Obama commencement speech encourages his audience to go out there and help someone in need and to forget about the fame and money that should be the last thing in the mind. In his commencement speech to Arizona State University students, Barack Obama relies most heavily on appeal to logos to convince his audience to “find someone to be successful for” (Obama 5). This appeal is especially effective in this case because it encourages them to look back at history and find people who made history with this method. ordinary people who made history doing something to help others. A person who is willing to follow their passion no matter if fortune is part of the picture. A person who has a “quality of heart and a quality of heart” (Obama 4). This is what drove many Americans to do something out of the norm. Obama tells the audience this is “what inspire [Harriet Tubman] escaped slave to run an underground railroad” (4). She was not looking to make it to our history books. She risked her life by escaping slavery, and her only goal was to help others escaped too. She changed the life of many by giving them hope to a new beginning. Another example is Martin Luther King when he "lead the bus boycott for justice” (Obama 4). The nine – eleven heroes had shared the same motivation that Harriet Tubman…show more content… Obama talks about the things so some of the students have done during their time in the university like tutoring children, [ registering to vote] … fight hunger, homeliness, AIDS and cancer (5). This are all of the ways students have done something to help someone in need. Obama especially mentions one of the students who while doing her senior project said “When we saw the people on the videos, we began to feel a connection to them. It made us want to be successful for them” (Obama 5). This are all examples to logos because they are things that happen during their time in the
