During History class‚ we watched a documentary on JFK’s last moments as well as his assassination. The movie first started with JFK attending a breakfast in Texas. He gives his final speech here and is presented with a cowboy hat. He does not put it on but promises to when he returns to his office Monday morning. He never did return there. Next‚ we see him reach Dallas and see the American people welcome him. They’re all ecstatic that he is there. About a half hour later he is in the backseat of
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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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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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relationship between a leader and subjects. For instance‚ Ford creates a connection by saying‚ “I feel it is my first duty to make an unprecedented compact with my countrymen. Not an inaugural address‚ not a fireside chat‚ not a campaign speech -- just a little straight talk among friends.” He wishes the audience will accept his speech as words from a man
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John F. Kennedy delivers a speech at Rice University Stadium in Houston‚ Texas. Kennedy’s audience is those who are in attendance at this event. This was in support of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s program to put humans on the moon. Kennedy used evidence to prove the benefits‚ important scientific figures‚ calls to the audience‚ and utilizes their moral compass so that the listeners of this speech will feel compelled to support the cause of the space program. Kennedy uses evidence
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Running Head: CELLPHONE USE WHILE DRIVING 1 An Assessment of Cellphone Use While Driving Octasia Gore ENG 137 Ms. Smalls February 18‚2013 Cellphone Use While Driving 2 Did you know about 80% of drivers use their cellphones while driving? Talking on the phone could be dangerous to other drivers and pedestrians. Drivers are constantly on the phone talking‚ texting‚ or surfing the internet. Drivers should have limited use to cellphones while driving to decrease collisions due to
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Analysis of Reagan’s Inaugural Address 40th president of the United States‚ Ronald Reagan‚ in his Inaugural speech claims that America is the best country. Reagan’s purpose is to renew the American spirit. He takes on a patriotic tone in order to instill that we can do anything as a team in the American people. Reagan depicts the pathos appeal in his Inaugural address. He supports this appeal by using diction such as church and God‚ dreams and hopes‚ our country and countrymen. He’s letting us
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The youthful energy found in John F. Kennedy’s speech is evident throughout. He had just won a long hard fought campaign‚ yet chose not to focus on the policies that helped him win specifically. The goals he has are illustrated in strong appeals to emotion‚ by making a connection with the everyday American citizen. He personalizes his speech in looking forward to the future while using the past as an example. John F. Kennedy begins his inaugural speech by using antithesis to emphasize the importance
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As one of the youngest American presidents ever to be elected‚ President John Fitzgerald Kennedy delivered an eloquently crafted inaugural address to millions of Americans and people of the world when he took office in 1961. Through the use of the artistic tropes of interpersonal diction and the felicitous scheme of cumulative sentences‚ Kennedy effectively creates a sense of unity to incentivize Americans into serving their country as well as to reassure the nation and the world of America’s grand
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Haley wigal Inaugural Address John Fitzgerald Kennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy‚ “Inaugural Address” (January 20th‚1961) “President John Fitzgerald Kennedy possessed all the qualities of greatness. He had deep faith‚ complete confidence‚ human sympathy‚ and broad vision which recognized the true values of freedom‚ equality‚ and the brotherhood which have always been the marks of the American political dreams.” Said by John W. McCormack‚ Speaker of the House of Representatives‚ at John F. Kennedy’s
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