1) Mario Savio argues in his speech that the students a Berkeley University has little power to practice their rights to free speech and the bureaucrats are not doing anything to protect student's rights. In his speech, he has used the historical point of view to get across his point to the readers. His form is very useful for readers to follow since his arguments are cohesively flowing from paragraphs to paragraphs. Also expressed transitions are well used. Becoming symbol-wise are greatly interpreted when he says “powerful minority and “powerless majority”.
2)I think social networking is a serious issue that has to do with public discourse. Some viable genres for this issue can be a post on Facebook. I think any post whether it is a video clip, an image or a comment or criticize on something can be interesting to study how people are using these sites to communicate their ideas with others and unknowingly use methods of communication which is called, “metadiscourse”. I am also enthusiastic about comments people make because they use Kenneth Burke’s ideas of stepping back and examining other’s perspective. People who spent most of their time on computer and socializing with others are even unaware of the public discourse concepts. Facebook can be harmful to someone’s cyber reputation but at the same time, it can be a learning source.
