Extra Credit

 

You will need to write two 1.5-2 page papers (double-spaced, 10-12 pt. font, 1” margins). These can be turned in during class on Monday, February 28, 2005, or anytime leading up to this date. These will each be worth up to 3 points of extra credit.

 

Please carefully read (and view if available and you choose to do so) two speeches from the list of five below. The text for each is available via the course website.

 

Speeches available:

 

  • Barbara Pierce Bush: Commencement Address at Wellesley College
  • Mary Fisher: “A Whisper of AIDS”
  • John F. Kennedy: Inaugural Address
  • Ronald Reagan: Address to the nation on the Challenger disaster
  • Margaret Sanger: "The Morality of Birth Control"

 

Three of the speeches can be viewed online:

 

Ronald Reagan

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/rreaganchallenger.htm

 

John F. Kennedy

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/johnfkennedyinaugural.htm

 

Barbara Pierce Bush

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/barbarabush.htm

 

 

Please analyze each speech, noting the use of ethos, pathos, and logos. To do so, you may choose to address the following:

  • choice of language
  • examples drawn upon
  • public forum (speech, speaker, occasion, audience)
  • adaptation to occasion
  • audience adaptation
  • evidence used

 

Let me know if you have any questions.