Sadat and Suu Kyi

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The speeches of Anwar Sadat and Aung San Suu Kyi should continue to be studied in Module B of the 2012 HSC as they have value and significance for a modern audience. The speeches achieve enduring value through their representations of contextually significant concepts. These concepts then transcend into the values, attitudes and beliefs of contemporary society. The refined use of language and rhetorical devices helps the composers to achieve their purpose and to be successful in conveying a sense of authenticity in the issues they represent. This is complimented by the logical topic structure of both speeches which assists in the persuasion of the respective purposes. It is wrong to say that these two speeches are contextually bound. The depicted values of peace, freedom, justice, unity and equality are contextually transcending and are blueprints of modern context. Therefore the speeches of Anwar Sadat and Aung San Suu Kyi should continued to be studied as they represent many issues that are still valuable and significant today and will continue to remain valuable and significant. Enduring value and significance within a speech is created through the values prescribed by the composer and the sense of authenticity in the issues they depict. Anwar Sadat’s statement to the Knesset was delivered with a contextually significant purpose to achieve a peace settlement between the Arabs and Israelites. The main theme of peace in the speech is not contextually bound. This distinguishes between theme and purpose within the speech. The image behind me shows a representation of Sadat carrying a ‘piece of peace’ on his shoulders from the peace within his heart. Sadat’s conviction of his intrinsic passion for peace is made convincing and genuine through the language in which he articulates. Sadat uses anaphora when conveying his foremost rhetorical question of: “How can we
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