Education leads to the success of many influential people, such as Dr. Ben Carson. In 2013, Dr. Ben Carson, a highly respected pediatric neurosurgeon gave a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast. Carson suggests that a lot of government policies under President Obama are failing. For example, national debt has severely decreased due to the lack of education. Through the use of optimistic and direct language, personal imagery with welcoming expressions and confident hand gestures, Carson gained the respect and trust of the audience, other well respected influencers and/or politicians. Carson’s ability to use these devices not only gained the trust of his audience, but also took control of his argument. This being, the United States should focus on …show more content…
This allows the them to see Dr. Ben Carson’s confidence and attentiveness during the speech. By doing so this gives him an advantage in his argument towards education in America. Observing his audience also shines a light on Carson’s confidence of his speech while presenting it to so many people. For example, during parts of his anecdote he scans the room quite a bit “ I was as a youngster placing myself in the same situation that a horrible institution did because I wasn’t taking advantage of the education. I was a horrible student” (Dr. Ben Carson’s). Carson looks around taking in the audience’s reactions to his behavior as a child. By doing so, he talks to the audience as if they were all a family, Carson proves that he is not here to raise himself above anyone else. This is significant to today because a lot of people feel as if they are lower than some of these politicians. Some politicians even brag about how successful and well known more than the common person, but Ben Carson does the exactly the opposite. He shows the audience he is just like them, no more or less, this gives the audience a “personal” connection with Carson, giving him the upper
One aspect that he clearly states is how race relations improved, which creates America a better place to pursue education. This speech applies to the students because Obama wants them to know how amazing that America’s education has changed to focus on all people, no matter what’s your race, gender, and sexuality. It important that everyone should pursue education to follow their goals and dreams.
In response to the controversial sermon given by his pastor and the racial remarks that followed him during his 2008 campaign, then Senator Barack Obama, was inherently forced into delivering a speech that would address the comments and prove to the American people that he did in fact shared their “American Dream” and was not an Anti-America charity case. Obama gave his famous “A More Perfect Union” speech in Philadelphia, where he seized the opportunity to address the controversy as an indication of a much larger issue, race relations in America and introduce his mission of moving the country toward “a more perfect union.” His speech often coined, “the Race Speech”, had several factors play into its success, one factor being the way the speech was delivered, his speech incorporated the jeremiad form and constitutive form of rhetoric, the use of those two forms helped Obama address the issue while at the same time creating an identity that would encompass all Americans who would then come together in this identity and work toward the solution of the race issue and providing the “American Dream” for everyone.
In his speech, “Remarks by the President in a National Address to America’s Schoolchildren,” Obama effectively argues his claim, that kids should go to school and try very hard to succeed to schoolchildren around the U.S. He effectively argues his claim because he uses supporting details and stories of students that have undergone tough situations, but still overcame those obstacles to succeed and school. Also, he is trying to tell kids that they should do well in school to get a good job and make a difference. He also uses rhetorical appeals to help with the supporting details. One of supporting evidence that he brought up was that if someone wants to become something such as a doctor, or lawyer you will need a good education to do
In President Bush’s Address to the Nation Speech the day after September 11 (9/11) in 2001, President Bush wants to inform the country of this tragic event and what was going to happen for the country. President Bush uses rhetorical devices to captures the audience’s attention and to reach this purpose. President Bush mainly use pathos, logos, anaphoras, and personifications to achieve his purpose.
Donald Trump, a once controversial political candidate, gave his 2017 Inaugural address on January 20th, 2017 when he was inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States. Through appeals such as syntax and diction, religion and patriotism, and logic, Donald Trump was able to generate a unifying speech toward his audience. Amidst the growing violence and repercussions of the 2016 election, Donald Trump, in his 2017 Inaugural address, sends the message that he will put America and its citizens first to unite the country and change America for the better.
Former President Barack Obama performed a speech in response to a mass shooting that happened in a community college in Oregon. This speech included other gun related incidents which occurred during his time in office in 2015 regarding Umpqua Community College and Roseburg. After giving his condolences and love to those who felt loss in their hearts, Obama gave a powerful argument regarding gun control and how we, as Americans, should fight and strive for better gun laws. While Obama gave a moving speech, I could not help but feel it fell short in its argument while conducting a thorough critique. Obama appealed to his audience utilizing pathos and ethos with ease but fell short for those in the audience looking for logos or specific facts within his performance. I will be taking this opportunity to delve further into an analysis of this speech and both its heights and pitfalls.
