COMMUNICATION ANALYSIS SPEECH
TOPICS AND THEORIES
TOPICS
Heaven’s Gate cult
Starbucks
Flash Mobs
Louis Armstrong: Communicative Genius
Alcoholics Anonymous
Infomercials
Reality T.V.
The AIDS quilt
Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds radio broadcast
Music (specifically: protest songs, rap, tours for causes like Band Aid, Live Aid, Tsunami Relief, etc.)
Cartoons and/or Cartoonists (for example; Gary Larson – The Far Side, Calvin and Hobbes, John Callahan)
Slasher movies
Ronald Reagan’s eulogy for the Challenger crew
Cultural Icons (Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Mickey Mouse, Lucille Ball, Madonna, etc)
The Rhetoric of … Mark Twain, Will Rogers, Lenny Bruce, etc.
Nike’s “Just Do It” ad campaign
THEORIES
The
Anatomy of Power
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John Kenneth Galbraith
The True
Believer
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Eric Hoffer
The
Paranoid Style in American Politics
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Richard Hofstadter
The Hero
With A Thousand Faces
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Joseph Campbell
Charismatic
Leadership
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Max Weber
The
Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power
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Gary Wills
The Uses
of Enchantment
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Bruno Bettleheim
Maslow’s
Hierarchy of Needs
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Abraham Maslow
The
Dramatic Pentad
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Kenneth Burke
Aristotle’s Triangle of Persuasive Proofs