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Rhetorical Analysis Of Roosevelt's Speech By T. D. Roosevelt

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When Roosevelt was giving this speech, he was about to be faced with one of the more difficult times of his age: the first world war. The times were rough back then for most people because of tough work conditions and there were unions and giant corporations like Carnegie steel were taking away jobs from people because of monopolization (history channel).

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