Open the link to the list of political speeches by G.W. Bush and J. Kerry‚ read some of the speeches and identify fallacies used by the author. Explain what is wrong in the reasoning used by them. Maksym Piekut (24665) Browsing through some of John Kerry’s speeches I have managed to spot a few common reasoning fallacies. The following quote suggests an appeal to tradition fallacy: “This is not the way we do things in America. Here in America‚ we don’t sacrifice science for ideology. We are a
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INTRODUCTION: I am studying the rally speeches for the leaders of the Labour and Liberal Democrat party’s. Nick Clegg has been the leader of the Liberal Democrat party for 5 years now and Ed Milliband has been the leader of the Labour party for 2 years. Both of these leaders have become unpopular in the public’s eyes: Nick Clegg due to him lying about the raising of tuition fees as well as the negative view from his party as they feel he has disassociated himself from the party objectives
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COMPARISON OF SPEECHES The two speeches I have chosen are Adolf Hitler’s (Youth Rally – 1934) and George Bush’s (Evening of September 11)‚ I chose these two‚ because even despite the fact they are talking about vastly different things‚ they were both questionable men. Bush only in power due to his fathers position as a previous president and Hitler‚ an angry man who faced a number of difficulties growing up‚ realised his oratory skills and he succumbs to the siren song of power. Both of their
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Both athletes and fans believe that audience support (e.g.‚ cheering) is one of the top influences on a team’s success‚ particularly at home when the crowd is predominantly supportive‚ possibly contributing to reported home-field advantage (Courneya & Carron‚ 1992). Yet there are few experimental investigations of whether distinctive types of audience feedback have differential effects on athletes’ performance of particular sports skills. In this study‚ college athletes performed a familiar
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Comparative Essay on the speeches of Mark Antony and Brutus Julius Caesar is one of Shakespeare’s greatest works. It is about a group of conspirators in Rome who kill their king‚ Julius Caesar. The play follows the life of Brutus (at the time) - a conspirator yet an honourable man. His rival throughout the novel is Mark Antony- Caesar’s good friend. The pair’s likeness and unlikeness becomes clear at Caesar’s funeral where both make a speech justifying what one another is doing. Brutus appeals
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Winning the Nobel Prize (2007) and Margaret Atwood’s Spotty-Handed Villainesses (1994) are both worthy speeches because they evoke a personal response in their intended audience and offer solutions to complex global issues. These issues are complex because they do not have a clear answer and hence‚ remains a controversial topic and reverberates across time. Therefore‚ the solutions offered by these speeches also resonates beyond the contextual audience and holds value for the modern responder. Lessing spoke
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promotion launched an athletic-shoe revolution. "Play by the rules. But be ferocious."-Philip H. Knight In 1993‚ the man whom The Sporting News voted "the most powerful person in sports" wasn’t an athlete‚ a manager or a team owner. He was Philip H. Knight‚ the dynamic iconoclast who for nearly 30 years has shod the feet of sports legends and "weekend warriors" alike. In less than a decade‚ his marketing savvy and uncompromising competitiveness had transformed the athletic-shoe industry and made
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alluring to me in light of the fact that it secured the majority of my hobbies. The other pleasant thing about that community is that we have the ability to become well rounded and develop better communication skills. I assumed the part as the head athletic trainer‚ as well as academic decathlon and National Honor Society Vice President. Every “clique” was accounted for in our group. Having agreeable blend of all the other communities truly permitted this group to be varied and one of a kind from numerous
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In these speeches there are many differences and similarities. "Ain’t I A Woman" focuses more on the right that men and women should be treated equally. "I Have A Dream" focuses on the equality for all races. Both of these speeches still have things in common. For example‚ they both strive for equality in the human race. They also have many rhetorical devices‚ such as metaphors‚ similes‚ repetition‚ etc. They are trying to make a difference in life. "Ain’t I A Woman" wants men to treat women
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each of their times‚ the changes in audience‚ and the purpose of their speeches. Needs Inprovement on: Machanics- grammer‚punctuation‚ spelling Style - word choice‚ formality‚ sentence structure "The only thing we have to fear... is fear it self..."and "Ask not what your country can do for you... ask what you can do for your country." Two of the most influential quotes of the twentieth century taken from their inaugural speeches‚ as they were about to embark on the Presidency of the United States
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