Jfk Assassination Persuasive Speech

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For sheer audacity, nothing beats Kennedy's speech to “...land a man on the moon and bring him safely back to the earth.” He could have said, “We will make the biggest pizza pie the world has ever seen and have every American eat a slice with the Soviet Union watching on live TV,” but that wouldn't have fired up quite the same fires of passion and imagination, or unleashed the tremendous wave of innovation the moonshot did.

Looking back, the amazing thing is not accomplishing the safe return a moon landing, but that the nation allowed President Kennedy to make such a commitment. Today a U.S. President must fight with everything he's got, to do much less ambitious things than a moon shot —gun laws and health care.

When he gave the “We choose to go to The moon” speech Kennedy said this, “We choose to go to the Moon! ...We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things,not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win.

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By the year 2025 100% of our nation's power will come either directly from the sun or from clean renewable resources like wind and geothermal or fusion. We commit the United States to this endeavor because we choose to take responsibility for the future of this magnificent planet we share with all the great nations of the earth. The earth's climate is undeniably changing at an unprecedented rate, and the rate and extent of this change will affect us all, and will cause—and is already causing—extreme hardship on those least able to adapt. There is also no doubt that human activity is responsible for this rapid rate of climate

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