Rhetorical Analysis Of Jfk Speech

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President John F. Kennedy delivered a speech on September 12, 1962 at Rice University Stadium in Houston, Texas in regards to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's program. President Kennedy utilized personal anecdotes, allusions, and morality to explain why he supports the programs attempt to land humans on the moon. President Kennedy addressed that the breathtaking pace that man has been traveling in would lead to high rewards but as well will openly welcome new problems, new ignorances, and definitely new dangers. " If America's new spacecraft succeeds in reaching Venus, we will have literally reached the stars before midnight". He illustrates to the audience how the quick pace that humans are innovating in all fields is that it will become most likely that us humans will have the ability to reach space when they least expect it. "If America's new spacecraft succeeds in reaching Venus, we will have literally reached the stars before midnight". Kennedy creates this allusion in order for the crowd to understand how truly quickly innovations are being made. Kennedy appeals to the recent innovations that are occurring around him and states how instead of becoming apart of the generation of innovations that were made, they can lead the generation to a whole other level of technological innovations. A whole new generation where the human eye can look out to the world of space, a world of multiple planets, stars, the moon and many more wonders. …show more content…

"To solve these mysteries, to solve them for the good of all men, and to become the world’s leading space-faring nation" states Kennedy to make the audience support the idea of landing humans on the

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