https://padlet.com/carlo_yatar/44fg9mmk688d Compare and Contrast en-us 2017-02-06 19:14:15 UTC 2017-04-17 18:11:26 UTC hello@padlet.com zachbaker1130 https://padlet.com/carlo_yatar/44fg9mmk688d/wish/151945492 Barack Obama and Franklin Roosevelt thought the economy was failing before they were in office. 
"Homes have been lost, jobs shed, businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly, our schools fail too many, and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet." 
- Barack Obama 
"Values have shrunken to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce; the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone." 
- Franklin Roosevelt
Barack Obama and Franklin Roosevelt both use rhetorical devices in these quotes. Barack Obama uses parallel structure when he says, "Homes have been lost, jobs shed, businesses shuttered." Franklin Roosevelt uses imagery with the phrase, "the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side." Both presidents are clearly trying to convey that the economy is in crisis when they are coming into office. They both use these examples to provide a contrast to how they will fix it. 

]]> 2017-02-06 19:22:13 UTC https://padlet.com/carlo_yatar/44fg9mmk688d/wish/151945492 carlo_yatar https://padlet.com/carlo_yatar/44fg9mmk688d/wish/151954486 Barack and Franklin's speeches were very keen, but Obama used much more imagery to strengthen his speech. 
"The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms."
-Barack Obama

Franklin Roosevelt lacked the imagery that Obama used. The contrasting of the literary techniques differentiated the two from their speeches. ]]> 2017-02-06 19:45:29 UTC https://padlet.com/carlo_yatar/44fg9mmk688d/wish/151954486 carlo_yatar https://padlet.com/carlo_yatar/44fg9mmk688d/wish/152013016 Franklin and Barack used parallelism so they can emphasize their beliefs and allow the speech to be read smoothly.

"It can be helped by preventing realistically the tragedy of the growing loss through foreclosure of our small homes and our farms. It can be helped by insistence that the Federal, State, and local governments act forthwith on the demand that their cost be drastically reduced. It can be helped by the unifying of relief activities which today are often scattered, uneconomical, and unequal. It can be helped by national planning for and supervision of all forms of transportation and of communications and other utilities which have a definitely public character."
-Franklin Roosevelt

"Homes have been lost, jobs shed, businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly, our schools fail too many, and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet."
-Barack Obama
Parallelism used in their speeches made the two presidents very similar. It highlighted the similarities in the two. ]]> 2017-02-07 01:23:10 UTC https://padlet.com/carlo_yatar/44fg9mmk688d/wish/152013016 zachbaker1130 https://padlet.com/carlo_yatar/44fg9mmk688d/wish/152270565  "Primarily this is because the rulers of the exchange of mankind's goods have failed, through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure, and abdicated. Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men."
- Franklin Roosevelt 

"The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization." 
- Franklin Roosevelt

"Our nation is at war against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age."
- Barack Obama

Barack Obama and Franklin Roosevelt both use similar rhetorical devices with emotionally charged language when addressing these people. FDR uses words such as, "stubbornness" and "incompetence," while Barack Obama uses words such as, "violence" and "hatred." Though their rhetoric may be similar, the criticisms that Barack Obama and Franklin Roosevelt deliver towards people who they believe have failed American citizens is very different. Franklin Roosevelt's attacks are directly aimed at the money changers. Hence his use of the word "money changers" throughout the speech. Barack Obama's attacks are more passive aggressive. He doesn't target anyone directly, he just speaks of "a far-reaching network of violence and hatred."

]]> 2017-02-07 19:20:12 UTC https://padlet.com/carlo_yatar/44fg9mmk688d/wish/152270565 blake_tucker https://padlet.com/carlo_yatar/44fg9mmk688d/wish/152278599 "Our founding fathers faced with perils that we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations.
Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake."
-Barack Obama

"Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for."
-Franklin Roosevelt

Both Obama and Roosevelt allude to how the forefathers of America had difficult perils that they had to face, but conquered them by writing the Constitution.]]> 2017-02-07 19:41:07 UTC https://padlet.com/carlo_yatar/44fg9mmk688d/wish/152278599