Analysis of Barack Obama‟s Speeches Junling Wang School of Foreign Languages‚ Northwest Normal University‚ Lanzhou‚ China Email: wangjl36@163.com Abstract—The Critical Discourse Analysis is often applied to analyze political discourse including the public speech‚ in which the speaker wins favorite response from the audience. This paper‚ based on Critical Discourse Analysis theory and Systematic Functional Linguistics‚ analyzes Barack Obama’s presidential speeches mainly from the point of transitivity
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“Charity begins at home” is an expression we have all heard and I’m sure used and today I learnt just how true that is! Historically‚ the phrase is not linked to the giving of money at all but is in actual fact a word of Latin origin. “Caritas” means dearness and the giving of love based on respect‚ as well as expensiveness (much in the way that we use dear for both senses in the English language). Thus‚ Charity was the word used in the bible to mean the giving of love‚ which of course‚ should
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Unethical Charity in Missouri On a Saturday morning while running errands usually one might notice a few men collecting money at the corner of any two busy intersections. People give the sticky change that has been laying in their car baking for three months‚ to the organization. Little do they know that the money they worked hard to scrape from the bottom of the ashtray in twenty seconds while at a stoplight is not going where they think. A recent investigation found that a firm run by Missouri
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Evaluate how TWO speeches you have studied employ rhetorical devices to represent visionary ideas Powerful speeches affirm universal values which remain prevalent in human nature’s aspiration to productively approach the future. Noel Pearson’s speech “An Australian history for us all” (1996) and Anwar Sadat’s “Statement to the Knesset” (1977)‚ through effective use of rhetorical devices‚ creates textual integrity to explore visionary ideas: establishing the need for change by examining “the past
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RSPCA Since 1824 The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was founded. It has been up and running since. The men at the time‚ who were creating this aid organization‚ knew that it was the world’s first animal welfare charity. The organisation was actually established in a coffee shop in London. There first focus was ‘Pit Ponies’ who were ponies that worked in the coal mines. Workers were not keen on fashion especially when it was to do with animals. In 1898‚ Venezuela (South America)
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that the narration of the spirit of Pontiac’s Letter was influenced or altered by European or European-American powers for their own political or cultural agenda is supported by two main texts‚ A Letter to French Authorities and A Model of Christian Charity. A Letter to French Authorities shows in lines one hundred sixty-five through one hundred sixty-nine that the French wanted to turn the natives‚ Christian. Some Christian beliefs are present in the story such as in lines. Some may argue that in
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17th century St. Louise de Merillac Sisters of Charity • 1633 - The founding of the Sisters (or Daughters) of Charity‚ Servants of the Sick Poor by Sts. Vincent de Paul and Louise de Merillac. The community would not remain in a convent‚ but would nurse the poor in their homes‚ "having no monastery but the homes of the sick‚ their cell a hired room‚ their chapel the parish church‚ their enclosure the streets of the city or wards of the hospital." [1] • 1640 - The Sisters assume charge
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CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME It is an old saying which holds good in every sphere of life‚ It means that a person’s first duty is to help the members of his own family. Any act of goodness can be in the right direction only if it spreads goodness all around‚ but a good act must be started from one’s own environment. Everybody should do good to his family members first. Charity to others at the cost of starvation at home cannot be appreciated. If a man ignores his family members and does good to others
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"The completedness of a speech relies on the contribution of the parts to the whole" Choose TWO speeches and argue how the structure of each contributes significantly to your understanding of the speech as a whole. An orator’s ability to utilise speech structure permits them to not only convey their ideas efficiently‚ but also to help achieve a social change and improvement. This notion of social change is at the heart of any successful speech. The idea of “parts to the whole” is shown in both
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Analyzing Speeches The Lesson Activities will help you meet these educational goals: 21st Century Skills—You will assess and validate information. Directions Please save this document before you begin working on the assignment. Type your answers directly in the document. _________________________________________________________________________ Teacher-Graded Activities Write a response for each of the following activities. Check the Evaluation section at the end of this document to make sure you
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