speeches even though the speeches were made for different reasons. Pericles’s speech eulogized the Athenian soldiers who died in the war against Sparta in 431 B.C.E. and comforted their families. Whereas‚ Obama’s speech was written to address the state of the union and inform the citizens of the United States of tasks ahead to help improve the nation. Both speeches however‚ are still highly respected by many people today. Both Obama and Pericles speak of civic duty in their speeches. Pericles speaks about
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audiences. The message that was presented to the listeners of the famous speech was presented in a rhetorical manner in which it associated with the people and has lasted through time. Steve jobs is successful even though he is not a college graduate‚ and has an unstable beginning to his life. He uses background to play upon his rhetorical strategies in his Stanford commencement address. With his knowledge of his audience‚ Steve Jobs creatively tells three stories that are filled with ethos that build
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Sydney Graham 10/13/14 Hess/7 Textual Analysis Yes He Can! In 2008‚ Barack Obama was elected into office and became the 44th President of the United States. Obama’s victory speech‚ “Election Night Remarks”‚ was heartfelt and genuine‚ soaking in determination to change the “immaturity and pettiness that poisoned our politics for so long” (680). He argues that America‚ as a people‚ can remake the nation. Obama strategically starts off the speech by appealing to ethos. He shares with us the grueling
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action. In his speech addressed at the 50th anniversary of Selma march‚ President Barack Obama uses rhetoric to persuade his audience‚ Americans as a whole‚ to discourage racism in the United States. President Obama appeals to the rhetorical strategies‚ uses rhetorical devices‚ and applies a presentation style; which make his speech effective in terms of rhetoric. President Obama appeals to ethos‚ pathos‚ and logos to get his message about racism across to his audience. Throughout his speech‚ the President
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In his speech‚ “Responsibly ending the war in Iraq”‚ President Obama uses a lot of euphemisms to sound politically correct‚ to minimize the impact of the war in Iraq and to justify the continued presence of the US military in Iraq. This essay includes a rebuttal of these euphemisms and shows how the euphemisms used downplay certain situations arising from the war‚ and how they are used to justify the continued occupation of Iraq. Euphemisms used in the speech. The euphemisms used by Obama are mainly
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First Analysis - Obama’s 2004 DNC Cpeech This is the first entry in this site looking at great speeches in history‚ in movies‚ in business – wherever they can be found. Suggest some speeches‚ and if they’re great I’ll analyse them. The purpose of this blog is to try and give you some insight into why speeches work and how you can craft a speech that will win the argument‚ win the business‚ or maybe even win the heart of a loved one. In each case I’ll give some history to place the speech into context
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Steve Jobs’ stories create a persona for himself. He makes himself out to be an individual who carries on even in the tenebrous of times and who has overcome numerous snags when things didn’t look great. He is trying to tell the audience that failure can at times be great; these are paramount bits of his persona to create. He is known as a very successful man. Creating this persona permits him to unite with audience considerably more. Even though he is a famous person‚ he tried to make himself appear
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The aim of this paper is to examine the strategies of President Barack Obama‚ and its ideological component‚ also why Barack Obama use exact words and how strong is the influence. The topic has been studied before by Juraj Horvath (2010)‚Jana Langrova(2010) and Junling Wang(2010).Therefore‚ the goal of the conducted research paper is to find out which of the political are used more often in the speech of Barack Obama‚ and what does it mean. The enabling objectives to get the research goal are
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Analysis of Obama’s victory speech Obama’s victory speech is a speech that the democrat Barack Obama held in his hometown Chicago‚ after being elected for president on November 4th‚ 2012. Chicago is where he in 2008 won his first presidential election. When taking a starting point in the pentagon model‚ we know that a text (in this case a speech) is always centered around an intention of the writer/speaker and is always dependent on the interrelationship between the topic‚ the writer‚ the reader/audience
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UNFCCC or FCCC is an international environmental treaty negotiated at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED)‚ informally known as the Earth Summit‚ held in Rio de Janeiro from 3 to 14 June 1992. The objective of the treaty is to "stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system". As of 2013‚ the UNFCC has 195 parties including all United Nations member states
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