want in and how many want out." – Tony Blair Younger Years Tony Blair, former prime minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, was born Anthony Charles Lynton Blair on May 6, 1953, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Despite being born in Scotland, Blair spent the better part of his childhood in Durham, England, where he attended the Chorister School. Blair's father, Leo Charles Blair, was a prominent attorney who ran for Parliament as a Tory in 1963, when Tony was 10 years old. Devastatingly, Leo…
Morala Basic analysis Genre: Political advertisement or discourse. Mode: Exposition, argumentation. Text function: Persuade, convince people of the positive effects of government’s measures and political decisions. Text producer: Tony Blair. Former Prime Minister of Great Britain. This speech emphasizes the benefits that future social and economical measures will bring to Britain. Text receiver: Citizens of Britain. Adults and people who can vote. Time and place: The Labour centenary…
Rhetorical analysis of Tony Blair’s speech on terror On July 7th, 2005, four British Islamist men detonated fours suicide bombs. As well as killing themselves, the four bombers took 52 civilians with them and injured over 700. The following week, former Premier Minister Tony Blair, held his speech on terror. This paper will give an analysis of the rhetorical situation of the speech, a rhetorical analysis and an interpretation. Tony Blair was the British Prime Minister and president for the Labour…
Kershaw says ‘The ten years of Mr Blair will surely go down in history as a lost opportunity, a time when much was promised but relatively little attained’. Do you agree? (45 marks) When looking at Tony Blair’s time in office, although economically he seemed to be doing sound as he kept inflation and tax levels low, in many other factors he failed to deliver. Promising too much, Tony Blair did not fulfil his never ending list of policies such as achieving full equality and completely ending child…
1Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair (born 6 May 1953)[1] is a British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He resigned from all of these positions in June 2007. Blair was elected Leader of the Labour Party in the leadership election of July 1994, following the sudden death of his predecessor, John Smith. Under his leadership…
Assignment 1 Prime Minister Profile: Tony Blair Tony Blair was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on May 6, 1953. Although born in Scotland, Blair spent several years of his childhood attending the Chorister School in Durham, England. When Blair was 10, his father ran for Parliament as a Tory but suffered from a stroke the night before the election. Blair later cited his father’s inability to finish the election as a driving factor behind his own political ambition. Blair attended St. John’s College at Oxford…
Bill Clinton’s Influence on Tony Blair The cooperation of America and Britain has had thousands of years’ antiquity that started with America as the colony of Britain. Historical studies prove that the relationship between the United States and United Kingdom stem from their coalition in the Second World War. Britain’s premiership and the United States’ presidency have often ruled hand in hand. Throughout the years presidents and prime ministers have borrowed ideas from other politicians.…
Tony Blair: Prime Minister or President? ‘Blair is by far the worst of the eight prime ministers I have known’. ‘It is the presidential system he sees emerging under Mr Blair (the fault of over-large majorities, the prime minister’s character and his well documented disdain for parliament) which he loathes’. Guardian article on veteran maverick Labour MP, Tam Dalyell, 29/03/05. Ever since he swept to power in 1997, Tony Blair’s unique dominance over his party and indeed, the UK’s political…
responsible for declaring war on both Afghanistan and Iraq • Often criticized for making poor choices in office, hiding official facts and documents from the public and driving the United States into a deep recession and arguably unwinnable war Tony Blair • The former Prime Minister of England • Famously backed George Bush’s plan to invade Iraq and…
the discourse of politics to supply context for this speech. My research topic is to discover in this essay is how Prime Ministers use persuasive techniques to win the support of the people. To achieve this, I will be comparing Churchill’s speech to Tony Blair’s speech in 2003 when he declared war on Iraq, to see what changes and similarities of discourses there are, regarding persuading and gaining the support of the people. 1.2 The consideration of the audience and their specific thoughts and…