Politicians use many different ways to persuade the intended audience. The speech to the Berlin Wall, and the speech to the Virginia Convention were both similar in ways of impacting people and using the same form of persuasion, but different when it came to a sense of hope, time periods, and the reasoning. Reagan and Henry use different different modes of persuasion.
The differences between the Berlin Wall speech and the speech to the virginia convention, are the time periods, the view of hope, and the point of views. The speech to the Virginia Convention was written by Patrick Henry in 1775. Patrick Henry was only a public speaker who was against the british government. The Berlin Wall speech was written by Ronald Reagan in 1987. He was
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They both have a strong passionate form of pathos. The speech to the Virginia Convention by Patrick Henry is most known for its last line of pathos! ¨Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!¨ (Henry, 126). He also tries to reason with all the people suffering from the british government. ¨We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament¨ (Henry, 125). Reagan uses the same form of persuasion. Reagan uses pathos to get all the sufferers to realize he knows how they feel. ¨Farther south, there may be no visible, no obvious wall. But there remain armed guards and checkpoints all the same--still a restriction on the right to travel, still an instrument to impose upon ordinary men and women the will of a totalitarian state¨, (Reagan). Once he has all the people who have suffered listening to him, he uses ¨hope¨, an emotion, to persuade the audience to withstand their corrupt government. ¨Yet I do not come here to lament. For I find in Berlin a message of hope, even in the shadow of this wall, a message of triumph¨,
Appealing to character is more about appealing to the way a person is while appealing to emotion is appealing to what a person feels. I believe that this is the strongest way to appeal to someone because you can make them think about things they have not before or you can make them feel a certain way about something. When Clinton started to talk about what has been happening around the world and what our society has become people became emotional and the people wanted a change that Clinton had mention before “ I have worked hard to keep faith with our common efforts; to restore economy…..”.(Bill Clinton, November 13, 1993). In the speech on paragraph 24, 25, 27, and 28 is where Bill Clinton got into depth of what events had made him emotional to want to make a change. In paragraph 24 he recalls and event and says this “ A 14 year old boy gave a 13 year old boy a gun and dared him to shoot the 18 year old boy, and he shot him dead” (Bill Clinton, November 13, 1993) when mentioning this people start getting emotional and start thinking that if we want the same change in our society then Clinton may be the candidate to make it happen, so then there Clinton may have the majority of audience. Another example would be on paragraph 25 “ And they shot the man dead, and a bullet went through his body into the baby’s body, and blew the little bootie off the child’s foot” ( Bill Clinton, November 13, 1993) for me this was the statement that caught my attention the most because of what had happened and shows how our society is not empathetic. In the end I think the best way to appeal to someone is emotionally a person’s emotion can change many
The purpose of a constitution was to remove the royal authority 's institution and still govern the people with a popular sovereignty. Each colony developed their own constitution in different ways based on the economic, political, freedom, and social demands of the people as well as the states ' experiences. The Virginia constitution and the Massachusetts constitution were the two of the many states that created a constitution. Both of the constitutions have their similarity and difference, but they are more in common. In fact, It is said to be that the Massachusetts constitution was often overshadowed by the Virginia constitution. Nonetheless, the similarity between both constitutions is the structure of a commonwealth. That being the case, each state 's government are related to the federal government.
The 1770s proved to be a time of much chaos and debate. The thirteen colonies, which soon gained their independence, were in the midst of a conflict with Great Britain. The colonies were suffering from repeated injuries and usurpations inflicted upon them by the British. As a result of these inflictions, Thomas Paine and Patrick Henry addressed these injustices, and proved to be very persuasive through providing reasoning and evidence that moved many colonists to believe that to reach contentment and peace the colonies had to rid themselves of British rule. Henry and Paine were successful in swaying their audience, not only because of the rhetorical strategies used, but also because they were passionate about the cause they were committed to.
”(Neustadt, pg.11) Persuasion and bargaining are techniques that presidents can use to influence policy. Neustadt explains how persuasion can help a president get laws passed and to get favorable public opinion. Neustadt explains that bargaining is important in order to influence other politicians in Congress and inside of the executive branch. He stated that "The essence of a President's persuasive task is to convince such men that what the White House wants of them is what they ought to do for their sake and on their authority" (Neustadt, pg.30). Neustadt believes that a president should use persuasion rather than commanding because it is more effective.
At the Virginia convention in 1775 Patrick Henry spoke out anonymously about standing up to the British monarchy and gaining independence. His simple use of language and emotionally captivating passages inspired many to fight for a republic. Persuading the devout and loyal colonies to pull away from their mother country took courage.
