Four Freedoms

Neutrality Acts with Cash and Carry. The Neutrality Acts were to limit the US involvement in future wars. FDR had them replaced because he saw that we would be dragged into the war, whether we wanted to or not. On January 6, 1941, FDR made his Four Freedoms speech as a last minute effort to bring the US away from neutrality. FDR also helped to pass the Lend Lease Act to provide foreign aid to allies in WWII.…

“Quarantine Speech” in which he wanted isolation for the country and also in 1941, FDR delivered his State of the Union address to Congress in regards to his vision for a postwar world founded on four basic human freedoms: freedom of speech,…

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.…

Focusing on Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms Speech, I will analyze, assess, and procure to who he tried to reach and persuade in his speech. I will also give direct details into the different problems and solutions his speech overcame and why was it a great and prominent rhetoric speech. Engraved in stone at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt memorial in Washington, DC, lies the phrase freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear. This would become the…

There are a lot of things people say about freedom, Kennedy once said “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” That related to how Kennedy thinks that America should work with the enemy to keep freedom and peace. Whereas Roosevelt wants to arm other countries to keep freedom and peace, but in both Roosevelt's “four freedoms” speech and Kennedy’s inaugural address they want America to be safe. The historical context and purpose of the first speech is about how America…

The time 1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” speech was delivered, John F. Kennedy's inaugural address was released in 1961. The two seminal texts were presented at critical moments in American history that formed the society now. Each speech describes their own freedom, historical context and purpose differently but effectively. Both Franklin D. Roosevelt's “Four Freedoms” speech and Kennedy’s inaugural address interprets unity. However, Roosevelt’s speech articulated the involvement…

Both Roosevelt's “Four Freedoms’ and Kennedy’s Inaugural address touch adamantly upon the ideas of what citizens of America should be doing to better their country in both times of peace, and times of war. However, Roosevelt’s speech is much more focused upon the threat of oncoming war, and how to best prepare our country for it while continuing to help our citizens and the citizens of the world. Meanwhile, Kennedy’s speech touches more on the alliances that may be beneficial for our country to…

Both Roosevelt's “Four Freedoms” speech and Kennedy’s inaugural address are willing to fight for what is right for America however, Roosevelt’s speech in more about supporting other countries during war, whereas Kennedy’s speech is more about cooperation from other countries to have peace. In both, the “Four Freedoms” speech and the inaugural address, Roosevelt and Kennedy talk about freedom but they have a very different point of view or outlook on freedom and what is best for the country. In…

Growing up I heard a lot of different terms. The saying “But I know how those things go” kinds means you’ve been there and you’ve done that, and that’s how you know how things go. Another example would if in the past you loaned friend money but that friend never paid you back. But then later that same friend came again and asked to borrower money again. Well you do know how that’s gonna go that friend may not pay you back once again. The term “People like us” is usually used when speaking, or…

In today's world we have freedom of speech. We take that to grant and if and if we would’ve been in the olden days we would get our heads cut off because they didn't have the right of freedom of speech.In the late 17th and 18th centuries, europe philoshers explored ideas on how to imporve the world socity. The enlightenment was about equal rights, the philosophers influenced the enlightenment in the 17th century were John Locke, adam Smith, Voltaire, and Mary Wollstonecraft. The philosophers…