Assess the values and rhetorical methods of Abraham Lincoln’s “Second Inaugural Address” and Senator Barack Obama’s “A More Perfect Union.”
Assess the values of the cultural artifact of your Cultural Commonplace Speech assignment.
Recommended readings (attachments included):
Read: Zarefsky: Chapter 14
Read: Solomon, Martha.“With firmness in the right”: The Creation of Moral Hegemony in Lincoln’s Second Inaugural.” Communication Reports 1.1 (Winter 1988): 32–37. (Course Reserves)
Read: Hansen, Andrew C. “Dimensions of Agency in Lincoln’s Second Inaugural.” Philosophy & Rhetoric 37.3 (August 2004): 223–254
Read: Terrill, Robert E. “Unity and Duality in Barack Obama’s ‘A More Perfect Union.’” Quarterly Journal of Speech 95.4 (November 2009): 363–386
Read: Rowland, Robert C., and John M. Jones. “One Dream: Barack Obama, Race, and The American Dream.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 14.1 (Spring 2011): 125–154
Watch: How to Sound Smart in your TEDx Talk. (05:55)
Watch: Abraham Lincoln, The Second Inaugural Address (06:41)
Watch: Barack Obama, A More Perfect Union (37:09)
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