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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
Kennedy's most prominent failure would have to be not supporting the Cuban rebels who tried to overthrow the Castro regime during the Bay of Pigs invasion. Kennedy did not provide air support to...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
A simile is a figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared using the words "like" and "as." President Kennedy's Inaugural Address is full of descriptive language, very eloquent, and to...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
When a speaker or writer uses pathos, they are appealing to the emotions of their audience. They are hoping that, through making the audience feel deeply about what they are speaking about, then...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
What this is supposed to mean is that the fates of all the people in a society are intertwined. When he said this he was referring to the idea, in Third World countries, that the rich few could...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
The answer to this is going to depend on what your textbook or your teacher says. There are two answers that could possibly be correct. B and C are clearly not right. Earl Warren was the Chief...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
The world might be a very different place if John F. Kennedy had survived his 1963 assassination. Stephen King has written an interesting and entertaining novel about that subject. The book,...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
On Friday, January 20, 1961, John F. Kennedy delivered his inaugural address as President of the U.S.A. One of the rhetorical devices that Kennedy used in his speech was anaphora; that is, he...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
John Fitzgerald Kennedy's eloquent Inaugural Address is considered to be among the best presidential inaugural speeches in history. Kennedy, the second youngest President ever, stated that "the...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
The New Frontier was President Kennedy’s program for dealing with domestic and with foreign issues. Many things were accomplished under the New Frontier, but more might have been accomplished if he...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
I would argue that John F. Kennedy's major failures were in the area of foreign policy. They included the Bay of Pigs invasion and the escalation of US involvement in Vietnam. The Bay of Pigs...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
JFK's inaugural address invokes the use of many rhetorical devices: 1. REPETITION: Many of his paragraphs started with "Let both sides..." I think this demonstrated his purpose to unify the...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
Both presidents found themselves facing the tough challenges of the Cold War. Both presidents struggled to project a strong image of the U.S. to reassure the country's allies that they were on the...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
In his Inaugural Address in January, 1961, President John F. Kennedy used several literary devices to make the speech impactful. Some are as follows. A paradox is a statement that seems to be, at...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
In his famous speech exhorting Americans to support funding for space research, and specifically the goal of sending astronauts to the moon, President Kennedy made excellent use of all three types...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
In general, President Kennedy did not have a great relationship with Congress. JFK had been elected by the thinnest of margins and so did not really have any sort of a mandate from the people....
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
Any word that seems to evoke an emotional response can be considered a charged word. JFK uses many rhetorical devices, but these planned "charged" words directly address the various audiences to...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
John F. Kennedy, who served as the 35th president of the United States (1961–63), believed strength and toughness were needed to win the Cold War. Although his presidency was brief, JFK faced...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
The most dominant issue in the world was the Cold War at the time of President Kennedy's inaugural address. This took on different forms around the world, but the battle for Communist control and...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
The most obvious successes and failures of the JFK administration were to be seen in foreign policy. The most high-profile and obvious failure was the Bay of Pigs Invasion. In this incident, the...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
The Cuban Missile Crisis was the first (and possibly the last) time John F. Kennedy showed what he might be able to accomplish as a leader. Much has been made of the efforts of his father Joseph...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
"Forebears" means ancestors. By invoking the memory and stature and wisdom of those who "prescribed" the "solemn oath" used to swear new presidents into office, President Kennedy was connecting...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
In my mind, the foundational claim of Kennedy's Inaugural Address is to awaken Americans to the sense of change he envisioned his administration to usher. The claim is made repeatedly in terms of...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
In my mind, Kennedy's most sterling example of Presidential leadership resided in his ability to inspire individuals to greatness. Kennedy was one of but a handful of Presidents that was able to...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
President John F. Kennedy's famous "moon" speech was delivered at the Rice University campus in Houston, Texas, in 1962. By its nature, the speech was unique in that, at face value, it was focused...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
