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    spoke at the Peace Memorial and the speech was also broadcasted worldwide. President Obama had a very humble tone throughout the speech that conveyed his respect for the people of Hiroshima. He expresses this when he says "We come to mourn the dead... Their souls speak to us. They ask us to look inward‚ to tkae stock of who we are and what we might become." He acknowledges the horrific event in the beggining paragraphs of the speech. Toward the body of the speech‚ the President moves more toward

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    I think Gutman is quite rational during his speech because the main body of his speech is reasoning and his emotional language is not heavy. He showed his humor several times to attract his audience in a moderate way. For example‚ he made a joke of American President Obama’s picture and finished it quickly to continue presenting other research results. The middle part of his speech is not quite relevant to his claim that smile can make people embrace a longer‚ happier and healthier life. In that

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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 future. King’s speech can be separated into three main parts‚ past‚ present‚ and future. In these sections King used the same three strategies over‚ to make the speech easy to follow and understand. King uses anaphora‚ repetition at the beginning of a sentence to emphasize the past aspect of his speech. He repeats “One hundred years later‚” to show how racial segregation is still as much of a problem as it was a hundred ago. In the fourth paragraph of his speech King reminds everyone

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    Georgi Romano Patrick Swayze was born August 18‚ 1952‚ in Houston‚ Texas. He was an actor‚ singer‚ and song writer. He was voted the most sexist man alive and is best known for playing the roles of the tough guys and the romantic leading man. Some of the famous films that he has played a role in are‚ Dirty Dancing‚ Ghost‚ and the T.V. mini-series North and South. The Swayze family was a Roman Catholic family‚ his father Jesse Wayne Swayze worked as an engineering draftsman and his mother Pasty

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    On august 28‚ 1963‚ a civil right activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his most famous speech called “I Have a Dream” during the march on Washington. In his speech‚ Dr. King used many literary elements in order to enhance his speech. He included allusion‚ metaphors‚ personification and tropes such as anaphora‚ alliteration and rhetoric question. Dr. Martin Luther King began his speech with a personifications and metaphors. The first personification he used to describe what it was like

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    woman who had attracted over 40‚000 women to her speech‚ as well as‚ sought to reach out to both men and women concerning the inequality of Islamic women along with other women around the world suffering the same fate. And because of her speech‚ women became determined to demand their rights; to secure better futures for their daughters and to put an end to prejudices that deny them their equal place amongst society. She hopes to with her speech‚ destroy the myth built by social taboos that a

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    Geneva Conventions By: Maksim S. Yelkin Course: American Foreign Policy Professor: Ronald J. Brown Semester: Fall 2011 Date: 12/03/11 Introduction Now we live in relatively peaceful time‚ but it wasn’t always like that. All those wars were bloody‚ sometimes even too bloody‚ so people needed to create some rules. So those rules were created. Four Conventions for One Purpose Not everybody knows that‚ but there were four treaties‚ not just one. And even then‚ they were modified later

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    Malala’s speech critique The speech by Malala is very effective because of the fact that she has a very clear goal on the subject and because she uses ethos‚ pathos‚ and logos very often in the speech. This essay will show that Malala was a very effective speaker during her speech because she showed good speech techniques and because she was trying to inform the U.N about the issue at hand. Malala’s speech to the U.N had the purpose of informing the council about what was going on in the middle

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    “The Checkers Speech” It was the midst of the 1952 presidential campaign when the New York Post’s newspaper story came out accusing Senator Richard Nixon of having a secret political fund. This accusation caused Nixon to face the reality of virtually being dropped as the presidential candidate of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s running mate. On September 23‚ 1952‚ Nixon sat down to address one of the largest television audiences in political history until Nixon’s 1960 debate with John F. Kennedy. While millions

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