Rhetorical Analysis Of Nigel Farage's Speech

May 26, 1940, “Operation Dynamo” began. This was an evacuation of allied soldiers in Dunkirk during World War II from the beaches and harbor. The evacuation ended June 4, 1940 (The editors of The Encyclopedia Britannica). At this point in time most of the world was feeling defeated. “Prime Minister Churchill knew this and understood the necessity for a rise in morale. He feared this speech would simply be another telling of a horrific battle” (RCL). Churchill’s speech had a huge impact on the way the rest of the world viewed the war, people had hope again for defeating The Axis-Forces.

When reading and watching our former president George W. Bush’s 9/11 Address to the Nation I found the speech to be ineffective. George W. Bush was president at the time of the 9/11 attacks, his speech started and ended efficiently with the appeal to pathos. Though its lack of logos overlooked this and made his speech unsuccessful. This essay will examine the President’s use of rhetorical appeals and how his speech was made for failure.

President George W. Bush starts his speech by acknowledging his intended audience: the Speaker of the Congress, the members of the Congress and the American people. He explains that the main aim of the speech is to address the 9/11 events and so he brings the attention to the widow of Todd Beamer, the American passenger aboard the hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 who tried to reclaim the aircraft from the hijackers leading them to crash it into a field in Stonycreek Township near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. He then praises the American solidarity and strength in facing the tragic events and shows gratitude to the nations that have expressed their sympathy with the American people giving examples

Graham Hill gives a speech at a Technology, Entertainment and Design Conference (TED), “Less Stuff, More Happiness” on October 5, 2011. In this speech, Hill shares his thoughts about the advantages of taking less space and living more like a minimalist. Hill understands that his audience, is made up of influencers and people that can be easily persuaded by being relatable. He tries to persuade his audience that downsizing can bring happiness and an easy going lifestyle. To make certain that Hill’s argument is effective, he builds his credibility, uses facts, and makes himself relatable through his word choice and how he establishes common ground.

Stephen Bannon’s speech also seemed to be stemmed in the fear of change. He believes that the cultural globalization of the world return to the same leadership as the end of the Victorian era. At this time, the socioeconomic rules of the Church of England and the Catholic Church set the world standard for trade, globalization, and technology transfer. With that came the cultural influences of the Christian Faith spreading across the world. Bannon claims that ever since that has changed, the world has become a barbaric place. Stating that, “We’re children of Barbarity. This will be looked at almost as the new dark age.” Similar to the clergy, Bannon uses historical events such as World War II and interprets the fighting between countries as the fight between the Judeo-Christian West and atheists. Bannon declares Judeo-Christian

Trump’s highly anticipated speech was both emotional and controversial, thus making it a memorable speech. Although his speech is less poetic compared to his predecessors, Trump’s point was to attempt unifying Congress in order to make his vision of America into a reality. I think that Trump ultimately said what people wanted to hear. The fact that he used a conversational tone and not an overly formal tone speaks volumes. Although his stance is firm in key aspects of his campaign such as securing the country’s borders and repealing obamacare, there were certainly some statements that took me by surprise. By far one of the most astounding declaration was when Trump revealed, “My administration wants to work with members in both parties to

On September 20, 2001 President George Walker Bush delivered a speech to Congress titled “After 9/11” concerning the tragedies that took place in New York City. America was flooded with shock and grief after learning that members of Al-Qaeda had hijacked airplanes and crashed them into the World Trade Center in New York City. President George W. Bush hoped that his speech would put Americans and the world at ease as he talked about how America was going to band together not only with one another but also with those around us to prove just how strong our American support system was. President George W. Bush’s speech used the rhetorical appeals Ethos, Pathos, and Logos to help ease the mind of those who were scared and changed the way Americans looked at terrorism.

On July 21, 2016, at the Republican National Conventions, one of the longest acceptance speeches was given by Donald Trump (USA Today). Clocking in at about an hour and fifteen minutes, Donald Trump’s speech made the crowd chant almost constantly with different facts he threw out, even if the facts weren’t one hundred percent truthful. No matter who he may have appealed to the using logos and ethos, his credibility and honesty were not the finest, destroying the effectiveness.

Social media gives users the opportunity to build an online persona through posting of content such as text, images, links or through interaction with others. The way in which users present themselves is a type of behavior usually determined by differences in demographic or psychologic traits. Aristotle defines ethos as the charisma and the credibility of a speaker. When it comes to Mr. Trump, the main argument in favor of his credibility and reputation is his image of the businessman who managed to build the tremendous real-estate empire. President Donald Trump uses Twitter to break news, share his views and feud with critics and celebrities at all times of day or night. It can be hard to keep up — below are some of his noteworthy tweets since he became president.

Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President, Friday, January 20th, 2017. As Trump delivers his speech to the people in a confident and professional style, he assures them that the United States will prosper throughout the years while having him in office. “But that is the past. And now, we are looking only to the future.” He indicates that people will go through a transition where every citizen must work in order for the country to prosper, which it is a rhetorical strategy giving people hope for a new beginning. “One by one, the factories shuttered and left our shores, with not even a thought about the millions and millions of American workers that were left behind. The wealth of our middle class has been ripped from their homes and

With diminishing control of what happens in Britain, the British people decided it was best to vacate the union. The British were dealing with the laws given by the European members who were not living and experiencing the country themselves. To provide an example of a ghastly law given to the British people, they, as part of the European Union, were only allowed to catch 20% of the fish swimming in British territorial waters. What this meant was that tens of thousands of jobs were lost and they were not able to use one of the most significant resources given to them, as Britain is surrounded by ocean. Nigel Farage, Leader of the UK Independence Party, says that his fellow Englishmen, “effectively gave away the ability to look after one of our greatest resources to a bureaucracy based in Brussels.” Because of the way the government was set up, “Not only could the voters not change anything, but the institutes themselves are incapable of reform.” With an already maimed government, the European Union was creating more problems than it was solving. The British people had enough of giving up their rights as British citizens so the European Commission could tell them how to live. Therefore, with problems like those arising from the Union and with no hope to resolve them, Britain filed for secession and pulled out of the union

On January 20th, of this year, America witnessed one of the most baffling moments in all of our history. That moment was when Donald J. Trump, a man of no political background, was inaugurated as President of United States of America. No matter what this man has done in throughout the campaign, or what the media has said about the terrible things he has done or said, he still managed to win the electoral vote and won the title of President. Now, no matter how people feel about this man, Donald has a huge following of people who are ready to support anything he does. He achieved this feat by how he talks and presents himself to the American people, or at least to his audience that is.

Donald Trump and the revival of the American state: The president of United States on board with the Americans on key issues

In January 2001, George W. Bush greeted America for the first time as president. This was a peaceful time in the country, more or less. 2001 was before war swept the nation and prayers for our men and women in uniform became the norm. Emerging from the 1990s world was now dazzled by new technology. In a time before Facebook and terrabyte capable Apple products we were thrilled to be playing on a Playstation while listening to our favorite songs on a first generation iPod. George W. Bush came into presidency the same time Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire hit the shelves. It seems like a world ago but many of his decisions as president still affect us to this day. His primary argument in his inaugural address concern the children of America and how we will work to give them better schools, improved health insurance, and a stronger country to grow up in. His secondary argument centers around using the power of faith and belief in a higher power to become a more unified country. Bush supports his arguments using a strong pathos core supported by ethos.

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.