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    This Rhetorical analysis essay was very difficult for me to get started but once I did I made many changes before I came into class with my first draft. I started by making a web trying to get my ideas onto paper so that it would eventually make it easier to organize into a paper. I have a hard time with organization so I thought pulling quotes and basic ideas I wanted to bring up in this essay would make it flow a little better. I started out by using the Faigly book to and looking at the layout

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    Samberg’s Harvard commencement speech in 2012 and Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Pearl Harbor address in 1941 are seen as distinctly different. Looking very closely a few similarities stand out. Samberg used a comedic approach while Roosevelt used a logos appeal‚ using facts to inform congress. But bothe did not succeed at their jobs‚ neither really brought hope to the audience in order for them to move on. As a comedian Samberg took time to tell a lot of jokes making his commencement speech seem more like

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    Darwin and Wallace Contribution Evolution is referred to the process of change in the genetic make-up of a species over time. It’s used to explain the emergence of new species. Evolutionary theory holds that existing species of plants animals have over millions of years from simple organism. Although the theory of evolution is usually associated with Charles Darwin‚ idea that modern plants and animals could change was posited by a number of scholars prior to the mid 1800’s‚ but none of the earlier

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    William Wallace: the Man‚ the Myth‚ the Legend William Wallace is said to be Scotland ’s greatest hero. For this statement‚ their have been countless legends and myths written about him. Some of these have some fact to them‚ others do not. One fact that we do know is that he led the Scottish in their struggle to free themselves from England near the end of the Thirteenth century. Though William Wallace ’s life was not long compared to today ’s standards‚ living until 35‚ he led a life in which

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    Literatures and Foreign Languages Let Us Learn and Resource Together 23 November 2008 Rhetorical Analysis of “A More Perfect Union” Speech The speech titled “A More Perfect Union” was delivered by Senator Barack Obama on March 18‚ 2008 near the historical site of the signing of the U.S. Constitution in Philadelphia‚ Pennsylvania. The speech responds to the video clip of Barack Obama’s pastor‚ Reverend Jeremiah Wright‚ making racially charged comments against America and Israel. The pundits

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    Week 1 Assignment – Bias‚ Rhetorical Devices‚ and Argumentation The speech in which I choose to complete my review on was the “1992 Republican National Convention Address: A Whisper of AIDS” by May Fisher (1992) • What are some examples of bias‚ fallacies‚ and specific rhetorical devices in the speech you selected? For this question I would first like to address the question of fallacies as while the speech has to do with a serious topic‚ I found the tone of the speech to be using the scare tactic

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    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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    Rhetorical Analysis In President George W. Bush’s speech to the American public on September 20‚ 2001‚ Bush utilizes rhetorical devices to craft an effective speech. He uses an instructive and demanding tone‚ makes an appeal to Logos‚ and varied syntax. The strongest device of Bush’s speech is his decisive and instructive tone. Throughout the entire dialogue‚ Bush uses statements and facts to consolidate all of his various ideas and points into concise sentences that directly state what has happened

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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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    David Axelrod’s speech to the class and at Tilson Auditorium was inspirational. His story of getting involved into politics and how he rose through the ranks to get the first African American President elected was encouraging to all who want to get involved in politics. His success story started at the age of five when he found his passion. It started while sitting on top of a mailbox listening to John F. Kennedy speak in New York City‚ this caused Axelrod to become inspired. Jessie Berry‚ Axelrod

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