Kennedy's Inaguration Speech

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Ashley Antunez AP English Mr. Sorensen 9/6/2013 Purpose behind John F. Kennedy’s speech Things do not simply happen. Things are made to happen. On January 20, 1961, John F. Kennedy took the oath of office to become the nation’s 35th president. In Washington D.C, more than twenty thousand people huddled in 20-degree temperatures on the east front of the Capitol to witness the event. John F Kennedy, the second-youngest president made an outstanding speech after being sworn in presidential office. John F. Kennedy made one of the greatest speeches that has ever been seen by not just America but also many other nations. The young president's reliance on biblical quotations, metaphors, parallelism, and antithesis was a big essence of what the speech was based on. The Inaugural Speech has a lot of meaning and purpose, but most essentially, the speech was to usher in a “new era”, inform and inspire change in the nations, and motivate people to feel patriotic and united. Kennedy wanted to usher a new era to the United States of America by introducing new ideas such as putting a man on the moon, which man people thought was impossible. President Kennedy started a new view for Americans and other nations. He personalizes his speech in looking forward to the future while using the past as an example. "Let both sides explore what problems unite us… Let both sides, for the first time; formulate serious and precise proposals for the inspection and control of arms… Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science…Let both sides unite to… let the oppressed go free” In Kennedy’s parallelism statement, he introduces ideas such as advancing science, having two or more nations discuss situations that are effecting them. President Kennedy informed and inspired change in the
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