without hindrance‚ and the speech by Dr. King: “I have a dream” is a symbol of that‚ because during the 1950’s Africans peacefully protested for freedom‚ as so northerner’s did in the 1850’s for slaves to be free. And through other speeches like the “Gettysburg address were people able to realize‚ this land was made to be free‚ from the beginning to the end. And most defiantly was this shown was through ethos‚ a source of credibility by the speaker‚ through the speakers ethos‚ to past experience‚ and
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I have to agree with President Obama on one issue‚ poisonous gas should not‚ must not ever be used against any living thing; however I do not think that the United States should bear the full cost of any action taken against Syria. President Obama’s passionate appeal to retaliate against the Syrian regime for the death of hundreds of children appears hollow when we consider what the US did in Iraq under the same pretext of weapons of mass destruction. The US bombing and the consequential war killed
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United States gives a speech to American students. That goes without saying that it is given in the very beginning of the school year. The purpose of the speech is to welcome all new students and to prepare all students in the USA for a new year‚ which will bring them one step closer to their future. This following speech “Back to School” by President Barack Obama is given on September 8th 2009‚ at Wakefield High School in Arlington‚ Virginia. Back to School is a speech given to all students
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Obama’s State of the Union Address was written in 2013 in the United States of America‚ they address many similar topics. A few of these topics consist of civic duty‚ world leadership and dedication. These similar topics can be seen many times throughout the two speeches even though the speeches were made for different reasons. Pericles’s speech eulogized the Athenian soldiers who died in the war against Sparta in 431 B.C.E. and comforted their families. Whereas‚ Obama’s speech was written to address
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President Obama aimed to unite the American public in the fight against terrorism in his speech following the death of Osama bin Laden through his use of diction and pathos. Obama’s use of diction that included himself under the umbrella of the American public conveyed a sense of an all-inclusive and united America. President Obama consistently says “our” and “we” throughout his speech while referring to America. For example‚ he writes “we reaffirmed our ties to each other‚ and our love of community
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For example in the speech Address on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Statue of Liberty Roosevelt states‚ “If we keep the faith for our day as those who came before us kept the faith for theirs‚ then you and I can smile with confidence into the future. It is fitting therefore‚ that this should be a service of rededication‚ rededication to the liberty and the peace which this statue symbolizes”(Roosevelt 13). This part in Roosevelt’s speech defines an American because Roosevelt
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On February 12th‚ 2013 President Barack Obama gave his state of the union address to the nation‚ the first of this year and since his re-election. I had mixed feelings about this speech as I go into that in more detail later. I like the general direction of where Obama was trying to go with it but I must say that I did have a few points that I disagreed with that he presented. But some of the major things which I did like was the minimum wage increase and talks about gun control. I am going to just
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Why Buy Ethos? The Ethos Water Advertisement is used to catch the possible consumer’s attention and to convince them to purchase their product. Every company uses their own form of rhetoric in advertisements that use pictures and phrases that are meant to convince people to purchase their products. In all forms of rhetoric‚ there are certain tools that help accomplish these goals which are commonly known as ethos‚ pathos‚ and logos. Ethos Water uses these tools in the form of celebrity appearance
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Senator Barack Obama’s victory in the presidential election was celebrated in his hometown of Chicago‚ Illinois. He gave this speech in an open park‚ with hundreds-of-thousands of his supporters. Obama starts his speech by telling everyone that anything is possible in America. Next‚ he congratulates senator McCain on his campaign. Then‚ he starts thanking his supporters and he then talks about the change he hopes to make as president. After thanking everyone‚ he then goes to talk about problems that
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When delivering a speech it is important to establish credibility with your audience so they know to believe everything you are telling them. Ethos is known as the perceptions of character‚ intelligence‚ and good will that belong to the listening audience. If the audience does not perceive much ethos from a speaker‚ than there is no established credibility. This leads to a narrow understanding of what you have said. When the audience thinks you do not know what you are talking about‚ they do
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