Essentially provide a speaker analysis of an important speech in American history. A great place to search is here:
https://www.americanrhetoric.com/top100speechesall.html
You will need to find a text of the speech and (if possible) listen/watch a video of the speech before answering the following questions:
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1. What is the speaker’s name?
2. What is the occasion or reason that the audience is present?
3. The time (date and time of day)
4. The location
5. What can you tell about the audience? (ages, gender, other important characteristics)
6. Purpose of the speech
7. Here is what will require some research on your part:
a. What is the historical context of the speech? (What has been happening that makes this speech necessary and important?)
b. Could there be more than one target audience? If so, who are they?
c. What do at least three sources say about the effect of the speech? Do they believe that it accomplished what the speaker hoped?
d. Why do we remember the speech today?
That’s the research stuff. Then I want you to analyze the speech like you would for a regular speaker analysis:
8. The organization pattern and/or the argument that the speaker uses to structure the speech. Identify it. Was the speaker effective using the org. pattern or
argument? Why or why not?
9. What did you perceive to be the strengths of the speech? Identify two or three and tell me what made them effective.
10. What were some of the weaknesses of the speech? This could be content or delivery or a mixture of both. Did the speaker hold the audience’s attention,
for instance. Again identify two or three weakness and make suggestions on how to fix them.
11. Finally, give me your overall impression