...vice president. Less than a year into Ford’s Vice Presidency, Nixon resigned, leaving Ford to become the first unelected president of the United States ("Gerald Ford"). Gerald Ford accepted the presidency during a time of great mistrust towards the federal government. He recognized his...
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...consists of four elements: audience, occasion, speaker and speech, each assessing the quality of speech. In this essay, I will analyze the rhetorical situation of the historical speech “The Challenger Address” delivered by the 40th president of the United States, Ronald Reagan. Americans had high expectations of the space programs which intended to provide the United States a great sense of achievement. The significance of the space program lies in essence in which symbolized American glory in science and technology. (Lambright) Therefore, the audience of Reagan’s speech was American public; those who had experienced the tragic national loss of seven American astronauts resulted from the failure of space regime. Evidence of Reagan constantly involving American citizens prevail throughout the speech. He specifically engaged the audience by employing words such as “we,” “us,” “schoolchildren of America,” giving the audience a sense of involvement in the national matter. Reagan also acknowledged pain of the families of the seven astronauts. He showed his understanding of pain of families by saying “we feel the loss, and we are thinking about you so very much,” “your loved ones,” which was an attempt to console them by implicitly suggesting that the families are the primary audience of this speech. Moreover, he created a feeling that he and his wife Nancy are too involved as part of the public. The occasion of speech determines what speaker attempts to address. Audiences expect...
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...successful presidency. Kennedy managed to make great strides in advancements in civil rights, the space race, and banning of nuclear weapons. In all these situations he used his presidency to his advantages and made wise choices that would benefit the citizens of America. At the time his presidency began, civil rights issues were continuing to be a major issue. Kennedy made sure to keep this as one of his main focuses throughout his time as president to ensure a change be made for the African Americans. While Kennedy did have to remain cautious with certain aspects of civil rights, in order to continually appeal to both the African Americans and the whites, he did several things in order to integrate them into society. Kennedy assisted in African Americans integrating themselves into...
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...important political giant who was (along with his Southern Christian Leadership Conference) an instrumental aid to a number of vital incidents that massively helped catalyse the passage of the acts. Incidents such as the Selma march and the subsequent "Bloody Sunday" a well as his role in the Birmingham and Washington marches. His role as a prominent activist and talented orator added to King's importance as it allowed him to proliferate ideas of peaceful protest and civil disobedience to the masses. However, despite King's distribution of ideas to the masses, it is the masses themselves, or rather the local leaders of them, with whom the greatest credit for the passing of these acts must be placed due to the pressure they placed on the presidency to enact legislation. What's more the role of Presidents Johnson and to a lesser extent Kennedy play a highly important role in the passing of the bills. Notwithstanding, King's role as a medium for the precipitation of the important ideals of peaceful protest was undoubtedly an important contributing factor to the passing of the Acts. For instance, his widely publicised rhetoric regarding the effectiveness of...
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...President Reagan’s use of rhetoric in his speeches throughout his political career was essential in establishing a cohesive and successful relationship with the American people. His charismatic nature and unfaltering authenticity in every single speech defined him as a true leader – one who might finally be able to restore faith in the American presidency in a country perpetually traumatized by the Watergate Scandal. Reagan brought indisputable political beliefs established on a solid sense of conservatism as well as a solid moral code built on firm religious values. These two features that Reagan exemplified laid the groundwork for an administration that was characterized by consistent and unyielding principles. The perfect example of this aspect of his administration is prevalent in his rhetoric. His small anecdotes, perfect word choice, and references to past great leaders all underscored his incredible ability to communicate the successes and lessen the defeats that faced his administration. Through his use of consistent and unique rhetoric from his first major speech in 1964 continued to his farewell speech in 1989, Ronald Reagan established motifs of freedom, limited government, moral renewal, and hope for the future that ultimately rescue American pride in the executive branch and in the country as a whole. In Ronald Reagan’s second inaugural address, which spans just over three pages, he used the word freedom 17 times. He took one of the most complex and hard to achieve...
