...In a world where anyone can say anything, it is important to be able to identify the reasons behind the speaker’s purpose and what the individual is actually implying. The person I will be doing rhetorical analysis on is Donald Trump. Trump is sixty-nine years of age and he is currently a Chairman as well as president of The Trump Organization. I think Trump will be rhetorically interesting because I have done rhetorical analysis on him about his Facebook page previously. He was good at using rhetorical appeals to his audience at the right spots. To start off, for Trump, obviously his overall goal is to get votes. At the main republican presidential debate (excerpt on page 3), he present himself as someone respectful of his opponents by using...
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...Tate Bennett Professor Jack Wood COMM3300 7/11/2024 Genre Criticism: Barack Obama Introduction Many politicians have come up with a slew of slogans for their campaigns. Slogans like “All the way with L.B.J.” for Lyndon B. Johnson’s campaign, “This time vote like your whole world depended on it” for Richard Nixon’s campaign, and “Stronger together” for Hillary Clinton’s campaign. These are all examples of a rhetorical artifact that fits within a political-slogan-type genre. For my second paper, I will be analyzing Barack Obama’s slogan from his 2008 campaign. His slogan is as follows: “Change We Can Believe In” (Obama 2008). I believe this slogan follows the proper guidelines and structure of the many political slogans that have come before...
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...Comm 301 May 8, 2014 A Pentadic Analysis of Hillary Clinton Interview The artifact we are analyzing for our study is a live television interview that Hillary Clinton was giving to San Francisco’s KTVU-TV in late February of 2008. This interview was broadcasted via television and is also available on YouTube and other video media sources. The interview was being hosted by a man named Ross McGowan of KTVU-TV to senator Hillary Clinton, and that within itself makes it a significant artifact. The live interview about healthcare that Hillary Clinton was giving had to be cut short when the New York senator began having a coughing fit. Prior to the cough attack, the interview was directed but not limited to the subject of health care. Senator Clinton was speaking of issues such as the pulling troops from the Iraq war, California’s mortgage crisis, Americas current health care system, and the idea of a universal health care system. In the end of the interview Clinton fails to answer the question regarding her husbands role in her campaign by coughing for the remainder of the interview abruptly ending it. Whether or not the actions by Clinton were intended, speculation of this interview arose. In 2000, Hillary Clinton became the first women to be elected a seat in the United States Senate. At first glance, Clinton’s aggrandizement to such a respectable political position seemed like a victory for herself and the ongoing women’s movement effort. However, the continual reminder of...
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...In a formal discussion on a particular topic in a public meeting or legislative assembly, in which opposing arguments are put forward, the presidential debate is focusing on one question what makes a good president? The two candidates use a mix of eye contact and physical movement to get the audience's attention and show what they meant and where feeling they also used things like pathos, ethos and logos that helped to support their debate. In the presidential debate both candidates use rhetorical analysis such as ethos in their responses to the questions that were being asked by the audience. When being used, the candidates were attacking each others ethos. For example, when Clinton said, “when I hear something like that, I am reminded of what my friend Michelle Obama advised us all. When they go low, you go high”(CBSNewsOnline) it showed that she is already connected to power and that she is associated with the First Lady and the whole presidential family. Once she brought in the First Lady it gave her a step up from trump because she now got the support from the civilians that love Michelle Obama. There...
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...Rhetorical Comic Analysis – Four More Years ...of Gridlock Michael Cannon ECPI University Abstract This is a rhetorical analysis paper on a political cartoon called “Four more years …of Gridlock” drawn by Patrick Chappette for the “International Herald Tribune.” It depicts both the reaction of the re-election of President Obama, as well as the realistic reaction of the G.O.P. on their stance of congress still being at a political gridlock. There has been much conversation in the political world if progress can truly be made in Congress between the Democratic Party and the G.O.P. or the Republican Party. This paper breaks down both the Democratic and Republican side of the cartoon, than my opinion on the cartoon as a whole and what message the artist Chappette is trying to send to his audience. Rhetorical Analysis: Four More Years ..of Gridlock Figure 1. A cartoon by Patrick Chappatte about the re-election of President Obama and the thoughts of G.O.P. on his re-election. Source: http://ideas.time.com/2012/11/08/cartoons-of-the-week-november-2-9/photo/cartoon Figure 1. A cartoon by Patrick Chappatte about the re-election of President Obama and the thoughts of G.O.P. on his re-election. Source: http://ideas.time.com/2012/11/08/cartoons-of-the-week-november-2-9/photo/cartoon The 2012 presidential election was nothing short of interesting. The controversy behind everything the candidates did was unbelievable, and in turn, this created the opportunity for a multitude of...
