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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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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President Obama aimed to unite the American public in the fight against terrorism in his speech following the death of Osama bin Laden through his use of diction and pathos. Obama’s use of diction that included himself under the umbrella of the American public conveyed a sense of an all-inclusive and united America. President Obama consistently says “our” and “we” throughout his speech while referring to America. For example‚ he writes “we reaffirmed our ties to each other‚ and our love of community
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Cold War was near its pinnacle; the American people longed for a strong‚ reassuring leader. John F. Kennedy provided that reassurance in his Inaugural Address. Taking the current national and international turmoil into account‚ Kennedy sought to persuade the Nation’s people to join in his efforts and unify together in order to achieve peace. The inaugural address is saturated with rhetorical strategies seeking to flatter the American People and utilizes words of encouragement to evoke unification
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For example in the speech Address on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Statue of Liberty Roosevelt states‚ “If we keep the faith for our day as those who came before us kept the faith for theirs‚ then you and I can smile with confidence into the future. It is fitting therefore‚ that this should be a service of rededication‚ rededication to the liberty and the peace which this statue symbolizes”(Roosevelt 13). This part in Roosevelt’s speech defines an American because Roosevelt
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In the two speeches‚ “I have a dream” by Martin Luther King Jr. and the Ferguson speech by President Obama‚ both use similar techniques in their speeches. Both of these people are serious advocates from there problem and express their opinions greatly. Throughout these speeches both leaders express examples of Ethos‚ Pathos and Logos while including tone‚ parallel structure and repetition‚ yet they sometimes the ways they express it can be different. Both of these leaders use a form of ethos‚ the
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EIN 3354 –Principles of Cost Engineering Fall 2011 Professor: Mark Calabrese‚ PE IEMS Executive Officer & President/CEO of John Galt‚ Inc. Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems (IEMS) Phone: 407-823-4557 (Office-No Voicemail Available) 407-927-9090 (Cell – Emergencies; NO WEEKENDS) E-mail: Mark.Calabrese@ucf.edu Office and Office Hours: Engineering II‚ Room 422 Office Hours: 9:00am – 12:00noon Tuesday’s; and 2:30pm – 5:00pm and 8:45pm – 9:15pm Thursday’s; Other times
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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. Lastly‚ logos is not used nearly as much‚ but it does not hinder his speech in any way. These rhetorical fallacies strengthen and persuade the American people to follow his
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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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12 years ago‚ the man who we now refer to as the president of the United States‚ Barack Obama‚ was just an ordinary man who graduated from Harvard University with a degree in law. Born in Honolulu‚ on August 4 1961‚ Barack Obama became a civil rights attorney and a professor‚ and taught law at the University of Chicago Law School. President Barack Obama was elected as the 44th President of the United States of America and was the first African American to hold this office. He was a man with a lot
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