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...working well. It included a weakened central government with very little executive power. The Constitution defined the role of president and included checks and balances for a stronger federal system. It did not however include too many specifics on how a president should carry out his role. As part of this first presidency, George Washington established three important precedents which included a maximum of two terms for a president, a presidential cabinet of his supporters and giving a farewell address at the end of his presidency....
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...The Presidency of Barrack Obama The first African-American United States’ president was born in Hawaii, raised by his grandparents prior to becoming an Illinois Senator. The presidency of Barrack Obama was offset in January 20th, 2009. Obama’s Presidency was inherited from George Bush whose presidency was facilitated with a series of terrorist attacks. Taking into consideration Obama’s speech noted in National Archives, it is evident that Obama’s presidency has an aim of ensuring higher levels of national security through eliminating any form of terror attack on the United States soil. While in office, matters related to financial crises was listed among Obama’s policy decisions. Inclusively, issues on tax policy changes and the matter of the healthcare industry were also covered. Obama’s victory came about when the economy of the state was at a devastating state: It was near a fall. As a result, the presidency has an aim of saving the near free-fall economy resulting into a great recession within the levels of the economy. Obama’s presidency has a characteristic of series of wins and losses. Within the first two years, president Obama successfully passed a number of legislation such as the healthcare bill. The bill on health care meant offering massive coverage with an ability of providing an affordable healthcare on universal grounds. In addition, Barrack’s presidency is also characterized by prominent victories such as the $787 billion Stimulus Bill as a characteristic...
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...The Presidency of Barrack Obama The first African-American United States’ president was born in Hawaii, raised by his grandparents prior to becoming an Illinois Senator. The presidency of Barrack Obama was offset in January 20th, 2009. Obama’s Presidency was inherited from George Bush whose presidency was facilitated with a series of terrorist attacks. Taking into consideration Obama’s speech noted in National Archives, it is evident that Obama’s presidency has an aim of ensuring higher levels of national security through eliminating any form of terror attack on the United States soil. While in office, matters related to financial crises was listed among Obama’s policy decisions. Inclusively, issues on tax policy changes and the matter of the healthcare industry were also covered. Obama’s victory came about when the economy of the state was at a devastating state: It was near a fall. As a result, the presidency has an aim of saving the near free-fall economy resulting into a great recession within the levels of the economy. Obama’s presidency has a characteristic of series of wins and losses. Within the first two years, president Obama successfully passed a number of legislation such as the healthcare bill. The bill on health care meant offering massive coverage with an ability of providing an affordable healthcare on universal grounds. In addition, Barrack’s presidency is also characterized by prominent victories such as the $787 billion Stimulus Bill as a characteristic. The...
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...Over the course of time and multiple presidencies since the beginning of our wonderful nation, you come to realize that some just weren’t very good. Whether it be they made some terrible executive decisions or they completely pissed off the entire country, you can easily make a list of the worst presidencies in United States history. However, and listen carefully, the person in office is not what we are judging today - if that’s the case, most of America (and all of Twitter) would agree that President Donald Trump takes the cake. Instead, we are assessing their performance in the office, such as what policies they created and how they dealt with national debates. It took some thought, but the top four worst presidencies in United States history would have to be William Harrison, Andrew Johnson, Herbert Hoover, and John Adams. William Harrison was a nice fellow. However, his presidency only lasted 31 days. After being sworn into office as the ninth President of the United States, he gave the longest inauguration address in history...
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...on history during his presidencies. Firstly, he appears on the $20 bill, one of only a few influential historical figures who have also made it on the American currency - the fact that he shares such an exclusive position alongside the likes of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln, all indisputably influential and important figures in American history, means that he must have had a successful presidency. Secondly, he ranks fifth in the all-time most influential presidents list, which is high praise indeed considering there has been 43 other presidents. This essay will aim to examine the positives and negatives of Andrew Jackson’s presidencies and whether he is deserving of his historical legacy which places him fifth in the all time most influential presidents. Jackson was the first man of so called ‘low birth’ to be elected as President. Jackson, having failed to win the 1824 election despite winning the plurality of the popular and electoral vote, and infuriated by Clay and Adam’s ‘Corrupt Bargain’, came back stronger for his running in the 1828 election. By this election, white men of all backgrounds could, both rich and poor, could vote after universal white male suffrage, alongside the abolition of property disqualifications, was introduced. Jackson was elected in a fiery campaign and is widely considered to be the first democratically elected President of the United States. He immediately made an impact on the role of the presidency, imposing what was known...
