Lincoln points out that he, as well as the rest of the country, did not want to go to war but realized that it was the only way out of the problems arising. He also goes on to say that both sides had the power to stop the war and that was brewing. He makes clear the fact that, if desired, all violence could have been avoided. Lincoln does a great deal of comparisons between the north and the south in his speech. He brings out the flaws in both sides, and ultimately puts the blame on the feuding between the two sides.
Justin Wood M. Rouse English III/Period 2 23 October 2012 Rhetoric in John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Speech John F. Kennedy’s inaugural speech was initially addressed to the public during a time of fear and insecurity about Russia and the Cold War. The people needed reassurance from their newly elected president, and Kennedy needed to make a highly persuasive speech. During his speech, Kennedy used rhetorical devices such as alliteration, metaphor, and allusion. The main purpose of the speech is to tell the American people that they elected the right man for the job, and the use of rhetoric reinforces the major points. Anaphora is a very common device used in speeches.
At the end of the conflict, all of the involved countries were technically able to claim some kind of success or benefit. However, no country achieved its original goal, for example, USA still had poor relations with other countries that they wanted to make peace with and communism was still not contained. To make matters worse all countries had significant human, economic, physical, or political damages. The USA claimed minor success by containing communism to an extent, protecting democracy in South Korea, and protecting Japan and its related US interests. Additionally the conflict in Korea allowed the USA to demonstrate its military capabilities to the world, as Kennedy said, he wanted to prove America’s credibility and Vietnam was the perfect place to illustrate this and, in the bigger picture, help to increase UN credibility.
It is not acceptable to go beyond legal, moral, and/or ethical boundaries when the nation is at a risky time of war, but only on certain conditions. Some issues discussing this are the neutralism of U.S., the Executive Order #9066 declared by FDR, and the decision to drop the bomb. These issues greatly impacted America’s standing in the world and history immensely. It was recorded into history for the mistakes that we did and the damage we caused. The U.S. struggled with each issue and did what they thought was right, even if damage was caused.
The Civil War was ravaging the country, and hundreds of thousands were already dead. Lincoln’s speech addressed the nation at a critical time, and was exactly what the people needed to hear. Lincoln comforts and inspires the people with his last line, “[L]et us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne this battle, and for his widow, and his orphan…” This statement of determination gives the people hope for a brighter future, and faith in the man who will bring it to them. The Second Inaugural is chock-full of exemplary rhetorical strategies that greatly add to the effectiveness of the speech. Lincoln persuades and assures the people that the Confederates are malicious rebels, bent on, “making war,” and, “destroying the nation.” He does this by referring to the Confederates only as “insurgents,” and giving them an aura of wickedness by saying, “Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish.” This cunning use of diction and antithesis, using “make war” in reference to the Confederates and “accept war” in relation to the Union, puts all the blame of the war on the Confederates.
Second Inauguration Analysis Just over a month before his assassination, President Abraham Lincoln gave his brief yet juste second Inaugural speech. The period was towards the end of the Civil, he directed his address from East Portico, in the Capitol Washington, DC towards the issue of slavery and the two parties involved, the insurgents and the victims who think they have no power to change the circumstances they live in. He also uses the opportunity to encourage the nation to unite for the cause of peace and the construction and ridding the nation of the ungodly cause of war. He begins his closing remarks with the famous words "With malice toward none; with charity for all." President Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address in Washington D.C. was among the most important because it raised awareness of the new task at hand of the reconstruction and the aftermath of the civil war.
Preferably, it was a war tactic to militarily weaken the South and preserve the Union, add soldiers to the Union cause, and in many opinions please abolitionist northerners. What did Abraham Lincoln do and think when taking in consideration slavery during the Civil War? In Abrahams first Inaugural Address he states” I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that I have no purpose, directly or indirectly to interfere with the intuition of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. “(pg.
In Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, Lincoln addresses a divided nation. Only a month before the end of the Civil War, both sides of the nation are angry with each other. Lincoln’s speech calls to both the North and the South to put aside the issues that divide them in order to heal their broken nation. Lincoln uses a lot of rhetorical strategies in his speech to convey his point . Lincoln’s diction, tone, and syntax help to achieve his purpose of uniting the nation.
If the sole reason for war was to capture Sadaam and his officials, this would then be unjust. At the time of the war, the war met another requirement of the doctrine; it had legitimate authority, George W. Bush. As long as a legit source declares the war, approval from the UN is unnecessary. Therefore there was an official declaration of war, showing
No one is entitled to anything more than basic rights. We need love, we need peace and we need understanding. As of now the system we have isn’t working and we have a history of hate filled people controlling things. We need to remove the hate filled control, and replace it with the equality of human love. We need to wipe the slate clean, remove all the infectious bad mindsets we currently have.