During FDR 's first 100 days of lawmaking, Congress granted every request Roosevelt asked, and passed a few programs (such as the FDIC to insure bank accounts) that he opposed. Congress passed a record number of bills in just over three months. The relief measures passed during the first 100 days were targeted to help unemployment, In Document 1; FDR 's First Inaugural speech, he states "Our greatest primary task is to put to work. This is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely and courageously.
Somewhat differently, the “Corner Stone” speech resonates today because some people in the South continue to hold similar ideas to those Stephens described in the speech. While it is dying it out slowly, the notion that African Americans are inferior to their white brethren endures. Instead of simply claiming they are less evolved and inherently unequal, today’s racism takes the approach of saying they are more violent and prone to criminality. In effect, Stephens’s ideas about race stand but have taken a new guise. Supremacist sentiments, however, are not the only legacy left from his speech.
He briefly addresses the issues he finds with racism, and focusing on the important main goal of unity in America. Obama stated many things in his speech, which Clark states related to four rhetorical strategies: The power of allusion, parallelism, the “two-ness” of texture, and autobiography. Therefore, making his speech very influential to Obama getting his point across. Before analyzing Obama’s speech, Clark stated a very famous paragraph that was written by W.E.B DuBois.
Emotion in Motion March 23rd, 1775, this monumental day will forever be marked by Patrick Henry’s “Speech to the Virginia Convention”. This speech entailed a rally cry, a call to encourage the colonists to participate in a war to save their home land from Britain and their taxes without representation. During this time period was an enlightenment era based around science, religion was set on a back burner.
Today, millions of women can implement their rights to vote in all elections in the united states of America, but this (rights) did not come easily to those women who sacrifice their lives to make this happen. In the speech “Address to Congress on Women’s Suffrage”, Catt delivered her message for women’s right from a firsthand account of what she had experienced as a woman living in the United States of America in the 19th century. She advocated for the rights of women to vote because she believes in equal rights and justice for all citizens. The speech was very successful because of the use of ethos, pathos, and logos.
Roosevelt state 's, "Only thing we have to fear is fear itself. " The nameless,unreasoning,unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance(Roosevelt). The people were considered the backbone of his nation. Roosevelt 's courageous words to wage the war,followed by his prevailing actions,and the outcoming effects on the people. Roosevelt 's speech stated "In such a spirit...we face our common difficulties."
President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s State of the Union Address in the year 1942 opened with a powerful start. He remained good in posture, strong verbal skills, gestures and strong eye contact with his audience which goes to show confidence and being in control of your speech (Stephen D. Boyd, 2017). He addressed the Americans, the citizens of the United States before he mentioned anything. He went to show that the President, himself found faith in their spirits and how he was merely proud of his citizens. He presented a powerful statement to his audience by acknowledging them and according to Matt Eventoff, “a statement or phrase can catch the audience’s attention by keeping them guessing as to what you’re about to say next.
Lincoln 's Peoria Speech/Lincoln 's Fourth Debate with Stephen Douglas Abraham Lincoln is broadly viewed as the legend of American history; he is accepted to be the pioneer in liberating the Blacks from servitude. While giving his discourse before 12000 group of onlookers in the fourth verbal confrontation, Lincoln went ahead to state, "… I am not, nor ever have been, agreeable to achieving in any capacity the social and political fairness of the white and dark races.." (Lincoln 1:267). He communicated his view on the matter of racial balance, while he was against giving Blacks the equivalent rights, he additionally was against the way that Blacks were precluded from claiming everything. He accepted to appreciate the predominant position,
In the years leading up to the American Revolution, there was a tense relationship between the colonists and their British rulers. Large gatherings in the colonies to discuss the grievances caused by the actions of the British were common. Patrick Henry applies the rhetorical strategies of allusions and repetition in his “Speech in the Virginia Convention” to assert that the colonists should believe fighting for their freedom and rights is necessary and that they must fight as soon as possible. Although Henry has rather radical beliefs in comparison to the other members of the Convention, he connects with them through religious and literary allusions that are able to convince them of his assertions. In his speech, Henry alludes to
There are a variety of similarities and differences New Nationalism Speech by Theodore Roosevelt and New Freedom Speech by Woodrow Wilson. They both are a fascinating subject to talk about. In the 1900s, both Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson gave an important speech. In Osawatomie, Kansas, on September 1, 1910, Roosevelt made a case for the New Nationalism in his speech that argued about government protection of human welfare and property rights and how human welfare was more valuable than property rights (“Progressive Era” Teaching). He said wealthy people influence many corruptions in politics, so it prevents not only the passage of progressive laws, but came to question the possibility of real democracy in America (New Nationalism Speech
In the “The speech of Virginia convention” Patrick Henry is addressing how he feels over a certain topic. The topic of the delegates speeches were not supporting Henry's speech, but Henry presented his speech in a very sophisticated way. Henry shows his beliefs and values in his speech he gave in front of the delegates. Henry uses a very strong but not overpowering tone to convey his message.
Obama’s use of ethos and pathos in his “A More Perfect Union” speech further helps to persuade his voters to stick with him because he does not have the same views as Reverend Wright. It gives some context as to why some African-Americans feel the way they do towards the government and other races. In his speech Obama also uses irony by noting the old truism that the “most segregated hour in American life occurs on sunday morning” meaning that on a day that's supposed to be dedicated to love and God, the American people are still segregated and racially divided whether it be Black and White or Latino and Asian(Obama). The combined use of ethos, pathos, and irony strengthen Obama's message of unity and equality.
Hence, they crave peer acceptance in both, receiving genuine approval from neither” (West 139). Another renowned description of this phenomenon by Malcolm X is a metaphor stating that there are two kinds of slaves, the house negro and the field negro. Malcolm says that the house negroes love and protect the white master while field negroes hate and resist him, while this rhetorical device can be useful in highlighting differences amongst black people it’s a broad over generalization, and plain negligence to try and fit a black person in one of the two categories. Nevertheless, Malcolm creates a clear analysis of the issue of double-consciousness, showing that he understands the complexity of the matter at hand and that he is knowledgeable on the subject, hence utilizing ethos. While Malcolm X strongly believes that “black self-love and black self-determination [will make black people] free of the tension generated by ‘double-consciousness’”
At the beginning of his speech, he conveys emotion through telling his own story and putting the audience in his shoes. He states “On the one hand he is born in the shadow of the stars and stripes and he is assured it represents a nation which has never lost a war. He pledges allegiance to that flag which guarantees "liberty and justice for all. " He is part of a country in which anyone can become President, and so forth”. This shows the audience how African American children feel when living in a country made on the premise of equality, but feeling anything but equal to their Caucasian peers.
Double consciousness is a term coined by W.E.B. DuBois in his The Souls of Black Folk. He describes it as, “a peculiar sensation, this double consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity”(2). The theory of double consciousness is the idea that the African American must navigate the voyages of life from within a form of “two-ness” (2), because he is both man, and black.
