Bill Clinton Ethos Pathos Logos

Some speeches really make a difference to Americans. Both Bill Clinton and Robert F. Kennedy have speeches that send powerful messages to their audiences. The speech, “A Eulogy For Martin Luther King, Jr.” by Robert F. Kennedy, was a news breaking event and eulogy for the death of Martin Luther King, given to African Americans and all Americans. Bill Clinton’s “Oklahoma Bombing Memorial Address” was given as a memorial speech to the families of the Oklahoma bombing victims and to all Americans. Both were somber and mournful in tone.

Would you break the rules of society if you believed they were wrong? Even if there was a possibility of punishment and backlash? An individual, one and only-alone, can change the world. Two individuals, Equality 7-2521 and Victoria Woodhull broke the glass ceiling with their fists raised towards change. In the book Anthem by Ayn Rand, standing alone by oneself is illegal and having thoughts that are your own is something you could get lashed or burned at the stake for.

She presents her own opinion but backs it up with facts, using logos with merit. Mrs. Obama has seen Mrs. Clinton’s life-long devotion to the nation’s children--advocating for kids with disabilities, and fighting for children’s health care and for quality child care. Mrs. Obama speaks of Hillary Clinton’s character. She tells the audience about Mrs. Clinton’s grit and perseverance and makes an effort to back this up with the fact that she lost the election eight years ago and didn’t get discouraged because she genuinely cares about the country. She doesn’t only mentions what she has done for the children, she mentions the roles she’s taken in the government: First Lady, Senator, and Secretary of State.

Barack Hussein Obama is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He is the first African American to have served as president, as well as the first born outside the contiguous United States. In this speech he gave at the Democratic National Convention he reflects on his upbringing and his beating the odds with faith in the possibilities. His speech concerned the unnecessary and artificial divides in American politics and culture, emphasizing the importance of unity in our country, not just red states for Republicans and blue states for Democrats. His audience was community.

(Rubio 2016) He uses this statement to convince voters that they can not and should not trust Clinton due to her past actions. “She was an ultra-liberal senator and a reliable vote for crony capitalism, Wall Street bailouts, middle-class tax hikes and out of control government spending.” This statement from Rubio uses logos. He explains things that Hillary has done and it is factual, not opinionated.

but he spoke of them well. Again, with what seemed as though without any effort he transitioned into the ideas on how those issues can be solved. His conclusion accentuated on the way everyone can change the country together. He ended the speech on a high

She also mentions that women’s rights should be equal to Human rights. This speech was given at the United Nations Fourth Conference of Women on September

People remember this has a great speech because what she represents in this speech is hope, gratefulness, and guidance. Also the rhetorical devices she uses makes the speech that much more personal. Her use of an apostrophe or using an imaginary person was a great addition to the speech. She stats “ where after all do universal human rights begin? In a small places, close to home, so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world of the individual person; the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends”(adoption).

At one point, in her speech she mentions how women wouldn’t want their sons to be cruel, selfish, and liars. This line is mostly targeted to mothers and by saying that this gets mothers thinking. They don't want their sons to be evil men and mistreat women. Then from an early age boys are able to grow up with the mentality that men aren't superior than women ,but they are equal. She also talks about how women have changed their views and opinions to be more like man's views.

congress. She starts off the speech with a pathos appeal by providing an example to show how it feels to be a Women trying to get a job- “if she walks into an office for an interview, the first question she will be asked is “Do you type?”.” She provides this example to highlight the hollowness of these statements and then goes on to explain why these illogical happenings shouldn’t be so common. Another time she uses pathos is when she says “Women do not have the opportunities that men do. And women that do not conform to the system, who try to break with the accepted patterns, are stigmatized as “odd” and “unfeminine;” she uses this to show how helpless and sad their situation is.

She also states that no state can deny women the right to vote because everyone is a person and half the population should not be discriminated based on who they are. The repeated use of the word oligarchy in the second half of the speech gives the word a very bad connotation since it talks about people ruling other people, even though everyone is born equally. The word oligarchy has a bad connotation since it means a small group of people

Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered her speech “Women’s Rights are Human Rights” September 5, 1995 while speaking at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China with the intent to educate and spread awareness in regards to the rights and treatment of women around the world, while encouraging women to take initiative and highlight the potential women have if presented with the opportunity of equality. Early in Clinton’s speech, she uses the power of ethos to establish her credibility and continues to build upon it throughout, bringing attention to the fact she has had years of experience fighting for change among people of all kinds. Clinton convinces listeners that she has made women’s rights a priority in her life

Truth made her speech critical and persuasive, engaging and emotional to challenge the audience’s reasoning behind why African American women were denied the same rights as the white women and men and to argue that

Bill Clinton is known as one of the most powerful speakers in the United States, and he impresses his audience by his speeches and the rhetorical devices that he includes in his speeches and addresses. For example, he effectively delivers his inaugural address with a convincing tone and some of the rhetorical devices such as allusions and strong diction. In his 1993 inaugural address, Clinton discussed the issues that America faced in the 20th century such as health care costs and low wages. He mentioned that these issues are not solved because America has not “made changes” and made progress to solve the conflicts and restore the economy. Because of this, Clinton knew it was important to ensure that all of the nation was behind him, and if

Name: Ngan Thu Bui SID#: 0860066 Class: Introduction to Argumentation (COMS-40) SPEECH ANALYSIS Every four years, American media and its people pay close attention to every speech within the U.S. presidential campaign. Last year, Hilary Clinton from Democratic and Donald Trump from Republican were two final candidates running for the U.S. presidency. The former First Lady, Michelle Obama showed her support for the Democratic presidential candidate by giving an emotional speech on Clinton’s campaign rally.