...9/11 Speech Rhetorical Analysis Essay The setting of this speech was September 11, 2001 and our former president during the time, George Bush, was addressing the nation about an infamous terrorist attack on the twin towers in lower Manhattan, New York, The Pentagon in Washington D.C, and flight 93 that landed in a field in Pennsylvania. The towers took up over 16 acres of land and both stood at 1,362 feet with 104 floors. The terrorist attack on the twin towers had the most fatalities with 2,606 that perished. Flight 93 obtained 44 fatalities including the 4 hijackers. The pentagon was attacked on the west side of the building, which was thankfully under construction that day which led to no casualties besides the terrorists. The president had to address the nation about what was happening and help people understand the importance of keeping our nation safe. The president got the attention of the nation with his opening sentence. Bush said, “Today our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and...
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...shaina The 9/11 memorial has received different visitors from the entire world and the 50 states of United States since its creation ranging from dignitaries to the meek in the society. It provides a sense of serenity, and reflection to those who understand its deep symbolic meaning. It is situated at the location of the former World Trade Center, and sits on 8 acres of land. The Memorial comprises of two big waterfalls and pools that provide reflection, with each waterfall occupying an acre. The pools are set at the original Twin Towers footprints. The 9/11 Memorial has been described as “one of the most eco-friendly plazas ever constructed”. The memorial was designed to provide a sense of revival and spirit of hope creating a contemplative social space that is separated from the ordinary scenes and noise of the busy New York City. The White Oak trees surrounding the memorial, aesthetically provide a canopy through it rustling leaves. Blair,...
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...The documentary genre allows filmmakers to put forward a biased account of events. Michael Moore is one such filmmaker that has exploited this genre. In his latest documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11, Moore presents a biased recount of the Iraq war. Analysis of Fahrenheit 9/11, in particular chapter eight, demonstrates the subjective nature of the documentary genre. Moore exploits a toolkit of persuasive techniques to position viewers to accept his own values and beliefs regarding the war. Moore creates three distinct, biased representations in the chapter; he represents George Bush and his administration as deceitful warmongers, Iraq as a sovereign nation suffering at the hands of US oppression and American soldiers as both unsympathetic idiots and as mere pawns that are experiencing the horror of war. Together, these representations uphold Moore's political agenda of the time; to discredit Bush and his administration, to depict the US decision to invade Iraq as a foreign policy abomination, all with the ultimate goal to sway the public from re-electing Bush in 2004. Chapter eight opens with a shot of bombs being readied for deployment, immediately followed by Bush receiving attention to his hair. The alternation between wartime preparations and the cheeky smile of the president continues until Bush addresses his nation. By juxtaposing the serious subject-matter of war with a president who is apparently more concerned with appearances, Moore represents Bush as being superficial and...
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...Rida Tariq Mrs. Landerholm U.S History II 9/11 DBQ Part I: Document 1: 1) Greg Rodriguez was the son of Phillis and Orlando Rodriguez, who was a victim in the World Trade Center attacks. 2) His parents wrote this letter because the government was going in a way of violence, they had thought that violence is not the way to go. The families should be allowed to grieve and pray instead of focusing on attacking back. Document 2: 1) President Bush demands were closing terrorist training camps, passing over leaders of Al-Qaeda network, and recurring all foreign nationals, that included American citizens who were obtain unjustly. 2) One reason was that none of the president’s demands were met and second was that to stop Taliban from other...
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...9/11 was it preventable? We will never know, but John O’Neill the man who knew it was coming did try to stop it. Although, he knew he was trying to stop terrorism I don’t think he knew it would be to the magnitude that it turned out to be. There was a lack of structural knowledge at the base of 9/11. Structural knowledge is the knowledge of how variable in a system are related and how they influence one another. Which is ideal for a math problem not for a human. In an individual mind it is called a reality model which can either be explicit or implicit. John O’Neill was considered a maverick by the FBI, but he actually had implicit knowledge. According to Dorner, implicit knowledge is quite common and is referred to as intuition. From the very...
