Sunday, October 4, 2015
Logos: JFK's Moon Shot Speech to Congress
In order for JFK to persuade the members of Congress, he needed to present enough evidence and dedication for the government to be willing to fund his plan. He acknowledges that there will be some drawbacks, but knows that Americans have the capability to achieve great success. Doing this allowed for the audience to grasp the idea that it will not be easy, however can be done. JFK clearly states what his intentions are and the goals he must complete in order to achieve them. He says it must be decided as a nation and not just from him or else they won't be successful. Listing the exact funds needed for the project shows that he did explicit research on the topic and knows what it entails. He provides the logistics and reasonings behind his desire to travel to the moon throughout the speech. JFK concludes his speech by reiterating the fact that without the help of the whole nation, the project will be unbearable.
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This is a good analysis of JFK's speech! I think you could've included more specific lines from the speech to exemplify your points, rather than paraphrasing. I also think you could've mentioned how JFK used language to appeal to his audience. What made his speech worthy of being given before Congress? He crafted his words to get his audience to agree with him more; just explain how he does this.
ReplyDelete-Amrita
Great work! I really liked how you started with why JFK needed to persuade the members of Congress, it gave a solid background to go off of in your analysis. However, it may be beneficial to (as previously said above) to add specific lines from your speech to your analysis because you have a lot of "he says" or "he." Thus, giving specific lines would fix this and make your analysis more in depth. Also it would not hurt to vary up the beginning of the sentence structure because you have a good amount of sentences starting with he and it may aid in smoothing the flow of your writing.
ReplyDelete-Jason Recht
JFK is known as being one of the greatest and most invaluable presidents of the United States of America for a reason. JFK was a Democratic leader in his rulings and wanted the people to be involved in all political actions that take place in the decisions made by him including the Space Race which you accented quite brilliantly. The main thing I like about your analysis of JFK's speech is that you showed how without the help of the nation the project would not be able to be completed and be successful showing the correlation between the President and the general population of the United States.
ReplyDelete-Ikenna Mba
JFK is known as being one of the greatest and most invaluable presidents of the United States of America for a reason. JFK was a Democratic leader in his rulings and wanted the people to be involved in all political actions that take place in the decisions made by him including the Space Race which you accented quite brilliantly. The main thing I like about your analysis of JFK's speech is that you showed how without the help of the nation the project would not be able to be completed and be successful showing the correlation between the President and the general population of the United States.
ReplyDelete-Ikenna Mba
This was a good overview of how JFK appealed to logic in his speech, but it's quite vague. What are the drawbacks of the program? Why does he think it won't be easy? For your argument, I think it would have been better for you to list or explain JFK's intentions rather than just say that he clearly mentions them in his speech.
ReplyDeleteZach, this is a really well written post! I especially liked how you provided an explanation as to why JFK needed to convince his audience. I think it might be beneficial, though, to include some specific lines from the speech as hyperlinks to help us further understand what JFK was saying. Otherwise really good work!
ReplyDelete-Marielle Gerber
You're totally right, Congress makes decisions based on logic and not emotion, so JFK's logos was critical. When JFK made this speech, he convinced them that the science was up to par, and it was important that we get to the moon first.
ReplyDelete-Garrett Fitzgerald
You're totally right, Congress makes decisions based on logic and not emotion, so JFK's logos was critical. When JFK made this speech, he convinced them that the science was up to par, and it was important that we get to the moon first.
ReplyDelete-Garrett Fitzgerald