Rhetorical Analysis Of A Date Which Will Live In Infamy

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The way speeches, songs, quotes, mottos, and slogans are put out to Americans daily and influence how we see the things that have happened and are happening in the world. Throughout history, America has been greatly impacted by the way messages are sent to American people. People view words and sayings differently based on the person saying it and the audience. FDR’s speech, A Date Which Will Live in Infamy, seems like he wants Americans to want to go to war. Throughout the speech, he uses more emotional words or phrases like, “suddenly and deliberately attacked,” “deliberately planned,” and “premeditated invasion.” Those along with many other phrases follow the theme of “infamy”. FDR repeats “last night Japanese forces attacked…” multiple …show more content…

It draws more attention the words attacked and Japanese, so Americans would then associate Japanese people with bad things. A lot of Americans associated all Japanese-Americans with the Japanese people who attacked Hawaii, even though they didn’t have anything to do with the attack. FDR wants to get a big emotional response from Americans and from Congress. He tells the American people, “With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God,” which means he wants to go to war with Japan. Fighting back could make the issues between Japan and the US worse and more people would end up dying. The American people listened to what he had to say, even if it wasn’t 100 percent true. Americans …show more content…

They weren't allowed to eat in the same restaurant, “unless such and colored persons are effectually separated by a solid partition extending from the floor upward to a distance of seven feet or higher.” In today’s society, people of different races are allowed to eat wherever they want. Even though there are still a lot of people that are still racist towards African Americans, we’ve come along way in accepting them. African American and white people weren't allowed to “play together or in company with each other in any game game of cards or dice, dominoes or checkers.” If they were seen playing the same game, the African American person would be punished for being around the white person, not the other way around. These laws impacted how people lived their lives. African Americans lived in fear because they could get arrested or hurt over nothing. They were made out to be dangerous and people white Americans didn’t want to be

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