Pearl Harbor Speech Analysis

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There are different presidential speeches that are special and convenient in their own ways. This is about how former Presidents George W. Bush and Franklin Delanor Roosevelt speeches of the two tragedies that both happened on american soil, how the two presidents presented their speech in order for us to go to war. This paper is going to be extensive, but bare with me. There are two speeches that are special and that is the Franklin Delanor Roosevelt Pearl harbor speech and George W. Bush’s 9/11 speech. Lets focus on what happened on Pearl Harbor, Pearl Harbor took place in the territory of Hawaii, the bombing was was caused by Japan's air fleet, after that day of tragedy former president FDR made a speech to Congress to go to war with …show more content…

one detail of bush is the beginning sentence of his speech because he puts a sorrow feel to it, second detail of Bush is that is when he is talking about how we are strong and overcome this, is at the end of the speech when he was talking about how we should declare war on syria.The second reason why i think Bush’s speech was more persuasive because how he balances the use of ethos, pathos, and logos because bush balances it when he was pronouncing his introduction, bush used all of them when he was talking about how people helped in this time of need, and how bush used ethos pathos and logos more when he was closing his speech. The most persuasive one is bush because he was the person that was more well rounded in speaking and grabbed my attention more than FDR did. of all the tragedies these were the most compelling and turning points in american history. The main point of this assignment was to talk about how Former George W. Bush and Franklin delanor Roosevelt speeches of the two tragedies that happened on american soil, how they presented their speech in order for us to go to war. Although we had evil people that do many evil things to certain people, but there are evil people that do evil actions to the wrong

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