Rhetorical Analysis Of Debris Raining Over Texas

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George W Bush uses sentence structure and organization a lot in this speech. He started by explaining the after affect of “debris raining over texas”, then he tells them how they lost contact with the “Space Shuttle Columbia, no survivors”. The sentence structure he uses conveys a lot of emotion and sympathy. He says things like “All Americans today are thinking, as well, of the families of these men and women who have been given this sudden shock and grief.” to convey that everyone is shocked and will pay respects to the people have have come to an unfortunate end. This story has a lot of emotion behind it to emphasis the sorrow and shock that everyone feels.

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