Cullis-Suzuki And Inauguration Speech

Speakers habitually create memorable connections with their audiences and challenges society’s perception of certain issues, such as environmental issue, equality, freedom, and racism. Voices provide new belief systems in the society and therefore raise thoughts amongst peoples. Three speeches that show the significance that encourage individual to respond to certain issues, such as sharing of equality, having freedom, environmental problems are I have a dream (IHAD) by Martin Luther King; Address to the Plenary Session, Earth Summit (ATTPSES) by Severn Cullis-Suzuki and Inauguration speech (IS) by Barrack Obama. Each of these distinctive voices that are portrayed in speeches create actions to work on the issues. These challenges underpin the reaction of people build a better society.
In King’s speech, his use of inclusive word such as “my friend”, points at both White and African Americans, in which evokes hope within the audience that change is possible and necessary if America is going to grow as a successful nation. Very different to King’s speech, Suzuki commences the speech with a short yet powerful sentence “we raised all the money ourselves to come six thousand miles to tell you adults you must change your ways.” The use of “six thousand miles” highlights the effort that they put to achieve the goal, and the demanding also confronting and high modal term “must” coveys that there is no doubt about making changes or not, the answer is they “must” change. However, Similar to King, Obama also uses inclusive words such as “we” and “our” to make the audience have a sense of involvement. This inclusive technique draws attention to the people, making them stand more by his presidential decisions. Hence, all of the speakers gathered attentions from listeners in order to take action to make some changes to the value of