“We the people, in order to form a more perfect union”1 - On March the 18th 2008 Barack Obama opened his speech on race, in Philadelphia, with this sentence. From the open sentence you can see that this speech isn’t any speech, perform by any orator. It’s a speech with a main message, performed for the people, to creates a brighter future for all the American people and to change history.
Donald Trump recently gave a speech discussing rising Radical Islamic Terrorism, immigration from the Middle East, and a need for a rise in national security while Manchester, New Hampshire on June 13th 2016. He centers his whole speech around discussing how bad a President his opponent, Hillary Clinton, would be in difficult times. Trump graduated from the Wharton School of Finance in 1968 with a bachelor 's degree in economics, and has become a very successful businessman. He’s the Republican nominee for this upcoming presidential election, and is a very controversial candidate and person. He has come under fire for many of his views that he discusses in his June 13th speech. While Trump does make some agreeably points, he renders his speech ineffective because of his heavy reliance on Clinton’s opinion to form his own. If Trump were to become President, his stance on important issues would need to be reached with careful consideration, and not just based on doing the opposite of his opponents.
Move over, parents and teachers. Someone with even more authority wants to tell kids to work harder in school: the president of the United States of America. In 2009, in the first year of his presidency, Barack Obama opened the school year with a speech to students, asking them to take charge of their own education. His speech, which he filled with many anecdotes meant to establish credibility and create inspiration, sent students an important message about their education. However, Obama could have made his speech stronger if he had avoided several missteps in the content and delivery of his message.
A former president, Barack Obama.., in his speech, emphasizes a call to change in his Inaugural Address speech. Obama’s purpose is to highlight on Nation economic crisis. He adopts a motivational tone in order to comfort and reassure the American people. Barack Obama clearly articulates and emotionally persuades his audience through the use of anaphora, preamble, and allusion to contract the needs of American people.
Overlooking a sea of graduating college students President Barack Obama was able to give them an incredible, down to earth speech that was packed with an immense amount of knowledge. What he said touched on topics ranging from how to have everyday happiness as well as kindness to on a larger scale inside of the justice system and politics. President Obama was able to persuade the crowd all of those things because of his credibility. He was able to relate the the graduating class because he too was once a future graduate of college, sitting in there same shoes. When speaking about the bumpiness in addition to unbalanced road of America he adds, “Now, for some of you, this may sound like your college career. It sounds like mine, anyway.”. By
I decided to report my speech from a ted talk. I chose a topic that would be interesting enough to hear and can easily be relatable. The speaker I chose to evaluate is Benjamin Todd. Todd did his ted talk to persuade his audience to find work that they love instead of following their passion. At first the title was confusing because in my opinion love and passion would go together, however by listening to his speech throughout he was able to persuade me on how I should pick my career and how I should avoid picking the wrong one. He also explains how a person should pick a career that would benefit the society to gain a sense of fulfillment.
Donald Trump’s speech addressed to the United Nations General Assembly on September 19, 2017 was not effective. Despite the speech having a universal message that is hard to disagree with, you can tell exactly which parts of the speech were written by a speech writer, and which parts of the speech were written by Trump himself. This wouldn’t be an issue if Donald Trump’s inflections weren’t full of fallacies and unnecessary statistics. For example, in the third paragraph, President Trump tries to establish his Ethos by listing improvements in the United States since he took office. But many of these cherry-picked improvements have absolutely nothing to do with him being elected. They also have nothing to do with the general theme of the speech. This speech did have examples of effective rhetorical strategies. However, the bad far outweighs the good in this speech and takes away from the good message it originally had.
One of the most famous speeches in the last decade was President Obama’s Inaugural Speech on January 20th, 2009. President Obama took everyone by surprise when he was elected to be our first African American President. This groundbreaking occurrence provoked many Americans to look at the impossible and feel some sense of encouragement for the future of our country. What President Obama did in the Inaugural Speech was display to his fellow Americans that they shouldn’t be skeptical about the future or doubts his ability to lead. Through the use of anaphora and his attempt to extend to the global and national audience, President Obama gave a rhetorically efficient speech and exhibited to us how he would lead us to a better tomorrow.
In the Introduction Barack Obama welcomes the audience and requests everybody to take a seat.