President Barack Obama uses a wide variety of techniques to make a successful victory speech. The main features that allowed this were his choices of language; rhetorical devices; his mode of delivery; paralinguistic & prosodic features; and his structure. Obama’s speech is full of carefully thought out language choices that all give a specific effect on the audience. For example‚ many times in the speech Obama repeats the first person pronoun ‘we’ which makes the audience feel included and
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another battlefield‚ the Cold War‚ which developed a rivalry and a sense of thread between two of the world powers. For the above reason‚ on January 20th‚ 1961‚ John F. Kennedy delivered in his inaugural address a sense of self-independence‚ security‚ and patriotism using rhetorical devices and rhetorical appeals to eradicate the results and effects of the Cold War. Historical Background The Cold War resulted after the end of WWII‚ when two superpowers‚ the United States and the Soviet Union‚ began
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John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address Inauguration is a formal ceremony that represents the start of a leader’s term in office. Here in the United States‚ it is tradition that elected presidents give a speech. President John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address was debatably one of the most memorable and quoted speeches ever given. The American people viewed John F. Kennedy as immature and cynical due to his selection at such a young age‚ doubting his optimism. Therefore‚ Kennedy was obligated to impress
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Donald Trump’s speech on a positive note did thank President Obama and the first lady for helping him with the transition. Then Trump started tapping into his core supporter‚ going over how only a few has reaped the rewards of government while the masses pickup the cost. Also‚ he attacked the Politicians by stating they prospered‚ “but the jobs left.” Moreover‚ Trump’s inaugural speech was similar to his campaign when he was running against Hilary Clinton. He echoes the words “make America great
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On January 20‚ 1961‚ the world turned on their television to see how the newly elected American President‚ J. F. Kennedy‚ would address the issues of proliferating weapons and the propagating “iron tyranny” (7). Kennedy delivers a speech that aims to ameliorate their many fears and also establish himself as a capable president –one that would take a strong stance for democracy in a war against communism. By employing well-crafted syntax‚ specific diction‚ and explicit tone‚ Kennedy is able to eloquently
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In this speech in which president kennedy denounces WC Steel Corporations for the increased price for which they sell steel‚ Kennedy repeatedly appeals to ethos. We can see how Kennedy first uses ethos in the second paragraph of his speech. Kennedy begins by separating himself‚ a well known graduate from an ivy league school‚ from any steel companies which we would believe him to have social affiliations with. In doing so Kennedy builds a sense of trust in which now anything that he says during his
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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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Inaugural addresses have been a ritual in American history that included the transition of power from one leadership to another. It has been embedded in American civil religion and allowed for the incoming president to address the status of the nation. The term civil religion was first coined by Robert N. Bellah‚ who believed that the American politics follows rituals and ideals that are similar to that of a private religion. During Obama’s first inaugural address in 2009‚ he was able to use civil
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Kampf”‚ which outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany. On February 1‚ 1933‚ Hitler presented his speech “Appeal to the German People” as the new Chancellor of Germany. In this speech‚ Hitler intended to grasp the attention of the hopeless German citizens and offer them an optimistic solution for the future. Additionally‚ by calling upon the “Almighty God” in his speech‚ Hitler
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the tragedy that happened on July 18‚ 1969 on Chappaquiddick Island‚ that resulted in the death of a young woman named Mary Jo Kopechne. Mary Jo was a secretary of the late Robert Kennedy and was still working with the Kennedy family. He begins his speech to communicate that he has “entered a plea of guilty to the charge of leaving the scene of an accident.” (paragraph 1‚ line 2-3) This confession of the proceedings he has gone through is an example of Bitzer theory on exigence based on the fact that
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