speeches even though the speeches were made for different reasons. Pericles’s speech eulogized the Athenian soldiers who died in the war against Sparta in 431 B.C.E. and comforted their families. Whereas‚ Obama’s speech was written to address the state of the union and inform the citizens of the United States of tasks ahead to help improve the nation. Both speeches however‚ are still highly respected by many people today. Both Obama and Pericles speak of civic duty in their speeches. Pericles speaks about
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The first essay that I had read was a speech written by Sojourner Truth about women rights. Her intention of writing this was to tell others and encourage them that women can do all things that men can do. She has done everything that a man has done so what makes her less of a person? She was trying to accomplish everyone to be on her side and encourage them to stand with her. This speech was written 1851 at the Women’s Rights Convention in Akron Ohio. This speech was very powerful to rebuke many antifeminists
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In Obama’s speech‚ he uses many inclusive pronouns such as ‘we’ and ‘our’. This shows that they are all the same; by doing this it creates a sense of unity among the audience. This is effective because it gets the audience on his side; if he used exclusive pronouns such as ‘you’‚ it would make the audience feel less united. He also says ‘America can change’‚ by doing this he personifies and metonymies ‘America’. This is effective as it makes the people think about what he means by ‘America’ in that
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INTRODUCTION The present document represents the discourse analysis of the former U.S. President Obama’s speech in Tokyo‚ Japan. The speech was held on November 2009‚ during his first official visit as new U.S. president. According to our analysis‚ Obama’s speech stands as a commendation of the 50 years-long U.S. and Japan partnership in the context of global dominance as well as‚ more specifically‚ the control of the Pacific area. In order to support this conclusion‚ our team will investigate three
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energy was linked to military purpose. The Atoms for Peace speech from Eisenhower in 1953 helped to change this point of view. In his speech he persuaded the world increase the researches within the nuclear power field with the focus on the energy possibilities‚ and start to decrease the potential destructive nuclear weapons. He shifted the focus from nuclear energy from war and fear to an open and peaceful way of generating energy (Atoms for Peace). The Dutch government already saw nuclear energy as
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Deval Patrick’s Acceptance Speech 1. Paragraph 1: “Today‚ November 7‚ 2006‚ the people of Massachusetts chose by a decisive margin to take their government back.” Paragraph 2: “This was a victory for hope.” Paragraph 3: - “by coming to you‚ where you live and work‚ by listening to you‚ by showing that we could disagree with each other without being disagreeable‚ by asking you to put your cynicism down‚ by refusing to build myself up by tearing anybody else down‚ by challenging you to see your
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President Obama took the stage in front of the National Archives in Washington‚ D.C a couple of months ago on December 15‚ 2015. In front of men and women from 25 different countries that had just become new citizens of America‚ President Obama deliver a passionate speech on how immigrants and refugees are at the heart of revitalize and renew America. With so much attention on the concept of immigration in this election year‚ the speech spoke to more than the attenders of this event. It was speaking
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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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Name: Eulade Hagenimana Date: 04/03/2017 Class: COMM101 Informative Speech Rough draft How Barack Obama became President Introduction: Without getting into too much about the background of former president Obama‚ am going to start with a quick bio of Obama. Obama started off as a community organizer in the south side of chicago where he went Obama was not. In this speech‚ I’ll talk in summary about Barack Obama’s road to the presidency. in 1997 he was elected as an Illinois state senator‚ and
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compare and contrast the speeches of Barack Obama (‘Yes we can’) and Martin Luther King (I have a dream). When we talk about ’language’‚ sometimes we mean speech (spoken language)‚ sometimes writing (written language).Do you think is there any difference between spoken language and written language? Of course‚ speech is spoken and heard‚ while writing is written and read. There are many types of spoken languages such as news report‚ interview‚ speech‚ debates and conversations. In the spoken word
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