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...What happened on 9/11 and how it is affecting people's lives today as it did 15 years ago today as well. “ This group and its leaders, a person named Osama bin Laden, are linked to many other organizations in different countries, including the Egyptian islamic Jihad, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.” This tells who was responsible for 9/11. Who killed all those innocent people. People that were just working in a building so that they could provide for their families. Not only did the people in the workplace get killed but so did some of the firefighters and people on the streets. But just imagine going to work in the morning thinking that nothing's gonna happen and that today is gonna be a good day and then go slowly to your death just think about that for a minute. They used Pathos. When I read I felt emotion like how they probably did at the time. When the people in the crowd heard this speech I think that they might have cried or felt a sad emotion. For the Rhetorical appeal I choose Weasel Words. I chose this because it means to suggest a positive meaning without actually really making any guarantees. I believe is what this Quote is saying....
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...When UNC freshman Alec Dent reported on the English 72: Literature of 9/11 course, saying its material “painted terrorists in a sympathetic light,” despite Dent having never read any of the course’s books or even attending one of the classes, that was bad. When Heather Childers of the show Fox and Friends: First called out the class solely for its assigned books without mentioning any of its activities, including class discussions on the 9/11 Commission Report and watching the movie “Zero Dark Thirty,” that made matters worse. But the most unfortunate moment of this episode was when the UNC College Republicans, under its chairman Frank Pray, started a petition asking Chancellor Carol Folt to condemn the course, saying the readings “justify terrorism” and “desecrate the victims of the September 11 attacks.” Of course, the College Republicans followed this by boasting how proud the group was of one of the club’s newest members,...
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...the past ... [and] are often perceived to embody memory” (11). Photographs are commonly thought of as confirmation that real people and objects existed, and that real events took place. However, photographs are incapable of being accurate reflections of the “real” world and always have meaning imposed on them by their creators, whether consciously or unconsciously asserted (Sontag). In addition to the reading of the photographer, it is crucial to examine how an image is interpreted by its consumers. Photo-viewing and -sharing has reached a crescendo in the twenty-first century, with increased public accessibility to images resulting in more public dialogues about their...
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...The 9/11 memorial consists of two enormous reflecting pools that sit in the very footprints of where the Twin Towers once stood. A cascade of water falls from each wall and into the pools in a continuous stream. The pools are surrounded by bronze panels that are inscribed with the names of the nearly three thousand people who died in the attacks of 2001 and the World Trade Center bombing of 1993. Each of these components highlight the gigantic void that resulted from the attack. That is, they symbolize devastating loss. Encompassing the memorial is the memorial plaza. The surface of the plaza is decorated by a forest of swamp white oak trees. One tree, however, is different. It is a callery pear tree, now known as the, “Survivor Tree”. This tree was at the site on September 11, 2001. It was discovered in a pile of debris, nursed back to health, and returned back to the site. This is meant to represent...
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...Both President George Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair delivered speeches after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon. It was during this time that the United States desperately needed support and direction in terms of how it was going to deal with the most detrimental terrorist attack in history. The attack took America by surprise, and many people were in constant fear for their lives and their country. Because of this state of trauma that the nation was in, both Bush and Blair took action and delivered emotional speeches that utilized several rhetorical techniques to adequately minimized public fears as well as persuaded America to take collective action. On September 20, 2001, President George Bush...
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...On September 11, 2001 terrorist hijackers crashed jetliners into both of the World's Trade Center towers in New York. These crashes caused the collapse of the two towers, while a third jetliner was crashed into the Pentagon located in Virginia. After this attack, about thousands had perished during the attacks as stated by U.S. President Bush. These attacks caused the sadness in those who lost their loved ones in the 9/11 attacks and anger in those who witnessed the attacks. Many believed that the U.S. government in retaliation for the attacks needed a response. They believed that the terrorists should be brought to justice no matter what. In response to the 9/11 attacks, the government of the U.S. started to destroy terrorist camps and signed the Patriot Act. In document three it stated, "clear and specific demands: Close terrorist camps. Hand over the leaders of the al-Qaeda network, and return all foreign nationals, including American citizens unjustly detained in our country." The Taliban did not give in to the demands, so in response the U.S. started striking military targets like training camps...
