George W Bush Speech Analysis

He also felt sorrow and sympathy for the victims of the tragic event. When speaking of the unity of the country itself he was proud, patriotic, honored and nationalistic. He uses the first person within his speech to engage his audience by talking about himself, his actions, opinions and feelings. He uses phrases such as “… I directed” and “… Weigh on me every time I…” to reflect on his personal sorrow. Negative vocabulary is used to describe the Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, labelling him as a “… terrorist” and “… mass murderer of innocent…” to convince the audience to resent him. Contrastingly, positive vocabulary attempts to gain the support of the audience when presenting his outlooks and the actions he took. He states “… united in our resolve to protect our nation” and speaks of the several years he was determined in bringing justice to protect his people. He uses exaggerative adjectives such as “… senseless slaughter” and “… exemplify professionalism, patriotism and unparalleled courage” to persuade his audience of the atrociousity of these crimes and to commemorate those who worked with him. Alliteration such as “… service, struggle and sacrifice, we know well the costs of war” is used to describe the war with bin Laden in an unforgettable manner to the audience, to convince the audience of the hardship they have endured because of the horrific attacks. Barack Obama uses figurative language to enhance the impact on the audience and to create imagery. Metaphors are used such as “… seared into our national memory” and “… gaping hole in our hearts” to describe the intensity of the crimes and the aftermath of them. This exhibits the severity of the past events on the country and the victims’ families, therefore, convincing them of the justification of Osama bin Laden’s

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.

In this paper I am going to discuss the rhetorical appeals, as well as the argumentative structure, audience and purpose set forth by George W. Bush in his September 27 speech in Flagstaff, Arizona. More specifically I will refer to the rhetorical appeals of ethos, pathos and logos, and explain how they are used to gain the support and attention of the audience and further the further the purpose of the speech. As I explain these appeals I will also give an insight into the argumentative structure and why it is apparent in this particular speech.

It is important for him to touch upon these emotions, and make the audience feel the sorrow, dignity, and hope, however, it is more important for him to remain strong and uphold his powerful image as our leader. He strongly upholds this dominant character throughout the speeches entirety. His almost stone-like facial expression allows audiences to perceive him as dignified and they can therefore instill more trust in his capabilities as our nation's leader. Had former President Bush expressed all the emotions he was mentioning, the audience may have altered their perception of him by perceiving him as weak, such as if he were to render sorrowful expressions in front of the people who elected him as leader. It is important to keep in mind that at this time, Bush had only been president for a short matter of time and still had to prove himself as a qualified leader, therefore it made sense that he only verbally depict emotions such as sorrow. Former President George Bush accomplishes a well organized speech by his proper and effective use of pathos in addition to logos and

The events that took place in America on September 11, 2001 will have a lasting wound on this country forever. President George W. Bush’s speech, “A Great People Has Been Moved to Defend a Great Nation”, gave America something to have hope in. Bush was a republican president and was the 43rd of the United States and was a very passionate man. Although Bush had to make some tough decisions that very day, he was a president that made a lasting impact on America. Throughout Bush’s speech, he effectively covered pathos, ethos, and logos.

President George W. Bush uses pathos in his speech to help unify the people. His wording has people feeling shocked, surprised, and angry. He reasons the cause for the attack was because “we’re the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world” (Bush 7). Bush successfully vilifies the enemy, as it is still strong today, to unify the citizens under a common enemy. He continues pathos with a justice-seeking tone on how he will bring justice to those responsible. With compassion and hope, Bush asks people to pray on behalf of those affected by the

September 11, 2001 was a tragic part of  history for the United States of America. On September 11,  four planes crashed down by hijackers at the Pentagon, the Twin Towers, and a Pennsylvania field. The Pentagon and World Trade Center were the primary buildings where the Al Qaeda wanted to attack. The White House was another target, however they never made it. Later that night, President George W. Bush gave a speech about 9/11 in the Oval Office. George W. Bush inspired America of their safety and security of his confident tone, religious beliefs,word choice.

