Saturday, September 17, 2016

George W. Bush's 9/11 speech was an impressive text. Bush did construct a lot of fear, with his descriptions, into his speech and only decided to compose a small portion of his speech with comforting words. However, I believe that the quantity of those comforting words doesn't matter, instead its the quality of those words. Bush engraved a sense of pride and unity against the "evils" into the readers and that's what make its effective in my opinion. "Our country is strong." Take that for example. It might be four words but it's enough for me to understand Bush's point. Nationalism is a strong tool and it can be very advantageous to a country. Bush has implemented logos by announcing the plans he made to deal with the situation. The same goes for pathos, with his descriptive words. Overall, it was an effective piece.

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