Read the excerpt from Roosevelt’s "Four Freedoms” speech. In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. What effect does Roosevelt hope to have on Americans with this appeal to emotion?
Read the excerpt from Roosevelt’s "Four Freedoms.” The fourth is freedom from fear—which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor—anywhere in the world. That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb. Roosevelt includes the second paragraph to serve as a rebuttal for which counterclaim?
Read the excerpt from Roosevelt’s "Four Freedoms" speech. I have called for personal sacrifice. I am assured of the willingness of almost all Americans to respond to that call. A part of the sacrifice means the payment of more money in taxes . In my Budget Message I shall recommend that a greater portion of this great defense program be paid for from taxation than we are paying today. No person should try, or be allowed, to get rich out of this program; and the principle of tax payments in accordance with ability to pay should be constantly before our eyes to guide our legislation. What argument is Roosevelt supporting with his appeal to logic in the underlined section of the excerpt?
Read the excerpt from Roosevelt’s "Four Freedoms” speech. Since the beginning of our American history, we have been engaged in change—in a perpetual peaceful revolution—a revolution which goes on steadily, quietly adjusting itself to changing conditions—without the concentration camp or the quick-lime in the ditch. The world order which we seek is the cooperation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society. This nation has placed its destiny in the hands and heads and hearts of its millions of free men and women; and its faith in freedom under the guidance of God. Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can be no end save victory. What were the intended effects of the rhetorical appeals used in this section of Roosevelt’s speech? Choose three correct answers.
Read the excerpt from Roosevelt’s "Four Freedoms" speech. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb. To that new order we oppose the greater conception—the moral order. Roosevelt’s appeals to emotion in this section of the speech are intended to
Read the excerpt from Roosevelt’s "Four Freedoms” speech. Our strength is our unity of purpose. Roosevelt’s appeal to emotion in this section of the speech makes listeners feel that they are
Read the excerpt from Roosevelt’s "Four Freedoms" speech. A part of the sacrifice means the payment of more money in taxes. In my Budget Message I shall recommend that a greater portion of this great defense program be paid for from taxation than we are paying today. No person should try, or be allowed, to get rich out of this program ; and the principle of tax payments in accordance with ability to pay should be constantly before our eyes to guide our legislation. What purpose does the underlined portion of this excerpt serve in the argument that Americans should agree to pay more taxes to raise money for entering the war?
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