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Winston Churchill's Use Of Persuasive Speech

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The discourses given by each person were written after a devastating disaster broke out. In one, a terrorist act was committed, in the other disastrous military event and both in different countries. Nonetheless, both were extremely devastating and impactful. Due to the state of sorrow and anger in both events, the writers took advantage to create persuasive speeches that were more likely to affect people. Winston Churchill was a prime minister. He was also an intelligent scholar of books and a writer. George Bush was a president and a painter. They both used pathos, ethos and hypophoric questions to create an environment of unity, sorrow, and transcendence. The only difference is that Churchill relies somewhat heavily on logos and uses comparisons

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