Kennedy addresses his speeches often with a passionate‚ powerful tone that catches his audience’s attention and creates a resonant atmosphere around him. 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
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Paper # 2 ENG 106 Instructor: 10.20.2012 Rhetorical Analysis of Kennedy’s Inaugural Address A successful speech is often combined lots of factors‚ especially the use of rhetorical. Throughout the various periods of the famous speeches in the United States‚ all of the speechmaker used a variety of rhetorical devices and made their speech greatly appreciated‚ which is the magic of rhetorical. Kennedy was the youngest person elected U.S. President .His presidency came to represent the America
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Kennedy’s Inaugural Address‚ which took place on January 20 1961‚ President Kennedy presented the American public with a blueprint upon which the future foreign policy initiatives of his administration would later follow and come to represent. In the Address‚ Kennedy warned "Let every nation know‚ whether it wishes us well or ill‚ that we shall pay any price‚ bear any burden‚ meet any hardship‚ support any friend‚ oppose any foe‚ in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty." He also called
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from the start to the end of the war. He expresses his views about slavery through a variety of primary documents; both of Lincoln’s inaugural addresses‚ his letters to Horace Greeley‚ the Emancipation Proclamation‚ and the 13th amendment to the United States Constitution. Through these documents‚ Lincoln demonstrates his initial feeling towards slavery as being neutral/indifferent for his priority was to keep the Union/nation unified. As the war continued‚ he stuck by his desire to keep the unification
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Kennedy was 43 years old when he was elected to be president and was very popular (2). He inspired Americans to become more active citizens and took office in the middle part of a recession that had been going on for quite some time. He led what was known as a renewed drive for public service and provided federal support for the growing of the civil rights movement. Kennedy was drawn to international challenges by the Soviet Union’s nuclear arsenal and Cold War battle for the hearts and minds of
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and a huge influence on American History. He opened up a large path leading to the end of slavery and was a spectacular president until his untimely death. In his‚ rather short‚ Second Inaugural Address he surprised people with not only its length but its content as well. Lincoln‚ using careful wording‚ treated both men and parties as equal‚ thus creating an impacting result on what would eventually be American History. Lincoln starts off his address with a simple “fellow-countrymen” which describes
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President Bush’s Second Inaugural Address Since President Abraham Lincoln’s famous second inaugural address nearly 150 years ago it has been a long standing tradition for the President’s inaugural address to present a somewhat ambiguous claim for world transformation and diplomacy. President George W. Bush’s second inaugural address is no different. It set forth President Bush’s ambitious vision of the United States’ role in advancing of freedom‚ liberty‚ and democracy worldwide “with the ultimate
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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
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Analysis John Fitzgerald Kennedy Inaugural Address On January 20‚ 1961 John Fitzgerald Kennedy delivered one of the powerful inaugural address in the nation’s history. The president’s unique style‚ personality‚ and his emotional feelings were presented in well-balanced sentences. The citizens that were present on that day considered the speech a success and can still remember it to this day. John Fitzgerald Kennedy became the 35th president of the United States. He was one of the youngest individuals
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Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address When Abraham Lincoln won the presidency in 1860 the Union was divided. He accepted his presidential duties knowing that he was working with a nation that no longer remained united. Seven of the southern states had already seceded from the Union and were beginning to refer to themselves as the Confederates. What he had now were free states and slave states. When Lincoln gave his Inaugural Address he attempted to do so in a way that would not dissuade his
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