Cultural Commonplaces Speech and Outline

Cultural Commonplaces Speech and Outline Order Description Description This speech should be no less than 4 full pages but no more than 5; fulfilling at least, but no more than, 6–8 minutes. You will be given a 15-second grace period on either end. This time limit is not a suggestion. It is a requirement, and points will be deducted if you go over or under the time limit. 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. Instructions: I have attached on another file hat I want the speech to analyze and background of the object, if you have questions please ask. The object you analyze should be well known or easily shown to your audience. Your analysis should focus on claims made by the artifact on the audience in terms of the issue of public identity (race/gender/orientation, citizenship, or public memory). Additionally, your speech should inform us about the context of the artifact by presenting sufficient historical and cultural background for the audience in class. Ultimately, you should be presenting a clear and thoughtful argument about the object as something that can be understood as a material instance of rhetoric. This argument should not be limited to whether the object was merely aesthetic, functional, or in conversation with community standards, but should judge it according to the criteria of how it—intentionally or not—persuades someone to think, to act, or to believe in specific ways. Were the purposes of the object (assuming it had an intended purpose) fulfilled by its persuasive stance or contradicted? What were the consequences or potential impact of the artifact? Were the principles behind it valid? This assignment will rely on logos. Logos is one of the rhetorical proofs that lead to judgment by the audience. Logos is based on evidence and reasoning, language, and structure. Your analysis, given in a speech, will demonstrate how you use criticism as a form of civic engagement. What you believe to be the persuasive dimensions of the cultural artifact will demonstrate that you know how to be a critic involved in public life, that you know how to do criticism that is engaged in civic matters, and that this functions in ways that are important for the good of the public. Provide support for your speech by drawing on what others say about the artifact or about artifacts like it: include a minimum of six published sources cited orally in the speech, cited in the outline for your speech where you use them, and listed in the outline bibliography / Works Cited page. Four of the six sources must be scholarly (edited, peer-reviewed) publications. Journalistic sources, news-aggregators, and general web pages are not scholarly sources, but they can be used to provide factual information, historical background, or pertinent cultural characteristics and uses. The artifact you analyze is not a source: it is the object of your analysis. The textbook for this course is not a source: it is your guide for preparing your speech. Your instructor can be an invaluable resource in developing your perspective: ask your instructor for suggested scholarly readings that will help you conduct your analysis. Remember, your purpose is not merely to provide facts in an informative speech, but to use these facts to argue persuasively for the perspective that you are taking. Keep in Mind… ¥ The full sentence, preparation outline for your speech is provided in this link and in another attachment. ? We have provided an outline shell that will help you structure the body, introduction, and conclusion for your speech. Below is what I want my speech to be written about:: MY ARTIFACT IS A THREE DIAMENSIONAL SAINT MCIHEAL FIGURING THAT I WEAR AROUND MY NECK THIS WAS GIVEN TO ME BY MY IRAQI INTERPERTOR AFTER I SAVED HIS LIFE DURING THE SIEGE OF NAJAF IN 2004 AS A CIVILIAN WORKING FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE. I NEVER TAKE THE NECKLACE OFF, AND I HAVE HAD IT SINCE THIS DAY; AS HE TOLD ME THE FOLLOWING: HE WANTED ME TO WEAR IT SO THAT IT PROTECTS ME AND MY BELEIFS OF NOT ONLY PROTECTING MYSLEF BUT THE OTHERS I AM A LEADER OF. IT WAS MADE IN IRAQ; A MAJOR SIGNIFICANT TO ME IS HOW MY INTERPERTOR WAS A MUSLIM AND HE RESEARCHED THE MEANING AND PRESNETED IN TO A CHRISTIAN THE INTERPETOR IS NOW A UNITED STATES CITIZEN AND CURRNETLY SERVING IN THE USA ARMY I HAE WORN THIS, DURING ALL OF MY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ AND IN AFGHANISTAN TO INLCUDE DURING BATTLES SINCE IT WAS PRESENTED IT IS SILVER APPROXIMATLEY 1.5 INCHES TALL TO INLCUDE THE SWORD THAT IS BEING HELD ABOVE HIS HEAD IS HIS RIGHT HAND ONE SIGNAIFICANCE TO ME IS HOW NO MATTER RELIGION OR CULTRAL DIFFERNCES DURING LIFE AND DEATH SITUATIONS WE ARE ALL HUMAN BEINGS AND WILLING TO PROTECT EACH OTHER.