could have fallen into your arms”, “could be your own child”.

She also says that the opportunity to have her own competition is very important.

Besides, she continues speaking directly to the audience, using the pronoun “you” to maintain people’s attention and with rhetorical questions such as “what can you do to help?”

Moreover, she implies that if they get involved in the issue, they will feel better, more fulfilled.

At the end, she returns to the story to re-appeal the sensitivity, she uses statistics to reaffirm her argument and she tells her experience to encourage people to do the same that she has done and also she offers other ways to help them.

Finally,she wants to make people think and ends with a very powerful phrase: “let me win but if I can not win, let me be brave in the attempt”.

In conclusion, it is a perfect speech that could be properly understand because we can see that the use of pathos, logos and ethos is perfectly appreciated since it manages to appeal to people's emotions, it uses logical arguments and its discourse is totally credible.

· Then “you” enter in the story and by that makes you put yourself in that situation.

· She makes a point by saying that she has been volunteering and encourages you to be involved so her speech is even more believable.

· She tells about statistics and facts.

· Now what can “you “do? She gives you option of what can you do to help , she mentions that you don’t need experience if you want to be a coach and if you don’t want to be a coach you can help with other activities.

·Its not a lifetime commitment so again “you” decide the time.

·How can you help.

·And how it will help you.

·Tells you her personal experience and haw it helped her. 

·Information, webs and everything you need to sign up.