President Carter gave this acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention on July 15, 1976. He was accepting the party’s nomination for president. The tone of his speech was optimistic and encouraging. President Carter said that “this will be the year we give the government… back to the people. ” This had to be inspiring to his Democratic audience because of the recent illegal actions of President Richard Nixon.
“To infinity and beyond” wasn’t always so joyful. On January 28, 1986, seven astronauts died from the space shuttle Challenger explosion. Ronald Reagan was given the daunting task of addressing the accident to the nation and bringing comfort to them. He made a decision to postpone his state of the union speech so he could help the nation cope with this tragedy. His speech had to acknowledge every group of people from the school children watching on tv, to the families of the victim, and NASA too.
Tragedies, they will happen without a hint of awareness but they cannot be stopped or answered for. When they do occur it leads people to shock and grief. However tragedies brings forth something that gives people unity, hope, and direction. This something is called a leader and throughout history many people have embodied this quality. There are many instances where people have stood up an embodied this quality.
He describes the Arctic Refuge by providing an anecdote to when he and his wife visited. On paragraph 2 he says, "We had hoped to see caribou during our trip, but to our amazement, we witnessed the migration of tens of thousands of caribou with their newborn calves". He provides the anecdote in order to give the audience a firsthand experience of what the Arctic Refuge is like. This story from the President allows the audience to understand the beauty of the Arctic Refuge and why it is important to preserve it.
With the specific explanation about the influence of the Alaska National Interest Land Conservation Act, that it “specifically created the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, doubled the size of the former range, and restricted development in areas that are clearly incompatible with oil exploration”, Carter supports his argument that protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is necessary from a professional perspective of the singer of a relative major act by using ethos, and it not only appeals to the audiences by referring his character as the former US president, but also helps the author to raise credibility of his central argument. In conclusion, Jimmy Carter adeptly utilizes pathos, logos, and ethos to strengthen his argument that the industrial development in the Arctic National Wild Refuge should be prohibited in his foreword to Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and land, A photographic Journey by Subhankar
Rhetorical Devices Open Ended Response In Ronald Reagan`s speech, ethos and logos are two rhetorical devices using either exquisite knowledge and integrity or logicality to persuade his audience of knocking the Wall of Berlin down. Throughout Reagan`s speech, ethos is a rhetorical device in which he uses to demonstrate and express his knowledge, and show integrity to those listening. Subsequently, this technique is what convinces the author of the continuous idea of knocking down the Wall of Berlin; overall, knocking down the wall would no longer separate Europe, and would spread the freedom between East and West Berlin. Ronald states, “President von Weizsacker has said, ‘The German question is open as long as the Brandenburg Gate is closed,’
America’s last great wilderness—The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge—will be diminished if not saved. Believing that this area of land is magnificent, Jimmy Carter wants to help stop the progression of industrial facilities on this sacred land. In his foreword to Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land, Jimmy Carter emphasizes the importance of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Carter builds a compassionate tone using diction, imagery, and anecdotes. Magnificent.
In Ronald Reagan speech he uses Amplification to show with the phrase if you 3 common values of prosperity, peace, and liberalization on how they contribute to his message of freedom and security of limiting the growth of arms from the soviets. Ronald Reagan most climatic phrase that develops his message was when he was referring to Mr. Gorbachev ¨ if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! The significance he creates when he repeats “if you” show how this phrase is significance a big role in his tone when speaking he assertive but still professional and in that phrase as well he doesn’t necessarily tells them straight up what to do so that he doesn’t
Jimmy Carter was highly involved and persuasive regarding politics. Carter had opened Georgia’s government offices to women and people of color (“Jimmy Carter”). This shows that Carter was not a biased man. He believed everyone deserved the same opportunities. Carter lacked a national political base or major backing, but was able to win the 1974 presidential election through endless campaigning (“Jimmy Carter”).
He describes as how the area used for oil drilling will only be 1 to 2 percent of his country’s oil usage daily. He states that industry that is used there will produce so little that barely anything that the risk of the animals in the area is not worth to start industry there. The usage of this area is absolutely not worth and preserving the wildlife there is a better option. Jimmy Carter points a very good point why the industry residing in the area will barely change the oil usage shows how useless building industry on the Arctic Refuge will
In his 1995 essay “The Trouble with Wilderness,” William Cronon declares that “the time has come to rethink wilderness” (69). From the practice of agriculture to masculine frontier fantasies, Cronon argues that Americans have historically defined wilderness as an “island,” separate from their polluted urban industrial homes (69). He traces the idea of wilderness throughout American history, asserting that the idea of untouched, pristine wilderness is a harmful fantasy. By idealizing wilderness from a distance, he argues that people justify the destruction of less sublime landscapes and aggravate environmental conflict.
The Alaskan Bush is one of the hardest places to survive without any assistance, supplies, skills, and little food. Jon Krakauer explains in his biography, Into The Wild, how Christopher McCandless ventured into the Alaskan Bush and ultimately perished due to lack of preparation and hubris. McCandless was an intelligent young man who made a few mistakes but overall Krakauer believed that McCandless was not an ignorant adrenalin junkie who had no respect for the land. Krakauer chose to write this biography because he too had the strong desire to discover and explore as he also ventured into the Alaskan Bush when he was a young man, but he survived unlike McCandless. Krakauer’s argument was convincing because he gives credible evidence that McCandless was not foolish like many critics say he was.
Former United States President Jimmy Carter takes a compelling stance against the destruction of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for purpose of economic gain. By including personal experience in the passage, he explains the everlasting effects placed upon his mind at the sight of the beautiful glimpse of nature. Carter also connects his reader with the magnificence of the refuge, leading the reader to believe that such beauty cannot be replaced by anything else. Through Carter’s vivid description of his personal experiences with the refuge and his apparent use of imagery to evoke an emotional reaction from his reader, Carter convinces him or her that the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge should not be manipulated and destroyed for industrial
In his emotionally inspiring speech, “Shuttle Challenger Address,” Ronald Reagan expresses his deepest condolences to the people most affected by the Challenger accident. He advances his speech with a gentle yet strong willed facade in order to inspire the future generations of astronauts to not let this tragedy affect their future endeavors. Raegen then briefly puts his presidential status aside in order to further express the depth of his pain, not only at a presidential level, but as an American citizen concerned for the well being of his country. Raegen applies different types of rhetorical devices in order to emotionally appeal to the people most affected by the accident, while at the same time encourage the general public to not let this
Jack Ewing’s is one successful person who follows the domino effect by creating the Hacienda Baru National Wildlife Refuge. Indeed, many persons who visit the Hacienda Baru came with a different set of mind in which they will follow the path of this positive ecological domino effect. At the same time, the land ethic goes hand in hand with the domino effect. Aldo Leopold describes the land ethic as the “simply enlarges [of ] the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals” (Leopold, “Land” 239). In other words, a land ethic “reflect a conviction of individual responsibility for the health of the land” (258).