You are correct to say that D is the best answer of those given here. B and C are, to some degree, matters of opinion, but most historians would say that these are both true. A is indisputably...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
John F. Kennedy was addressing a large gathering of Democratic supporters at a fundraising event in Washington D.C. The evening was a celebration of the one-year anniversary of Kennedy's...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
JFK's inaugural speech included themes of freedom, equality, and global peace. When Kennedy, the country’s first Catholic president, said that he had “sworn before you and Almighty God the same...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
Hello! Some examples of literary devices in JFK's New Frontier Speech are: 1) Ethos JFK quotes Isaiah 40:31 towards the end of his speech. With this quote, he leaves his audience confident that he...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
When President John F. Kennedy took office in 1961, Cold War tensions were heating up fast. Just several months earlier, the United States placed nuclear missiles in Turkey and Italy. Gary Powers,...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
The most important effect of this speech is that the rhetoric that JFK deployed when talking about communism helped lead to the deepening US involvement in Vietnam as well as to such things as the...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
Perhaps John F. Kennedy's greatest legacy is the optimism he brought to the Oval Office, epitomized in his famous 1961 inaugural address in which he stated, "Ask not what your country can do for...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
Coming to power during the height of the Cold War in 1960, no one was more cognizant of the importance of anti-communist rhetoric as part of one's public posture than JFK. However, it has become...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
The original question had to be edited. I think that one specific continuity with the Eisenhower Era that President Kennedy shared was the idea that American strength in the world did not have to...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
There are three different levels of questions based on Consta's level of questions. Level one questions are the most basic. Questions become more complex and difficult at levels two and three....
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
The assassination of President Kennedy could be considered the start of a radical decline in the way in which the American people view their political system. While Kennedy was not the first U.S....
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
Three of these options are completely false. The only possible answer is A. The main reason that people mourned JFK as that his administration was the time of "Camelot." JFK was an attractive,...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
Of these options, the best answer is D. Most historians argue that JFK made the commitment to put a man on the moon within the decade in an attempt to bolster the nation's prestige after the...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
Like most U.S. presidents, John F. Kennedy left behind a mixed record of accomplishments and disappointments. One of Kennedy’s greatest accomplishments was psychological. His election instilled...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
Without knowing which plans you are asking about, it is hard to answer this question accurately. However, we can say that there were at least three reasons why Congress sometimes blocked Kennedy's...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
In this portion of his acceptance speech, Kennedy is comparing the people of his day to the pioneers who moved west during the period of westward expansion. He is saying that these pioneers were...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
I would say that one of President Kennedy's most borrowed element from his legacy is the idea of self- sacrifice. A part of his political legacy has been this idea that the definition of American...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
In many ways, I think that President Kennedy's Inaugural Address is useful in understanding the development of the Cold War up to 1960 simply because the address departed from the traditional...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
With the benefit of hindsight, I think that any political leader from the 1950s and 1960s can be criticized for "not doing enough" on the issue of Civil Rights. Certainly, President Kennedy could...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
Since there have been numerous conspiracies in American history (the sinking of the USS Maine before the Spanish-American War, the Gulf of Tonkin, or the USS Maddox Incident), it is entirely...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
I think that more detail might be needed in answering the question. In terms of being able to articulate what major events and dynamics happen in 1960, there was a perceptible wind of change that...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
The entire passage you are asking about reads A technological output and explosion on the farm has led to an output explosion. An urban population revolution has overcrowded our schools and...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
If "liberal state" is defined by an increase in governmental action, I think that the entire slate of programs in the "New Frontier" can constitutes as significant steps to expand the liberal...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
I think that a good argument could be made that President Kennedy pursued the doctrine of flexible response in both crises. President Kennedy demonstrated that he was willing to negotiate through...
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John F. Kennedy's Presidency
It is important that you consider the implications of the world at that time. JFK had just inherited an America who endured the Red Scare of communism and was gearing up to look toward new heights....