After listening to both Noah’s and Alexa’s, I felt they both did a great job. To begin with Noah’s speech, he spoke about the “Change the Priorities” poster. With the goal of advocating for a change in the government policy towards the homeless, Noah used Visual Rhetoric and close textual analysis to express his main points of color and language to the audience in order to convey his message. I personally found Noah’s speech to be very effective and found myself learning more as he spoke about a topic that I was unfamiliar with. He also spoke with immediacy and concern which truly helped the effectiveness of his speech as well. Additionally, Alexa also spoke with the same immediacy and concern in her speech about The Gettysburg Address. Using a close textual analysis Alexa expresses how Lincoln uses ethos, pathos, and logos to gain his audience’s trust. One thing specifically that Alexa did really well was structure her speech in a way that made her topic and points clear to the audience. It was clear that she was very familiar with her topic and took the corrections from the speakers before her and applied them to her speech. Overall both Noah and Alexa did a great job with their speeches and I look forward to more from them further in the course.