Analysis Of Fdr's Speech

After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the US declared war against Japan and Germany. Before this, however, President Franklin Roosevelt urged the US to join the war. In fireside chats and speeches to the public and congress, FDR discussed offering aid to allied countries and a course of action that should be taken. Overall, Roosevelt visioned that America’s role should be to help countries in need by upholding democratic values and lending war materials and money, which would be accomplished by Congress passing laws that allow joining the war effort and offering such aid.

It’s January 20, 1961. Inauguration day for president Kennedy. Entering his first term as president of the United States, he has to give the “Inaugural Address.” As president of the United States he needs to address his voters and the american people in person or through a television broadcast about his future goals and aspirations. During the transfer of power the US is going on there 14th year of the Cold War. The american people are fearful of a nuclear war and the other half wants to go to war. JFK wants diplomatic negotiations towards peace. JFK uses rhetorical devices in his “Inaugural Address” to influence the american people

In Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, He talks about the Civil War America was facing at the time. In his speech, his exaggerative diction, allusions to the Bible, and appeals to emotion helped strengthen and portray his point of view.

On November 27, 1963 Lyndon Baines Johnson delivered a speech. This was just five days after president John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. Johnson, being the new president of the United States, explained what a great loss fellow Americans had just encountered. His purpose of this speech was to inspire the nation and support them in a time of grief. He also wanted to give the nation hope, in that they would work to meet JFK’s visions.

One of the first terrorist attacks on the United States occurred December 7, 1941. On that horrific day, when Japanese fighter pilots and submarines attacked the Pearl Harbor US Naval Base in Hawaii, over 2,400 people lost their lives. A majority of the lives that were lost in Pearl Harbor were taken on the USS Arizona. America was shocked to see the attack unfold in front of them. The 32nd President of the United States of America, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, gave an impactful speech the day after Pearl Harbor, which told America that we are going to war.

On October 29, 1929 the country hit rock bottom financially, and for the next three years it did not get any better. The people started to blame the those in power, which created a country of anger. The roaring twenties had come to an end and it seemed all hopes were lost. The stock market was done for and banks all over the country were coming to terms with the same fate. As poverty and unemployment spread like wildfire across the nation, a new leader was elected. His Inaugural Address gave hope to all by showing that there was nothing to fear, materialistic views were not the road to happiness, and with a new government the nation would rise from this crisis.

The saying “actions speak louder than words” allows us to determine whether we need to reconsider what someone is saying or if we should fully believe them. Americans, Russians, and many others were suffering from the Cold War. Yet on the ninth day of December, 1948, Eleanor Roosevelt, Head of Human Rights Commision, delivered the Declaration of Human Rights to the United Nations General Assembly in Paris, France. Mrs. Roosevelt, while using a still and confident posture as well as direct eye contact with her audience, delivers her speech on human rights. Her use of ethos and parallel syntax allows us to comprehend the message she delivers.

Ronald Reagan is known as “The great communicator” and it shows in his speech, he is able connect to the audience and this works very well for him, his speech “Address to the national challenger” it is a drastically emotional and important speech for the American people at the time it became one of Reagan’s great speeches and it was crucial to the American’s as they were all in such pain due to the accident which was the Challenger disaster. Instead of doing his report on the state union, he talks about the disaster and honors the members who had passed on board and he wishes that the United States will not stop its space exploration due to this. When listening to the speech is it distinguishable that is the speech is not something to joke about and the tone had an emotional and solemn feel with great respect to all involved being felt.

The author’s diction is the word choice that is used in a piece of work. Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation with his first Fireside Chat in 1933, he stated “My friends , I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the United States about banking”. Here he uses the words “My friends” and “with the people” (“The Banking Crisis”). Both of these are fine examples of diction because he is telling the people that he is no higher in society than they are and he is talking with the people of the United States, not to them. Another famous speech that uses diction in a really good way is President John F. Kennedy’s Cuban Missile Crisis.

