...no real bearing on life or the issues that surround it. If anyone ever tells you that speeches are meaningless, point them in the direction of influential presidential speakers such as President John F. Kennedy. His Inaugural Address, given at the height of the cold war, intended to focus not only a nation but the world out of war and into peace, it was so influential and powerful that many people remember it to this day. In his address Kennedy used rhetorical devices such as antithesis, appeals to emotion, and antimetabole to persuade his audience to the idea of peace and not war. JFK was a man that never used a five dollar word where a ten cent one would do. He was a man of simple words and plain speaking. His inaugural speech was also fairly short and to the point. Kennedy begins by using antithesis and describes his presidential victory as “symbolizing an end, as well as a beginning - - signifying renewal, as well as change” (Kennedy 1961). This emphasizes the importance of his winning of the presidential election and his hopes of bringing peace, prosperity and liberty not only to America but to all nations. Later in his address he also uses antithesis when he...
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...JFK was the 35th president of the United State during the cold-war time, and he was Catholic. We all acknowledge that JFK’s inaugural address has become one of the most famous and classic speech in history, because it has the strong power of words and phrases. Millions of his audiences were moved by JFK's inaugural address fifty years ago; even now we still are impressed by its rhetorical devices. One of JFK’s most effective methods in the speech is his strong diction. From the beginning to the end of the passage, JFK creates a directive and decisive tone to move his audience. Certainly, there are some words used to convince and to persuade people in the speech: steady, powerful, and pledge, for showing audiences the speaker's passion and drawing...
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...an African American who was a civil rights activist that led peaceful protests and presented fantastic speeches. One of his most famous speeches being his “I Have a Dream” speech spoken in Washington D.C. in front of many black and white people to present his idea of equality. John F. Kennedy was a young, white American who possessed incredible charisma that got him to the oval office in one of the closest presidential elections. He knew his Inaugural Address must...
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...2.2.2 JFK Inaugural Address If anyone ever tells you that speeches don't make a difference, point them at JFK's Inaugural Address. After winning the Presidential election by one of the smallest margins in history, he received a 75% approval rating from the American public the following day, something most of today's politicians would kill for. The fact that so much of it is still remembered today is an indication of just how powerful his words were. People still debate today who wrote most of the speech - President Kennedy himself or his speechwriter Ted Sorensen - so perhaps we should just agree to look at it as a team effort. Unlike (say) President Obama's recent 2nd Inaugural, JFK's Inaugural was aimed not only at the people of American but the people of the world. It was, after all, delivered at the height of the Cold War (the Cuban Missile Crisis happened only 20 months later). If you read it in full you are immediately struck by how international in character and globally focused it is. Using a rhetorical device called anaphora, in successive paragraphs he directs his words as seen in these examples “To those old allies whose cultural and spiritual origins we share,” ”To those new states whom we welcome to the ranks of the free,” “To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe “ “To our sister republics south of our border,” “To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations,” Finally, to those nations who would make themselves our adversary”...
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...In order for a speech to be effective, the speaker must use rhetorical devices that can grab an audience’s attention and help them remember the speech forever. Ronald Reagan, John F. Kennedy, and Abraham Lincoln have made the most memorable speeches of all time because of the rhetorical devices they used. Reagan (“The Challenger”) used pathos, allusion, and parallelism. Kennedy (“Inaugural Address”) applied antithesis, parallelism, and anaphora. And Lincoln utilized allusion, anaphora, and epistrophe into his speech. Each of these speeches lasted anywhere from a minute to two hours. But in the end, length did not matter; the only thing that mattered is the rhetorical devices these president's used in order to get the nation to listen to them and therefore do what they are told. In Ronald Reagan’s “The Challenger” speech, he uses the rhetorical device pathos, or the appeal to emotion, in order to connect the pain that his family, the entire nation, and the families of those affected by the disaster were feeling. As WordPress.com said, “Reagan uses his delivery, use of dictation, and appeals to pathos to help attempt a...
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...John Fitzgerald Kennedy is credited as being one of America’s greatest speakers. That is why, when asked to choose a speech to do a rhetorical analysis on from the Top 100 American Speeches on www.americanrhetoric.com, I had to choose his “Inaugural Address” from January 20, 1961. This speech is ranked second, under Martin Luther King Jr.’s, “I Have a Dream.” President Kennedy utilized many of the tools typically used in rhetorical or persuasive writing. He took full advantage of Aristotle’s three areas of rhetorical speech writing: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos, paired along with other literary tools such as repetition, rhythm, and comparison. President Kennedy opens his speech by establishing credibility, or ethos, “For I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three-quarters ago.(Americanrhetoric.com)” This excerpt tells the American people that he has followed the rules and has a legitimate responsibility to the American public as did the Presidents in the past. He is official. Then, a few moments later, JFK begins to capitalize on the emotions of the people, tying himself to them, identifying with them by using words such as “we.” This is the pathos part of his speech, “the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans -- born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights...
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...John Fitzgerald Kennedy is credited as being one of America’s greatest speakers. That is why, when asked to choose a speech to do a rhetorical analysis on from the Top 100 American Speeches on www.americanrhetoric.com, I had to choose his “Inaugural Address” from January 20, 1961. This speech is ranked second, under Martin Luther King Jr.’s, “I Have a Dream.” President Kennedy utilized many of the tools typically used in rhetorical or persuasive writing. He took full advantage of Aristotle’s three areas of rhetorical speech writing: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos, paired along with other literary tools such as repetition, rhythm, and comparison. President Kennedy opens his speech by establishing credibility, or ethos, “For I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three-quarters ago.(Americanrhetoric.com)” This excerpt tells the American people that he has followed the rules and has a legitimate responsibility to the American public as did the Presidents in the past. He is official. Then, a few moments later, JFK begins to capitalize on the emotions of the people, tying himself to them, identifying with them by using words such as “we.” This is the pathos part of his speech, “the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans -- born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights...
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...In1961, John F Kennedy was elected as the president. When he prepared to be qualified as a president, he gave a public speech—JFK’s inaugural address— to motivate not only Americans but also foreigners to unite and to protect their liberty. For making sense with all of audiences, he applied the skillful rhetorical devices—repetition and tactical reasoning. First, the president JFK reasons with audience by appealing to pathos in three times in his speech. At the beginning, he says: “To those old allies …we pledge the loyalty of faithful friends…” for increasing his credibility. He gives old allies a promise--they will not betray them; they will ally forever; they are always friends— so that old allies will tend to trust them. His promise not...
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...Fourth Edition Reframing Organizations Artistry, Choice, and Leadership LEE G. BOLMAN TERRENCE E. DEAL B est- se l l i n g a u t h o rs of LEADING WITH SOUL FOURTH EDITION Reframing Organizations Artistry, Choice, and Leadership Lee G. Bolman • Terrence E. Deal Copyright © 2008 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved. Published by Jossey-Bass A Wiley Imprint 989 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94103-1741—www.josseybass.com No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, 978-750-8400, fax 978-6468600, or on the Web at www.copyright.com. Requests to the publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, 201-7486011, fax 201-748-6008, or online at www.wiley.com/go/permissions. Credits are on page 528. Readers should be aware that Internet Web sites offered as citations and/or sources for further information may have changed or disappeared between the time this was written and when it is read. Limit of Liability/Disclaimer...
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