powerful and inspiring speeches. His positive energy and young yet wise personality made him easy to listen to for all audiences. In fact‚ on January 20th‚ 1961 John F. Kennedy delivered one of the most remembered speeches of all time; his inaugural address. At a time of racial tensions‚ economic hardships‚ and lingering fears of war‚ he strived to bring comfort and confidence to the American people. In order to achieve this‚ Kennedy understood and addressed the need for dire changes to be made for the
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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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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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lurked in the minds of the American people as the Cold War reached its peaks; the people need a strong‚ reassuring leader to give them hope. Fortunately‚ John F. Kennedy provides the citizens with reassurance when he gives his monumental inaugural address. After being sworn as the 35th president of the U.S‚ he seeks to invoke a sense of unity in the American people in order to attain a lasting peace because of the current national and international turmoil. While the speech’s respectful eloquence is
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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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speech‚ “The Gettysburg Address”‚ was an empowering piece that gave comfort to the public when the Union most needed it. The other speech‚ “The Second Inaugural Address”‚ was an influential speech about Abraham Lincoln returning to office for a second term. Both speeches‚ utilizes rhetoric through the use of ethos‚ logos‚ and pathos to support Abraham Lincoln’s viewpoints of the Civil War. Ethos is shown throughout “The Second Inaugural Address” more than the “The Gettysburg Address”‚ though both
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1992 speech‚ Address to the Plenary Session‚ exhibits such a concept concerning the deterioration of once wondrous landscapes‚ invigorated by her distinguishing premature voice. In reverse Indira Gandhi’s‚ 1980 speech‚ The True Liberation of Women reflects a more articulate
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As a president of a biggest country of the world‚ we can see that our president is skillful speaker. He is the one of greatest american speakers. One of his famous speech is " Ask not what your country can do for you" when he is in his inaugural address. President Kennedy have used many of the tools in rhetorical or presuasive writing. He has full knowleged with Aristotle three areas of rhetorical such as: Ethos‚ Pathos and Logos. JFK also uses repetition to persuade the American people. He begins
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A Left-Handed Commencement Address Rhetorical Analysis In 1983 men were paid up to 56% more than women‚ in 2014 the difference was down to 21%. This is partly because of feminist influences such as Ursula K. Le Guin. In her speech “The Left-Handed Commencement Address” Ursula K. Le Guin describes that women are as deserving as men to be paid equally‚ educated‚ smart and intelligent as a part of our modern world. She points out that women have learned all of the same things men have in college yet
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blessings in your life? Lou Gehrig preferred to count his blessings and continued to fight. He went day after day knowing his time was coming to an end‚ yet still managed to focus on the beautiful life he lived. In his speech “Farewell to Baseball Address”‚ Lou Gehrig uses rhetorical questions‚ repetition‚ and positive diction to effectively convey the idea that even though he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis he is still blessed. Lou Gehrig used rhetorical questions to display how he
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