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    During the 19th century‚ miners were exploited and exposed to inhumane working hours in their early teenage years. Florence Kelley delivered a speech focusing on the concerns of how child labor is portrayed as a type of abuse. Throughout her speech she used descriptive complex sentences‚ rhetorical devices and a passionate tone. “For Alabama limits the children’s work at night to eight hours‚ while New Jersey permits it all night long.” With this statement she compared how the states are permitting

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    In his address to Ronald Reagan‚ Elie Wiesel attempts to convince the president not to visit the Bitburg cemetery. Weisel is well aware of President Reagan’s situation‚ and thus‚ he crafts his speech around rhetorical techniques‚ namely Concession Refutation‚ Repetition‚ and the Appeals. Throughout the speech‚ Elie Wiesel makes clear his appreciation for Israel‚ America‚ and President Reagan: “We are grateful to this country‚ the greatest democracy in the world‚ the freest nation in the world‚ the

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    This is because of his evident hatred‚ and mistrust of the former rebel states‚ we know this is how he feels because he states in his speech to Congress in which he says “I am for negro suffrage in every rebel State. If it be just‚ it should not be denied; if it be necessary‚ it should be adopted; if it be a punishment to traitors‚ they deserve it” (Weise‚ et al. Pg. 99). Also‚ he states

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    became integrated. Racism was a huge problem in Alexandria‚ Virginia‚ consequently‚ this lead to complicated times trying to bring the team together. In an effort to bond the team‚ Coach Boone took them to Gettysburg. This is where he delivered the speech I have chosen to analyze. Point one: Upon arrival he stated‚ “This is where they fought the Battle of Gettysburg. Fifty thousand men died right here on this field‚ fightin’ the same fight that we’re still

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    all. At the UN’s General Assembly meeting in New York of December‚ 1953 he gave his famous “Atoms for Peace” speech. Just eight years prior the U.S. dropped two atomic bombs in Nagasaki and Hiroshima‚ Japan. This gave lots of international leaders and civilians the belief that if you got on the bad side of the U.S. that they would just nuke you. Eisenhower wasted to convey

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    Henry’s “Speech to the Second Virginia Convention” and Smith’s “Declaration of Conscience” were given for a single purpose. Henry and Smith both saw the need for unity‚ but their speeches had both similarities and differences. Their style of writing‚ want for interconnection‚ and why they wanted the country to come together are some of the main points of the speeches. Patrick Henry and Margaret Smith had a comparable style or approach to their speeches. Henry states in his speech “Mr. President:

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    Throughout his speech in which he condemned companies for raising steel prices‚ Kennedy repeatedly appeals to a sense of communal sacrifice and collective responsibility in order to rally his everyman audience around this ostensible cause for outrage. From the beginning‚ Kennedy‚ a millionaire Harvard graduate‚ includes himself in the aggrieved camp of everyday Americans by using the first person “we”. The list of sacrifices being made by the “185 million Americans” are thus shared by him as well

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    impromptu. Not only that but they have to be organized. They need to be responsible and plan ahead for their speech; a speech just doesn’t make itself up the day before. Speakers also have to demonstrate writing skills. They’ll need to do extensive research in not only their topic

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    Growing up in an Irish Catholic family who voted republican‚ Peggy Noonan switched her alliance to the republican party. Just like many young conservatives around her age did‚ in which was considered a new era in which began with Ronald Regan being elected president. AS a student in college Peggy had different views when it came to the war in Vietnam‚ even as the editor of the undergraduate newspaper the war didn’t affect her personally. Peggy remembered becoming a conservative after riding a

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    much of what John Gatto argues in his teacher of the year speech‚ I don’t fully endorse his point about homeschooling being the answer to our problems. I agree with John Grotto when he says “it is absurd and anti-life to move from cell to cell as the sound of a gong for

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