father cry for the first time. I remember watching George Bush’s speech following the attacks with my family‚ but I was too young to truly understand it at the time. When I recently read and watched the speech‚ I was reminded just how powerful and emotional his speech actually was. Bush’s intended audience was not only the U.S. Congress and the American people‚ but also America’s allies and enemies. When Bush delivered his speech nine days after the attacks‚ the entire nation was furious and confused
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Robert Kennedy’s speech that addressed Martin Luther King Jr.’s death was successful delivering the tragic news because of his composure‚ thought‚ and other methods. On April 4‚ 1968‚ Robert Kennedy is to give a speech for his political rally in Indianapolis‚ Indiana. Before going on the stage‚ Robert Kennedy is given the news that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. Now he must inform and address the news to the audience of racially mixed political supporters. After informing the audience
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William Faulkner won the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature‚ for his acceptance speech he wanted to use his fame and the platform the award gave him to convey a to young writers listening with the same aspirations that was much needed in that time of 1949 during the threat of a nuclear war. This speech seems to take the form of a personal letter to young writers with historical context for clarification and to connect with them. Is tone is concerned and serious but caring and hopeful towards the end
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Madelein Albright‚ the United States Secretary of State‚ gave a commencement speech to the graduating class of Mount Holyoke College in 1997. With that being a women’s college in Massachusetts‚ Albright uses emotional appeal‚ examples‚ descriptions and metaphors to inspire and motivate the graduating class to continue achieving greatness‚ especially as women in society. To begin‚ Albright starts off her speech by appealing to the audience’s emotions. She does this by saying‚ “as individuals‚ each
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The way that he chooses those last public statements and how he delivers them suddenly become more important than anything he’s ever said in his life. Every nuance and inflection can make or break the last shred of character holding the thin fabric of dignity together. In the early 1970’s America was rocked with a scandal the likes of which hadn’t been seen since Andrew Jackson was impeached more than a century previous. A second term president who opened trade to China‚ ended the longest war
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what he is saying by the end of his speech. Gladwell‚ in the speech on school shootings is very convincing. There are three main devices he used in order to get his point across which is reasoning‚ emotion‚ and credibility. Here I will be explaining how he has come to use each device to win over the majority of his audience. Gladwell uses reasoning throughout his speech and does so very well to get his audience on a foundation of facts. One part of the speech he talks about is a person’s thresh
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Faulkner’s speech was short. He introduces his main point at the beginning of the second paragraph‚ “Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it.”.He was speaking in 1950. The Cold War between the United States and the U.S.S.R. had begun. Both sides were building more and more atomic weapons. The U.S.S. R. was building enormous long-range missiles to deliver the atomic warheads anywhere in America. The U.S. had short-range missiles
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Frederick Douglass’s speech highlights the inconsistencies in America’s ideas of freedom and equality by creating a contrast between America’s celebration of liberty and the brutal realities of slavery. Addressing a crowd in Rochester‚ New York‚ Frederick highlights the extreme hypocrisy in a nation holding pride in freedom while holding millions of its citizens in bondage‚ “The great paradox of celebrating liberty within the context of slavery in the United States”- (Bernard K. Duffy‚ Richard D
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was supposed to give great speeches with structure. Antony was a general so he was not as good at giving speeches but was good at pumping up his solders before battle. Which he used to his advantage when speaking to the mourning crowd. In Brutus’s speech‚ he begins by addressing the crowd as "Romans‚ countrymen‚ and lovers‚” demonstrating that he is one of them and that he values their role in the Roman community. This helps establish ethos (credibility)‚ and as Brutus continues by arguing that he
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In a speech given to try to persuade members of the Public Safety Committee of the Dutchess County Legislature in New York‚ Aaron Weiss makes a strong case to repeal the Safe Act. Mr. Weiss’s speech is primarily an argument to persuade‚ however‚ he uses arguments about the past to strengthen his case. In order to demonstrate what he believes is a horrible law‚ Mr. Weiss state "Anyone who is proud of this law must also be proud of the Patriot Act‚ the TSA‚ imprisoning Japanese citizens in WWII..
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