Asa Hutchinson Speech Analysis

On the evening of the 16th of October, 1859, John Brown, an abolitionist fighting for rights for slaves, lead a raid of 21 armed men on the federal armory of Harpers Ferry, Virginia, which now is West Virginia. John Brown did this in attempt of freeing slaves. The raid lasted two days, and was ended by a military force lead by Robert E. Lee. Brown was later captured and sent to prison for the charges of treason. On November 2nd, 1859, Brown gave a statement to the court addressing his action. He denied all charges, and felt no guilt about his actions only because it was for the greater good. One month after he was sentenced to death, he was hanged on December 2nd 1859. Brown uses diction and repetition to prove his innocence and challenge

During the history of America, many tragedies have occurred. In times of tragedies, important figures in societies rise up to the occasion and console the people and motivate them for the upcoming positive future. Two such examples of important figures are Bill Clinton and Robert F. Kennedy, with the events being the Oklahoma bombing and the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Both of the political figures provided encouraging speeches that employed the same effective appeals in many different ways. In their speeches, Clinton and Kennedy use ethos, logos, and pathos to unite the divided country, at the time, and appease it of the hate conjured from tragedy.

The amount of knowledge and powerful words that can actually get to one’s head is amazing. Michelle Obama was the First Lady for 8 years and stood by former President Barack Obamas side. She is a great example of what today’s kids should look up to. A woman with dedication to her word. A woman with dedication to what she believes. It is pretty easy to say that she has become an impressive public speaker who can deliver a powerful speech to her supporters. In her speech at the DNC in 2016, Michelle Obama did not fill her supporter’s heads with politics and facts, but a great use of personal experience, feelings and connections. Her love for this country and her love for her family is one thing that brought her audience together. In fact, if it wasn’t the great use of ethos, pathos and logos Michelle Obamas speech would have probably just been like any other political speech.

John Adams is known by most Americans today for his contributions to the formation of the American government. However, what many do not know is that while he was a supporter of patriot values and beliefs, Adams’s first priority was his job as a lawyer: defending those under trial regardless of political beliefs or nationality. After the Boston Massacre in 1770, during which British soldiers opened fire into a crowd of Bostonian rebels, killing five, Adams defended these soldiers, who were thereby acquitted. Adams’s argument in his defense of these soldiers is that by swaying the verdict on the basis of patriotism over devotion to the law itself, colonists stoop to the same level as the British, whom they have condemned as tyrants. Adams used ethos, pathos, alliteration, epizeuxis, and rhetorical questioning in his closing argument to effectively convince the jury to recognize that the soldiers were acting in self-defense and to defend not only the law, but also his morals as a colonial lawyer.

In his speech to the nation after the death of renowned Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Dwight David Eisenhower elucidates a chance for a cease of hostilities between the United States and the Soviet Union. Eisenhower supports his elucidation with appeals to pathos through the preemptive utilization of parallelism, pronoun shifts, allusions, repetition, and juxtaposition in an effort to communicate the chance of opportunity to settle the differences with the Soviet Union before another conflict on a global scale occurs.

D.Thesis: At the beginning of his term as president, Barack Obama vowed to get Osama bin Laden one way or another, and on May 1, 2011 Obama gave a speech informing the public that bin Laden was dead and did so using pathos, ethos, and logos in order to make his speech effective.

A convocation is a special gathering of a group of individuals formally assembled for a special purpose. North Carolina A&T’s Fall Convocation was an assembling for academic and athletic recognition that brought great encouragement. The great speaker gave vital information regarding tactics to push toward success for students and teachers. Dr. Anthony Graham’s great motto, “Keep your hand in the plow, hold on,” is very impactful and has great meaning, encouraging you to reach your set goals.

“It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down.” Spoken by David Foster Wallace at the 2005 Kenyon graduation ceremony. The purpose of his speech was to validate how important a liberal arts education is and how it will affect the rest of their lives.

In 1984 during the Republican National Convention in Dallas, Texas Gregory Lee "Joey" Johnson, participated in a political demonstration as a member of Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade.Johnson and others demonstrates were protesting the policies of the Reagan Administration and of certain companies based in Dallas. Marching through the streets of Dallas,”chanting political slogans and stopping at several corporate locations to stage "die-ins" intended to dramatize the consequences of nuclear war.” others participated in spray painting walls of building and flipping potted plants throughout the city streets, Johnson was not part of those activities. He did, however, receive a American flag by a fellow protester who had

The Great Angela Davis came to East Carolina right in time as me and my peers suggested. East Carolina is at a time of great racial divide both noticeable and unnoticeable. The crowd was quite a pleasant one as we listened to the powerful speech of one of the great leaders of society. Her speech was based around prisons complex and racial divides and injustice happening within society. She spoke with great poise and assurance as the audience accepted all her knowledge and teaching. I was an amazing event that I wish more students and professors could hear and witness.

After reading and analyzing Dr.Kings “Remaining Awake during a Revolution” commencement speech that he presented at Oberlin College during his graduation ceremony; he wanted the people to have a good visual on what he was explaining and talking about. King wanted to inform the people about what was going; so he used allusions, statics, and logos.

On september 2, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus summons the 101st “screaming Eagles” to surround Central High School and stop any attempts by the nine black students to enter the school. Faubus announces in one of his public television speeches that, “The orders are a proactive approach to prevent violence to all citizens and property and to preserve the peace.”

Ryan White, a hemophiliac, who contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion, and was suspended from his current school in Kokomo, Indiana, in 1984. Ryan found out he had AIDS when he underwent a medical procedure to remove 2 inches of his lungs due to pneumonia. He got suspended from school because not many people knew how AIDS was spread, and people at Ryan's school assumed it could be spread from casual contact. Ryan decided to speak to congress about the situation he was in from contracting AIDS. Than switched schools. This new school was in Cicero, Indiana. Ryan's new school had experts come in and educate parents and students about how AIDS was spread.

John Adams is portrayed in the John Adams miniseries as a man with a strong moral compass, someone who prioritizes rights and trusts national institutions to enforce them. Although overshadowed by the more passionate revolutionaries, such as Thomas Jefferson with “his aura and his glamour,” he is driven by a sense of moral duty and acts as a stable backbone to the revolutionary cause.1 This obligation to the institutions that defend human rights shapes the tone of his closing remarks in John Adams, where Adams emphasizes the importance of fact and the crucial role it plays in the judicial system. Despite the feelings of animosity that members of the jury may harbor for his clients, the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre, he

The persuasion scenario our group choose to observe is the events that happen in United States of America in 19th century. It’s the President Abraham Lincoln famous Gettysburg address. One of the main points for Lincoln when he giving this speech is to persuade both union and confederate (two different sides during the civil war) citizens to come join together to create the new equal and justice United States. This persuasion speech made me known why many people saw him as the great man. He did not antagonize, nor did he show disrespect to the dead, even those who fought for the Confederacy (who is oppose to Lincoln administration). He treated them all as people of one country, and honored them all equally. Lincoln’s respect for every man