Appealing?

Inauguration of a President is a grand occasion in America. This is held often in January after the previous office holder is removed from office due to the expired term of the previous President. At this induction, the new President, after taking the oath into office, gives his inaugural address in front of the nation. Inaugural addresses tell what the newly inducted President will do for his term. Presidents state the important parts of why they were chosen and what they will attempt to complete to better the nation, and lead it efficiently. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s speech was one of the most memorable.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, known commonly in this society as FDR, was elected into office at some point in the Great Depression. FDR was in the office as President with a total of four terms. Due to the horrible economy for the duration of that time, people needed a hero to stand up for the peoples rights and bring the USA back around as well as aid the rest of the world. The genius behind his speech at the inauguration contained a logical appeal, an ethical appeal, and emotional appeal to get the attention of his audience and streak the point across their conscious minds as they listened. These were used by Aristotle and he named them logos, ethos, and pathos. Logic can be used in many ways for many things.

FDR used logos with a certain flow of reason. The logic makes sense and makes those reading, or listening think, either in agreement or by trying to find faults. FDR planted a visual in the minds of the people of his time to show them what he would do to save the United States of America from the clutches of the Great Depression. He gave them hope for a future that appealed to most of the people of the time...

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...s complex man’s personal character in his speeches was so that anyone listening could associate themselves with him, or at least feel what he felt. Even when this nation, and inevitably the world, was so emotional, his emotion changed theirs to make hope for a better and brighter future. Franklin Roosevelt sure had some appeal to those in his time, and even still today.

Works Cited
"American Rhetoric: Franklin Delano Roosevelt - First Inaugural Address." American Rhetoric: The Power of Oratory in the United States. Web. 10 Mar. 2010. .

Lunsford, Andrea A., and Franklin E. Horowitz. The Everyday Writer. 4th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2004. Print.

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