Humble Beginnings: The Significance of the Boiler Room Speech in The Wolf of Wall Street

This analytical essay examines how the boiler room speech that Jordan Belfort makes in the movie The Wolf of Wall Street serves to motivate his fellow stockbrokers to act according to his instructions.

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"You are off to a strong start in explaining the significance of your chosen scene. Your use of direct quotations from and pointed summaries of the speech are relevant to the argument you are making, and each is explained so that its connection to your argument is clear. However, there are significant errors around sentence structure that make your ideas difficult to follow. To have grammatically correct and easy to understand sentences, make sure that you avoid run-on sentences and remain consistent with who/what the subject of your sentence is. Run-on sentences (such as the second sentence) make your train of thought hard to follow as they require readers to try to separate your ideas for themselves rather than having it clearly done for them (via coordinating conjunctions, semicolons, or periods). Meanwhile, switching the subject of your sentence mid-sentence (as you do in the second sentence from the end, "He goes on to explain if they...," when you replace "they" with "you") reads awkwardly and results in confusion over who is doing what. Additionally, once your ideas are clearly stated, make sure to add a conclusion that summarizes your argument and how you support it as well as bulk up your introduction to include a slightly more detailed summary (especially the parts that surround the scene you focus on) so that readers who may not have seen the movie can follow your discussion of one specific scene by understanding its context. These should both be separate paragraphs rather than part of your body. Finally, make sure that The Wolf of Wall Street is italicized and not placed between quotation marks as it is a movie title; Jordan Belfort should not be between quotation marks either. Once these changes are made, your essay will be good to go!"

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Kibin. (2025). Humble beginnings: the significance of the boiler room speech in the wolf of wall street. http://www.kibin.com/essay-examples/humble-beginnings-the-significance-of-the-boiler-room-speech-in-the-wolf-of-wall-street-pZN2Y5ak

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("Humble Beginnings: The Significance of the Boiler Room Speech in The Wolf of Wall Street.")

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