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The purpose of this task is writing a blog about my personal opinion about Eric Thomas’s speech “The Secret to Success.” Eric Thomas dropped out of high school later on becoming one of the most famous inspirational and motivational speakers around. His speech was posted on YouTube and he wrote a book explaining the secrets of reaching success. I personally became very motivated after listening to his speech and this blog would include my opinion about his speech and how it is motivational. I will explain the techniques he used to connect with the listener and to be able to move them to going after their goals. The register of this blog would be informal but not slang. The reason for this register is because of the targeted audiences which are the people who are in search of motivation and the listeners of the speech. I will analyze the tone and voice of the speaker. Eric is a black man and his idiolect and his accent is of a stereotypical black man. I will use Times New Roman text style with different sizes to right this blog. This blog relates to the course because I will be analyzing how his voice revealed his identity and his use of language to connect to the targeted audience. The speech on YouTube was in a classroom full of students. The blog will target the same audience as the speech as well as any other person wanting to reach success. This also relates to the course because I will explain how even though he became successful, he did not lose his original voice. No websites will be used since it is an opinion and personal analysis.