Henry Ford's Word Analysis

Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the United States, was born on January 9th, 1913, in Yorba Linda, California. Nixon was a Republican congressman who served as vice president under Dwight D. Eisenhower. He ran for president in 1960 but lost to charismatic Massachusetts senator John F. Kennedy. Eight years later, Richard Nixon returned to the race and won the White House by a solid margin (Networks). After successfully ending American fighting in Vietnam and improving international relations with the U.S.S.R. and China, he became the only President to ever resign the office, as a result of the Watergate scandal (White House). On August 8th, 1974, Richard Nixon decided to resign from office because he felt that he no longer had a “strong enough political base in the Congress". In order to leave off a good impression of himself, outline the positive changes that he had made during his presidency, and inform the reason behind his resignation, he delivered a speech. In his speech “Resignation Address to the Nation”, Nixon speaks directly to the citizens of the United States and at the same time tries to indirectly get his message across to the rest of the world. I think Richard Nixon’s speech was effective because he used tools such as rhetorical devices to make his audience realize that he was resigning for their greater good.

Henry’s reference to Ezekiel 12:2 (“having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not”) was a way to draw attention to injustices that he saw among the American people. Because most

Former baseball player Tommy Lasorda once said, “The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.” The journey of our life is full of winding paths and concrete obstacles whose sole goal is to slow us down, and to attempt to block us from reaching our ultimate goal in life, whatever that may be. These barriers are there for several different reasons, whether it be mental or physical. Sometimes these obstacles are motivated by fear, other times they exist simply because we have to make a decision, and that decision can be life changing. But through our determination, and through our perseverance, we can achieve what these barriers told us was impossible, and can pursue the path in our life that leads us to our ultimate self. Throughout my life, I have had thousands of barriers stand in my path. And the only way I was able to defeat them was through conquering my fears, and breaking my limits in order to achieve excellence.

During the 1700s era, King George III constantly persecuted the colonist. He distributed many unjust rulings, taxation without representation, sending soldiers to invade colonial homes and territory, and taking away their basic rights while giving them less freedom than that of the people who live in Great Britain. Many colonists did not agree with the way he was ruling, however, many of them stood by and let it happen. The ones that did not stand by had more forceful tactics of taking care of a problem. The main issue with being inclined to violent thoughts, or nothing at all, is not actually executing a problem to the solution. Patrick Henry, being one of the many leaders of change, delivered a speech towards a solution. Patrick Henry delivered his speech to the 122 delegates and the President on March 23, 1775. This speech took place about 1 month before the American Revolutionary War and about 1 year before the Declaration of Independence. Henry’s speech became the start of a new America. His speech uses allusions, metaphors, and rhetorical questions to emphasize the need to go to war with England.

“Keep working! When you finish this you can start on some other jobs! You will work to keep your lights on and whatever you have left will go to me!” This is how our lives could be if the words of Mr. Patrick Henry hadn’t been taken seriously. If we hadn’t fought for freedom, we would be treated as such and would not have the rights we do today. Patrick Henry gave a speech to the Second Virginia Convention in 1775 to persuade those listening that the right of freedom was innately theirs and they would fight till death to achieve this right. He argued his side relentlessly, the good and the bad. He emphasized the efforts that they have attempted themselves to resolve the situation.

“I know of no way of judging the future by the past” The colonists of the 1760s believed in God and He was an everyday factor in their lives. They worried they would forever have to listen to the King and pay unfair taxes. Also one of their desire was to have freedom and and to cut loose from the King. Patrick Henry used logos in his”Speech to the Virginia Convention” because you cannot argue with facts or logic., so he used that so he couldn't be argued or proven wrong.

The Art of Persuasion: Patrick Henry's Speech Sparked The Unification And Armed Forces of The American Colonists to Obtain Independence From Britain

This document is tittle speech to governor William henry Harrison at Vincennes it was writing in1810 by Tecumseh an Indian chief.

One can take this and think that if you are committed and strive to succeed, then all that will lead to is failure rather than

For a brighter future, Washington is aware of people failing at times. He suggests to the audience to “fail big”. To fail big, a person should have the courage to take risks. Everything may not go as planned, but it will never be determined if not attempted. People have to learn from those mistakes. Washington believes people should do what they are most passionate about. If a person fails at something that he loves to do, then he would keep trying until he gets it right. How a person reacts after a failure is what determines that person’s future.

Soon after, in Kennedy’s inaugural address he utilizes the political language method of action stimulation. In Denton and Hahn’s article they describe this form of political language as, “Language that serves as the stimulus, means, or rationale for social action. Words can evoke, persuade, implore, command, label, praise, and condemn” (264). The use of this method will inject the audience’s brain with a sense of euphoria, making them poised and excited for what the president has in store for them. When demonstrating this technique it draws in the citizens of the United States, which gives the speaker everyone’s undivided attention to engage with each and every one of them. Kennedy’s does an immaculate job at utilizing this approach when he

As is popularly believed in society today, by holding one’s ability to accomplish their dreams to absolute certainty, they can achieve whatever they set their mind to. However, this mindset greatly misleads mass quantities of people into believing there is a pre-determined outcome by which their certainty of its occurrence will guarantee its manifestation. And this belief, while appropriate in some situations, leads to the retardation of one’s ability to discern when an appropriate amount of effort has been put towards one's goals, causing drawbacks such as feelings of entitlement and degrading the importance of critical thinking. Doubt on the other hand, in the right context, is what incurs people to analyze the action of themselves

Another important idea that I took away from Peter Thiel’s book, Zero to One, was the idea that, in order to think clearly about the future one must question the past, Thiel focuses on this in chapter two. Business owners must learn from their past mistakes in order to create a business that has a strong foundation. Thiel goes into great detail about how important it is to learn lessons from previous mistakes and take one step at a time while building your business.

Sometimes you have to fail a couple of times or a lot of times to finally reach success or two or even more. But manly you gotta practice and never tell you self you can't do something or anything when you can you may not know you can but you gotta try and keep trying.

As Henry Ford would say: "If you think you can do a thing or think you cannot do a thing, you are right."