Persuade.
EXPLANATION
Rhetorical speech is an act of persuasive speaking which employs various methods to convince, influence, or please an audience.
Stephen Hawking was born in Oxford, England, he was a brilliant man who outshined everyone in his class, even with his physcial obstacles he moved with his whole life. Later in Hawking's life he studied physics at Oxford University. Hawking went on to become a writer researching cosmology and the orgins of the universe.
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His real name is William Shakespeare lol