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Kennedy addresses his speeches often with a passionate‚ powerful tone that catches his audience’s attention and creates a resonant atmosphere around him. Here in this essay‚ I choose three of the most representative speeches by Kennedy – inaugural address‚ address at Rice University on nation’s space effort‚ and “Ich bin ein Berliner” – and analyze them using statistical data. I select sentence length‚ specific word frequency‚ and sentence structure frequency as the three stylistic features that characterize
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Behind Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Inaugural Address Before the 1933 election‚ the United States underwent a great economic depression‚ which was at the fault of president Hoover. But President Roosevelt strongly believed in anything being possible. In Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first Inaugural Address he used ethos‚ logos and parallel structure to convey his conflicting feelings about World War I and the Great Depression in order to show his concern in improving and progressing the economy and
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leading to the end of slavery and was a spectacular president until his untimely death. In his‚ rather short‚ Second Inaugural Address he surprised people with not only its length but its content as well. Lincoln‚ using careful wording‚ treated both men and parties as equal‚ thus creating an impacting result on what would eventually be American History. Lincoln starts off his address with a simple “fellow-countrymen” which describes the whole audience‚ both black and white. Lincoln chose his wording
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President Bush’s Second Inaugural Address Since President Abraham Lincoln’s famous second inaugural address nearly 150 years ago it has been a long standing tradition for the President’s inaugural address to present a somewhat ambiguous claim for world transformation and diplomacy. President George W. Bush’s second inaugural address is no different. It set forth President Bush’s ambitious vision of the United States’ role in advancing of freedom‚ liberty‚ and democracy worldwide “with the ultimate
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“Thomas Jefferson: First Inaugural Address‚ 1801” by Thomas Jefferson Gordon S. Wood wrote that Thomas Jefferson was a very important figure in the development of what we know today to be the United States of America. But‚ he was also hypocritical in the things he proposed. On March 4‚ 1801‚ Thomas Jefferson gave his inaugural address to become the third president of the United States. In his address‚ he says that the minority should have equal rights‚ which
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During his second inaugural address‚ Abraham Lincoln surprised his audience with a short speech that contemplated upon the future of the Nation. Though his oration did not last long‚ Lincoln was able to stress the reunification of the union as well as inspire hope for a more prosperous future. Lincoln begins his speech by directly addressing his intended audience‚ the north‚ by expressing that length is not needed in his address as all words on the state of the nation and the war have already been
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Rhetorical Analysis of JFK’s Inaugural Speech During the time JFK was elected president‚ our country was going through many hardships. After recovering from the Cold war‚ America needed a leader who would help bring peace and unity to the country. His Inaugural speech was encouraging and attempted to persuade the American’s citizens to do just that. His speech gave them comfort and confidence in him‚ as a leader that they desperately needed at the time. He used many rhetorical strategies
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During the Civil War‚ President Lincoln’s position on the practice of slavery changed from the start to the end of the war. He expresses his views about slavery through a variety of primary documents; both of Lincoln’s inaugural addresses‚ his letters to Horace Greeley‚ the Emancipation Proclamation‚ and the 13th amendment to the United States Constitution. Through these documents‚ Lincoln demonstrates his initial feeling towards slavery as being neutral/indifferent for his priority was to keep the
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Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Inaugural Address was exactly what Americans of the 1930’s needed to hear. To begin‚ previous to Roosevelt’s inauguration Herbert Hoover was the president of the United States. Hoover was considered by many of the time to be the cause of the great depression and the worst president the United States had ever seen. This was largely due to the fact that his republican views‚ that the government should play a very small part in society and that the American people should be self
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