President Barack Obama uses a wide variety of techniques to make a successful victory speech. The main features that allowed this were his choices of language; rhetorical devices; his mode of delivery; paralinguistic & prosodic features; and his structure. Obama’s speech is full of carefully thought out language choices that all give a specific effect on the audience. For example‚ many times in the speech Obama repeats the first person pronoun ‘we’ which makes the audience feel included and
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In this speech in which president kennedy denounces WC Steel Corporations for the increased price for which they sell steel‚ Kennedy repeatedly appeals to ethos. We can see how Kennedy first uses ethos in the second paragraph of his speech. Kennedy begins by separating himself‚ a well known graduate from an ivy league school‚ from any steel companies which we would believe him to have social affiliations with. In doing so Kennedy builds a sense of trust in which now anything that he says during his
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his best effort into his speech to convince Congress to declare war on Japan. His many forms of rhetorical aspects appealed to Congress’s feelings. The speech had the impact on Congress that Roosevelt had hoped for. The was a near unanimous vote to declare war on Japan. There was one person who didn’t want to go to war no matter what‚ because she was a pacifist. Roosevelt’s speech was from his emotions rather than just doing what he had to do. When we gave his speech‚ he transferred his emotions
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the tragedy that happened on July 18‚ 1969 on Chappaquiddick Island‚ that resulted in the death of a young woman named Mary Jo Kopechne. Mary Jo was a secretary of the late Robert Kennedy and was still working with the Kennedy family. He begins his speech to communicate that he has “entered a plea of guilty to the charge of leaving the scene of an accident.” (paragraph 1‚ line 2-3) This confession of the proceedings he has gone through is an example of Bitzer theory on exigence based on the fact that
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Towards the middle of Lewis’s speech‚ he criticizes the American politics by questioning the whereabouts of a political party that will not give false hope pretenses in it’s promise and claim to help out the civilians marching in Washington. Lewis complicates the idea of American politicians and politics being productive and moral when he announces‚ “...American politics is dominated by politicians who build their careers on immoral compromises...ally themselves with open forms of political‚ economic
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by his rhetoric‚ which is in fact at work even during the speech in question‚ irrefutably suggests a certain kind of egotism. Also‚ his story’s evocation of pity‚ regardless of the extent to which such a reaction is genuine or partially a product of Othello’s self-deception‚ would naturally be essential to his self-idealization and the boosted self-esteem that would come along with that‚ as it would not present him as a racially “inferior” man who is not in a position to be feared and repulsed‚ but
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them that a personal piece of art‚ whether it be a painting‚ a novel or a movie‚ is different than all the rest. Rhetoricians create an author’s idea‚ their own unique perception of reality‚ for a vast and diverse viewing audience. The Kings Speech is a movie about talking‚ and the importance of talking well. The way humans communicate is really the most important challenge we face in our everyday lives. Speaking is hugely important on an intimate‚ personal level; when the task is to interact
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Virginia Woolfe Speech Essay For hundreds of years‚ women have been shackled from their freedom and morally separated from men. They have always been treated as lesser beings by men‚ and have been seen as inferior. However‚ as time went on more and more women emerged from their captors and brought great change to the world. History shows that women indeed had it rough but they have become a more important role to society and have had a strong effect on our current world. One career where
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Differences in Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” and Richard Henry’s Speech to the Second Virginia Convention There are many similarities and differences in Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” and Richard Henry’s Speech to the Second Virginia Convention. Both of these famous speeches were made by colonists to persuade the people of the colonies to dissolve all connections with Great Britain and fight for their own freedom. Patrick Henry made his speech before the Declaration of Independence to persuade the colonists
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7 April 2014 Rhetorical Analysis of “A Whisper of AIDS” Speech The speech titled “A Whisper of AIDS” was given by Mary Fisher on August 19th‚ 1992 in Houston Texas at the 1992 Republican National Convention Address. Mary Fisher is an American political activist‚ author‚ artist and daughter of a wealthy and powerful republican‚ Max Fisher. Mary Fisher has become an advocate on AIDS prevention and education after she contracted the disease from her second husband. In the speech “A Whisper of Aids”
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