Essays about: "bush speech"

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1. 1. American national identity at the start and end of the war in Afghanistan: A comparative narrative analysis of presidential speeches

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

   Author : Tilde Olausson; [2022-08-24]
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   Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to investigate the production of American national identity at the start and end of America’s warfare in Afghanistan, and to reach an understanding how the identity-construction legitimatized America’s actions at those moments. Based on a post structural understanding of identity as constructed and reproduced through action and speech, this study examines and compares speeches held by presidents George Bush and Joe Biden in relation to the start and end of the war. READ MORE

3. 2. Rhetoric of Two Inaugural Speeches : An Analysis of Rhetoric Types and Features in American Inaugural Speeches

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Christopher Gajaweera; [2020]
   Keywords : Abstract; Anti-intellectual; Aristotle; Assertive; Conversational; Democratic; Linguistics; Persuasion.;

   Abstract : This paper will study the use of rhetoric types and features in two inaugural speeches, the possibility if categorizing each speech as one rhetoric type, which speech uses Aristotle’s three means of persuasion better and the methods applicability in categorizing the speeches under the “plebiscitary period’s” four qualities. The two speeches that were used are Donald J. READ MORE

4. 3. In the Name of Freedom - A Critical Discourse Analysis of the political discourse in the inaugural speeches of George W. Bush and Barack H. Obama from a postcolonial perspective

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Björn Viberg; [2011-07-04]
   Keywords : Barack H. Obama; George W. Bush; inaugural speech; Critical Discourse Analysis; sociolinguistics; post-colonialism; neo-colonialism;

   Abstract : In this essay the public discourses of U.S. president Barack Obama and former U.S. READ MORE

5. 4. Do ideologies matter? : Idea analysis of foreign policy in the United States of America

   University essay from Institutionen för samhällsvetenskap

   Author : Marie Siedberg; [2009]
   Keywords : foreign policy; idealism; realism; ideal types; State of the Union Address;

   Abstract : The aim of this essay is to clarify if there is an ideological difference within the political area of foreign policy of the United States. The question that will be answered is: Is the American foreign policy coloured by different ideologies, or has that area of politics become an arena without ideology differences? In order to answer the question, the method used in this essay is idea analysis using ideal types as analytical instrument. READ MORE

6. 5. Terror and Evil in Iraq : A Study of Political Discourse

   University essay from Institutionen för humaniora

   Author : Georgia Dekavalla; [2009]
   Keywords : mental frames; purport; the co-operative principle; maxims of conversation; rhetoric devices; implicature; Iraq; terror; evil;

   Abstract : Abstract This paper aims to determine the validity of the hypothesis that the effective and eloquent use of language can result in shaping beliefs and altering people’s perception of certain phenomena. In order to explore this hypothesis, a speech given by George W. READ MORE