During History class‚ we watched a documentary on JFK’s last moments as well as his assassination. The movie first started with JFK attending a breakfast in Texas. He gives his final speech here and is presented with a cowboy hat. He does not put it on but promises to when he returns to his office Monday morning. He never did return there. Next‚ we see him reach Dallas and see the American people welcome him. They’re all ecstatic that he is there. About a half hour later he is in the backseat of
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Analysis of JFK Inauguration Speech On Friday‚ 20 January 1961 newly elected President John F. Kennedy delivered his Inauguration speech to the nation of America in the time of uncertainty and fear. Kennedy was the “youngest elected president and the first Roman Catholic president”. During this tumultuous time period the Cold War was at its peak and dangers of nuclear power were building .To ease the rising tensions building amongst the people Kennedy emphasizes optimism and idealism in his speech. In
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Kennedy’s Inaugural Speech We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom‚ symbolizing an end as well as a beginning‚ signifying renewal as well as change‚ for I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three-quarters ago. The world is very different now‚ for man holds in his mortal hand the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which
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JFK “Moon” Speech Rhetorical Analysis Rough Draft Precedent John Fitzgerald Kennedy also known as JFK gave a speech during the cold war‚ and the race to space. Saying that we need to go to space not to use as a weapon but as a source of knowledge and explaining why we need to. He believes that most of his audience is skeptical and dost want to go to space. To convince the laudians that we need to go to space he passes himself off as a visionist saying that this is going to be the most important thing
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African American as they weren’t human was absurd‚ and equality would help the world to be a better place for every human being. In‚ John F. Kennedy’s speech he says‚ “This nation was founded by men on the principle that all men are created equal‚ and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.” (JFK speech‚ address on civil rights‚ June 11‚ 1963‚ paragraph 3) It is not fair that we as a person come into this world the same way‚ and to be treated so differently
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Kennedy’s inaugural speech‚ Kennedy uses patriotism to gain the support of our general public as he plans to move our country forward. An example of him trying to gain the support of our general public is him saying to rejoice in hope and to be patient when times get rough. Another example is when he gives information to our civil faith. The last example is when he says “how the trumpet summons us again”. He does not shank from his responsibility he welcomes it. The goals of his speech is to not ask what
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Throughout his speech in which he condemned companies for raising steel prices‚ Kennedy repeatedly appeals to a sense of communal sacrifice and collective responsibility in order to rally his everyman audience around this ostensible cause for outrage. From the beginning‚ Kennedy‚ a millionaire Harvard graduate‚ includes himself in the aggrieved camp of everyday Americans by using the first person “we”. The list of sacrifices being made by the “185 million Americans” are thus shared by him as well
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On January 20‚ 1961‚ the world turned on their television to see how the newly elected American President‚ J. F. Kennedy‚ would address the issues of proliferating weapons and the propagating “iron tyranny” (7). Kennedy delivers a speech that aims to ameliorate their many fears and also establish himself as a capable president –one that would take a strong stance for democracy in a war against communism. By employing well-crafted syntax‚ specific diction‚ and explicit tone‚ Kennedy is able to eloquently
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inaugural speech‚ wanted to make the country just a little bit stronger‚ a little bit more involved‚ and just a little more united just through his speech. Diving into a strong and involved country would make his job easier‚ and make the people see him as an effective leader. By changing the tempo of the speech‚ creating a rhythm‚ and unique sentence structure‚ he creates a feeling of nationalism for all of his listeners and readers. Although the use of dashes in a speech may have
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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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