{"id":202,"date":"2014-01-11T06:56:51","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T13:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi215\/?page_id=202"},"modified":"2014-02-06T10:26:16","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T17:26:16","slug":"speech-paper","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi215\/speech-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Speech Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speech Analysis Paper<\/strong> (10% of your final grade)<\/p>\n

Download the project guidelines<\/a> (PDF)<\/p>\n

In this project you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll do something similar to what Garry Wills did for the Gettysburg Address in his essay \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Words That Remade America.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Notice his technique: as the editors put it, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153part historical investigation, part literary exegesis.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Your paper should (on a smaller scale) accomplish the same goals. Choose a speech from the list below, and analyze it, setting it into historical context and exploring its main ideas, rhetorical technique, images, form, content and\/or meaning (5-7 pages).<\/p>\n

Choose speech by Feb 13<\/strong> and use it as the basis for your Journal #4<\/p>\n

Read and research your chosen speech. Who gave it, when and why? You’ll need to discuss the circumstances, the historical context, and the impact of your chosen speech \u00e2\u20ac\u201c so this will require some research and digging on your part in reliable scholarly sources.<\/p>\n

Submit bibliography Feb 20<\/strong> – prioritizing scholarly peer-reviewed articles, printed reference works, university-press books, and lastly, anything else. Please do not use Wikipedia (or About.com or Ask.com or similar sites) as bibliographic entries. Should contain 3-5 quality sources, or more.<\/p>\n

Final Paper due Feb 27.<\/strong> Take the speech apart, piece by piece, discussing key passages and ideas in historical context, and applying literary\/rhetorical analysis concepts \u00e2\u20ac\u201c such as form, structure, word choice, literary techniques, narrative arc or theme. If you can listen to it on audio or video, even better \u00e2\u20ac\u201c feel free to analyze emphasis, rhetorical technique, or verbal flourishes. If you only have a print copy, you may have to imagine how this speech would sound (as Wills did).<\/p>\n

How does this speech define America or American values?<\/p>\n

What is its vision of America?<\/p>\n

In what way does it exemplify American idealism?<\/p>\n

Final paper should have a title, footnotes, and an attached bibliography (Chicago Style). Length:\u00c2\u00a0 5-7 pages long (double-spaced).<\/p>\n

Ralph Waldo Emerson, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The American Scholar<\/a>,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d 1837
\nAbraham Lincoln, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Second Inaugural Address<\/a>,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d 1864
\nChief Red Cloud, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Speech at Cooper Union<\/a>,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d 1870
\nBooker T. Washington, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Atlanta Compromise Speech<\/a>,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d 1895
\nTheodore Roosevelt, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Strenuous Life<\/a>,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d 1899
\nAnna Howard Shaw, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Fundamental Principles of a Republic,<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d 1915
\nWoodrow Wilson, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Peace Without Victory<\/a>,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d 1917
\nEugene V. Debs, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Canton Speech,<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d 1918
\nFranklin Delano Roosevelt, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153First Inaugural Address<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d 1932
\nLearned Hand, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Spirit of Liberty<\/a>” Speech at “I Am An American Day,” Central Park NY 1944
\nJohn F. Kennedy, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Address to Houston Ministerial Association,<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d 1960
\nLyndon Baines Johnson, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We Shall Overcome<\/a>,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d 1965
\nBarack Obama, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153DNC Keynote Address<\/a>,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d 2004
\nJustice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Dissent from the bench in Shelby v. Holder<\/em><\/a>, 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speech Analysis Paper (10% of your final grade) Download the project guidelines (PDF) In this project you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll do something similar to what Garry Wills did for the Gettysburg Address in his essay \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Words That Remade America.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Notice his technique: as the editors put it, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153part historical investigation, part literary exegesis.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Your paper should (on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-202","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/202\/revisions\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}