World War One Rhetorical Analysis

The famous speech Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation by Franklin D. Roosevelt shows us a vast amount of rhetorical appeals: Pathos, Ethos, and Logos to the nation. The speech given by Franklin D. Roosevelt shows us the intended audience and the persuasion used in order to change the peoples’ minds to defend our nation. Let’s begin with the Pathos for this particular speech.

“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.

Herodotus, the author of histories, once said, “During times of peace, the sons bury their fathers, but in war it is the fathers who send their sons to the grave.” World War I was a lengthy and critical war which resulted in the death of millions. This ranked it along with the deadliest conflicts in human history. As a soldier during World War I, Richard Connell witnessed the darker side of man displayed by others during the war that influenced his writing of The Most Dangerous Game. Using metaphors, imagery and irony, he was able to demonstrate the ugliness within humanity and the way that the human mind can suffer from viewing such manslaughter.

In the essay An Unwinnable War by Robert K. Brigham, he used a different point of view to analyze the U.S. military and how they lost in Vietnam. He also examines three different strategies that were brought up time and time again that could have possibly won the war. Brigham explains to us how he thinks none of these strategies would have gained a victory for the U.S. because they did not fully understand the structure of South Vietnam and the government itself. The first suggested strategy is the invasion of North Vietnam, just above the demilitarized zone at the 17th parallel. What Brigham is saying is that these leaders who supported a strategy like this were overlooking certain aspects such as the threat of China, who was possibly looking

During the mid – 1860s, British North American colonies agreed in confederation, but there were many corruptions and things were to be change. Speaking of confederation, confederation is when all colonies join in together, such as Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada East and West. My three main statements are what happened in the civil war and the Unites States expansions between the colonies and the Americans , what were the pros and cons during the trading process, and lastly Did the railways benefited the colonies?

From Godzilla to aliens living in outer space, people have been fearful of the unknown. Well, the Red Scare brought fear that could somewhat be equated to the fears people have of Godzilla to aliens living in outer space. But, the Red Scare was mot brought about through the fear of aliens but of human beings, being fearful of human beings. The Red Scare came to light in 1919s and 1920s. Senator Joseph McCarthy started this mass epidemic of fear. He claimed to have a list of citizens and elected officials that were impartial to the communist party. He used his position with the HUAC to spread his rhetoric across the U.S. Many people lost their jobs, homes and businesses thanks to Joseph McCarthy. At the very end of this saga, everyone

Often times writings with the general theme of war and battle juxtapose the symbol of nature with brutal events in order to create contrast between. In All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich M. Remarque, the author uses the method of juxtaposition to convey the contrast of beautiful nature to war and potentially emphasizing the brutality of battle. Away from combat, down-time is given to the men fighting, where things are peaceful and no longer chaotic. As they are relaxing, their surroundings are described as a “flowery meadow” with “white butterflies...in the soft warm wind” which symbolizes peace or happiness. (Remarque 9). Although the men are experiencing a time and setting of tranquility, death is also occurring near them, ultimately

“Rainsford heard a sound. It came out of the darkness, a high screaming sound, the sound of an animal in an extremity of anguish and terror” (16). In the shocking short story “The Most Dangerous Game” created by Richard Connell, tension and terror is manufactured in the eyes of the reader. In the chilling story of a hunter and a huntee, the author subjects the audience to Rainsford’s grief and agony of the hunt. Combining suspenseful foreshadowing and vivid imagery, the writer produces apprehension and fashions shock in the eyes of the reader.

In Black Hawk's Surrender Speech in 1832, Black Hawk portrays many forms of being a courageous Indian who faced many obstacles, but was always true to his nation. He portrays this by utilizing rhetorical devices and associating to the reader through pathos.

Leper, while recounting the events that lead up to Phineas’s fall from the tree, describes the whole ordeal with striking imagery. The reader can clearly visualize exactly what he saw -- how sunbeams graced Gene and Phineas’s dark silhouettes as they stood on the limb, and the black, solid mass that was the tree itself. Enhanced with similes such as “black as death” and “like golden machine-gun fire”, the whole passage really comes to life.

In What It Is Like To Go To War, Karl Marlantes writes about a multitude of issues that war veterans have to deal with after coming back from war and uses the rhetorical appeals of ethos logos and pathos to try and build common ground with the audience. The opening pages to “Loyalty” are not written in the viewpoint of Marlantes being in the Vietnam War, providing where and what Marlantes was loyal to and how he viewed loyalty as, this is ineffective method t build common ground with me because I have never experienced any violent scenario let alone war; Marlantes heartache after leaving Meg behind to show how painful it was for both of these young lovers shows a strong use of pathos because everyone can relate to heartache, romantic or not, to the other rhetorical

Society often masks the true horrors of war in order to promote patriotism. In All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque captures the reality of war through the horrific imagery, which he portrays through similes. The narrator, nineteen-year-old Paul Bäumer, and his comrades look over the trenches to witness horse suffering in no man’s land. Prior to ending the horse’s misery, the soldiers see the last one “[prop] itself on its forelegs and [drag] itself round in a circle like a merry-go-round” (Remarque 64). Remarque compares the dying horse to a merry-go-round to create situational irony through imagery. Associated with happiness and nostalgia, merry-go-rounds portray purity as they are ironically compared to a tortured

Marlantes expresses the quote “The ideal response to killing in war should be similar to a mercy killing, sadness mingled with respect” (Page 42) because he wants to proclaim how his reaction to killing really is and what others expected it to be. Most of the time when he was killing in combat, he felt either nothing or a kind of exhilaration. This was not the answer most people wanted to hear, he acknowledges, and he hesitated giving it when he returned from Vietnam afraid he would appear to be indifferent or overzealous, as some protestors of the war portrayed those who fought in it. Several years later, Marlantes says that he is deeply saddened by the deaths that he has caused. Marlantes found a different feeling than every other soldier

The war of ideologies is ubiquitous. Everything that is subject to evaluation is arguable. What is the best show on television, what's the safest vehicle to drive, or what is the right religious faith to follow? The need to sway the opinion of our opponents stems from the desire to know that we are making rational decisions using a sound mind. When Joseph McCarthy (in a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, on February 9, 1950) sought to persuade his audience to support exposing and ousting State Department employees that he suspected of Communist allegiance, his rhetorical strategies would lean on stirring the emotions of those present. Calling communism "a religion of immoralism," McCarthy focused on its lack of religious content rather than

Roosevelt was an idealist and his fundamental belief was service. Every opportunity he had to speak to the people, he emphasized everyone’s responsibility to do their part to make America better. For example, in 1943, the coal miners called for a strike. Before they could, Roosevelt took control of the mines to prevent the strike. During his fireside chat, he once again, appealed to the values of patriotism. In his speech, he pointed out the connections of their tasks as coal miners to the men on the battlefields. Roosevelt associated the goals as the same for they were all interdependent on each other for success in the war (Alexrod, 2003).