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Friday, June 28, 2019

Anyone for an Essay?: Ending a blogpost, a speech, an essay.As Max Beer...

Anyone for an Essay?:

Ending a blogpost, a speech, an essay.


As Max Beerbohm never said: “Public speaking is like making love. It has to end in a climax!”
You can end a speech with a toast: “Let us raise our glasses to Mr and Mrs...”
Or at a funeral: 
“Let us rest assured that our long suffering mother is enjoying, at this very moment, her heavenly reward in the presence of God and His angels whom she so earnestly served for her entire life.”

Play on those emotions!

If you want people to feel pity, then ask how people can possibly sleep at night, knowing that babies are starving in Africa? What about the homeless man, recently released from prison for a crime he did not commit, a man who is even now sleeping rough on the streets of London?
Or indignation: “When my own children grow up, I want to live in a world where Polar Bears can walk freely among the icebergs. I want to live in a world where cars do not pollute the streets. Where babies do not cough up the fumes from diesel exhausts!”
Or you can end with sheer anger.




Everyone believes in equality. Everyone believes in fair play. And every single person wants to rob the rich and pretend we are poor! So appeal to that.
Here is the proudly Socialist Canary ending a piece on Private education:
This follows a clip which shows two men being ejected when they have jumped the queue for a ride on a roller coaster.
“But why should Brits treat the private education system any differently to the person above? They’re both unfair queue jumpers, are they not?And if there’s one thing British people should be good at, it’s queuing fairly.”

Peroration


The end is called the peroration. That means it is the time for decision. You have got the audience to listen and pay attention throughout the speech, the article, the blogpost, the comment. Now is the time for them to take action, to react and, we hope to leave a comment.
Just like you are going to now!


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