First lady and lawyer‚ Michelle Obama‚ in her 2016 DNC speech‚ recounts her children’s unique life in the spotlight while growing up in the White House. Obama’s purpose is to endorse Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Presidential Election. She adopts a sentimental tone in order to appeal to the audience as a concerned parent. Obama opens her speech by conveying a reminiscing sense of parenthood. She describes‚ “… I saw their little faces pressed up against the window‚ and the only thing I could think
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AIDS activist‚ Mary Fisher‚ gave a thirteen minute speech that is now among one of the Top 100 American Speeches. Fisher relies on the use of the rhetorical aspects of ethos‚ pathos‚ and logos to speak about the importance of raising awareness in order to find a cure for HIV/AIDS. She shoots down stereotypes by saying that no one is safe from contracting HIV and calls for compassion when treating patients with HIV or AIDS. In her infamous speech Fisher says‚ “ if you believe you are safe‚ you are
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confident‚ and come to the conclusion that she does not need a man to justify her life. She also realizes that passion fuels the ability to become successful. This speech is very effective because of the rhetorical appeals of ethos‚ logos‚ and pathos used throughout. This scene is replete with ethos to the audience she is performing the speech to‚ because they are her fellow students who have watched her grow into a bright‚ respected‚ mature lawyer. Ethos simply means the appeal to the speaker’s own
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I argue that Donald Trump’s immigration rally speech in Phoenix relates to the topic of using strategic racism by insisting fear about how horrible the immigrants are into the American people so that they will vote for Trump‚ who promised to stop them. Ultimately‚ Trump’s speech shows that racial rhetoric works by describing immigrants from the borders as dangerous to United States citizens‚ which makes white people want to give him the political power so he can build a wall to keep these dangerous
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1963‚ Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech that electrified a nation. In Washington D.C‚ King delivered his speech on the steps of the Lincoln memorial and as his powerful voice echoed out across an audience of 200‚000 people‚ echoes of the Gettysburg address could be heard as well as the Declaration of Independence and the Bible. It has been called “masterfully delivered and improvised sermon‚ bursting with biblical language and imagery.”The passionate speech is filled with rhetorical devices that
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One device Obama uses more effectively in his speech is pathos‚ which appeals to a person’s emotion. During Obama’s speech‚ “We Can Do Better‚” he tries to persuade citizens to unite and agree that the United States needs stricter gun safety laws. Obama starts his speech by discussing each victim of the tragic shooting in Tucson‚ Arizona. He goes into detail about each of their lives and how it ended. By sharing these details‚ Obama allows the audience to see each victim as a real person by giving
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In the speech Cori Bush presents to the people for being elected as the United States Congresswoman‚ she used direct diction to express her emotional connection to the audience to reassure the people that she is for and with them due to her personal life experiences that allied with the ones of the people she is speaking too.Her tone reflects a deep compassion for serving the people and fulfilling the leadership role they need and giving them a sense of hope. In her campaign speech‚ Bush’s use of
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Reaction Paper on the State of the Nation Address of President Benigno Aquino III: “Equal Opportunities” It is President Noynoy’s 4th SONA. Seems to me that it had already been 3 years and counting when his Excellency have been elected as the President of the Republic of the Philippines and I can see as he presented his SONA that all this time‚ he was really working himself out for our country. Many people have been all ears for President Noynoy’s SONA- some maybe to see the progress of the
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William Faulkner won the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature‚ for his acceptance speech he wanted to use his fame and the platform the award gave him to convey a to young writers listening with the same aspirations that was much needed in that time of 1949 during the threat of a nuclear war. This speech seems to take the form of a personal letter to young writers with historical context for clarification and to connect with them. Is tone is concerned and serious but caring and hopeful towards the end
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History is filled with stories of world changing triumphs and unlikely victories. But entangled with these tales of success is tragedy and loss. As humans push themselves to explore and discover more of what is out there‚ mistakes and disasters are inevitable. Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic‚ changed the views of women as aviators forever‚ and won many awards‚ as well as the recognition of the public eye. She set several other aviation records‚ only to tragically
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