Spacecat
Answer each question in depth and provide specific evidence from
the text or speaker whenever available. The more you write, the better!
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SPEAKER:
Who is the speaker/writer?
What do we know about
them? What can you tell or
what do you know about
the speaker that helps you
understand the point of
view expressed?
P
PURPOSE:
What is the speaker/writer
hoping to accomplish?
What is the reason behind
this piece? What do they
want the audience to do
after having listened?
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AUDIENCE:
Who is the speaker/writer
trying to reach? How do we
know? Do they indicate a
specific audience? What
assumptions exist in the
text about the intended
audience?
C
CONTEXT:
What is the time and place
of this piece? What is
happening in the world as
it relates to the subject of
the speech or the
speaker/writer?
E
EXIGENCE:
What was the spark or
catalyst that moved the
speaker/writer to
act/write? How did that
event impact the
speaker/writer?
C
CHOICES:
What are the rhetorical
choices that the
speaker/writer makes in
the speech? Think about
overall structure, devices,
The speaker is Justin Baldoni
He’s an actor and he enjoys playing characters that are way cooler than
himself.
He wants to express how he learned about how he was annoying and
how him and the guys around him were not helpful to society.
He was bullied for not being the most manly “being soft meant that I was
being bullied”
It’s hard to be man enough all the time.
“Masculinity is good and feminism is bad” is a bad thing
We need balance of both sides
Being a man is knowing how to support and protect your family
Being emotionally intelligent allows for the best people
He wants the audience to be more cooperative. He wants the men to be
open and have good equity, and he wants the women to help them do
that.
He want sto reach the whole world about this.
We know this because he said so. He says “men” concurrently like 5
times as if to reach out and keep reaching.
Interestingly the majority of the in house audience was women and he
sort of describes why: because the men wont come to something like
that because they wont open up and go.
He also wants parents to teach their children
TEDwomen conference november 2017
An uprising of feminist movements likely provoked this
Violence
Sexual harassment
He was struggling with some personal problems and found it hard to
open up because he couldn’t get out of his public act of being manly.
You cant open up about things because youre a man,
So he goes on a trip with his friends and on the last day he was finally
able to open up about it
Then he realized he wasn’t alone
“Why dont we reach out about having problems?”
When he says “men”
you go “ya?”
And then you forget and zone out
And then he says it again
 diction, syntax, etc. And again you lose the emphasis
Until like the 5th time and it sticks.

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APPEALS: Pathos because he talks more about what the world (audience) is doing
Which of the three He had some logos about the pole of what gender follows him more.
rhetorical appeals (ethos, This is important because men wouldnt follow him unless he had his
logos, pathos) are present other account that was more about bodybuilding
in the text? Where? Why?

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TONE: He’s not angry or explosive about it like you’d expect, instead he’s more
What is the like a student where he’s respectful and somewhat sound hopeful.
speaker/authors attitude During teh beginning he was talking about being an actor and his tone
toward the subject? Is the was more awkward but it transferred into the big idea about equality
tone the same throughout He also uses body language to an extent as most people do to not
the whole piece? Where seem weird and just stand there
does it shift? What He moves and used hand gestures with confidence.
evidence is there to This dominates the stage and allows him to project the speech .
demonstrate the tone?

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