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1. Who is the  specific intended  audience of the piece? Discuss everything you can discern about the audience of the piece based  only on the content of the piece. How old are they? What is their worldviews? What are their education levels? Note that the intended audience extends beyond the people in the room.

2. What  agenda/ message/ purpose does the writer/ speaker have? Can you locate a single sentence in which the writer/ speaker articulates their overall purpose?

3. What are the limitations of the medium of this piece? In other words, what limitations exist in the fact that this is a  speech delivered with the option of including  visuals? 

4. What might change if the  speech were, instead, a  magazine article or even a  podcast? In other words, what would this same message look like if it were being communicated in another medium?

https://www.ted.com/talks/a_j_jacobs_my_journey_to_thank_all_the_people_responsible_for_my_morning_coffee

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