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George W. Bush's Address To The Nation
While George W. Bush’s Address to the Nation and 9/11: The View From the Midwest are both about 9/11, The View From the Midwest is focused more on one experience rather than being more broad.

9/11: The View From the Midwest is focused more on the journalist’s experience rather than addressing a nation as a President. He talks about what he was doing the morning the planes crashed into the towers. He discusses the people around him and the emotions they were all going through: shock, concern, fear, etc. In Bush’s address to the nation, he speaks more politically. For example, he discusses what the government has done since the attack and what they plan to do in the future.

Bush adds some pathos into his speech just to give his audience something


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