President Roosevelt used Pathos and Logos to attract the nation to the idea that if we did not act swiftly with force we would get attacked again and many more innocent lives would be taken. Roosevelt used the fact that Japan attacked not only Midway, but also Hong Kong, Guam, Philippine Islands and Wake Island along with attacks on American ships between San Francisco and Honolulu. The attack of this nature is the showing of unethical behavior that had to be stopped. This speech was given by Franklin D. Roosevelt on 8 December 1941 to the Senate, House and the citizens of America. This speech was given to the people by Roosevelt to show that he had declared a state of war, due to the actions of the Empire of Japan.
After the Attack on the United States by the Japanese, the citizens of the United States viewed the world differently. Even after Japan concluded that it seemed useless to continue existing diplomatic negotiations just one hour after Japanese air squadrons bombed the American Island of Oahu. After the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th 1941, Franklin Delano Roosevelt the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy gave his speech to the nation using ethos, logos, and pathos to convince the nation that going to war with Japan was necessary. ! !
My analysis mainly focuses on semantic fields and syntax. A semantic field of fear runs throughout the discourses of both Blair and Bush. Bush began his speech with the following sentence; “Good evening… series of deliberate and deadly terrorist attacks”. Blair also opts to utilise the same method “it was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of mankind, it was tragedy, an act of evil”. Due to the semantic field of fear and terror running throughout the discourses of Bush and Blair their choice of lexis is crucial in conveying their political ideologies.
I will be comparing the surprise attacks of Pearl Harbor and 9/11. These two attacks caused major damage to America’s home lands. The attacks are similar because both happened without warning, but there somewhat different also. For example, 9/11 was to scare America and Pearl Harbor was a strategic attack. Both I think backfired somewhat because they caused America to come together and fight the enemy.
I disagree that the Japanese in WW2 were defeated more because of their weakness rather than the strength of the Allied forces. The Japanese weaknesses included their incapability in managing the empire they took on. The strengths of the allied powers included their intelligent military strategies, an example was the "Island Hopping Strategy of Attack" used by America. Also, the dropping of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki had an impact on Japan which caused them to surrender. The term "defeated more" refers to the factor which had the greatest impact on Japan, causing them to be drove to a state of devastation and have no other way than surrender unconditionally.
Gar Alperovitz, another revisionist, says that Truman’s main purpose in dropping the bombs was to demonstrate its power in order to intimidate the Russians (127). Even American generals, such as Dwight D. Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur and Curtis LeMay have stated that the A-bombs were unnecessary (Dower 92), arguing that Japan could have been forced to surrender by conventional means. If these charges are true, than Truman committed a war crime against Japan and its people. However, the historical record shows that in the summer of 1945 Truman was concerned only
Throughout his whole speech, he uses an anger and disparaging tome to reflect Bush’s point of view. Overall, George Bush uses emotional appeal, metaphors, and tone to portray Al Qaeda as iniquitous freedom haters which persuades the audience to recognise his contention and accept his point of view. Americans are depicted as victims of war from the September 11th terrorist incident with George Bush’s speech. An anecdote is used in the first paragraph to portray this: “...Americans have known the casualties of war--but not at the centre of a great city on a peaceful morning. Americans have known surprise attacks—but never before on thousands of civilians.
Three countries that will be analyzed under Japanese occupation are; Singapore, the Philippines and Indonesia. Each of these nations had previously been colonized by the allies, British, American and the Dutch; who used their resources to help fight the battles against Germany, and now Japan. Social Impacts— The social impact of war and occupation resonate long after it is over. The most obvious social impacts of occupation during the Pacific war are the destruction of social cohesion and order, cultural and religious fraction and tradition breakdown. Allied occupation differed to Japan’s because of their treatment of civilians and their purpose of takeover, however both used imperialism to expand their sphere of influence and exploit their resources to strength their power.
American Propaganda During World War Two Many of us are familiar with the day that will live in infamy. On December 7th 1941 the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and launched America into the second world war. Before that fateful day many Americans were against the country joining in on World War Two, But after most felt a patriotic call to duty and enlisted, but what about the civilians left behind and how was our nation going to afford the war. Uncle Sam had the answers and they came in the form of propaganda. Propaganda is defined as the process of spreading information or ideas in a way that is meant to make people except them.
This led to the U.S. to abandon their support for non-interventionism, declaring war on Japan and entering World War II. The U.S. entered World War II in support of China, France, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom. These were later called the Allies. Four days later, Hitler along with Germany and the Axis powers, declared war on the United States. The Japanese seemed to have great success after Pearl Harbor as they followed this with the rapid conquest of Hong Kong, Singapore, Burma, the Philippines, Malaya and New Guinea.