1. At a speaking rate of 130 words per minute (wpm), this speech should be about 6 minutes long speech and have 780-825 words.
2. Attached is a speech outline for this paper.
3. Please follow the instructions below…
In this speech, you will provide an analysis of a cultural artifact using public identity as a critical lens. Your goal in this speech is to explain to your audience the basis for your critical judgment about the artifact.
The body of the speech should back up your claim about the persuasiveness of the artifact. You may choose to divide it into 3 main points that go something like this:
Point 1: Context. Describe the artifact, how it came into being historically and/or culturally. Some may find it easy to fit this in the intro for well known objects, but others may need to spend a main point on it.
Point 2: Answer any of these questions that you find most relevant to addressing how the artifact intentionally or unintentionally persuades someone to think, believe, or act in certain ways. If you choose multiple questions, you may find they need to be split into 2 main points. Be sure to identify what those ways of thinking, acting and believing are:
How does the artifact create/reinforce/undermine a communitys racial identity?
How does the artifact create/reinforce/undermine a communitys beliefs/understanding of gender roles, identity, or sexual orientation?
How does the artifact shape our understanding of citizenship, national, &/or religious identity?
How does the artifact function in shaping public memory?
How does the artifact create/reinforce/undermine a communitys social, economic, &/or power structures?
You will find what you learned about narrative analysis, social movement studies, close textual analysis, dramatism, etc. to be useful here. So might your responses to the emailed questions from last week. Think about who the audience(s) is/are, What types of reasoning may be used in understanding the arguments, and what style/materials tell us.
Point 3: Evaluate. What were the consequences or (potential) impact of the object? Were the purposes of the object fulfilled or contradicted by its persuasive stance? Were the principles behind it valid or good?
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