Rhetorical Reading To President Franklin D. Roosevelt's The Great Arsenal Of Democracy

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Applying rhetorical reading to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s speech “The Great Arsenal of Democracy” enhanced my ability to identify the text’s rhetorical situation. Given by Roosevelt, this speech is in rejoinder to an treaty between three powerful nations, two in Europe and one in Asia signed in Berlin on September 27th, 1940 creating the Axis, lead by Nazi Germany. In this case, his primary audience is, the owners of plants, managers, workers, and government employees. As a result, his secondary audience includes the American people, the government, industry, allies around the world, and members of the Axis. In spite of this broad audience, the focus of his speech is to inform the American people that it’s new purpose is to build with