Bush explains that Saddam Hussein is a “murderous tyrant who has already used chemical weapons to kill thousands of people.” By conversing the idea that Hussein is “a threat to peace” and “could bring sudden terror and suffering to America” the nation is put into a position to recognize fright in their futures. The United States has “experienced the horror of September the 11th” and knows firsthand that the Iraqi “would be eager, to use biological or chemical, or a nuclear weapon” (Bush) to do so. Accordingly, both speeches bring about an appeal to fear. The audience of both speeches are also soothed by

In addition, he uses appeals to the guilt and obloquy felt about the war by the American

In a remarkable turn of events, eight months later after announcing he was running Bush suspended his campaign. But in a race for the Republican nomination marked by change, one thing had not: His message. "I committed that I would campaign as I would serve," Bush said, repeating almost word for word a line from that very first speech. "Going everywhere, speaking to everyone, keeping my word, facing the issues without flinching and staying true to what I believe." Bush, the former two-term governor of Florida, famously said that Republicans might have to be willing to "lose the primary to win the general without violating your principles." In countless town hall meetings, conversations with voters and interviews with the media, Bush defended

At the beginning of his speech the president showed ethical appeal by giving us the history in chronological order. The president gave the background history of this country, talking about the constitution and how unfortunately it was not completed which gave rise to “original sin” called slavery and lead to twenty more years of slavery. The president also mentioned that even though the answers to slavery were embedded into the constitution it could not provide equality to both men and women of all races. The president then spoke about his reasons for campaigning was “to continue the long march of those who came before us, a march for a more just, more equal, more free, and more caring and more prosperous America.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln approached a similar theme in their speeches, that was, in order for a nation to be successful there must be unity. Although they did have some different points of view, the subject they were both talking about was freedom and equality. The theme can be supported by the quote from Lincoln’s speech when he says “all men are created equal” this means that everyone has come together to accept that everyone is created equal, the quote does not say that some men are equal but, ALL. The nation must realize this so that they can become united together as one to be successful. In FDR’s speech, he says one of the four freedoms is “The ending of special privilege for few.” By this, he means that some people

The central idea of the 43th president, George W. Bush Speech for the incident of dictator of Iraq taking over Kuwait was that we are going to war with allies and soldiers who believe we have to fight with the cruel dictator of Iraq because when we offered peace they only wanted war and now we have to save the people of Kuwait. George immediately starts to play with our motions at the beginning about the dictator of Iraq taking over the weak Kuwait, “when the dictator of Iraq invaded a small and helpless neighbor… was crushed; its people, brutalized. Five months ago, Saddam Hussein started his cruel war against Kuwait” ( Bush 2). Bush started using  “invaded”, “small”, “helpless neighbor”, “crushed”, “brutalized” and “cold war”, all negative

On January 12th, 2017 the President Elect of The United States Donald Trump had gone along with the scheduled conference in New York City. This wasn’t like any other speech, this was one of his largest speeches since he had been elected. In this speech, he had to talk about many issues and allegations about him. Even though the conference had been scheduled for a while, Trump had to talk about recent “watersports gate” allegations. The main topics that Donald Trump talked about in this speech to convince the public that he is the best fit for becoming the president are about the expansion of jobs in the country, the expansion of the military and the purchases of new aircraft's, and he

Both chris cantwell and Donald Trump use fear-mongering to target “The other” meaning of the people who are against trump and chris trying to spread fear because they have power and leadership that they feel like people won't fight back. In Donald Trump speeches on the shooting of orlando, immigration on phoenix and about the protest in charlottesville, he uses fear to target a specific groups of people like the black lives matter people and specially the immigrants , For example on immigration on phoenix speech he says that even though there are good immigrants that they will be lower “ skilled workers with less education compete with american workers and will not pay.” And in another speech of the shooting he says .” the only reason the killer was in america in the first place, was because we allowed his family to come here.” just targeting immigrants. In the vice news interview, “ charlottesville: race and terror”, Chris cantwell used fear to target, jews and black lives matter group, for example on his speech he says, on vice news “ i am hoping for a leader who is a lot more racist than Donald Trump, who does not give his daughter to a jew… We’re non-violent, we’ll f***ing kill these people if we have to.” and also he said“Our rivals are a bunch of stupid animals who couldn't just get out of the way of his car.” he is trying to spread fear to these people that chris and his group are capable to kill and the don't care because he sees himself as a demagogue and his people will follow him . There is a range of similarities and differences between them some of the similarities of trump and cantwell is that they are both leaders a demagogue they both spread fear, they are racist. And some of the differences trump and cantwell have is that trump is a leader of the whole us he is a president and cantwell is a leader of white supremacist.