Ronald Reagan, in his speech, (“Berlin Wall”, 1987), the former governor and President of the United States and at the time of the Cold War, “ the most magnetic public figure in the nation”(encyclopedia.com) elucidates to his audience the consequences of residing under the influence of the Soviet Union. Reagan supports his assertion through the use of various rhetorical devices to generate logos, ethos, and pathos. His purpose is to incite a feeling of an injustice done to the people of Berlin and Soviet Allies and to bring down the Berlin Wall as “the most visible symbol of the decades-long Cold War”(History.com) between the Americans and the Soviets during the Cold War. Reagan writes in perfervid tone generated toward the people of Berlin and other Soviet allies in hopes of bringing the Cold War to an end and it is reported by CBS News that he successfully “bolstered the morale of the pro-democracy movement in East Germany”(Brinkley).

On January 20, 1961, John F. Kennedy presented a world-famous inaugural speech. People all over the nation and world were overtaken with a feeling of new hope and inspiration. The three documents presented in this activity, John F. Kennedy’s inaugural speech, Eleanor Clift’s “Inside Kennedy’s Inauguration, 50 Years On”, and the photo captured by the United States Army Signal Corps all convey the feelings felt during the moment of Kennedy’s inauguration. John Kennedy, Eleanor and the United States Army Corps all used different methods of style for influencing their audience, however they all had a similar purpose to draw out emotions from those reading and looking at their work.

In his acceptance speech to the Democratic National Convention on June 27, 1936, President Franklin Roosevelt mentioned many challenges and concerns facing the United States during that time period. In his speech the President used short-hand phrases, brief references, and pejorative naming to make his larger, political and ideological points. FDR used terms like ‘economic royalists’, along with phrases like ‘new despotism wrapped in the robes of legal sanctions’, to identify the large corporations, investors and employers, who according to him are trying to influence policies and control the government for their own personal benefits. The President also uses phrases like ‘Necessitous men are not free men’, to reiterate his concerns and to point out how the working people of America are being deprived from their rights by these very same privileged employers. FDR compares 1936 to 1776, referring to the American Revolution and its significance in putting the power back in the hands of the average Americans, and how it is necessary to check the power of the corporations in order to protect the interests of the American people and restore the power back in the hands of the people.

On March 8, 1983 President Ronald Reagan gave a very powerful speech before the National Association of Evangelicals. If Reagan were to have given this speech to a different political group I do not believe that he would have put so much emphasis on the aspect of religion and God in his speech as he did in this one and the circumstances would evidently be different to suit the specific political group. President Reagan believed that there is a relationship among freedom, peace, democracy, and a belief in God and we see this in the Soviet Union because they do not have a democracy or freedom, leaving them with very little societal belief in God. Acting as a totalitarian power, the Soviet Union controls all aspects of the state and they use class warfare and communist tactics to exploit social order. In the Soviet Union, they promote the

Reagan integrates ethos, pathos, and logos to represent a solemnly optimistic tone which helps illustrate to the audience that we as a whole can overcome this tragedy for the future. Reagan uses a mixture of ethos and pathos during his speech to appeal specifically to the schoolchildren, parents, and family members who knew those from the incident. Reagan states that he and his wife are “pained to the core by the tragedy.” And that he knows “ it is hard to understand, but sometimes painful things happen.” Reagan also uses logos during his speech. He refers to a perhaps forgotten famous quote by Sir Francis Drake. Drake said, “He lived by the sea, died on it, and was buried in it.” Reagan says that we can compare what Drake said and refer it to the Challenger’s team dedication.

The first inaugural address of Franklin D. Roosevelt was one that strove to lift the American people off their feet as the country entered some of it's worst years during the Great Depression. One of Roosevelt's strong advantages during his address was his ability to relate to the very real concerns of the everyday American citizens. With pressures of the failing economy facing the President-elect, he delivered this speech, addressing the nation about his plans for a New Deal. Roosevelt made his first point in his address by stating, “...the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” This statement later became one of the most famous Presidential lines in all of history. The purpose of this statement was to remind the nation that for this