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...Comparative Rhetorical Analysis: Donald Trump and Jeb Bush “I’m officially announcing my candidacy for President of the United States of America.” Members of the Republican Party have heard this seventeen times so far during the duration of this presidential primary cycle. It’s safe to say that anyone who gives any attention to presidential elections in America have been enlightened with a very interesting presidential primary so far to say the least. It’s important to analyze what statements the candidates are trying to present to the potential voters in their party's primary election. Businessman, Donald Trump and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush campaign announcement speeches are considered to be in the top tier of effectiveness. While they both have very different views on how to govern our country and Governor Bush mentions about "we" a considerable amount of times while Donald Trump lectures...
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...Rhetorical situations are constantly occurring in our lives. But how do we recognize them? A rhetorical situation can happen in anything from an argument with a friend to something on a much larger scale like a presidential campaign speech. We see small rhetorical situations in commercials and even magazine and billboard adds. Rhetorical situations can be complicated so it is important for us to know how to properly analyze an argument but first we need to know what they are. Keith Grant-Davie defines a rhetorical situation as “a situation where a speaker or writer sees a need to change reality and sees that the change may be effected through rhetorical discourse.” (105). This definition is a little tricky but he later goes on to explain that within a rhetorical situation he finds four constituents: exigence, rhetors, audiences, and constraints (106). The Winter Park Florida advertisement book written by the WP Chamber of Commerce, is a great example to see how the four constituents can be used in an advertisement to create a well-made argument that attracts an audience. The first constituent, exigence, isn’t too difficult to determine in this piece. In the essay, “Rhetorical Situations and Their Constituents, Keith Grant-Davie defined exigence as “some kind of need or problem that can be addressed and solved through rhetorical discourse” (105). In otherwords it is the issue or challenge in an argument. The goal. In this brochure the exigence is quite clear, to get people...
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...vision of the country (United States) and to set forth their goals for the nation. With that being said, this paper will use the strategy of genre analysis to critique to examine Barack Obama’s second Inaugural Address and John F. Kennedy’s inaugural speech. Genre analysis is a type of rhetorical analysis that examines speeches based on the artifacts or commonalities that contain. The artifacts of speech are created by the rhetor as a response to a specific exigency. So as Bitzer’s essay, The Rhetorical Situation, saw it, in order for a text to be rhetorical, it must come in response to a rhetorical situation. Furthermore a rhetorical situation has three characteristics, an audience, an existence of constraints, and as mentioned above, an exigency. One manner, in which we can analyze an artifact, is through...
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...only clearing his name of the allegation that he had received illegal campaign funds, but he also had to present himself as a viable asset to the Republican ticket. Nixon bared his heart to the American people, and in turn was applauded for his honesty and good character. Nixon’s speech was met with nearly unanimous acceptance and praise. But, audience acceptance alone is not what makes a speech unforgettable or worth writing about. Good speech analysis involves evaluating the speaker, audience and environment surrounding a speech. Before Nixon’s speech can be analyzed there must be a clear understanding of the events leading up to his speech. After only six years in politics as the California state Governor, Richard Nixon was chosen by Dwight Eisenhower as his running-mate in the Presidential election. Being only 39-years old and having relatively no political experience it was an honor for Nixon to be chosen. The main issues being debated by the presidential and vice-presidential hopefuls were the Korean War, communism and corruption. Nixon focused most heavily on addressing the issue of communism because of his contributions in exposing democratic politician Alger Hiss as a communist who had given secrets to the Soviets. The Hiss case consequently gave Nixon national exposure as an able opponent of Communism and a defender of traditional America. . Everything was going smoothly in the Nixon-Eisenhower campaign until...
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...Obama’s speech at the Groundbreaking Ceremony of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial (2006) Even when a life ends, a soul can manage to live on with the people who it has left behind. This can appear through memorable deeds that a life can have managed to make before it passes. The above is what Barack Obama’s speech at the Groundbreaking Ceremony of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial from 2006 is about. Through the use of many of the same rhetorical instruments that Martin Luther King used before him, Obama establishes not only what Martin Luther King meant to America but also what he means to Obama on a personal level. In the following, I will make a rhetorical analysis and interpretation of the speech. The speech can be described as being an occasion speech which means that Obama’s aim is for him to entertain his audience at the memorial, by interpreting his vision of Martin Luther King Jr. The speaker is Barack Obama who is an African-American senator and soon-to-be presidential candidate in the United States. The audience for his speech is the participating to the national memorial, but primarily the speech is meant for the African-American inhabitants. He entertains his audience by reminding them of the great things that King has accomplished for the African-Americans in the United States of America: “I will tell them that because he did these things, they live today with the freedom God intended, their citizenship unquestioned, their dreams...
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...Advanced Placement English Language and Composition Advanced Placement English III First Six Weeks – Introductory Activities: ▪ Class rules, expectations, procedures ▪ Students review patterns of writing, which they will imitate throughout the course: reflection, narration and description, critical analysis, comparison and contrast, problem and solution, and persuasion and argument. ▪ Students review annotation acronyms, how to do a close reading, literary elements and rhetorical devices. Students also review the SOAPSTONE (subject, occasion, audience, purpose, speaker, tone, organization, narrative style and evidence) strategy for use in analyzing prose and visual texts along with three of the five cannons of rhetoric: invention, arrangement and style. ▪ Students learn the format of the AP test, essay rubric and essay structure. ▪ Students take a full-length AP test for comparison purposes in the spring. Reading: The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne Writing: Answer the following question in one paragraph. Use quotes from the novel as evidence. Some readers believe that the elaborate decoration that Hester embroiders on the scarlet letter indicates her rejection of the community’s view of her act. Do you agree or disagree? Explain your position using evidence from the text. (test grade) Writing: Write a well-developed essay addressing the following prompt. Document all sources using MLA citation. Compare Hester to a modern...
