On January 20‚ 2009‚ President Obama was officially elected and sworn in as the forty-fourth president of the United States of America. The tradition of being elected requires the president to give a speech about the goals they want to reach during their presidency. The president must make a speech that‚ appeals to the audience while being professional. Obama uses rhetoric to achieve presenting his message of creating hope and change together in America while fixing the economic and social challenges
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Rhetorical Devices of JFK If a writer wanted to appeal to the audience‚ what would he have to do? He is going to have to utilize some rhetorical devices of course! Rhetorical devices are key in writing persuasion papers and just any paper that is meant to be read to an audience. In the Inauguration Speech of 1961 given by President John F. Kennedy‚ he was able to really connect with his audience that day by using lots of different rhetorical devices. By using chiasmus‚ anaphoras‚ and metaphors
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Friends and Fellow Citizens:-- Called upon to undertake the duties of the first executive office of our country‚ I avail myself of the presence of that portion of my fellow citizens which is here assembled‚ to express my grateful thanks for the favor with which they have been pleased to look toward me‚ to declare a sincere consciousness that the task is above my talents‚ and that I approach it with those anxious and awful presentiments which the greatness of the charge and the weakness of my powers
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Rough Draft In 1918‚ the first world war comes to an end as Woodrow Wilson‚ the 28th president of the United States‚ announces his 14 points that will reform the government and the way it treats other countries. Wilson establishes that the United States will stay peaceful and help other countries to a high extent‚ which makes them a dependable ally. With his 14 points‚ Wilson is creating an even playing ground for the United States in order to stay neutral‚ with no potential conflicts. Wilson’s points
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Katherine Pham English III B period Dr. Barnette February 17‚ 2015 Second Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln Issue: There is less of an occasion for an extended address than there was at the First Inaugural Address. Support: Lincoln uses rhetoric to establish ethos throughout his speech. He states in the first sentence that this is his second term as President … that he has established his credibility … and that he has survived four years of Civil War. Lincoln also states‚ “Now‚ at the
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Strayer University 2012 ‘Reagan Revolution through President Obama” Prof. Jahangir Salehi Alesia Cleveland maitland campus Introduction Will the Obama Revolution advance America’s interest Washington‚ March 1‚ 2012-Thomas Jefferson once observed‚ “Every generation disserves a new revolution.” Depleted in war and facing economic collapse‚ America embraced Barrack Obama as a vanguard of the revolutionary hope in 2008. Where candidate Obama had a thin substantive record to assert the claim
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Professor J. Cunningham Ch. 19: How was sharecropping similar to being forced to be a slave? How was it different? | | | | |
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In the early 1980’s the United States was still dealing with the repercussions of the Cold War. At this time‚ the Soviet Union was considered the United States’ most dangerous enemy and the public feared nuclear attack by the Soviets. Specific incidents such as the Soviet interference in the Middle East‚ specifically in Afghanistan‚ frustrated the United States because it affected oil supplies. Consequently‚ President Ronald Reagan took action in response to the aggressive behavior of the Soviets
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and not understand. But when listening to it you understand and the speaker and see the main point of their speech. In the “New Hampshire Primary 2008 ” speech by Barack Obama he tries to give hope to the nation after losing the primary to Hillary Clinton. When he delivered this speech and the reader listened to it he really saw how Obama felt but when he read it it did not matter because it was how he read it. Reading a speech is different than listening to the speaker give the speech because when
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On March 4‚ 1865‚ Abraham Lincoln delivered his Second Inaugural Address. The man known as “Honest Abe” was the sixteenth president of the United States of America who was an abolitionist of the Republican party. About forty-thousand people were present at the U.S. Capitol to witness Abe’s speech after his reelection. Now‚ President Lincoln’s first inauguration was the last straw for South Carolina‚ as they seceded from the U.S. with others to follow. But now about four years later Abraham Lincoln’s
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