By the end of this course, you’ll be able to dissect an argument in two seconds flat, but at the moment you might find it difficult to see exactly how a speech has been constructed and how it manages to be successful or not. Find another video of a persuasive speech online, this time in English. It doesn’t matter whether you’re already familiar with it or not. Listen carefully to the speech several times and try to write down a plan of the speaker’s main points. Assess whether or not the claims he or she makes are really justified. Is everything they say really backed up by a fact or figure, and if it is, do you think this fact or figure is reliable? Are there any parts of the speech you didn’t understand or weren’t persuaded by? Make detailed notes of around 300 words or more. A good selection of speeches can be found at http://www. ted. com (or you can use any site)

what is the passage

- "a nonrestrictive clause functions as a modifier to a noun (that is an object, person or concept). these clauses can be described by the following three options: it is set off by comas, it contains a subject and a verbs and it adds nonessential information to the sentence.

for example, in "here is bill gates, who confounded microsoft software company" we can identify "who confounded microsoft software company" as a nonrestrictive clause modifying the noun bill gates. this clause can be describes as a nonrestrictive clause because it is separated by a comma, it adds nonessential information to identify who bill gates is and it must contain both a subject (who) and a verb (confounded)."

as for symbolic actions, the narrator's tearing down the wallpaper in an attempt to find the "woman" in the wallpaper represents her struggle to retain or regain her sanity.   the wallpaper has been part of her confinement and by her tearing it down, she is freeing herself from that confinement.