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Rhetorical Analysis Jim Valvano, better known as Jimmy V, was a men’s basketball coach in the NCAA for many years and is remembered most for coaching his North Carolina State Wolf pack squad to the 1983 national championship over the Juggernaut University of Houston team. That team established the term “Cinderella” as no one ever expected them to win the way that they won. Jim Valvano received some horrible news in the middle of 1992. His doctors told him that he had terminal cancer. Several months later, he received the Arthur Ashe Courage award at the 1993 ESPY Awards presented by ESPN. He accepted the award and gave one of the most memorable speeches in sports history where he introduced the Jimmy V Foundation for cancer research that has since raised millions of dollars for cancer research. The seven P’s of rhetoric can be used to analyze a speech in many different ways. Jimmy V’s speech was public because he addressed a public issue of cancer. The purpose of his speech was basically to inform the public how the Jimmy V foundation for cancer research, but it turned into Jimmy V telling people that they should try to live as full of a life as possible. The speech was also propositional it was developed t