Ali gives his speech about entrepreneurship in September 2013 and it now has over 1 million views. Ali makes the point that when people are unable to find sufficient jobs they become a target for terrorist organizations to recruit, to stop this though innovating thinking needs to be brought out in more people. Ali's tone through the speech is very serious and inspiring. He makes the audience trust him and believe him by telling them how he was born in Mogadishu and how he went back to help the youth of Somalia to start to innovate so they could create their own opportunities. Ali uses Pathos and logos fairly evenly with facts such as "70 percent of young people suffer from unemployment" (Ali). But there is one example of Pathos that is more important and persuasive than any other thing in his speech is his opening. His opening is a story of a kid who goes into the city for a job but finds none so he waits, living in a tent city(shown below). Finally someone starts buying him food and clothes and helps him get his life together until "a car bomb goes off. That small town kid with the big city dreams was the suicide bomber"(Ali). The story shows how when people just wait, when they are unemployed and hopeless, a terrorist organization can pick them up and then that person who was hopeless would help them pull of these acts.
Ali helps present his point with a dynamic use of words at 7:15. His word choice of "forced them to look at their city as a place of opportunity"(Ali) shows that in everyday life kids do not look at their city through the eyes of an entrepreneur and his word choice in this quote makes it clear to the audience that it is what children need to start businesses and be successful. At 8:11 though Ali gets much more powerful when he states that "Mohamed is not simply selling flowers. I believe he is selling hope"(Ali). This quote goes to show how Ali is trying to inspire his audience and his home country because he sees that through creating businesses and being innovative countless lives can be saved. Ali is trying to get two main points across to his viewers, terrorists rely off of that "waithood" to recruit people, and that through thinking outside the box more businesses and jobs can be creating decreasing the amount of people stuck waiting. Ali would probably want his audience for these points to be mentors and business people who can finance and teach the young entrepreneurs. To improve his speech Ali could have gone deeper into that conference he had with young leaders from each city to further explain how he was changing their perspectives and lives. One question about the speech is what exactly was Ali's background in Mogadishu?
Entrepreneurship is one of the biggest components of the American dream in general and so Ali's speech fits perfectly into the American Dream. This dream is to make your own life by working hard and being smarter and more creative than those around you. This all fits into the global dream because the global dream is to make the world livable for everyone and in Ali's speech he talks about how these new businesses give opportunities to more people than just the people who start the businesses which in turn brings prosperity to many people. This view Mohamed has fits in with some views William Zinsser had in The Right to Fail. The quote that connects these two sources the most is when Zinsser states that "they just don't buy the old standards of success and are rapidly writing new ones"(Zinsser). The common thread through that article and Ali's speech is that people need to break the mold, and they are. One of the people Ali spoke of dreams to create a park, that is not what people would expect from success but it is someone breaking the mold to be successful in their own way. In "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson Walter also made a better life for himself even though he was looked down upon for his race by noticing a trend in his town and using it to be successful.
I did like Ali's speech because along with talking about how people can make a difference in their community by thinking out of the norm, he talks about how sometimes innocent people get dragged into terrible organizations because they had no other way to keep living. Ali's speech is so great because he gives us one solution that fixes more than one problem and he shows people a trend they might not have noticed before. The biggest thing to take away after listening to these stories and Ali's speech is that poverty is a huge part of the terrorism problem and that as a community there is a responsibility to educate them on how to find these problems that need to be fixed so they can find a way to live on their own.
Ali helps present his point with a dynamic use of words at 7:15. His word choice of "forced them to look at their city as a place of opportunity"(Ali) shows that in everyday life kids do not look at their city through the eyes of an entrepreneur and his word choice in this quote makes it clear to the audience that it is what children need to start businesses and be successful. At 8:11 though Ali gets much more powerful when he states that "Mohamed is not simply selling flowers. I believe he is selling hope"(Ali). This quote goes to show how Ali is trying to inspire his audience and his home country because he sees that through creating businesses and being innovative countless lives can be saved. Ali is trying to get two main points across to his viewers, terrorists rely off of that "waithood" to recruit people, and that through thinking outside the box more businesses and jobs can be creating decreasing the amount of people stuck waiting. Ali would probably want his audience for these points to be mentors and business people who can finance and teach the young entrepreneurs. To improve his speech Ali could have gone deeper into that conference he had with young leaders from each city to further explain how he was changing their perspectives and lives. One question about the speech is what exactly was Ali's background in Mogadishu?
Entrepreneurship is one of the biggest components of the American dream in general and so Ali's speech fits perfectly into the American Dream. This dream is to make your own life by working hard and being smarter and more creative than those around you. This all fits into the global dream because the global dream is to make the world livable for everyone and in Ali's speech he talks about how these new businesses give opportunities to more people than just the people who start the businesses which in turn brings prosperity to many people. This view Mohamed has fits in with some views William Zinsser had in The Right to Fail. The quote that connects these two sources the most is when Zinsser states that "they just don't buy the old standards of success and are rapidly writing new ones"(Zinsser). The common thread through that article and Ali's speech is that people need to break the mold, and they are. One of the people Ali spoke of dreams to create a park, that is not what people would expect from success but it is someone breaking the mold to be successful in their own way. In "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson Walter also made a better life for himself even though he was looked down upon for his race by noticing a trend in his town and using it to be successful.
I did like Ali's speech because along with talking about how people can make a difference in their community by thinking out of the norm, he talks about how sometimes innocent people get dragged into terrible organizations because they had no other way to keep living. Ali's speech is so great because he gives us one solution that fixes more than one problem and he shows people a trend they might not have noticed before. The biggest thing to take away after listening to these stories and Ali's speech is that poverty is a huge part of the terrorism problem and that as a community there is a responsibility to educate them on how to find these problems that need to be fixed so they can find a way to live on their own.