against Britain. At one of the meetings‚ Patrick Henry‚ an attorney and politician‚ gave a speech explaining his position on why the colonies should go to war. In his speech‚ Henry successfully applied the rhetorical strategies of metaphor‚ imagery‚ and repetition to convey his argument that a war against Britain was the only right course of action. At the Virginia Convention‚ Henry implemented various rhetorical strategies to convince the colonies to declare war on Britain. He stated that it was natural
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writer Toni Cade Bambara in the late 1970’s. Sylvia‚ the narrator of the story is a young African-American female who receives a lesson in class inequality. The setting story of begin the slums of Harlem‚ New York and is dated as “back in the days” which is described in the opening of the story. Throughout the story Sylvia‚ realizes its world outside of her neighborhood‚ not as similar has she once thought. I chose the article‚ “Sylvia and The Struggle against Class Consciousness in Toni Cade Bambara’s
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would not be known to the world as the defining speaker of the March on Washington 50 years ago. I Have A Dream‚ his speech about injustice and hardship was delivered to inspire change in both‚ black and white citizens of the United States during the Civil Rights era‚ and to this day his speech is an important part of American history. On August 28th 2013‚ Barack Obama held a speech to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the great March on Washington‚ which reached a climax in one of the greatest
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The attack on Pearl Harbor is on the relatively short list of atrocities committed on the U.S. or organized incorporated U.S. territories‚ along with other tragedies such as the September 11th attacks. Considering these hardships do not occur very frequently in America‚ the natural reaction of the citizens is extreme‚ leaving political leaders and powerful figures to calm the chaos. The 32nd U.S. President‚ Franklin Delano Roosevelt executed this task on December 8th‚ 1941. He gave his “Pearl Harbor
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of apartheid. His speeches in the past had influenced the hearts of millions of fellow South Africans‚ but today his speech would signify a new era and a new page in the history of South Africa. Every word and sentence were carefully chosen in order to serve a specific purpose and address different audiences both within South Africa and the rest of the world. The purpose of his speech was not simply to address the nation as its new president and offer gratitude to those who put him there;
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the people‚ in order to form a more perfect union”1 - On March the 18th 2008 Barack Obama opened his speech on race‚ in Philadelphia‚ with this sentence. From the open sentence you can see that this speech isn’t any speech‚ perform by any orator. It’s a speech with a main message‚ performed for the people‚ to creates a brighter future for all the American people and to change history. Obama’s speech on race was a part of his campaign while he was running for the presidential election in 2009. He speaks
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people to join in his efforts and unify together in order to achieve peace. The inaugural address is saturated with rhetorical strategies seeking to flatter the American People and utilizes words of encouragement to evoke unification. Kennedy was able to effectively establish a profound kairotic moment at which his discourse can make the most difference or have the most influence. The speech persuades the American people by providing motivating propositions through appeals to ethos‚ logos and pathos.
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Edward Snowden’s speech about the NSA and its deceitful practices was more effective in persuading the audience than Barrack Obama’s speech defending the NSA. This is due to Snowden‘s speech having a greater appeal to the viewer’s sense of logos‚ ethos in comparison to Obama’s speech. Snowden’s speech is more persuasive then Obama’s speech in terms of logos because of the flawed reasoning behind Obama’s central messages. Obama’s tries to convey that the American people should “focusing on facts and
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Analysis of Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Had a Dream Speech” On August 28‚ 1963‚ Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his most widely known speech promoting the end of segregation and the equality of African Americans in Washington‚ D.C. in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Commonly known as his “I Have a Dream Speech‚” it was the first of his speeches to be broadcasted on television for all of the United States to watch in their own living rooms. This expanded the beginning audience of an estimated
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Alfred Green In his speech‚ Alfred M. Green helped to unite the Union by using various rhetorical devices to help express his three arguments about why African Americans should be allowed to enlist in the Union army. In these arguments‚ Green points out that dwelling on the discrepancies and mistakes of the leaders of the past is not going to help the black community in the future and that they must fight to improve their status in society. Green also comments that African Americans should try to
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