Conduct a Web search to locate a video of a modern speech. Evaluate the speaker's purpose and the speaker's dellvery. Consider how the delivery does, or does not, enhance the speaker's purpose. Also, consider any evidence the
speaker uses to make a point. Is it accurate? Does it effectively support, or does it distract? Write a paragraph or two
below and make sure to include a link to the speech you evaluated.

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made man, i'll never forget

mine is worth far more

these are hyperbolic statements, i hope it

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.