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    “The four freedoms by President Franklin D. Roosevelt” essay For this essay, I will be righting about how Franklin D. Roosevelt address the topics to social injustice. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had goals for the United States. The goals where called The Four Freedoms which were presented on January 6, 1941. The Four Freedoms was a speech given by the president himself. One of his proposals was four fundamental freedoms that people can have the Freedom of speech. (Four Freedoms) The…

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    The Four Freedoms of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Norman Rockwell On January 6, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt presented his “Four Freedoms” speech in his annual message to Congress (State of the Union Address). These Four Freedoms were Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Fear, and Freedom from Want that President Roosevelt thought should prevail everywhere in the world. That was the time when the United States was not yet involved in World War II. On December…

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    World War II: The Four Freedoms Because the United States had been supporting isolationism and were creating and supporting non-interventionist groups, such as the America First Committee, President Franklin D. Roosevelt felt it was time for a change in America's stance on the involvement of war. To do so, he delivered the Four Freedoms Speech on January 6, 1941. The Four Freedom Speech had been addressed to Congress in effort to move the nation away from the foreign policy of neutrality.…

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    President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms speech and President John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address are intended to stir people's emotions in support of defending freedom, but the two leaders contrasted in their opinions of how freedom should be achieved and maintained. This contradiction is due to the differing viewpoints of the presidents. Roosevelt was preparing for war against Nazi Germany, and Kennedy was being ushered into office during the height of the Cold War with the Soviet Union…

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    Freedom in all types of forms Both Roosevelt's “Four Freedoms” speech and Kennedy's inaugural address how America should be safe and how to redeem freedom, however Roosevelt's speech was about the want and need for freedom whereas Kennedy's speech is about keeping peace to earn freedom. In Kennedy's inaugural address he says many times that peace is not given to anyone for free and that you need to earn it in order to keep it, as seen in paragraphs 12, 14, and 19. Kennedy tells us in those…

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    of sharing freedom. Both Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” speech and John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address talk about freedom and how it will be affected in the years to come. However, Roosevelt’s speech covers more about the “four freedoms” that all humans should have whereas Kennedy’s speech focuses more on nuclear warfare and demolition. Nonetheless, both of these speakers conveyed a serious and meaningful message to their audiences. Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his “Four Freedoms”…

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    the country’s current status and its plans for the future (“The Definition of State of the Union”). On January 6, 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, addressed the 77th Congress with his Four Freedoms Speech (Roosevelt). The purpose of this address was to outline the four indispensable human freedoms that America believes in, and to use them as a call to action of the American people, as America began to change its international foreign policy position from neutrality to an…

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    to the public. Presidents are in charge of our country and their words are important to the public. Two important speeches were Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” speech and John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address. Both of these speeches were shared to the public during a time of unrest and crisis and both believed that to protect freedom and democracy it should first start with the citizens. Although, the differences between the two are large, Roosevelt…

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    Compare and Contrast Essay Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” speech, delivered in 1941, and Kennedy’s inaugural address, delivered in 1961 were both impactful speeches in our country's history. Both Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms speech and Kennedy’s inaugural address stated freedoms for all humans. However, Roosevelt’s speech stressed to the nation about what was going on in the world (Hitler). Whereas Kennedy’s speech emphasized the need for peace because of nuclear weapons. As President Roosevelt…

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    take Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms Address” as an example, it informs the audience that we should fight in the war because it might not be affecting us right now but it will in the future. This is how a good leader is suppose to communicate and control their people, however this isn’t the case in every scenario like in the novel 1984, by George Orwell. The leader has no idea how to control and communicate to the people. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms Address” is more cogent…

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