The girl who silenced the UN for 5 minutes

The girl who silenced the UN for 5 minutes

Introduction

The context of the event describes about a Canadian girl who gave her speech to the delegates in a United Nations assembly in Brazil. The girl, Severn Cullis-Suzuki was just 12 years old and she traveled five thousand miles with her friends Vanessa Suttie, Morgan Geisler and Michelle Quigg by raising all the money for her travelling by herself.

She spoke about the hole in the ozone layer, pollution, devastation of the forests and extinction of so many species. Her main motive for her speech was to advice the adults that there are things which can not be fixed but to prevent them we must change our ways.

Discussion

The primary audience, to whom Severn Suzuki is addressing, consists of delegates form the government, reporters, business people, politicians and organizers. The secondary audience to whom she is targeting is the world in which all the fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, uncle, aunt and children.

The structure of the speech focuses over the destruction of the economy, the hole in the ozone layer and the pollution that is causing the economy to extinct. One of the strategies she focused over was to cut down the greenhouse emissions and making the environment friendly enough to live in a low carbon lifestyle. She delivered her speech by focusing over the needs of every person or animal living in this world. Each and every one of us live in a world of 30 million species and we all share the same air, water and soil but the government and borders will never encourage making any changes to that. The devastation of the forests are killing the animal kingdom and affecting the ozone layer to create breathing problems in the environment.

In another situation she focuses ...