Bernardo Garcia
4/08/13
4th period
Moon Speech
in Rice
University
John F. Kennedy
Background
 John
F. Kennedy was born on May 29,
1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts.
 After serving in the House of
Representative and the Senate he
became the 35th President of the United
States on January 20, 1961.
 John F. Kennedy made the speech at
Rice University in Texas on September 12,
1962.
 He was assassinated on November 22,
1963 at aged 46.
Video of John F. Kennedy
Me Giving Speech
SOAPSTone: Subject
 “The
exploration of space will go ahead,
whether we join in it or not, and it is one of
the great adventures of all time, and no
nation which expects to be the leader of
other nations can expect to stay behind
in this race for space.”

John F. Kennedy is stating that America is
not staying behind against the Soviet Union.
SOAPSTone: Occasion
 John
F. Kennedy is giving the speech in
Rice University on September 12, 1962. In
which he is describing why he intend to
put men on the moon.
SOAPSTone: Audience
“President Pitzer, Mr. Vice President,
Governor, Congressman Thomas, Senator
Wiley, and Congressman Miller, Mr. Webb.
Mr. Bell, scientists, distinguished guests, and
ladies and gentlemen…”

Based on this you can conclude that John
F. Kennedy is referring the speech to the
people in America.
SOAPSTone: Purpose
 “…space
is there, and we're going to
climb it, and the moon and the planets
are there, and new hopes for knowledge
and peace are there.”

John F. Kennedy is planning to put a men
on the moon and find new hopes because
he believes they’re there.
SOAPSTone: Speaker
 The
speaker is John F. Kennedy for the focus
on the nation’s energies.
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“…the best of our energies and skills, because
that challenge is one that we are willing to
accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and
one which we intend to win, and the others,
too.”
SOAPSTone: Tone

“I am delighted that this university is playing a part
in putting a man on the moon as part of a great
national effort of the United States of America.”
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
John F. Kennedy is happy the university is taking part
in the exploration and on the effort they are trying to
accomplished.
“Within these last 19 months at least 45 satellites
have circled the earth. Some 40 of them were
made in the United States of America"

John F. Kennedy is showing how proud the US have
made a great effort in making satellites compared to
the rest of the world.
Analysis - Paraphrase
 “We
set sail on this new sea because
there is new knowledge to be gained,
and new rights to be won, and they must
be won and used for the progress of all
people.”

John F. Kennedy is speaking about how the
adventured to the moon can be new
knowledge and rights used for the progress
of people.
Main Idea/Theme

“…our leadership in science and in industry,
our hopes for peace and security, our
obligations to ourselves as well as others, all
require us to make this effort, to solve these
mysteries, to solve them for the good of all
men, and to become the world's leading
space-faring nation.”

This explains how far America should go in
traveling to the moon to do what is good for
men.
Ethos
 “…as
we set sail we ask God's blessing on
the most hazardous and dangerous and
greatest adventure on which man has
ever embarked.”

John F. Kennedy is showing his belief of God
and asking him for his blessing.
Pathos

“…space is there,
and we're going to
climb it, and the
moon and the
planets are there,
and new hopes”

This makes the
audience to have
confidence that
John F. Kennedy is
willing to put men on
the moon.
Logos
 "Because
there.“

it is
Kennedy was
saying that the
moon is there and
that is why he
should put a man
on the moon.
Repetition
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“The greater our knowledge increases, the greater
our ignorance unfolds.”
“The growth of our science and education will be
enriched by new knowledge of our universe and
environment…”
“We set sail on this new sea because there is new
knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be
won, and they must be won and used for the
progress of all people.”
“Well, space is there, and we're going to climb it,
and the moon and the planets are there, and new
hopes for knowledge and peace are there.“
Phrasing/ meaning
 “This
country was conquered by those
who moved forward-and so will space.”

Kennedy is expressing that America have
moved forward and will go forward on
space.
 “The
greater our knowledge increases,
the greater our ignorance unfolds.”
Powerful Lines

“William Bradford, speaking in 1630 of the founding of
the Plymouth Bay Colony, said that all great and
honorable actions are accompanied with great
difficulties, and both must be enterprise and
overcome with answerable courage.”
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This phase can be consider a powerful line because it’s
describing how actions can be taking and overcome by
courage and moving forward.
“We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and
do the other things, not because they are easy, but
because they are hard”

John F. Kennedy is saying why they choose to go to the
moon.
Literary devices
 Metaphor
– “We set sail on this new sea
because there is new knowledge to be
gained, and new rights to be won, and
they must be won and used for the
progress of all people.”

John F. Kennedy is comparing the trip to
the moon as a new sea to set sail.
To follow
 In
a September 1963 speech before the
United Nations, Kennedy urged
cooperation between the Soviets and
Americans in space
 On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 landed the first
manned spacecraft on the Moon.
QUESTIONS?