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...EN1320 EN1320 04/13/2013 04/13/2013 Essay 3.1 Rhetorical Analysis Obamas “A More Perfect Union” Speech Essay 3.1 Rhetorical Analysis Obamas “A More Perfect Union” Speech On March 18, 2008, Senator and future President Barack Obama delivered a speech that was titled “A More Perfect Union” (Obama Race Speech, 2008). This speech took place in Philadelphia, PA at the National Constitution Center. This speech was given during the 2008 Presidential race and looks to address the concerns regarding video of controversial and racially charged comments made by former pastor Jeremiah Wright which seemed to playing on loop in every media outlet possible. He also addressed the subjects of racial tension and race and inequality in the United States. From the beginning of the speech, it is evident that the most effective appeal that Obama chooses to use is ethos. As a rhetoric tool, ethos is used to establish character. Ethos is an appeal to ethics, and it is a means of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader (Examples of Ethos, Logos, and Pathos). In order to establish an effective ethos, the speaker must present themselves in a way that will make the audience believe what they say. A strong example of this is when he uses the quote “We the people, in order to form a more perfect union”. In referring to the U.S Constitution, this compels the audience to make a connection of significance and importance between his speech and that of the Constitution...
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...leaders can be powerful agents of social change. Current theories of charismatic leadership have emphasized primarily the personality and behavior of leaders and their effects on followers, organizations, and society. This emphasis fails to uncover why and how the charismatic leader-follower interaction can generate social change. Our study draws on theories of social meaning to develop a process model of charismatic leadership. Empirical exploration of our model suggests that charismatic leaders employ a set of consistent communication strategies for effecting social change. INTRODUCTION We have substantial evidence that charismatic leaders behave differently than non-charismatic leaders. Further, we know that charismatic leaders can generate radical social changes, and that the performance of charismatic leaders and their followers tends to exceed that of their non-charismatic counterparts. To date, however, we know very little about the processes by which leaders and followers interact to effect social changes (Meindl, 1992). There is a need to address the following unanswered questions: Why do charismatic leaders adopt certain behaviors? Why do their followers respond in predictable ways to those behaviors? How does the leader-follower...
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...of Indianapolis (Anatold & Bittner, 31). He was able to do this through the rhetorical situation, defined by Lloyd F. Bitzer as “a complex of persons, events, objects, and relations presenting an actual or potential exigence which can be completely or partially removed if discourse, introduced into the situation, can so constrain human decision or action as to bring about the significant modification of the exigence” (Bitzer, 6). Kennedy understood Aristotle’s definition of rhetoric defined as, “the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion” (Aristotle, 2). Kennedy had to establish a proposal of understanding and compassion within his audience, to ignite the vision of justice that King worked for. His use of pathos and ethos that Aristotle defines as modes of persuasion, allowed Kennedy to identify and establish trust with his audience through his emotional appeal and credibility. This relationship he creates with his audience helps them agree later on with his argument for peace and non-violence. Ultimately, the rhetorical situation permitted Kennedy to address and recognize the audience’s exigencies, convince them through pathos and ethos that further polarization would harm their cause, and dissuade them from turning to violence on the night of King’s death. Kennedy was the senator for New York at the time and was campaigning to earn the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination. Joseph A. Palermo argued that antiwar activists, civic groups, black...
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...Party. The speech is given just before the presidential election in 2004, and Schwarzenegger is recommending sending George Bush to the white house for four more years. He praises the president of that time: “We are one America, and President Bush is defending it with all his heart and soul. That’s what I admire most about the president. He’s a man of perseverance.” (l. 41, p. 3) As the speech is given on the Republican convention, the audience is probably all Republicans, and throughout the speech, it is clear that it is given to an audience that has already been convinced. Especially in the introduction to his speech, we see that Schwarzenegger speaks to his sympathizers: “My fellow immigrants, my fellow Americans, how do you know if you are a Republican? Well, I tell you how. If you believe that government should be accountable to the people, not the people to the government, then you are a republican. If you believe that a person should be treated as an individual, not as a member of an interest group, then you are a Republican. If you believe your family knows how to spend your money better than the government does, then you are a Republican.” We see here that he focuses his speech on an audience which he addresses as "my fellow Americans". Although he seems to be speaking to all American citizens, he actually focuses in on the Republican citizens. Upon identifying his audience, Schwarzenegger angles his message and rhetorical purposes to them to reinforce their Republican...
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