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Analyze ceremonial speech

Japan . The third paragraph was already a transition , in fact a contrast between the sincerity to diplomacy of the Americans , and the two-faced negotiations and the Japanese . He also made a substantial revision when he changed the statement the attack was deliberately planned many days ago ' to many days and even weeks ago (Our Heritage in Documents , 2001 ) to stress how deep the Japanese was engaged in their duplicity

The first part was meant clearly to channel the shock and disbelief of his audience - who were up to that moment largely anti-war

- into inflamed outrage and wrath . FDR , of course , couched it in terms as not to make it a call to belligerency , but righteous retribution

The second part was a statement of facts . Roosevelt began with an initial assessment of how much was lost in the attack in Hawaii , and to what extent the Japanese had caused damage to American infrastructure and lives . It is worthy to note that in all three statements (damage to the military , loss of life , and loss of ships , he never forgot to stress that all these were American losses . The lines that followed did not have that much emotional impact as much as the fact that the country , the people , had been touched . This is why this first paragraph is a transition between the appeal to outrage and fear

This follows the said appeal to fear : FDR would then rattle off places and names that may or may not have significance to his audience (militarily , the last four places had American bases , and may have caught the ears of some Congressmen , but has the effect of signifying that Japan was everywhere . Having captured his audience with bated breath , he now capped it off brilliantly with the very summation of what was left unspoken...

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