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Lyndon Baines Johnson
Who delivered the Great Society Speech?
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"Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates with proved ability do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot educate today's youth, what will we do in 1970 when elementary school enrollment will be five million greater than 1960? And high school enrollment will rise by five million. And college enrollment will increase by more than three million."
What is imagery and logos?
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"Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates with proved ability do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot educate today's youth, what will we do in 1970 when elementary school enrollment will be five million greater than 1960? And high school enrollment will rise by five million. And college enrollment will increase by more than three million."
What is the importance of education in the Great Society?
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"Men come together in cities in order to live, but they remain together in order to live the good life."
What is literary allusion, logos, and ethos? What is to express how important the cities are to maintaining a good quality of life in the United States?
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The poverty line dropped from twenty-two percent to about twelve percent during Johnson's time.
What was the historical background behind the rate of poverty during Johnson's reign?
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1964
When was the speech delivered?
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"For a century we labored to settle and to subdue a continent. For half a century we called upon unbounded invention and untiring industry to create an order of plenty for all of our people. The challenge of the next half century is whether we have the wisdom to use that wealth to enrich and elevate our national life, and to advance the quality of our American civilization."
What is a historical allusion, ethos, and logos?
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"For a century we labored to settle and to subdue a continent. For half a century we called upon unbounded invention and untiring industry to create an order of plenty for all of our people. The challenge of the next half century is whether we have the wisdom to use that wealth to enrich and elevate our national life, and to advance the quality of our American civilization."
What is Manifest Destiny, Industrial Revolution, Civil War, and anything to do with advancing American civilization?
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"But more classrooms and more teachers are not enough. We must seek an educational system which grows in excellence as it grows in size. And this means better training for our teachers. It means preparing youth to enjoy their hours of leisure, as well as their hours of labor. It means exploring new techniques of teaching, to find new ways to stimulate the love of learning and the capacity for creation."
What is pathos, parallelism, and anaphora? What is to urge Johnson's target audience to seek new innovative ways to keep the passion of learning alive?
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"A second place where we begin to build the Great Society is in our countryside. We have always prided ourselves on being not only America the strong and America the free, but America the beautiful. Today that beauty is in danger. The water we drink, the food we eat, the very air that we breathe, are threatened with pollution. Our parks are overcrowded, our seashores overburdened. Green fields and dense forests are disappearing."
What is imagery, parallelism, pathos, and ethos?
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University of Michigan
Where did Johnson deliver the speech?
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"Will you join in the battle to give every citizen an escape from the crushing weight of poverty?"
What is rhetorical questioning, metaphor, and pathos?
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"Will you join in the battle to give every citizen an escape from the crushing weight of poverty?"
What is to provokingly inquire Johnson's target audience to "escape" poverty?
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"In many places, classrooms are overcrowded and curricula are outdated. Most of our qualified teachers are underpaid, and many of our paid teachers are unqualified. So we must give every child a place to sit and a teacher to learn from. Poverty must not be a bar to learning, and learning must offer an escape from poverty."
What is parallelism, paradox, ethos, and logos? What is the path needed to take in order to advance to Johnson's Great Society?
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"There are those timid souls that say this battle cannot be won; that we are condemned to a soulless wealth. I do not agree. We have the power to shape the civilization that we want. But we need your will, and your labor, and your hearts, if we are to build that kind of society."
What is polysyndeton and pathos?
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To eradicate poverty, to eliminate racial injustice, and to spark education
What are the main goals of the Great Society?
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"The catalog of ills is long, there is the decay of the centers and the despoiling of the suburbs."
What is alliteration and pathos?
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"The catalog of ills is long, there is the decay of the centers and the despoiling of the suburbs."
What is connoting America the Beautiful turning into America the Ugly with powerful diction (sense of rotting)?
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"Many of you will live to see the day, perhaps 50 years from now, when there will be 400 million Americans, four-fifths of them in urban areas. In the remainder of this century urban population will double, city land will double, and we will have to build homes, and highways, and facilities equal to all those built since this country was first settled. So in the next 40 years we must rebuild the entire urban United States."
What is polysyndeton, parallelism, and ethos? What is the United States expanding and the need to rebuild it into a bigger and greater America?
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"But most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor."
What is asyndeton, synecdoche, parallelism, ethos, and pathos?
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"Every man sent out from his university should be a man of his Nation as well as a man of his time."
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
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"Worst of all, expansion is eroding the precious and time honored values of community with neighbors and communion with nature. The loss of these values breeds loneliness and boredom and indifference."
What is polysyndeton, pathos, and ethos?
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"Worst of all, expansion is eroding the precious and time honored values of community with neighbors and communion with nature. The loss of these values breeds loneliness and boredom and indifference."
What is corrosive and destructive language?
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But I do promise this: we are going to assemble the best thought and the broadest knowledge from all over the world to find those answers for America. I intend to establish working groups to prepare a series of White House conferences and meetings on the cities, on natural beauty, on the quality of education, and on other emerging challenges. And from these meetings and from this inspiration and from these studies, we will begin to set our course towards the Great Society.
What is ethos, pathos, parallelism, and polysyndeton? What is to start programs to preserve nature, enhance education, and more with the Great Society?
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"Those who came to this land sought to build more than just a new country. They sought a new world. So I have come here today to your campus to say that you can make their vision our reality. So let us from this moment begin our work so that in the future men will look back and say, 'It was then, after a long and weary way, that man turned the exploits of his genius to the full enrichment of his life."
What is pathos, parallelism, historical allusion, logos, and ethos? What is the juxtaposition of turning dreams into reality?