Rogerian speech
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Recall the two presidential speeches that were given by both President Obama and President Regan, respectively. Note that these two presidents used the Rogerian method of argumentation to not only win over those who agreed with their viewpoints, but also to win over those who held different views.
Think about a national or international issue that matters to you and write your own speech for that issue, using the Rogerian style of argumentation. How would you win over the other side? You don’t need to use citations, but please do not create statistics or ‘facts.’
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President Barack Obama’s State-of-the-union speech on February 1st 2014 and Ronald Reagan’s speech on American economy in October 13 1982 are Rogerian speeches. In these speeches, the two presidents are uniting American people despite their political differences. This is because they are aimed for the welfare of the people, rather than their political parties. For instance, in Reagan’s speech he says that over 11 Americans are unemployed. He does not state whether they are democrats or republicans. This is an indication that he is calling for all Americans to come together in order to fight the problem of unemployment. On the other hand, Obama promised to increase the minimum wage to the employees contracted to………………..
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