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...# 2) Statistic source:The montage continues (with martial music playing under Michael Moore’s voice-over. Then he goes on to wonder about all the people in other countries—they go bowling, they listen to rock music, they watch violent movies, play violent video games, etc. Now he really gets wound up. Is it poverty? Is it our Western tradition of clearing the land and destroying indigenous people? But wait—look at other countries and the violence they have wrought. Cut to Hitler as a graphic on the screen says, “Germans exterminate 12 million,” and “Japanese occupation of China,” and “French massacre in Algiers,” and “British slaughter in India.” His voice-over: In spite of all this, how many people are killed by guns each year? As he recounts the figures, the graphics pop up on the screen (across images from movies, tourist travel films of the countries, and other archival footage: 381 in Germany, 255 in France, 165 in Canada, 68 in the UK, 65 in Australia, 39 in Japan, and 11,127 in the USA. this particular source strengths Moore's position because he shows actual statistics on the screen. Interview source: Michael Moore uses interviews as a source for his film. He keeps the cinema verite style moving: we keep seeing the people he is interviewing and hear him ask the questions before they answer them. He finds two people in bars and asks them if they lock their doors. Nope. He learns that both of them have suffered break-ins. But do they lock their doors...
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...Fahrenheit 9/11 This is a film that will make U.S. citizens really think about what actually happened on September 11th, 2001 and what is still happening with our country. Whether viewers of this film are fans of Michael Moore’s work or not, he keeps viewers guessing throughout about what he is going too pursued upon them next. It is almost hard as a first time viewer of this documentary to believe everything that is provided throughout the film. Moore has ways of convincing his viewers into what he exactly wants them to believe but sometimes he is lacking the credibility of where this information is coming from. Obviously there are parts of the film that viewers cannot argue with, in cases where there is footage of political officials or general public talking on a certain subject. But at the same time Moore usually doesn’t include what he is always asking the interviewee, so once again is he just showing his audience what is needed to be heard in part will make the viewer believe in what he wants them to. One of the most catching parts of the film as a viewer is Moore’s choice of music in particular scenes. While showing live clips he would play songs that take the scene to another level. He makes the viewer really focus on what he is trying to impose through the music playing in the background. As a viewer it is easy to see that when Moore is using a specific song in the scene it is simply adding to the situation that is being viewed. In all the cases whether it is some...
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...Sydney Nelesen 13 September 2016 The Idiot Wall In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the government-controlled television shows are catered towards a society of conformists with short attention spans and no desire for any substance or meaning. There is a show in which people randomly yell at each other for no reason other than that they are in some sort of argument. Mildred watches this show, and when asked by Guy what it is about, she has trouble trying to explain it. Guy prompts her with questions about the people arguing and she struggles remembering. Mildred watches her television shows and does not comprehend what is going on because the shows are very nonsensical. She is not bothered by the lack of sense, though. All she cares about are the pretty colors and loud noises. The way she acts towards this plotless show reveals that she is superficial and ignorant. Mildred also has get togethers during which she and her friends only watch television and barely communicate. When they do, it is about their television shows, another of which is The White Clown. Mildred invites two of her friends over to watch The White Clown. When the show comes onto the walls, “A woman smiled and drank orange juice simultaneously… the room took off on a rocket flight into the clouds; it plunged into a lime-green sea… White Cartoon Clowns chopped off each other’s limbs… the room whipped out of town to the jet cars wildly circling an arena [, and then] a number of bodies [flew] in the air”...
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...In Ray Bradbury’s futuristic short story “The Pedestrian” the protagonist, Leonard Mead struggles against society’s norms. In a society where everyone is attached to technology, Leonard Mead is different from everyone else. The society does not consider him normal because he writes books instead of sitting in front of a tv screen all day. On top of that, he goes on walks at night while people are in their houses. Using the setting of a dystopian future, the author conveys the theme that technology poses as a threat to society. The setting of Mead’s society demonstrates how technology threatens the future. In the year of 2053, Leonard Mead feels as if he is “alone in the world” because no one is ever outside (1). Mead feels lonely in his world...
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