Joseph McCarthy was a man of many talents, oration being one that surpassed the majority of the rest. McCarthy’s ability to use motifs, tone, and repetition in a way that supported his message impeccably was one of the reasons he excelled at persuasion.
Patrick Henry’s Anti-Federalist argument had a big purpose when it was wrote. It was Henry’s way of talking about his objections to the new Constitution. He listed varies objection to the constitution and stated reasoning behind his objections to make others see his point. Henry was a liberal activist. He wrote his document in first person. The audience for his stated was for the general public. The general public that this would have been in interest to was the government, anti-federalists, the state, and any adult in general.
Although Henry refused to serve on the Constitutional Convention, Madison needed Henry's persuasive ways. Henry had a way to make people agree with his ideas. Even though Henry didn't serve on the Constitutional Convention, he was still present to put in his word. As soon as the meetings opened, Henry began to argue against the Constitution. This argument went on for three weeks. Henry was aware that the new government had to be strong, but felt that the Constitution made the central government too powerful. He thought that the power should lay in the hands of the states. "What right had they [the group that wrote the Constitution] to say 'We the people,' instead We, the States?" he demanded.
In “From Notes on the State of Virginia,” Thomas Jefferson includes some proposed alterations to the Virginia Laws and discusses some differences between blacks and whites. First, he describes one of the proposed revisions regarding slavery: All slaves born after the enactment of the alteration will be freed; they will live with their parents till a certain age, then be nurtured at public disbursement and sent out of state to form their own colonies such that intermarrying and conflicts can be avoided between blacks and whites. Next, Jefferson indicates some physical differences between blacks and whites, including skin color, hair, amount of exudates secreted by kidneys and glands, level of transpiration, structure in the pulmonary organ, amount of sleep, and calmness when facing dangers. As he notes, these differences point out that blacks are inferior to whites in terms of their bodies. In addition, Jefferson also asserts that the blacks’ reasoning and imagination are much inferior to the whites’ after he observes some of the art work and writings from the blacks. As a result, based on his observation, he draws a conclusion that whites are superior to blacks in terms of both body and mind. However, Jefferson’s use of hasty generalization, begging the question, and insulting language in his analysis is a huge flaw which ruins the credibility of his argument and offenses his readers.
...ou see through examples, all three types of rhetoric are present in Gehrig’s farewell speech.
While Lincoln’s speeches were great and well thought out, Roosevelt’s speeches were more persuasive and full of imagery that swayed audiences and help attention captive. Roosevelt had a way with words that Lincoln did not have. Roosevelt’s speeches were more upbeat and tried to lift spirits while Lincoln’s speeches saddened many. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. Two presidents in history whose speeches made a lasting impact on
Ronald Reagan adeptly utilizes Ethos Pathos and Logos in his Brandenburg Gate address, he attempts to sway the audience of the importance of success of the marshal plan and western values as a whole, and convince the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the barrier which had divided West and East Berlin since 1961. Reagan begins his speech by addressing the people present and recognizing the “freedom” and “feeling of history” of the city of Berlin has. He makes his first reference to previous speakers by saying, “Twenty four years ago, President John F. Kennedy visited Berlin, and speaking to the people of this city and the world at the city hall. Well since then two other presidents have come, each in his turn to Berlin. And today, I, myself, make my second visit to your city,”( Reagan 361) His first usage of pathos is when he addresses the east berliners who were separated from the westerners by the Berlin wall and tells them, “I join your fellow countrymen in the West, in this
The Declaration of Independence and "I Have A Dream" speech have much in common, as in they both were created in time of when America wanted change. As well as what we use in present day to help shape the country. They were both very effective, but in a different ways.
Speeches are similar in one aspect, they all bring their own personal message to the world in compelling ways Chief Joseph’s “On Surrender at Bear Paw Mountain, 1877” and Susan B. Anthony’s “On Women’s Right to Vote” are no exemptions. Though both are from a prolonged oppressed or minority group in their time such as the women’s suffrage for Anthony and Native American Relations with the United States for Chief Joseph. In addition they have a similar point of view against the US government and their relationship with it, but they differ in some specifics. Their concepts and utilities like rhetorical appeals are different to support best their own circumstances as Chief Joseph’s speech is announcing a surrender and thus uses mainly pathos
In the “Speech at the Virginia Convention” Patrick Henry tries to persuade colonists to fight a war against the English; he uses several main rhetorical strategies such as; parallelism, metaphor, and rhetorical questions.