Rhetorical Analysis Of The Four Freedoms Speech

Douglas's What to a slave is the 4th of July shows how the American interpretation of slavery is hypocritical. Douglas is able to express these successful expresses this fact by using all rhetorical choices, ethos, pathos and logos. Using all three to further strengthen his view on how slaves have little thought for the 4th of July. Giving us, a perspective of what life was really like for the typical slave in America at the time.

It is those emotions and feelings of pride and patriotism towards their country that President Roosevelt plays upon within the American public the most. FDR uses many tactics within his speech to make sure that feelings of patriotism and pride are created within the American public. As one of the tactics that the President uses to instill feelings of patriotism and pride is by boosting their pride by saying things that make them feel good about their country and themselves. Throughout the whole speech the president consistently throws in quotes like, “We have the men. The skill, they wealth, and above all, the will,”(440) and “I call upon our people with absolute confidence that our common cause will greatly succeed,”(441) to boost American morale. FDR uses quotes like this throughout his whole speech to make them feel proud to be Americans and make them feel like they could take on anyone in the world and win. Another one of those tactics that FDR uses throughout his speech that helped create those feelings was by taking certain quotes from the axis powers that were derogatory toward the US and turning them around for his benefit. The statement located in the fifth paragraph states that, “…I can

In his 1852 speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”, Frederick Douglass passionately argued that to the slave and all other Americans, the Fourth of July is nothing more than a mockery of the grossest kind; that the United States stood by hypocrisy to the values they ultimately swore by. In his speech, Douglass made four clear points: (1) “This holiday is to rejoice for the sake of freedom and liberty”; (2) “My people have no freedom, have no liberty”; (3) “You rejoice, my people mourn” (4); “This holiday is a mockery to us”. In making these points Douglass exposed the hypocrisy and ignorance of the nation. Douglass produced his argument with the use of several rhetorical strategies. Douglass used rhetorical questions that created a distinct separation between the slaves and freemen of the United States; the use of repetition of important phrases left a clear and concise impression on the listener, while using the logic and credibility of the Bible to communicate claims.

“Yesterday, December 7th, 1941’” began President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the day following Japan’s fateful attack on Pearl Harbor, resulting in the in the tragic loss of nearly two and a half thousand American lives. A date so famously proclaimed to ‘forever live in infamy,’ and so it has. This inspiring speech to Congress and the American people employed appeals and other techniques in it’s mission to touch America’s heart, both with sympathy and indignation. President Roosevelt’s use of rhetoric is extremely effective in rallying the American people to the cause of entering a war so many were reluctant to support.

On June 11,1963 at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, John F. Kennedy delivered “The Civil Rights Address” on this day he was trying to get the message to the people that everyone in the United States should be equal and have equal rights.

Sweat rolled down the backs of an attentive audience. Despite the sweltering temperature, a crowd had gathered to listen to a renowned orator celebrate the birthday of their fine new nation. The day was July 5th, 1852, and Frederick Douglass was poised to deliver what would soon become his most famous speech, “What to the Slave, Is the Fourth of July?” Commissioned to be a cheerful hurrah, it instead scathes the unexpected audience, bringing to light the overabundance of hypocrisies dwelling in America’s Independence Day celebration. Asked simply to give a speech, Frederick Douglass seizes the opportunity

During the early nineteenth century, Transcendentalist movements called for reform and urged independent and intuitive thinking across the United States. One important transcendentalist was Margaret Fuller Ossoli, a woman who strived to change the ways of thinking in Americans, specifically men who could make an impact in politics, in order to create the reform that Transcendentalists were passionate about. Fuller urges Americans towards reformation and attempts to show the deteriorating condition of American society in her essay titled “Fourth of July.” In her essay, Fuller not only tries to establish her credibility among a skeptical male audience by appearing fair-minded and well-reasoned, but she also attempts to instill a sense of responsibility

suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan,” are the words that were used by U.S. President of the time Franklin Delano Roosevelt to address the nation about the attack that had just happen on Pearl Harbor. Causing a lot of debate on whether the to go into war in return, Roosevelt responded by delivering a speech that was not only a call to arms, but a request to declare war on Japan and bring the United States into WWII. In Roosevelt’s Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation, he used appeals such as ethos, pathos and parallelism to convey his conflicting feelings about the attack on Pearl Harbor in order to get the message out of the need to go into WWII, as well as, to have people understand what America had just been through.

