’s 2012 Speeches: Views from Systemic Functional Linguistics and Rhetoric Bahram Kazemian Department of English‚ Tabriz Branch‚ Islamic Azad University‚ Tabriz‚ Iran Somayyeh Hashemi Department of English‚ Tabriz Branch‚ Islamic Azad University‚ Tabriz‚ Iran Abstract—In the light of Halliday ’s Ideational Grammatical Metaphor‚ Rhetoric and Critical Discourse Analysis‚ the major objectives of this study are to investigate and analyze Barack Obama ’s 2012 five speeches‚ which
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Act 2 – Development/Rising Section 2.1 (Pop-up Pompey and the Pirates) The act opens with Pompey the pirate speaking Menas. Pompey is confident that he will have victory. He has won over many of Caesar’s men and believes Antony is still in Egypt with Cleopatra‚ until he receives news that Antony is returning to Rome which pushes back his confidence. ‘If the great gods be just‚ they shall assist/The deeds of justest men. ‘The people love me‚ and the sea is mine;/My powers are crescent‚ and my
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The middle school auditorium of Conestoga for my step-brothers band concert‚ a place of so many public affairs: high school concerts‚ plays and speeches. I love any place where music is performed. But sometimes‚ a few places are not for me‚ even though the music may be great. Conestoga is a place of performances: ones that people pay for and ones that they do not. Just the word "auditorium" presumes that they are going to sit‚ watch‚ and be uncomfortable. As I walk in‚ an hour early‚ the stench
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To what extent does Hughes’ poem‚ ‘Your Paris’ present the main issues of Birthday Letters? (Reference to two other poems) Ted Hughes’ poem ‘Your Paris’ was written about Ted Hughes’ and Sylvia Plath’s visit to Paris shortly after their marriage on 16 June 1956. The poem is part of the collection ‘Birthday Letters’ published in 1998‚ 35 years after the suicide of Sylvia Plath and so is written (as most of the collection) with the benefit of Hindsight and so Hughes is able to relate their trip to
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Both speeches deal with patriotic and sombre subjects. Compare and contrast how effectively they have conveyed their messages. 300-400 words The point of any speech is to connect with an audience (and persuade them) on a far deeper level than any written form can provide. That connection may be through ideals such as patriotism or sombre subjects. The Funeral Service of the Unknown Soldier spoken by Prime Minister Paul Keating‚ deals with both patriotic and sombre ideals. Through positive language
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Brutus and Antony are both portrayed as above average orators in the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare‚ and they both use this skill to achieve there preplanned goals in there speeches. Brutus’s goal was to rationalize the assassination of Caesar and to convince the people that Brutus and his fellow conspirators were actually heroes for what they did. On the other hand Antony’s goal was to turn the people of Rome against the conspirators and to more brightly illuminate the good things that
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about essential change for the black race. "Anything you can think of that you want to change right now‚ the only way you can do it is with a ballot or a bullet." (Malcolm X). Anyhow‚ I am going to elaborate more on these two great men and their speeches (I Have a Dream by M. L. King and The Ballot or the Bullet by Malcolm X) by comparing them and writing what the similarities and differences in these two texts are. The first text I am going to deal with is Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech "I Have
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Summary of the Speech by Franklin Roosevelt “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”: In his first paragraph‚ Roosevelt states that he is certain that his fellow Americans expect he will address them with honesty and a decision which the people will push forward. He also states that this is the distinguished time to speak the truth. That Americans should not shrink from honestly facing conditions in their country today. America will endure as it has endured and will revive and flourish
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Lies my teacher told me At some point during the lengthy‚ drug-induced coma that I sometimes refer to as "my high school years‚" I briefly regained consciousness and found myself eye-to-eye with what appeared to be a three-headed‚ English teaching dwarf. Before I could fall back into my customary stupor I realized that this evil shrieking dwarf would say anything to trick me into wasting what was left of my mind with books and reading and other school related stuff. Although I managed to fend hem
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human emotions and character which may give off feelings of despair‚ yet also of humour simultaneously. Most of the time‚ the audience tends to laugh at the helplessness created by Vladimir and Estragon in the play‚ and the play can be seen to be very funny at times‚ a prime example being when every character present has fallen to the floor and is supposedly unable to get up. Beckett uses humour for a number of different purposes in the play‚ which will be outlined in this essay‚ and the effect on the
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