Answer to Question #295868 in Psychology for Sheezq

Question

Assignment 4: Rousing Bon Mot is No More?

Noted columnist Rex Murphy suggested a few years ago that truly persuasive speeches are no longer given, replaced by pointless tweets. Is that true? Check out the VIDEO of Harry Smith’s speech in favor of the NHS. The NHS is the British equivalent to Medicare here in Canada, free medical care to all. Was Harry Smith persuasive?

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-29345395

Answer 1

It's not that true persuasion speeches are being supplanted by ineffective tweets. Harry Smith was convincing. Harry Smith's speech is in support of the National Health Service. The video explains if the NHS is the British equivalent of Canada's Medicare, which provides free medical care to everybody. Mr Smith recalled the "anguished cries" of a woman dying of cancer who couldn't afford morphine, as well as how his eldest sister died of disease at the age of eight and was "dumped nameless into a pauper's hole." He added that my heart is also with the people of today, who are trying to make ends meet again as a result of welfare cuts and austerity measures, and whose futures I am concerned about.