What are the rhetorical goals and rhetorical expectations of leaders and/or followers in social movements and how are those reflected in public address?
Write a paper in response to one of the three questions listed below. Draw upon at least two of the examples of public address you encountered this semester and any outside speeches you find most relevant.Prompts (Choose 1 of 3)What does it mean to be a citizen of the U.S. according to arguments in public address? You may consider this question may have different answers for different historical moments. Be sure to engage arguments from specific speeches.How have Americans explained or defined a particular aspect of their identity in one of the movements we studied in this course? Consider rhetorical techniques used by a specific group to argue for, explain, or rhetorically construct group identity. Possible groups to consider are workers/laborers, immigrants, African-Americans, or women.What are the rhetorical goals and rhetorical expectations of leaders and/or followers in social movements and how are those reflected in public address? In other words, what do leaders and followers attempt to do through public address, and how does the role of the speaker impact rhetorical techniques or types of arguments used in their speeches? Do they differ given a speaker’s relationship with a movement?
