Analysis of Obama’s Inaugural Address Liilia Batluk Supervisor: Stuart Foster School of Humanities Halmstad University Bachelor’s thesis in English Acknowledgment My appreciations to my supervisor Stuart Foster for very helpful advice during the research. Abstract In this essay I shall analyze Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address‚ January‚ 2009 from the perspective of various linguistic techniques. More specifically‚ I shall propose and focus on the idea that the composition of the speech has an aim to
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Two very different presidents ‚as of the not yet moth Trumps been in office‚ have some considerably similar (and yet incomparably different due to their backgrounds‚ race‚ religion‚ etc) inaugural addresses. Obama had done some pretty newsworthy things while he was in office. He (the military under his head as commander and chief) killed the leader of the infamous terrorist group al qaeda Osama bin laden‚ put into place the healthcare system that cared for many‚ and legalised same sex marriage‚ and
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Text analysis “I Have a Dream” To be born Negro in the US in till late 1970s meant to be unequally judged‚ discriminated and segregated according to skin color. One of the active freedom fighters was a Martin Luther King‚ who made fundamental contribution against racism in the US. King’s speech “I Have a Dream” marked the beginning of new era‚ era of freedom and equality. This paper will try to critically analyze the speech “I Have a Dream”‚ look at the references King made and try to identify effects
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Martin Luther King is renounced world wide as a leading member of the American civil rights campaign‚ his speech ’I have a dream’ (1963) which brought together roughly a quarter of a million people (of which about half were white) is seen as his leading act of his civil rights campaign. His change of focus from ’de jure’ in the south to ’de facto’ in the North however led to huge failures and criticism of his tactics as well as the forever growing in popularity more extremist civil rights groups
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I Too Have A Dream by: Kiara Mayo I too have a dream‚ that one day the world will become a better place. This world of ours is full of pain and suffering. I dream that the people will see the thing in the world as the opposite word of absurd. I dream that homelessness and poverty will end. I dream that rapist will stop raping and murders will stop murdering and thefts will stop stealing and killers will stop killing. I too have a dream‚ for the USA. The USA one of the wealthiest countries
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Analysis on Clinton’s Rhetoric in Inaugural Address On January 21st‚ 1993‚ Bill Clinton spoke to America on what they could expect of his term as president. In his inaugural address‚ he motivated a nation using multiple forms of rhetoric. Although later scandal shattered his ethos‚ during his inaugural address his ethos is strong demonstrated by references to previous presidents and a confident tone. He also exploits a significant amount of logos‚ referring to the struggles of the people at the
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Analysis of Reagan’s Inaugural Address 40th president of the United States‚ Ronald Reagan‚ in his Inaugural speech claims that America is the best country. Reagan’s purpose is to renew the American spirit. He takes on a patriotic tone in order to instill that we can do anything as a team in the American people. Reagan depicts the pathos appeal in his Inaugural address. He supports this appeal by using diction such as church and God‚ dreams and hopes‚ our country and countrymen. He’s letting us
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MLK in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the histmy of olw nation. Five smre yeag ago a great American in whw sp- Imlic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proshation. This momen~tous deoree is a great W n light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It cmm ais a joyous d:tybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But 100 years later the Negro still is nok free. One hun- dred yearn later the life of
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The introduction of the “I have A Dream” speech by Martin Luther King Jr. immediately sets the stage for what was indeed “the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.” As shown in the book The Art of Public Speaking‚ by Stephen E. Lucas there are several qualities that the introduction of a speech should possess. These qualities are those of getting the attention and interest of your audience‚ reveling the topic itself‚ establishing credibility and goodwill‚ and finally previewing
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Here in this essay‚ I choose three of the most representative speeches by Kennedy – inaugural address‚ address at Rice University on nation’s space effort‚ and “Ich bin ein Berliner” – and analyze them using statistical data. I select sentence length‚ specific word frequency‚ and sentence structure frequency as the three stylistic features that characterize Kennedy’s speeches
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