JFK Steel Speech Rhetorical Analysis Essay

1962 in the United States, steel companies have raised the prices on their steel products. Former President John F. Kennedy reveals how much of a bad choice this was by the steel companies because of how much it would hurt the people and the economy. Kennedy's word choice, tone, and statistics create such emotion for the audience and visual of what is yet to come if these prices do not decrease any time soon. He uses these techniques to put public pressure on the steel companies to further convince

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