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    his best effort into his speech to convince Congress to declare war on Japan. His many forms of rhetorical aspects appealed to Congress’s feelings. The speech had the impact on Congress that Roosevelt had hoped for. The was a near unanimous vote to declare war on Japan. There was one person who didn’t want to go to war no matter what‚ because she was a pacifist. Roosevelt’s speech was from his emotions rather than just doing what he had to do. When we gave his speech‚ he transferred his emotions

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    On September 27‚ 2011 I attended a speech at the Auburn University Student Center in which Bill Rasmussen‚ the founder of ESPN‚ was speaking on his journey to making it big. The speech was an hour long and contained some strong points and some not so strong points as well. He adapted to the environment‚ which was all college students‚ by relating to us through common knowledge such as school‚ work‚ and most importantly Auburn football. He went in depth with each of his main points and was relevant

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    behind a desk‚ with hands clasped in front of him he began his speech. Known throughout the country as the man who took eighteen thousand dollars for personal gain he seemed nervous at first. Who would not be nervous standing up to entire country? As the speech progresses he becomes more confident. Looking less and less at his notes‚ unless it it to cite or bring up a fact‚ he gains confidence that carries him throughout the rest of the speech. Even though he is being filmed- it can be awkward just talking

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    Freedom of speech and blasphemy‚ the same but far from each other In this article‚ I am going to explain what Blasphemy is‚ and what freedom of speech is. First‚ I am going to give my reasons for why I decided to use this title. The reason is that they are both about the same thing‚ order. It is about policy‚ to “sustain” people from their free will‚ maybe in a way to control them too. Even so‚ they are still far from each other‚ I will later explain it. I am also going to explain what happened

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    The setting of the speech was at the Virginia Convention on March 23‚ 1775. The intended audience for this speech are the members attending this Convention and for members who Patrick wants to speak to. The purpose of this speech in my opinion is to inform others to not be afraid to fight for what they want‚ and in this case it is freedom. As his big quote states‚ “Give me liberty or give me death”‚ Patrick asks to fight for rights on liberties. After reading this speech the author‚ Patrick Henry

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    Ballot or The Bullet Is this the year of the Ballot or the Bullet? April 12th‚ 1964 Malcom X gave his famous Ballot or the Bullet speech. This speech took place in Cleveland‚ Ohio. Malcom X spoke in front of a large crowd who were very interactive along with amazed by what Mr. Malcom had to say. Malcom gave this speech to get his point across of Black Excellent. In this year‚ this was the year of election Malcom wants us as black people to start realizing that we are the ones who puts the leader

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    Malala’s speech critique The speech by Malala is very effective because of the fact that she has a very clear goal on the subject and because she uses ethos‚ pathos‚ and logos very often in the speech. This essay will show that Malala was a very effective speaker during her speech because she showed good speech techniques and because she was trying to inform the U.N about the issue at hand. Malala’s speech to the U.N had the purpose of informing the council about what was going on in the middle

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    Amy Cuddy creates a sense of ethos and authority on the topic through citing credible and relevant sources‚ discussing her credentials‚ and by making the speech easy to understand. At the beginning of her speech‚ Cuddy cites research from two well accredited sources. The first was Nalini Ambady‚ a researcher at Tufts University‚ and the second was Alex Todorov at Princeton. Not only does she tell the audience the people she has gotten the information from‚ but the institutions that they are a part

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    “The Checkers Speech” It was the midst of the 1952 presidential campaign when the New York Post’s newspaper story came out accusing Senator Richard Nixon of having a secret political fund. This accusation caused Nixon to face the reality of virtually being dropped as the presidential candidate of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s running mate. On September 23‚ 1952‚ Nixon sat down to address one of the largest television audiences in political history until Nixon’s 1960 debate with John F. Kennedy. While millions

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    whole again. Although‚ Aristophanes speech made a lot of sense and made me think‚ Socrates speech is the one that truly spoke to me. He talked about how love desires beauty‚ and the love is good. There is more meaning to love than just beauty. In the Symposium‚ Aristophanes makes an interesting speech about his view on love. He focuses on the mythical aspect of how love is among humans. He starts by explaining that many‚ many years

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