Specifically within the United States the founding father’s precedent of nationalism established a foundation to allow for the principles buzzwords of America to be reused in cases of need even outside of their original context. The emergence of American nationalism’s first major globalized example can be found following the Pearl Harbor attacks during World War II which later led to America reaching superpower status. Ironically the most popular example of nationalism gone awry can be found within this war as well, located in Hitler’s Nazi Germany. A nation which demonstrated how extremely negative and devastating nationalism can function as a veil of government propaganda to call for extreme loyalty to Hitler’s cause while also spewing violence and genocide through the attack of European Jewish peoples and other minorities not fitting within Nazi nationalism (Mod. 3 Lecture). These highly emotional and embedded feelings during times of war or crisis also functions to dismisses critique by labeling those who question the government or military’s actions as unpatriotic and even traitors, thus encouraging a silent agreement amongst it’s imagined nation’s members. Nationalism alongside military action is something that has been present in any American war conflict. Within FDR’s speech made following Pearl Harbor he calls back on these principles of

‘Roosevelt argued that the isolationist fantasy of the nation as a safe oasis in a world dominated by fascist terror evoked for the overwhelming majority of Americans not a dream but a "nightmare of a people without freedom"’ (Dunn, Susan). Roosevelt, who was the US President during WWII, believed that a policy of isolationism would lead only to destroying America's freedoms. This view was highly controversial as the US debated whether to intervene in WWII. Isolationism had been a long-held practice and mostly beneficial policy for the United States. However, in the 1940s, it became necessary to reconsider isolationism. The future of American ideals such as liberty and democracy greatly depended on the US’ course of action. With the growing prospect of a dangerous German threat, the US needed to intervene to protect these ideals and keep the war off of American soil. However, since the US was unprepared

The year is 1941, war is waging in Europe between the Axis and Allies with the United States trying to remain neutral. Yet, the nation was sharply divided between “Isolationists,” those who wanted to stay away from conflict and “Interventionists,” those who wanted to intervene against the Nazi regime. President Franklin Roosevelt belonged to the interventionists as he perceived the war as “a life-and-death struggle in defense of Western values” which had become abandoned by Nazi Germany and their allies. (Burtness and Ober 740) Yet, his presidential campaign promise was to keep America out of war and with the public in disunity, Roosevelt had very little hope of rallying the American public to declaring war. This neutrality would come to

How did FDR’s speech motivate Americans to support our troops going into war? This will be the attack on America that no one will ever forget. On a quiet Sunday morning in the Pearl Harbor Naval Base in Hawaii islanders didn’t know that it was going to be a horrific morning. The first wave of attacks was at 7:55 am, 100s of Japanese fighter pilots came into vicinity of the Island, Honolulu.

The United States definitely did not live up to its statements spoken in FDR’s speech of the 4 Freedoms. FDR said that everyone had the right to have “freedom from fear”, but by having thrown japanese americans into internment camps he automatically undermined and disqualified his own speech. He claimed that no one should live in fear, but he was causing japanese americans to live in fear that their homes and jobs would be ripped away from them at any given moment.

Would America be the same country if there was not some of the founding fathers and their contributions? The answer must be “No” if we take Patrick Henry out of the options. Patrick Henry really played a very prominent role in the success of America’s independence. In his speech to the Virginia Convention in 1775, 'Give me liberty or give me death’, Patrick Henry encourages the Colony of Virginia to rise up, fight for the revolution and stand for their freedom by uses diction, organization, and figurative language. Within his speech, he uses ethos, logos, and pathos convey a feeling of urgency toward the changes occurring in policy within the Americas implemented by the British government.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was determined to protect the national security of the United States. At first, Roosevelt felt that it was in the best interest of the United States to avoid involvement in the war. However, he knew “sooner or later, the threat to the European balance of power would have forced the United States to intervene in order to stop Germany’s drive for world domination” (Kissinger 369-370). But this was not Roosevelt’s main problem; Roosevelt had to prove to the American people that unlike World War I, US involvement was necessary. He had to “[transform] the nation’s concept of national interest and [lead] ‘a staunchly isolationist people’ into yet another global