John F Kennedy Rhetorical Analysis Essay

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John F. Kennedy, the former president, visits Houston, Texas Rice University Stadium. In discussing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's program to put humans on the moon, he is attempting to mobilize both political and public support for the NASA moon endeavor. He accomplishes this by employing reasoning, examples, persuasion, and images.

John F. Kennedy begins by illustrating the significance of human progress through examples, leading up to his explanation of how humanity has physically reached the stars. He says this to show us how quickly progress has been made, how significant the examples he provided to his audience were, and how their achievement of reaching the stars is as significant. He utilizes examples to give the