John F. Kennedy's Irony Of Public Responsibility

Kennedy, illustrating his disappointment in his commentary, indicates the sad reality that, in their greed for money, Steel companies raise prices to make more money in a time when steel is needed. Furthermore, putting Americans at risk for their own purposes. Kennedy displays his concern for this, as not only him having a problem with this, but Americans as well. Kennedy simply puts that, at this time in which sacrifice is requested of those in this country. “American people will find it hard, as I do, to accept a situation in which a tiny handful of steel executives whose pursuit of private power and profit exceeds their sense of public responsibility.”
Kennedy, in this, further proves American society has been that in which we all look out for ourselves. That American Society has been that of a selfish one. Kennedy conveys …show more content…
Sanders, through his parallel structure, list the things in which those people affect. Sanders states “In this hemisphere, many of the worst abuses-of land, forests, animals, and communities-have been carried out by “people who root themselves in ideas rather than places.”” Moreover, those who place themselves in their ideas no longer trust the environment. Sanders, through his use of diction, convey that, because of the lack in trust to the environment they cause damage to the larger portion because of their own ideas.
Sanders, then discusses the truth about the Dustbowl of the 1930s. The Dustbowl, according to Sanders, “was caused not by drought, but by the transfer onto the Great Plains of farming methods that were suitable to wetter regions.” Those who lived in this area kept the land fertile, but they left, thus, leaving it for better regions for their farming. Because of their sudden departure, they left the land infertile causing a drought, all in search for better land for their own