Inaugural address

Read and view the inaugural addresses of FDR, JFK, and Barack Obama. Then, answer the following questions in an essay of 600900 words:
Drawing on Chapter 6, what were the general and specific purposes of each of these speeches?
Drawing on Chapter 8, identify the types of reasoning used in specific claims to achieve the purposes of each speech. Use and cite the additional readings for this Lesson, as needed, and any outside scholarly sources that can help you make your claims.
Identify the claim. If there is more than one claim, just choose one for this exercise.
Identify any supporting material used to support the claim.
Identify the type of reasoning used to justify the claim and explain how it uses the supporting material to make the claim.
You are expected to use at least 3 scholarly (peer reviewed) sources in your research. These include academic journals and books. Cite these sources of facts and ideas in your essay. You can use the articles that were assigned reading for this lesson, if they contribute to your argument, to meet the minimum requirement, or you can use and cite other scholarly sources to meet the minimum. Newspapers, available online, can provide supplemental information, particularly with recent speeches that you will analyze, but only use newspaper articles that were written around the time of the speech; articles written much later tend to be historical appreciations. Many government and non-government agencies no longer publish official reports on paper, but their documents are available online as primary sources. Other webpages especially social media, blogs, and news aggregators lack the editorial review oversight that makes published information reliable, useful, and acceptable. Wikipedia can help you orient your academic search, but it is not a scholarly source.

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