JFK also uses repetition to persuade the American people. He begins several sections in the middle of his speech with the same phrase, “Let both sides. . .” then uses very strong verbs to call the public to action such as “explore,” “formulate,” “seek,” and “unite.”…
May 25th 1961 JFK pledges to land a man on the moon by the end of the decade…
Kennedy begins his inaugural address by assuring foreign countries that America will stand by them. He expertly uses anaphora when singling out each appropriate group of countries. By focusing his attention using the words “To those,” Kennedy gained the trust to each specific set of citizens from those countries. Another rhetorical strategy that Kennedy implements is first-person-point-of-view. He emphasizes America’s commitment to these countries…
Reagan goes on to ensure the families that the astronauts were brave and courageous, therefore their mission was not in vain and that the missions will continue. By addressing the youth in his speech, he hopes to encourage them because ultimately they would be the next generation of workers. His tone is effective to convince the nation that it is necessary to continue with the space program. Throughout his speech, he empathizes with those affected by the tragedy, acknowledges the losses, and encourages everyone that they will move past this and look into the future.…
Not only was the mission a landmark in science and technology, but American pride. Neil Armstrong’s famous quote, “one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind” has since been engraved into the American vernacular as a symbol of American ingenuity and achievement. The American flag placed on the moon was the nail in the coffin of the Soviet’s effort to make it there first. The moon had been claimed not only by the United States, but also by democracy itself.…
The hysteria surrounding communism ravaged the United States of America when John F. Kennedy was elected president. Sputnik was orbiting in space, the Cold War raged in the background and to combat the fear, America needed a strong, dependable leader. At this time, Kennedy barely beat his presidential competitor Richard Nixon causing uneasy feelings in the American public. To alleviate the apprehension, John F. Kennedy delivered an inspiring inaugural speech which sent a message of strength to the nation and world. Kennedy saturated the speech with rhetoric and realistic goals resulting in support from the entire nation. Although the speech was mainly intended to inspire American citizens, Kennedy used repetition, catalog, and allusions to convey a clarion in the final sections of his inaugural speech.…
Kennedy used ethos, pathos, and logos as a foundation for a strong developed speech that would carry-out a formal message. Kennedy sets ethos, ethnical appeal, by putting different people of high class to make his argument strong as he starts his address by “Vice President Johnson, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Chief Justice, President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, President Truman, reverend clergy, fellow citizens, we observe today not a victory of party, but celebration of freedom, which symbolizes an end as well as a beginning, signifying renewal, as well as change.” He then also establishes logos into different sections. Which he then divides the world into different categories based on the way one lives and what they believe in. Most importantly Kennedy wrapped up his argument up by providing pathos in the appearing of American pride, and other important concepts that will be essential to the success in the Cold…
Jim Valvano, better known as Jimmy V, was a men’s basketball coach in the NCAA for many years and is remembered most for coaching his North Carolina State Wolf pack squad to the 1983 national championship over the Juggernaut University of Houston team. That team established the term “Cinderella” as no one ever expected them to win the way that they won. Jim Valvano received some horrible news in the middle of 1992. His doctors told him that he had terminal cancer. Several months later, he received the Arthur Ashe Courage award at the 1993 ESPY Awards presented by ESPN. He accepted the award and gave one of the most memorable speeches in sports history where he introduced the Jimmy V Foundation for cancer research that has since raised millions of dollars forcancer research.…
The speech that John F. Kennedy spoke about during his time was about the Aerospace Medical Center and how the United States should be involved with it. This speech, “Remarks at the Dedication of the Aerospace Medical Center,” has valid points to why America should be involved with space. Kennedy begins his speech by addressing his audience, the adventurers and scientists, who would be intrigued to help with Kennedy’s side of working with space. His purpose seems to be that he wants to discover what the New Frontier is about as he kept mentioning it for more than three years.…
With the space for outer-space, Kennedy gave people a visibly track able, hi-tech, and imaginative mission that people could watch on TV and feel a part of. He knew that the space race would yield many technical spin-offs.…
This was an important part in the nation's history due to the technological advances made and meeting Kennedy’s goal of sending a man on the moon by the end of the decade. Kennedy also exhibited the role of chief of state by being a good speaker.…
In JFK’s Inaugural Address he uses many rhetorical terms such as allusion, metaphors, parallelism, and antimetabole. He uses these rhetoric to build up a sense of American pride, to have a common enemy, and also to ask for support of the nation to support their country. These goals are approached in a tough manner, but with the rhetoric it increases the odds of a positive reaction from audience.…
President was the first to ask Congress to approve more than 22 billion dollars for project Apollo. This project had one main goal that President Kennedy wanted to accomplish. He wanted to have an American man land on the moon. President Kennedy wanted to have this goal accomplished by a certain time limit. He wanted to land the American man on the moon before the decade was over.…
Although John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address is one of the briefest documents in history, it perfectly describes what he plans to do in his time in being president. This speech goes over the period of the Cold War and other matters going on in the world in the early sixties. This was a period in which most Americans were worried about the planet, goals that need to be achieved to ensure the safety of the people of the U.S. and also the new technological advances that were being made. The United States was torn between racism in the 1960’s and Kennedy had to address that in his time in being the president. The Cold War was also at its peak during that time (Bragdon) and the people of the U.S. knew that Kennedy was a young and inexperienced president and were worried about how he was going to lead the nation in times of crisis.…
It was formed to expand our horizons and learn about the universe outside our own world, and also to “catch up to” the Soviet Union’s space efforts. In his January 1961 State of the Union Address, he suggested international cooperation in space. Kennedy first announced the goal for landing an American on the Moon in the speech to a Joint Session of Congress on May 25, 1961, and this is a quote from that speech: "First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the earth. No single space…