The Power of Words Language has been around for a myriad of epochs. As humans slowly evolved, they developed their own verbal communication system. Humans are now capable of talking, expressing, and interacting with each other. Hence, the usage of diction is powerful. Frederick D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy explicitly comprehended the force of language when they gave their famous speeches to the masses. Both Roosevelt's "The Four Freedoms" speech and Kennedy's inaugural address are famous seminal American text made during national crises that shows mastery in persuasion, in order for the speaker to influence the public to join his beliefs on what was best for America. However, Roosevelt's speech deals with World War II and he calls for an increase in arms, whereas Kennedy's speech was made during
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The welder simply needs to be knowledgeable on how. The moment, Frederick D. Roosevelt stepped up to that podium in 1941, most of the world was at war. Adolf Hitler had seized many European countries,and was rapidly gaining on all the other powers.Total tyranny was seemingly on the horizon; the future was looking bleaker as the days passed. Roosevelt understood the intensity of this threat the whole world, he believed, was facing. He delivered his speech, "The Four Freedoms", to persuade the congress and the American people for the power to join World War II. America, during this epoch, wished not to join the war because of the non-existing personal effect, as the fighting was overseas. However, Roosevelt believed that the threat was world-wide, as can be seen in lines: "Armed defense of democratic existence is now being gallantly waged in four continents. If that defense fails, all the population and all the resources of Europe and Asia, and Africa and Austral-Asia will be dominated by conquerors" (Roosevelt 15) and "... at no previous time has American security been as seriously threatened from without as it is today" (Roosevelt 2).
The welder simply needs to be knowledgeable on how. The moment, Frederick D. Roosevelt stepped up to that podium in 1941, most of the world was at war. Adolf Hitler had seized many European countries,and was rapidly gaining on all the other powers.Total tyranny was seemingly on the horizon; the future was looking bleaker as the days passed. Roosevelt understood the intensity of this threat the whole world, he believed, was facing. He delivered his speech, "The Four Freedoms", to persuade the congress and the American people for the power to join World War II. America, during this epoch, wished not to join the war because of the non-existing personal effect, as the fighting was overseas. However, Roosevelt believed that the threat was world-wide, as can be seen in lines: "Armed defense of democratic existence is now being gallantly waged in four continents. If that defense fails, all the population and all the resources of Europe and Asia, and Africa and Austral-Asia will be dominated by conquerors" (Roosevelt 15) and "... at no previous time has American security been as seriously threatened from without as it is today" (Roosevelt 2).