...The first speech I chose to analyze is Lyndon Baines Johnson’s (LBJ) “Let us Continue”. He was addressing the United States 5 days after John F. Kennedy (JFK) assassination. It was a questions of values persuasive speech. One example of this is when he urges the people to enact a civil right law to help eliminate “every trace of discrimination and oppression that is based upon race or color”. As well as when he talks about passing a tax bill JFK had been working on all year. I think he mostly uses two persuasive strategies, ethos and logos. I believe it’s persuasive as he wants the American people to know he is going to pick up were JFK left off. Want them to support his idea of civil rights, the role of government in peace, taxation, and that...
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...Black and White, convened in Washington D.C for the celebrated and famed political rally known as the ‘March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.’ The purpose of the non violent protest was to expose the continuation of political and social challenges African Americans faced across America, over a century after the Emancipation Proclamation, urging for reforms to be made in civil and economic rights. To try...
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...Speeches can lead to an audience with different opinions about the message. Some people might support the speaker’s main points, while others will not. A speech that exemplifies this is the speech “Consciousness is Power”. Kochiyama was a famous Asian-American civil rights activist. She gave the speech “Consciousness is Power” on November 3,1995 to an audience of primarily Asian Americans. Speeches commonly leave people with mixed feelings about the message of the speech. It is very rare that everyone will interpret a speech in the same way. The difference in feelings can be attributed to several things. For example, the type of language choices made by the author can lead to a disconnect in terms of how supporter and non-supporter interprets...
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...Both the Gettysburg Address and the “I Have A Dream” speech have the same purpose but different outcomes. They have the same type of appeals, purpose, and tone. Appeals are things like logos, pathos, and ethos. The purpose is why the speeches were written, and the tone is the mood or attitude of the speech. Lincoln’s and King’s speeches use different appeals. In The Gettysburg Address, Lincoln states, “ It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us.” This is an ethical appeal because it shows that the speaker is trustworthy and knowledgeable. On the contrary, King states in his I Have a Dream speech, “ This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of slaves who had been seared...
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...During April 1861, the first month of the Civil War, Alfred M. Green gave a speech in Philadelphia. The goal was to persuade African Americans to prepare to enlist in the Army. He also used his platform to talk about the unfair ways the African Americans were being treated, not only in the South but also in the North. Green had to use a few different methods to persuade African Americans to enlist in the Army, while also speaking about the issues for which they had to deal. Green's main persuasive point is reminding his fellow African Americans what the United States was founded on “freedom, and of civil and religious toleration.”. By reminding his audience of the American ideology, Green hopes this convinces them of their need to go to war...
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...influential speaker during the Civil Rights Movement. Kings “I have a dream speech” impacted the country by speaking volume so people on many different levels. He spoke about the injustice in the country and how white and black people were not treated the same. King spoke in a very authorative tone that did not only African Americans but Caucasian people as well. He was very passionate and persuasive with his words by getting those certain people to consider that injustice was wrong. King appealed to everyone’s logic by using examples from the Constitution and his own experiences. He persuaded people to treat African Americans like they were humans and with respect. He adequately uses pathos in his speech. He impacts the public by using pathos to connect with their personal...
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...The speech “I Have a Dream” have 78 sentences in total, included 9 sentences with over 30 words in each. The longest sentence has 77 words; the shortest one has only 4 words. The whole speech consists of the mid to long length of sentences, which clearly stated the claim: improve the human right for African Americans. In a peer article written by Joe Ciesinski, he stated that Martin Luther King Jr. contrasts light and dark metaphors in his speech” (Ciesinski, p.18). In the first paragraph, the phrase “beacon light”, is a metaphor that referred to the Emancipation Proclamation that gives hope to the Negro slaves suffering from the injustice. The joyous daybreak is another metaphor of the and end the long-term of captivity. King chose the words...
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...Anthony’s speech plays great dramatic significance in the play not only does the speech contain shakespares greatest lines written but it functions in order to dull out the effect of Brutus convincing speech to hide his own intentions of revenge and to shift the mood of the mob. Anthony knows that the crowd is convinced that Caesars murder was in Rome’s best interest and tries to win the crowd over, “I come to bury Caesar not praise him”. Anthony also states that Caesar will be remembered for the wrong has done after he died but that the people of Rome have forgotten the good he has done. Anthony is using different emotions and different words/phrases thought the speech but the most powerful device he uses is irony. He calls the conspirators, Brutus included, “noble” and “honorable” which is a term used loosely in his speech. Anthony’s speech is powerful and persuasive and also has very strong sense of pathos. His speech also gets the advantage of having said the last words and contradicts Brutus claim that Caesar’s assassination was...