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...America was consumed with excitement and anticipation with the 2004 Presidential Election nearing. The frontrunners in the race were George Bush (Republican) and John Kerry (Democrat). The competition between those candidates was closely speculated by almost the entire country. Prior to the election, Al Gore, the 45th Vice President working alongside Clinton (Geschickter), addressed the crowd at the Democratic National Convention in Fleet Center, Boston. There, Gore riled up the audience by asking numerous specifically driven rhetorical questions, as well as utilizing significant tone shifts throughout the speech. Gore also strategically lightheartedly cracked jokes about his political past, and meaningfully placed his hand over his heart....
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...Presidency of Barack Obama Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the United States of America was born in the State of Hawaii where he grew up. His grandparents raised him up from a humble background. The presidency of Obama began on 20th January in the year 2009 after he was sworn in as the 44th president of United States of America. Before unveiling his ambition of vying for the top seat, Barack Obama was the Illinois senator in United States. Obama’s presidency came about as a result of succeeding President George Bush. Bush’s presidency was characterized by a series of severe terrorist attacks. Obama’s presidency had national security as his main objective. Obama’s vision is to improve the national security of the Americans as well as other continents as evident in the speech he delivered at the National Archives. Through enhancing the level of national security across the States, he has ensured a complete elimination of any act of terrorism within America. When Barack Obama took power and office, the economy of America was already in recession. At this time, the economy of United States was believed to be in a critical and devastated state as it nearly fell. This forced the President Obama to include vital themes and issues associated to financial crises among his policy decisions. Obama’s presidency aims at saving, reconstructing and even restructuring the failing economy which had resulted to severe recession. The presidency of Barack Obama has...
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...divided. Lehrman wrote that the Peoria speech of 1854 formed “the foundation of his politics and principles, in the 1850s and in his presidency.” Lincoln’s beliefs and values that influenced his presidency originated from his life in Illinois because the Peoria speech was one of the first speeches in the Lincoln Douglas Debates. Lincoln explained,“The Missouri Compromise ought to be restored, for the sake of the Union, it ought to be restored.” [because then]... “the nation [would have]...
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...The Progressive Era DeAveon Sharpe The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform that spread across the United States, from the 1890s to the 1920s. The main reason for the Progressive movement were to eliminate the problems like industrialization, urbanization, immigration and corruption.At this time immigrants could migrate without so many problems like, them not being able to escape from being slaves, the literacy test, and etc. Also not having to pay to vote after immigrating with no education or money. The children during the progressive era/ industrial revolution worked hard hours for little or no pay. Children as young as six years old worked up to 19 hours...
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...Description of “A Time for Choosing” By Zachary Riggan Ronald Regan’s “A Time for Choosing” campaign speech for Republic President Nominee Barry Goldwater was aired on 27 October 1964. This speech was actually given a few weeks prior at a fundraiser in Coconut Grove in Los Angeles. After the speech Mr. Regan was approached by “a delegation of high-powered Republicans” and asked to record that same speech on national TV. This speech raised 8 million dollars for the Barry Goldwater campaign. This speech was also the launching pad for Ronald Regan’s political spotlight. According to President Regan, he never gave this speech a title. A brief history of President Regan is important to the description of this artifact. President Regan was born on February 6, 1911 in Tampico, Illinois. He attended Eureka College, there he studied economics and sociology. President Regan was a known actor and appeared in a total of 53 films during his career. In 1966 he was elected Governor of California and re-elected in 1970. On January 20, 1981 Regan became President of the United States overwhelmingly defeating President Crater 489 electoral votes to 49. On March 30, 1981 just 69 days into his presidency President Regan was shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr. During his first presidency, Regan focused on stimulating economic growth and sought to curb inflation. During his second term Regan focused on foreign policy and to achieve “peace through strength.” The 1960’s were...
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