Question

PLEASE HELP ASAP!!!! 100 POINTS!!!!

What do the speech and the author's chosen strategies reveal about the culture that produced it?

(referring to the “City Upon a Hill” Speech made by John F. Kennedy on January 9, 1961)

Answer 1

“City upon a Hill” was part of the sermon called “A Model of Christian Charity” was written in 1630s by John Winthrop. He know the first group of Puritan emigrants in New England would be watched by the world. JFK was a Christian and a New Englander. So he quoted Winthrop as we were not destined to be a shining example, only that we were destined to be an example, shining or not.

Answer 2

The culture that this speech came from is a scared but family friendly one. Following the baby boom, nearly everyone in America have two+ kids and because of the cold war, people are constantly always fearful of a nuclear weapons attack. The author, President Kennedy, mainly uses ethos to get his point across.