John F. Kennedy was elected the youngest and first Roman Catholic President of the United States on November 8, 1960. After being elected JFK started composing his inaugural speech on a yellow legal notepad, seeking help from his friends and those around him (Our Documents). On January 20, 1961 President John F. Kennedy delivered his first and only inaugural speech. Kennedy’s inaugural speech was the fourth shortest, at a total of just 1,364 words and a total time of thirteen minutes and fifty-nine seconds (JFK). Just after serving as President of The United States for one thousand days, on November 22, 1963, President
The reputation, credibility, and tone of the speaker are all encompassed in this strategy, which can be equaled to a resume of ethics presented to a prospective employer at a job interview. In “Remarks on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.,” Kennedy uses epideictic rhetoric, a branch of rhetoric that falls under ethos and basically means praise and blame rhetoric, as shown in the following excerpt: “Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort” (Kennedy). This is an example of the “praise” part of epideictic rhetoric, which he uses to acknowledge the great significance of Dr. King’s life and work, showing the audience that he does respect and realize the great magnitude of their loss. A little farther on Kennedy introduces the “blame” part of epideictic
JFK also said, “It would make it more difficult for American goods to compete in foreign markets, more difficult to withstand competition from foreign imports, and thus more difficult to improve our balance of payment position, and stem the flow of gold.” He repeatedly started with the phrase “more difficult”. This repetition, incorporated with logos, helped to drive home the point of how much trouble and difficulty this price rise would cause. Anaphora is a very useful and effective rhetorical devices and President Kennedy uses it beautifully in this speech. President Kennedy also used the rhetorical device of logos to connect may of his points and the problems that will
As he continues to make his speech FDR makes it clear that he will be more involved with the people. Franklin D. Roosevelt wants the vision of the people to become a reality. “For the trust reposed in me I will return the courage and devotion that befit the time. I can do no less.” With this speech, he addresses several issues that currently surround the country at the time of the Great Depression and economic panic was sweeping the nation. Roosevelt commented on the unimportance of material wealth, unemployment, the greatness of the constitutional system, and the future.
He was able to inform, explain, and rally a concerned nation through strong diction and direct statements. The speech was extremely important to world history because it was the declaration of war with Japan that eventually linked the United States into World War ll. Roosevelt successfully produced the purpose of his speech by the way he presented the details of the attack, revealed the Japanese threat along the Pacific, and pushed America into military action. As a result the speech did what Roosevelt intended it to do, make
Many of his decisions led to uproar, but one in the end set the ground for the United States as we know it today. James McPherson tries to get many points across in “As Commander-in-Chief I Have a Right to Take Any Measure Which May Best Subdue the Enemy.” It seems at times that he will go as far as calling Lincoln a man who is unconstitutional and even goes against his own morals. As his article progresses you see more of the main point that McPherson is trying to make. Early in his document, McPherson says when referring to Lincoln declaring war, “The
When he went home and told his parents, his father told him something that he would never forget, “Don’t let it make you feel you are not as good as white people. You are as good as anyone else, and you don’t ever forget it.” At age 15, Martin was accepted into Morehouse University and enrolled in college. When king was still in college, he was introduced to the teachings of the great Mahatma Gandhi. He was truly inspired by Gandhi’s nonviolent movement so he decided to start one to end segregation. After king left college, he decided to become a pastor at a local church.
Although, Kennedy gets his audience, Americans, engaged through antithesis, “Support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.” Kennedy switched up the words in his speech to get the audience thinking positively about supporting those who want the help of the United States. Kennedy then goes to a different side of his plans; explaining that the countries that get our help will be the ones who side with the U.S. in our American ideals. Thus, supporting his purpose further by stating two opposite ideas in one antithesis statement. By Kennedy doing this, he creates a strong engagement with the U.S. citizens because his main purpose is to branch out to other countries, but at the same time he said he wouldn’t let other countries stand in the way of helping those who truly want the help. Another strong motive of Kennedy is his concern with improving America further.
He gave hundreds of speeches a year that of which included his most famous “I Have a Dream” speech. In 1963 Martin and 250,000 demonstrators marched to the Lincoln Memorial where he delivered the speech that changed the Civil Rights Act forever. Martin’s words echoed through the crowd that August: “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.' I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. “That year Martin was named Time’s Man of the Year.
Of all the ideas and theories Clausewitz presented in On War, my belief is that the most important and enduring elements are his idea that war is an extension of policy, his analysis of strategy, the trinity theory and his explanation of the components of war including friction in war, the fog of war and his centre of gravity theory. These ideas and theories from Clausewitz’s On War will be discussed in this essay and presented as his most important and enduring contributions to the theory of warfare. Clausewitz defined war as “an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to fulfil our will” (Clausewitz, P101) but argued that war should only be entered into when diplomatic methods fail as war is a continuation of politics and controlled by a political objective which is aimed at improving the situation. However war can therefore can vary depending on the nature of the policy and society of the time in which the war is waged. Clausewitz stated that success in war requires clear political aims and an adequate strategy (Clausewitz, P101).