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Prepare to discuss the text you selected by reading it independently. Record your thoughts about the passage in the

following chart. You may need to conduct additional research to support your understanding of certain elements of the
argument, particularly the situation and audience

Prepare to discuss the text you selected by reading it independently. Record your-example-1
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The is was the sample answer but I changed it up so that it won't be copying everything:

Q:1 Situation: When astronauts had not yet been to space or landed on the moon, in 1962 a speech was given to university students.

Purpose: Explaining the need for the United States to go to the moon

Audience: Future inventors and innovators interested in space exploration, students at Rice University who are probably studying space/engineering or who are interested in space exploration, other members of the community who are interested in or may be able to support Kennedy’s goal of space travel/going to the moon, university staff who are involved in research related to space exploration or who may be able to contribute to Kennedy’s goal to go to the moon.

Message: In order to maintain peace and increase knowledge, America needs to go to the moon.

Individual: U.S president

Tone: Motivating

Q2: In order to maintain freedom and peace, the United States will lead the way in space exploration.

Q3: “We shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest” “new rights to be won. . . . and used for the progress of all people” “There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet.” “its opportunity for peaceful cooperation many never come again” “that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills” “that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win”

Q4: Through parallel structure, repetition, and figurative language, Kennedy conveys his message. In essence, he emphasizes that even though exploration of the new and unfamiliar territory of space is risky ("hazards are hostile"), going to space (the moon) promotes cooperation and maintains freedom and peace around the planet.

Q5: By stating, “We have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest,” Kennedy implies that governments of other countries could oppress people or start wars.

Q6: Kennedy explicitly states why we should go to space by saying, “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.”

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