Michelle Obama tells her own life experiences in order to encourage the students into never giving up in their life, no matter what others believe and expect of you. She had a difficult life dealing with critics and cameras every day, every hour, so she made the best out of it and gave advice to the students, she said, “I had to ignore all of the noise and be true to myself and the rest would work itself out.”;in our lives we feel that if the others are not happy, then we can’t be happy, the noise according to Michelle Obama is the others, so we basically only have to ignore them and continue with our lives normally . Eva Peron’s approach to the audience was somehow different, her advice wasn’t based on her life, instead, on her beliefs. Both of them made a huge impact on the audience, both inspired, both made them believe in a greater future and both were written by two first ladies. When someone tells her own story and how they succeeded, it gives you some kind of real hope, it makes you think, if they could do it, I can do it. It makes you think it is possible no matter what. The students are going to struggle after they graduate and hearing from her that she thinks it is possible for them to have a great life is exciting. Eva Peron encourages you to do it, but doesn’t warrant that it is possible.
Questions such as “What kind of First Lady would I be? What kinds of issues would I take on? Would I be more like Laura Bush, or Hillary Clinton, or Nancy Reagan?” are the questions that Michelle Obama felt pressured to answer every day as the first African American lady of the United States of America. “Who am I? No, really, who am I? What do I care about?” throughout her journey she had to answer those questions and made her realize who she really wanted to be, and formed her, she realized that she didn’t have to please the critics and the rest of the world, she only needed to please herself and be happy with her family. “Who do you want to be? What inspires you? How do you want to give back? And then I want you to take a deep breath and trust yourselves to chart your own course and make your mark on the world.” those were her exact words for the students, and those questions are so hard to answer, because the decision you make is going to define your future life.
What is our purpose in life? We will actually never now, but, what we know is that we can make the best of our life to help others and help ourselves. Michelle Obama focuses on them, on their future, on their lives, and on the possible difficulties they are going to have. In Eva Peron’s case, she tells everybody that they have to fight for Perón, she actually never said something about their lives and how they are going to be grateful later on. That is the difference, they both showed love for their people, but Michelle Obama showed more concern for their future. Showing an interest in someone's life, has as a consequence, love in return from your public. Both of their audiences love them, but Michelle Obama is loved worldwide.
Michelle Obama’s use of logical and emotional appeal in her speech had a higher impact on the audience than Eva Peron’s speech. She accomplished this by using her own life experiences as an inspiration and using rhetorical questions to make us question our purpose in life
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