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    George W. Bush delivered a moving and emotional speech on September 11, 2001 addressing the terrorist attacks that occurred that day. In his speech, Bush conveyed a message of strength, unity, and resolve in the face of tragedy. He effectively used rhetorical devices like pathos to make emotional appeals and metaphors to emphasize America's resilience. Bush's speech was impactful because he spoke from a place of grief while also inspiring hope and a commitment to not let the attacks change the American way of life. The audience connected strongly with Bush's message, helping him achieve his goal of uniting and comforting the nation during a time of crisis.

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    George W. Bush delivered a moving and emotional speech on September 11, 2001 addressing the terrorist attacks that occurred that day. In his speech, Bush conveyed a message of strength, unity, and resolve in the face of tragedy. He effectively used rhetorical devices like pathos to make emotional appeals and metaphors to emphasize America's resilience. Bush's speech was impactful because he spoke from a place of grief while also inspiring hope and a commitment to not let the attacks change the American way of life. The audience connected strongly with Bush's message, helping him achieve his goal of uniting and comforting the nation during a time of crisis.

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    George W. Bush delivered a moving and emotional speech on September 11, 2001 addressing the terrorist attacks that occurred that day. In his speech, Bush conveyed a message of strength, unity, and resolve in the face of tragedy. He effectively used rhetorical devices like pathos to make emotional appeals and metaphors to emphasize America's resilience. Bush's speech was impactful because he spoke from a place of grief while also inspiring hope and a commitment to not let the attacks change the American way of life. The audience connected strongly with Bush's message, helping him achieve his goal of uniting and comforting the nation during a time of crisis.

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    Nico Badalamenti

    Kowalke
    English 11
    September 23 2013
    Rhetorical analysis of President Bushs speech on 9/11
    The speech, delivered by George W. Bush, to the nation about the attacks that
    occurred on September 11, 2001 was a very moving and emotional one. On the very day
    that speech was given, our country was under a state of attack by terrorists. Two planes
    destroyed The World Trade Center, one hit the Pentagon and another crashed in
    Pennsylvania .The President during the time of this incident, George Bush, is a very
    strong and thoughtful person who showed patriotism in this speech. It also was not just
    his self, but the whole nation as one. His audience, the people of the United States,
    whether young or old, listened to this speech with opened ears and tried to understand his
    intent in the speech which was basically to tell everyone that this nation is strong and will
    not let this tragedy affect this nations way of living no matter what.
    President Bush was very effective in giving this speech to the nation in many
    ways. He used certain word choices or even talking about how well prepared we were
    using our governments emergency response plan , the military, and even our emergency
    response teams to help those in need. By him reminding the country that they are
    prepared in this attack and how and that caring for one another in this time of need, let
    the audience know that we as nation or prepared for the worst and will never be defeated.
    He also in uses certain terms of rhetoric in parts of the speech to affect the way a person
    perceives it when giving the speech. He uses lots of examples of pathos throughout his
    speech. One being when he says, These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten
    our nation into chaos and retreat. But they have failed. Our country is strong. This
    affects us emotionally more than it does logically making it pathos because him saying
    that we are strong and how they failed made us more emotionally tougher. He also uses
    the rhetorical term metaphors a lot. An example would be him saying, Terrorists attacks
    can shake the foundations of our biggest building, but they cannot touch the foundation
    of America. He is saying they can destroy this nations building but not us as a whole.
    Another example of a metaphor in this speech could be when he stated, These acts
    shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve..." The metaphor is
    saying that the terrorists can destroy our buildings but they cannot destroy our strength
    and attitude every American has. Other examples of rhetoric would be anaphora when he
    repeats, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom. He uses anaphora again
    when saying, for all those who grieve, for the children whose worlds have been
    shattered, for all whose sense of safety and security has been threatened.
    The audience in this case accepted this speech rather than just disagreeing with it
    making this an even greater speech. They werent thinking this reading was not just given
    because he is the President resident and thats his job, but to actually understand him with
    sense of grieve for the country and also a sense of strong will to fight through this living

    nightmare. Thats where the president was successful in his speech. Its when he tried to
    get the audience to understand him instead of them ignoring all of his thoughts and strong
    beliefs about the attack. Using all of these types of rhetorical devices, diction, and even
    his true feeling on the matter helped him achieve his purpose in this speech.
    So many things can make a speech stand out or even have sense of importance. It
    can be the remarkable tone of the speaker, the time and event which it took place or even
    the audience receiving the speech. President Bush achieved his purpose in this speech by
    using all these reasons and more including rhetorical devices, the given state of our
    federal services and just by explaining how Americans can unite to resolve for peace and
    justice for this attack.

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