http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/gwbush911jointsessionspeech.htm
George W. Bush might be known as the infamous 43rd president of the United States by many. Yet when we listened to him on, an infamous day as well, 9/11, noone doubted his decisions. Why is that? For one, the US had just been attacked.
President Bush stated "Tonight we are a country awakened to danger and called to defend freedom" Everyone thought we were going to defend our freedom. But I say, what freedom was taken from us? We might have lost the "freedom to live safely" but then again the government decided to spy on. some of his words such as "They stand against us, because we stand in their way." sound full of swagger if we think about them today. Now that we know that people in the middle east are dying. But when the attacks on September 11th occured these words meant different things.
So goes the way and when our ex-president used them. Noone would like to live in a country with a president who thinks his country is all powerful. I know that I wouldn't. But we fell for his words because of anger. The president knew how to get to the people is he used the right words and in the right order. If he said "we're going to attack the Taliban because we can" no one would have probably agreed. But after US citizens died and many were outraged these type of words didn't matter and so we went onto war...
Friday, March 13, 2009
Friday, January 23, 2009
World War II
For the speech go to http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=878
Many of us know the great Winston Churchill. He gave amazing speeches that motivated the people of Britain to not give up even if Germany was on the brink of defeating them. For example in the speech in the link above he is adressing the people of Britain. He is adressing them at the start of World War. Winston rallies them to not give up, he inspires them with the thought of their children, the future generations. He doesn't say all of this directly but he infers to them with his choice of words. The syntax he uses gives the message that they need to fight to give freedom to the people who will love it the most. As I interpret that it means the people who will come after them.
The people are also under the control of Pathos. The people have made the choice to go to war and Churchill tells them of a time when they will not have have to deal with the German Nazis.
As you may have noticed most speeches, if not all of them, appeal to the peoples Pathos, their feelings. WIth Pathos you can capture the moment and make people feel so "good" that they will cheer for you and follow your words and even fight for their country. Because people have pride and the pride that they have can always be swelled up with the right words. Churchill definitely knew how to do this.
Many of us know the great Winston Churchill. He gave amazing speeches that motivated the people of Britain to not give up even if Germany was on the brink of defeating them. For example in the speech in the link above he is adressing the people of Britain. He is adressing them at the start of World War. Winston rallies them to not give up, he inspires them with the thought of their children, the future generations. He doesn't say all of this directly but he infers to them with his choice of words. The syntax he uses gives the message that they need to fight to give freedom to the people who will love it the most. As I interpret that it means the people who will come after them.
The people are also under the control of Pathos. The people have made the choice to go to war and Churchill tells them of a time when they will not have have to deal with the German Nazis.
As you may have noticed most speeches, if not all of them, appeal to the peoples Pathos, their feelings. WIth Pathos you can capture the moment and make people feel so "good" that they will cheer for you and follow your words and even fight for their country. Because people have pride and the pride that they have can always be swelled up with the right words. Churchill definitely knew how to do this.
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