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...agency | A federal or state government agency established to perform a specific function. Administrative agencies are authorized by legislative acts to make and enforce rules in order to administer and enforce the acts. | administrative law | The body of law created by administrative agencies (in the form of rules, regulations, orders, and decisions) in order to carry out their duties and responsibilities. | administrative law judge (ALJ) | One who presides over an administrative agency hearing and has the power to administer oaths, take testimony, rule on questions of evidence, and make determinations of fact. | administrative process | The procedure used by administrative agencies in the administration of law. | Bill of Rights | The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution. | binding authority | Any source of law that a court must follow when deciding a case. Binding authorities include constitutions, statutes, and regulations that govern the issue being decided, as well as court decisions that are controlling precedents within the jurisdiction. | case law | The rules of law announced in court decisions. Case law includes the aggregate of reported cases that interpret judicial precedents, statutes, regulations, and constitutional provisions. | citation | A reference to a publication in which a legal authority—such as a statute or a court decision—or other source...
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...One of the final scenes in the 1997 film Amistad is President John Quincy Adams’s appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States in his effort to argue for the release and freedom of the Africans. His argument to the Court is composed of various rhetorical strategies that make it persuasive and effective. Throughout his appeal, Adams implements the notable Aristotelian rhetorical elements of ethos, logos, and pathos, each contributing significantly to strengthening the logic and persuasiveness of his assertions. In his opening remarks to the Court, Adams states: “This is the most important case ever to come before this court. Because what it, in fact, concerns is the very nature of man.” In this instance, Adams appeals to logic (logos),...
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...For my attended speech critique, I attended Tearing Hatred from the Sky. On February 23,2017, a speaker by the name of Bree Newsome came to speak at the College of Charleston at Sotille theater. Bree Newsome or Brittany Ann Newsome is an American filmmaker, musician, speaker, and activist from Charlotte, North Carolina. She is best known for her act of civil disobedience on June 27, 2015, when she was arrested for removing the Confederate flag from the South Carolina state house grounds. The young woman arrested in 2015 for taking down the Statehouse's Confederate battle flag has been invited to speak at the college about activism and social justice, but opposition to the event was the South Carolina Secessionist Party. They emphasized...
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...Martin Luther King, Jr wrote a one of time’s most memorable, yet powerful speech that touched American citizens all around the world and helped open their eyes to what could be a “perfect world.” He delivered the speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., where nearly a quarter of a million people gathered around to hear him voice his opinion. During this time, he was considered a brave man, for he was black and racism was so harsh on the black community. Knowing this risk, he took a stand for the colored citizens. He became the most predominant leader in the Civil Rights Movements. Many hours of research and preparation went into the making of this speech. Martin Luther King, Jr designed his speech to leave an impact on people that would allow them to remember it. For example King states, “Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.” Carefully choosing his words, he...
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...are influenced by decisions made by anyone but us. Politics and political movements containing discourses could be listed under this category of decisions. It`s been a long while since public speakers are concerned with various dimensions of speech such as sounds, gestures, syntax, rhetoric, meanings, speech acts, moves, strategies and turns. In this paper our main focus is on the rhetoric of a speech. As we know where rhetoric is concerned we should inevitably deal with literature. In other words rhetoric is like a joint which connect literature with politics and establish a method of analyzing political speeches called polio-linguistic approach. Thus we can consider political discourses as pieces of literature. Literary techniques especially rhetorical devices serve as one of the most distinctive features of the greatest and most influential speeches of all time. There is no shortage of rhetorical devices used in these speeches, but we can prioritize them by count of repetitions in political discourses. In this study first I have represented the necessity of using these types of persuasive skills in political discourses, the methods within which politicians take advantages of these skills and the different sides of a successful speech. Then after a glance through different rhetorical devices, excerpts from four of the greatest speeches in history are provided with the rhetorical devices indicated in them. Finally a quite deep examination of the most important of these rhetorical...
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...Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -- preacher, orator, and acclaimed civil rights leader -- is possibly the best remembered for his effective speech, “I Have A Dream,” in which he expressed his ambition for peace and racial equality. The 17-minute speech was given to thousands of people at the Lincoln Memorial and televised live to millions on August 28, 1963. King urged America to acknowledge people of all races to be united and free. He used his knowledge as a preacher and used anaphora, parallelism, and historical references to grab the attention of his audience. King’s experience as a preacher and as a civil rights activist was evident in the artistry of the speech. With King’s experience as a preacher, he has given numerous sermons in his lifetime. He has formed a technique that he continuously practices in his sermons, so his audience can relate to him and make the sermon more effective. His technique includes rhetorical devices such as anaphora and parallelism. An essential element of a preacher is being charismatic. This is a part of his technique because that charm is so compelling that it inspires devotion in others. King’s charisma also affects his...
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...Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” and Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream” In 1729, Jonathan Swift’s (hereafter referred as Swift) wrote a pamphlet “ A Modest Proposal For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick”. Through his pamphlet, Swift denounced the English’s treatment of the Irish community by proposing a “modest” solution to end Irish poverty. During the Civil Rights movement in 1963 , Martin Luther King Jr. (hereafter referred as King) gave a speech entitled “I have a dream” (Sipra and Rashid 29). Through his speech, King exposed America’s discrimination against the African-American (AA) community, and advocated for a peaceful social revolution. Both classical works of rhetoric exposed the injustice inflicted upon their marginalized community and urged their audience to take action against these injustice. Although Swift’s pamphlet held relevance to his readers, King’s speech was more persuasive than Swift’s pamphlet. King’s vigorous...
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