George W Bush 9/11 Rhetorical Analysis Essay

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George W. Bush delivered a speech on September 20, 2001 in which he used the appeals to achieve the cooperation of the people all over the world and to get them on board to his plan on stopping the terrorist group. He uses the current event that took place on September 11 and the audience who have experiences loss and fear to bring forth his argument. Bush uses many examples of logos that helps evoke pathos throughout the speech. He uses hard evidence when he mentions the number of people who died and that were from different parts of the world that helps him establish a sense of unity due to the fact that “the citizens of 80 other nation ... died with our own.”(Bush 2001) He uses this to give the other nations a reason to help the United

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