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    Bias The speech it obviously catering towards females‚ the speech was presented at a U.N. Women’s Conference‚ this speech is about the rights women should expect to receive under human rights. While using the politics to reinforce the rights of women she is using political bias and she is using a gender bias. Rhetorical Devices This speech has a couple rhetorical devices‚ the first one I found was a Rhetorical question when she said‚ “Wasn’t it after all after the women’s conference in Nairobi

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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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    so conceived‚ and so dedicated‚ can long endure.” is a rhetorical device he used. Lincoln wanted his audience to know that the war was a worthy war and was necessary to save the nation. These quotes made the audience feel hope although they were tired. “Final resting place for those who died here‚ that the nation might live” is another rhetorical device used to convince his audience to

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    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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    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 he is not only admitting his crime but stating that there are more proceedings to

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    WASHINGTON - Here is the complete text of President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech‚ as prepared for delivery on Tuesday: Mr. Speaker‚ Mr. Vice President‚ Members of Congress‚ fellow citizens: Fifty-one years ago‚ John F. Kennedy declared to this Chamber that "the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress ... It is my task‚" he said‚ "to report the State of the Union - to improve it is the task of us all." Tonight‚ thanks to the grit and determination

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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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    the “modern rhetorical presidency‚” with respect to their State of the Union speeches‚ in two distinct ways: 1) the speeches are relatively short‚ hovering around 5‚000 words‚ as compared to nearly 30‚000 in 1906 (Teten 2003‚ 340) and 2) the speeches consist of a relatively high rate of the words “we” and our‚” hovering around 2.5% as compared to below 1% before 1914 (Teten 2003‚ 342). Therefore‚ a brief overview of Barack Obama’s 2016 State of the Union address reveals that the speech conforms to

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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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    understand how big of a problem it was in the past and present. In the sources‚ “A More Perfect Union” by Barack Obama‚ Separate But Not Equal‚ and Civil Rights Movement‚ we can understand what black people had to go through and are still struggling with. Discrimination has been an ongoing obstacle that people had fought against and still are fighting against today. In the first source‚ “A More Perfect Union” by Barack Obama‚ Barack explains how racism and discrimination are not just a problem in the

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