When things become challenging you should always look for the positive things in life.

Summary:

Starting the day making his bed is what Admiral McRaven refers to as the first task of the day already completed. He uses this analogy as a concept of starting your day productively which leads to a domino of an effective day. Admiral McRaven talks to the graduates and shares a connection on how he felt about graduation years ago. During his time in the Navy while he faced many difficult times as a trainee he does not regret it. In his time training for the Navy, his advise to the graduates is to always look for the positives even when times are difficult.

Rhetorical Techniques:

-Using the phrases "don't be afraid to fail"

-Using ethos to relate to students about challenging times they both faced while different from college and the Navy

-His motif is his experience in the Navy and uses it to explain how being positive affects your view on things in your life

Summary: Will Ferrel speaks about his college major in Sports Information and how it was discontinued after his graduation. Using his humor to relate to students about the worry about graduating. In his experience in college, he found his passion for comedy, and while he didn't have the most confidence he still went for it. His passions and perseverance along with the support from his friends and family, while he met many failures he never gave up. Throwing darts at the dartboard hoping it would stick, using this correlation to life and how while you might miss at least try. Many are filled with regret for not trying to aim for their passion serves as a reminder for many that attempting is still better than missing an opportunity.

Rhetorical Techniques:

-Ethos, Will Ferrel uses his past and failures as a pathway of experience

-Using the comparison of a dart and a dartboard

-Motif, his experience performing stand-up comedy

Summary: Viola Davis speaks about how the past carries into our generation and future. Davis talks about being a product of the environment and how it is only ever referred to the poor. Growing up poor gave her insight into how the poor are treated and how it gave her strength. In her speech, she explains that everyone's existence impacts the world and how you can change it with your legacy. Memories and experiences whether good or bad everyone should own. Finding ambition to change the world from your own existence. Her speech gives women strength and says that your mark in life can either be left for people or something in people.

Rhetorical Technhiques:

-Using logos about the 39 delegates writing the greatest document when slavery was still an issue in America

-Diction, "The world is broken because we are broken"

- Diction- When you leave this world you can either leave something for people or leave something in people