Abraham Lincoln ’s Second Inaugural Address As I read the lines carefully of Lincoln ’s Second Inaugural Address‚ I wonder how a man who is elected for his second term as president with over 54% of the popular vote‚ and in turn‚ compose such an eloquent address can be assassinated little more than a month later. In reading other commentaries concerning this address it seems to me that everyone concurs that this address is one of the finest speeches ever written by a president. Lincoln wrote other
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President François Hollande was elected the new president of France on May 6‚ 2012. He gave his inauguration speech in Paris on May 15‚ 2012‚ and expressed his deep gratitude to the French people for investing him into the highest office. He presented his political vision in a message of confidence‚ as a metaphor for trust‚ to uphold the nation’s state of affairs‚ and stated: A brief review of France’s history will help us to understand President Hollande’s speech in its rightful political context
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As prices grew higher in the steel industry‚ former President JFK worried about them being too high and possibly affecting many of the American people. Not only would it make matters worse at home. but also overseas. With a war going on it would also affect the material needed to supply the troops. Wanting a lower price for steel‚ John F. Kennedy uses pathos‚ logos‚ and repetition to let the executives know that change is needed to help the economy. In the second paragraph John F. Kennedy appeals
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President Lincoln addresses the countrymen of the United States in his second inaugural address to discuss the closing efforts of the civil war and how the war should not go in vain‚ but that it should benefit the country and preserve the nation’s democracy amongst all the nation’s people. In his address he uses biblical references and literary devices to tell how he would ike the effects of the war to be progressive and not without reason‚ In lincoln’s opening paragraph he sets the tone for the
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John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Essay In his inaugural address‚ John Fitzgerald Kennedy uses antimetable‚ alliteration‚ and allusion to promote unity and motivate Americans to get involved in their country’s progress and success. John F. Kennedy uses antimetable by quoting “ask not what your country can do for you- ask what you can do for your country.” His goal for quoting that was to make the people of the United States realize that they would have to work together. If there were problems
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Two very different presidents ‚as of the not yet moth Trumps been in office‚ have some considerably similar (and yet incomparably different due to their backgrounds‚ race‚ religion‚ etc) inaugural addresses. Obama had done some pretty newsworthy things while he was in office. He (the military under his head as commander and chief) killed the leader of the infamous terrorist group al qaeda Osama bin laden‚ put into place the healthcare system that cared for many‚ and legalised same sex marriage‚ and
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1863. The Emancipation Proclamation declared freedom for all slaves with the Confederacy. President Lincoln warned the South in his Inaugural Address: "In your hands‚ my dissatisfied fellow countrymen‚ and not in mine‚ is the momentous issue of civil war. The government‚ while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve‚ protect and defend it." In Lincoln’s address he was warning the South of the changes to slavery that were about to occur. President Lincoln was not a well known politician
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president. Reagan was faced with a task comparable to Franklin Roosevelt and his inaugural address needed to reestablish confidence in the American economy. As well as the economic crisis‚ Reagan was handed a continuing crisis in the Middle East. This crisis not only included a hostage situation at the United States embassy in Iran but also growing tensions between Iraq and Iran. It was Ronald Reagan’s first inaugural address that would cover these issues and give the American people the confidence they
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The term inaugural describe a speech given by a newly elected president. Most inaugural speeches give a tone set for the next four years of the presidency. These speeches motivate and inspire the citizens. Most of the time‚ the president gives the speech to set a tone based on the current issues and struggles of the country. President Roosevelt and President Kennedy address fear in their speeches in similar and different ways. Both Presidents discuss the fear of citizens and consequences faced by
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nation to accept expansion of federal power. Roosevelt recognized that the programs he was about to introduce for congressional legislative action to relieve the dire effects of the Great Depression were unprecedented in peacetime. In his 1933 inaugural address Roosevelt stated: "Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement without loss of essential form. That is why our constitutional system has proved itself
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