A Rhetorical Analysis Of John F. Kennedy's Travel To Space

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The journey to successfully traverse a spaceship to the moon has been a long and hard fight in American history. John F. Kennedy was speaking at a mass event on industrial development and saw that this country had the potential to have significant breakthroughs, including a successful manned trip to the moon. President John F. Kennedy used various rhetorical choices to first introduce the history of mankind and the importance of the last 50 years for space development with dramatic comparisons. He then undermines this progression with critique in that it will bring issues as in anything in life, but uses this to demonstrate the great importance of action and that if action is not made, the nation and its values will fall. Kennedy creates a dramatic opening to …show more content…
That is to make the creation of the steam engine so much larger for the value of space travel and to the reader as comparing anything to a "printing press" makes it pop out in the eyes of the reader. Kennedy makes a vast timeline of struggle and experimentation sound small and insignificant in the scheme of things, once again dramatizing the development of space travel. "Last month electric lights and telephones and automobiles and airplanes became available." These are all events that are talked about in history books and involve present-day life with almost anything, but Kennedy casually says they became available last month, acting normally to almost make it more dramatic. Kennedy then takes a shift in his speech, undermining this pace of space travel, stating that "such a pace cannot help but create new ills as it dispels old, new ignorance, new problems, new dangers." He is undermining what he was stating earlier, saying that staying in a time of no advancement and little steps forward could be better for the safety and comfort of the
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