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Dr. Martin Luther King was a keynote speaker at the ‘March On Washington’, on August 28th, 1963. The speech was during the height of the civil rights movement. Speaking to thousands, he used the size of his audience to his advantage. Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States of America, spoke to 200 people, on July 16, 2009, at the centennial anniversary of the founding of the NAACP. The two speeches were very different in many ways, but both were about justice, equality, and the rights of those not fortunate enough to have them. Dr. King reached his audience well using Pathos and Ethos, but a large lack of Logos makes the audience believe that the speech was not founded in fact. Obama used a lot of Logos but many of the facts …show more content…

Pathos was useful for bond building between the speakers and the audiences. In Dr. King’s speech there were many examples, but one of the most memorable was “Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.”. The strong and passionate language helped the audience feel the emotion of the speech, building a bond between Dr. King and the hundreds listening. Obama also used strong language in his speech but there were not as many examples to choose from. One example was “I want their horizons to be limitless. I don't tell them they can’t do something. Dont feed our children with a sense of that somehow because of their race that they can not achieve.”. By discussing the subject of children, the parents of the audience were likely moved because they want their kids to have a strong future, therefore helping create a bond between Obama and his …show more content…

One of the best allusions in Dr. King’s speech was in the beginning when he referenced Lincoln’s gettysburg address by starting the second paragraph off with “Five score years ago-”. This reference helped the audience make connections between Lincoln and Dr. King. One of the allusions in Obama’s speech was “but our kids can’t all aspire to be LeBron or Lil Wayne.”. It was a cultural allusion because those are prominent figures in some teenager’s lives. Most people know of them due to the times they are in. This made the audience feel like they were in on

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