Stylistic Analysis of Obama’s Inaugural Speech Abstract Higher level English learners always pay attention to English public speech‚ especially those inaugural speeches. They take them as fine literary efforts and good analysis material. This paper tries to give an analysis of Obama’s inaugural speech from stylistic perspective‚ in order to help to better appreciate Obama’s presentation skills. Keywords: stylistics‚ syntactic‚ lexics‚ rhetoric Barack Hussein Obama was elected to be the forty-fourth
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JFK “Moon” Speech Rhetorical Analysis Rough Draft Precedent John Fitzgerald Kennedy also known as JFK gave a speech during the cold war‚ and the race to space. Saying that we need to go to space not to use as a weapon but as a source of knowledge and explaining why we need to. He believes that most of his audience is skeptical and dost want to go to space. To convince the laudians that we need to go to space he passes himself off as a visionist saying that this is going to be the most important thing
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African American as they weren’t human was absurd‚ and equality would help the world to be a better place for every human being. In‚ John F. Kennedy’s speech he says‚ “This nation was founded by men on the principle that all men are created equal‚ and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.” (JFK speech‚ address on civil rights‚ June 11‚ 1963‚ paragraph 3) It is not fair that we as a person come into this world the same way‚ and to be treated so differently
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A Speech of Passion and a New Beginning of Peace: John F. Kennedy “Inaugural Address Speech” On January 20‚ 1961 John F. Kennedy made an outstanding speech after being sworn in office. John F. Kennedy is the second youngest president after Theodore Roosevelt who was elect as president in 1961 and had made one of the greatest speeches that have been caught and seen by many nations. This fourteen minute speech of President John F. Kennedy has given a powerful appealed on Logos‚ Ethos‚ and Pathos
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Throughout his speech in which he condemned companies for raising steel prices‚ Kennedy repeatedly appeals to a sense of communal sacrifice and collective responsibility in order to rally his everyman audience around this ostensible cause for outrage. From the beginning‚ Kennedy‚ a millionaire Harvard graduate‚ includes himself in the aggrieved camp of everyday Americans by using the first person “we”. The list of sacrifices being made by the “185 million Americans” are thus shared by him as well
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JFK was born on May 29th‚ 1917 in Brookline‚ MA. He was the son of son of Rose Kennedy and Joseph Kennedy who were one of America’s wealthiest and politically connected families. Furthermore‚ JFK had eight other siblings and he and other relatives relished a privilege childhood. As a young man‚ many admired him for his personality. Nonetheless‚ Kennedy
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the tragedy that happened on July 18‚ 1969 on Chappaquiddick Island‚ that resulted in the death of a young woman named Mary Jo Kopechne. Mary Jo was a secretary of the late Robert Kennedy and was still working with the Kennedy family. He begins his speech to communicate that he has “entered a plea of guilty to the charge of leaving the scene of an accident.” (paragraph 1‚ line 2-3) This confession of the proceedings he has gone through is an example of Bitzer theory on exigence based on the fact that
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presidential inaugural address is a very important speech with worldwide influence and long-lasting significance. It is delivered by the newly elected president on the inauguration day. The presidential inaugural address is a time for the president to set forth his vision for the country. Many great speeches have been delivered through the years and they attracted the attention of many political scientists‚ historians and many linguists as well. However the study of presidential inaugural address is
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“Forgive your enemies‚ but never forget their names.” This was one of the many quotes that former president John Fitzgerald Kennedy‚ otherwise known as JFK‚ said before he was assassinated. John was a husband‚ father‚ brother‚ president and a leader to America. Many were affected and left questioned after his death. In general‚ there was many reasons as to why Kennedy was in Texas. He was there for the 1964 presidential election campaign. Kennedy was to be in Texas for 3 days‚ November 21-23 1963
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uses a method of Aristotle’s persuasive speech making. One of the greatest examples of using rhetorical strategies is indeed John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address of 1961. John F. Kennedy uses diction‚ syntax‚ and Aristotle’s method of persuasion in his inaugural address that not only made it uniquely his own‚ but made it undoubtedly one of the best‚ emotion tugging‚ speeches ever. It was a very cold‚ icy January day when John F. Kennedy made his inaugural address. He was the youngest president to
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