Inaugural Address by Thomas Jefferson: Evidence: Speaker: Thomas Jefferson “Called upon to undertake the duties of the first executive office of our country‚ I avail myself of the presence of that portion of my fellow-citizens” Occasion: Inauguration Speech “Friends and FELLOW CITIZENS” Audience: Common People “About to enter‚ fellow-citizens‚ on the exercise of duties which comprehend everything dear and valuable to you” Purpose: To inform citizens on what he will be establishing during his presidency
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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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Every four years America elects a new president to run our country‚ and in January of the next year the new president makes a speech to the American people. Each president takes office at a different time in the country‚ which requires a different type of speech for the American citizens. When John F. Kennedy took office in 1961‚ America had been dealing with the Cold War‚ the Space Race‚ and the Civil Rights Movement‚ so America needed a speech the would send hope and strength to themselves and
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Christina Dayton Engl 111-14N October 12‚ 2011 Rhetorical Analysis Midterm Essay Former President George W. Bush gave a powerful speech addressing the people of America after the horrific terrorist attacks on September 11‚ 2001 against the American government and its citizens. Bush used simple‚ yet authoritative‚ language to convey the message of firm leadership to listeners across the globe. The tone he used was one that brought feelings of wrath‚ fearfulness‚ and sympathy to his audience by
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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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In 1961 John F. Kennedy gives his inaugural speech to the desperate Americans. The American citizens are in need of hope‚ and need to believe this young president is the right man to lead their future. His inaugural speech gave Americans comfort‚ and hope that they needed at the time. Throughout his speech Kennedy uses emotion-arousing words‚ anaphora‚ antithesis‚ and rhetorical questions to encourage Americans to show their patriotism. In the beginning of Kennedy’s speech he uses antithesis. Kennedy
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In Roosevelt’s First Inaugural Address‚ he made many assertions that this Nation would be reconditioned. Roosevelt mentions how our constitutional system had had been through substandard situations‚ hence they would get through this calamity with great effort put forth by himself
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multiple times against Senator Douglas over slavery which put made him an important figure in national politics. In 1860 he gave The Copper Union Address where he urged fellow republicans not to conform to the southerners ways of thinking that slavery is right but "to stand by our duty‚ fearlessly and effectively." In 1865 he gave his second Inaugural Address in which he appealed to the states for peace and the war ended a month
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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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George W. Bush’s address to the nation occurred after one of the most devastating events in our country’s history. Failure to ease the hearts and minds of the American people was no option. People were relying on his guidance and leadership through this time. In his speech he talks about the things he will do as President to protect our country. This represents his appeal to ethos in the speech. His appeal to pathos in his speech comes from him comforting the emotional side of the American people
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