Following the wake of the Pulse Shooting in Orlando, the Democrats in the House of Representatives staged a sit-in protest as an attempt to force their Republican counterparts into voting for stricter gun legislation. The legislation in question would ban suspected terrorists from purchasing guns, in addition to requiring universal background checks prior to the purchase of arms. Despite the attempt, the Republicans of the House failed to vote on the new legislation, and thus, barred it from passing. But what was most notable from this protest were the impactful speeches and arguments made on both sides of the aisle throughout its duration.…
In the New York Times, “Feminism, Hell and Hilary Clinton”, by Frank Bruni discusses how ridiculous the mentality is that if you are a woman you need to vote for Hilary Clinton. He briefly discusses some statements that were made by some very influential women, Madeline Albright and Gloria Steinem. Bruni seems to almost mock their opinions that “women are more or less damned if they’re not on Hilary Clinton’s team”. Bruni makes it known that he doesn’t disagree with these statements because he doesn’t like Hilary Clinton based on her gender, but more so on her policies. Bruni is able to use some aspects of ethos and logos in this op-ed, and his relaxed tone throughout makes his writing not only easy to read, but easy to agree with; this all…
With the elections less than a few months away, political debates always seem to get the best of politicians and their supporters. This year’s debate was nothing short of unexpected controversies. Shortly after the debate held on the night of September 9th, uproar arose all over America after the remarking comments that candidate Hilary Clinton made about Donald Trump and his supporters.…
President Trump delivers a speech to Congress about his vision for America. He informs the public on his policies including job opportunities for Americans. Trump’s speech stimulated a sense of hope for millions of Americans, but he did not thoroughly explain how he will increase more jobs.…
With the final primaries of 2016 drawing to a close tonight, where does Hillary, Bernie, and Donald focus their time and energy? How do the results of tonight craft messages and build platforms? Will the parties completely emerge into a general election with both sides relatively unified or will the Democrats remain splintered going into the conventions?…
In his speech at the Republican National Convention , accepting the Republican nomination for the presidency, Donald Trump depicted himself as the savior of a nation in crisis; crisis of terrorism, crime, a dishonest, selfish government and a failing economy, all thanks to the administration of Barak Obama. One of Trumps main points of his speech was to “present the facts plainly and honestly” – to set the record straight about the state of the country, in contrast to the “corporate spin”, the “media myths” and the “carefully-crafted lies” of the Democratic party, as he puts it, presenting a skeptical, elitist view upon the government. An important focus in his speech is a new form of exceptionalism, or, as he puts it, “Americanism”, as he…
In his speech at Georgetown University, Bernie Sanders elucidated democratic socialism and painted his vision of a reformed America— an America that is economically equal; healthy; employed; educated; and, unified with Muslim nations against ISIS. Sanders' speech highlighted pervasive social programs that accentuated the dire need of middle class Americans for economic security and equality. Sanders correlated his desire to redistribute wealth among the top 1 percent—the ruling class—and the middle class to the efforts of Franklin Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr claiming "true freedom does not occur without economic security" (Bernie Sanders). From Roosevelt's Second Bill of Rights to free public university tuition to raising minimum wage, this speech strongly encapsulated American history and tradition. Even though his reformative agenda encompasses modern day issues that are presently troubling Americans, Sanders may be viewed as overzealous or "pushy," considering his label as a 'socialist'. This speech confirms that most, if not all, arguments can contain both logical and…
One key figure of speech that runs through the discourse of Bush’s rhetoric throughout his presidential career is that of metaphors of friendship. The term friend(s) is used very liberally in Bush’s speeches, sometimes alone, sometimes along with the term allies as the examples below show: “I recognize that not all of our friends agreed with our decision to enforce the Security Council before committing troops to Iraq” “We will hunt them by day and by night in every corner of the world until they are no longer a threat to America and our friends” “I want to thank our friends from Poland” “I want to thank the Amir of Qatar, with whom I just met, for his hospitality and for his friendship to the United States of America” “Qatar, the…
Michelle Obama gave an incredibly persuasive speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Although she used all elements of ethos, pathos, and logos methods of appeal, her most prevelent method used was pathos. Her ability to invoke an emotional response from her audience was quite compelling. In my opinion, her use of ethos and pathos appeals seemed to intertwine with one another perfectly well. She did use some logos components but, it was not her predominant method of appeal for this speech.…
On Tuesday January 20, 2009, President Barack Obama announced his Inaugural address outside the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., as the forty-fourth president of the United States of America. Obama's Inauguration speech was a noteworthy moment that was observed not only by three million people attending the event, but also by people around the world. The structure of the speech starts with Obama speaking about American hardships and the important challenges they face, the wars that Americans are involved in, how they have been affected by the economic crises, and also their recovery from 9/11. Presidents for many years have been using rhetoric to show their objectives and to summarize their beliefs on extensive issues to the people. Obama used numerous forms of rhetoric and rhetorical tools throughout his inauguration speech to help the viewer's connect with Obama. Obama called upon to the viewer's emotions and made logical points, at the same time preserving his own trustworthiness. Many official analysts propose that his inauguration speech was unsuccessful in inspiring the American people, in my opinion, President Obama use of rhetoric came without interruptions to model a complete and persuasive speech.…
President Obama addressed the survivors of Hiroshima May 27, 2016. He spoke at the Peace Memorial and the speech was also broadcasted worldwide.…
has played in Obama’s kin, and his own, journey “And for as long as I live… my story…
The speech that I am going to examine, is that of Melania Trump. This speech took place at the GOP convention on July 19th. Melania was set to open for her republican nominee presidential candidate, Donald Trump. In every aspect of the speech it was successful and powerful in delivering a message. However, there was a strange similarity in her speech. It sounded as though we had heard it before. As many began to realize, her speech indeed did sound like a speech we had all heard before. Who’s was it, that it had such striking similarity to? Michelle Obama and her speech she delivered at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.…
Along with metaphors, Clinton uses tone to present her feelings toward the womens’ rights. Clinton says “These are the stories of what women around the world do every day to confront justice…and promote peace.” Clinton uses a powerful and emotional tone in this quote to show exactly what she thinks. She shares experiences of women and informs that these women do these awful things every single day. By her tone of voice, you can just tell she’s extremely bothered. She also states “…I would hope that we want the same for our daughters…mothers and fathers everywhere would make the world a safe place for our own children.” Clinton is using a desperate and persuading tone here. She is trying to persuade the audience to make the world right using a very desperate, pleading tone by bringing up the audience’s children. She and everybody else knows that parents would do anything for their children.…
This speech was geared toward the girls and woman around the world. It was presented at a U.N. Women’s Conference in Beijing. Hilary Clinton spoke about the rights women should receive under human rights. In her speech she used a political approach and expressed a political bias and a gender bias. I recognized a couple rhetorical devices in this speech. The first one that really grabbed my attention was, “It is a violation of human rights when babies are denied food, or drowned, or suffocated, or their spines broken, simply because they are born girls. It is a violation of human rights when women and girls are sold into the slavery of prostitution for human greed and the kinds of reasons that are used to justify this practice should no longer be tolerated”. Another one was, “If women have a chance to work and earn as full and equal partners in society, their families will flourish. And when families flourish, communities and nations do as well”. The fallacies I found in this speech was, “As long as discrimination and inequities remain so commonplace everywhere in the world, as long as girls and women are valued less, fed less, fed last, overworked, underpaid, not schooled, subjected to violence in and outside their homes the potential of the human family to create a peaceful, prosperous world will not be realized”…