Stefanos Lazaridis Professor Weatherup English 102 November 16‚ 2013 JFK Recognized around the world for his leadership qualities‚ charismatic speeches‚ and anti racist views‚ John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a husband‚ father‚ and beloved 35th president of the United States. Kennedy was born in Brookline‚ Massachusetts on May‚ 29th 1917‚ to a mother who was a philanthropist and a father who was a wealthy business man. Kennedy had a privileged life and went to a variety of elite schools before attending
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Depression created‚ but America would not fully recover until after 1939. Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered his first inaugural address as the thirty-second president of the United States on March 4‚ 1933. The first inaugural address is a monumental speech. America reached a dark place in history and Roosevelt wanted to revive their spirits ("Franklin D. Roosevelt’s First Inauguration‚
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Mr. David Rough Draft 20 April 2017 Tax March On January 20‚ 2017 Donald Trump was sworn into office as the 45th president of the United States of America. President Trump’s inaugural speech professed the change of power from Washington D.C. back to the people of the country he is now serving. He spoke of unity and healing particularly within the middle class and among American workers. President Trump stated‚ “We assembled here today are issuing a new decree to be heard in every
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Lincoln ’s Second Inaugural Address In the "Second Inaugural Address" (1865)‚ Abraham Lincoln contemplates that they‚ as a United Nation‚ should reflect on the effects of the Civil War and move towards a better future for this nation. He addresses God and the issue of slavery in order to encourage the Northern and Southern states towards reconciliation. Lincoln tries to reveal his intention by utilizing figurative diction‚ parallel syntax‚ and a shifting tone. Abraham Lincoln uses figurative and
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War was near its pinnacle; the American people longed for a strong‚ reassuring leader. John F. Kennedy provided that reassurance in his Inaugural Address. Taking the current national and international turmoil into account‚ Kennedy sought to persuade the Nation’s people to join in his efforts and unify together in order to achieve peace. The inaugural address is saturated with rhetorical strategies seeking to flatter the American People and utilizes words of encouragement to evoke unification. Kennedy
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Obama’s Inaugural Barack Obama delivered his Inaugural Address at a critical point in American history. The United States was facing a global economic crisis while skidding deeper into recession‚ two foreign wars were being fought with consistently rising death tolls‚ international relations looked bleak‚ and the outgoing president was leaving with one of the lowest approval ratings in history. Obama’s speech had lofty goals. His mission was to inspire hope‚ unite Americans behind his leadership
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Presidential Inaugural Speech With every President comes a variety of problems. Every President has their own difficulties when they come into the executive office‚ and some harder than others. Most presidents come into office‚ are vexed with the same problems. There are problems with the economy and people lacking jobs. There is segregation and the people making complaints about their rights‚ and that they don’t have enough. Though I cannot change the fact that there will be sexism and racism‚
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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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for the effort he put forth in trying to achieve his American Dream of winning Daisy back. With the use of symbolism‚ syntax to create a respectful tone towards Gatsby‚ and a mood of honor‚ Fitzgerald admires Gatsby for chasing an unattainable American Dream and almost succeeding. Symbolism is a major key to Fitzgerald’s novel and he uses it to represent how unattainable American Dream’s are. Fitzgerald uses the green light across the bay to symbolize how unattainable and far away he is from attaining
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By the time Lincoln gave his first inaugural address‚ conflict between the North and South was inevitable. Conflict between the North and South was inevitable by the time Lincoln gave his first inaugural address because several Southern states had seceded from the union and because Lincoln would not have maintained the status quo for long. For a good two decades‚ the United States had been experiencing more and more turmoil over slavery. The Republican North was emphatically against slavery
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