Last time we introduced the concept of tone. We read speeches by Ann Romney and Gov. Chris Christie delievered at the Republican National Convention. Today we'll read the speech delivered by the Republican nominee, Mitt Romney.
You'll find the text of his speech here.
After reading the speech, add a comment below, naming what you consider to be its tone. Use two or three different tone words, accompanied by two or three quotations from the speech.
Next, you'll choose a news source from the list below. Look for the story about Governor Romney's speech and read that article. You are looking for the ways in which they describe the speech, specifically its tone (they'll probably comment on a lot of things, from the specific policies to what he had to say about President Obama, but we are looking at the tone, not the content).
After you read what they had to say, add another comment to the thread below. Name which article you read (and the website) then write a brief description of how they saw it. Include at least one quotation from that source.
http://abcnews.go.com/
http://www.cbsnews.com/
http://www.cnn.com/
http://www.foxnews.com/
http://www.chicagotribune.com/
http://www.latimes.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/
http://www.usatoday.com/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
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ReplyDeleteThe tone of the article was very powerful, but there was a lot of repitition.
ReplyDeletethe tone was also disdainful-scornful, towards Obama's decitions
ReplyDeleteI think the speech was considerably thought provoking, like when it said "So here we stand. Americans have a choice. A decision." Although it was a good speech i felt as if he was speaking condescendingly towars Barack Obama,"I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed. But his promises gave way to disappointment and division" without a reason. I also think he was being optimistic, he looked at what he was going to do with our country with oddly high standards. " I will work with all my energy and soul to restore that America, to lift our eyes to a better future."
ReplyDeleteThe tone of the speech is...
ReplyDeletematter-of-fact, "It's not what we wanted. It's not what we expected. It's what Americans deserve."
critical, "This president can ask us to be patient. This president can tell us it was someone else's fault. This president can tell us that the next four years he'll get it right. But this president cannot tell us that YOU are better off today than when he took office."
optimistic "I will work with all my energy and soul to restore that America, to lift our eyes to a better future. That future is our destiny. That future is out there. It is waiting for us. Our children deserve it, our nation depends upon it, the peace and freedom of the world require it. And with your help we will deliver it. Let us begin that future together tonight."
The tone of the speech in my opinion was accusitory at times, when he began to talk about what President O'bama did wrong troughout his time in office. The speach was sanguineous as well because when Gov. Romney talked about what good he thinks he would do with our country and how he could make others taxes lower and help my generation have the ability to have less debt and the prices would go down.
ReplyDeleteThe tone of this article, was very critical towards Obama, and was optimistic about his own ideas.
ReplyDeleteThe tone was in many ways, accusatory. Mitt Romney kept blaming Obama and his laws for why the country is in dept. The tone is also very confident because Romney says he has a five step program in place to save our economy, and he says it WILL work.
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ReplyDeleteRomneys speech was critical and accusatory towards President Obama. Though he is very sanguineous and optimistic about his ideas.
ReplyDeleteI think the tone in this speech was confidence in America. He kept repeating how much he thought America could succeed if it had a different president. Then he went on to say how he though President Obama isn't doing a very good job making America a better place than it was when he was elected. I think this shows how he thinks his superior over Obama. Another tone in the speech was accusatory because he kept blaming Obama for everything that was going wrong with the country. I thought he seemed very self centered, and confident in himself that he WILL get elected, and WILL fix the country. He might think that, but you never really know what you're getting yourself into until you're already knee-deep in it.
ReplyDeleteThe speech also helped Romney politically appeal to woman, because of his previous problems with female voters
ReplyDelete"Romney Vows to Deliver Country From Economic Travails" (Nytimes.com)
ReplyDeleteThey saw it as being critical of Obama "as Mr. Romney delivered a pointed critique of Mr. Obama’s domestic and foreign policy, saying that he had “thrown Israel under the bus,”"
As well as making Romney more intimate and familiar in the eyes of Americans "He invited people from each chapter of his life to paint a humanizing portrait to help voters see him with a trusting eye." They thought this because he revealed more about his personal life and childhood than he had in the past. Making him more like a friend and less like a stranger.
I read the article on http://abcnews.go.com/ It talked about how Romney was so accusitory of Obama, and on how he tried to make amends with female voters. It also talks about Romneys promise to restore America and create jobs
ReplyDeleteThe article I read from the Fact Check: Romney speaks at RNC from the website, http://abcnews.go.com/. This article talked about the accusitory tone in Romney's speech, for example; "The effect of the president's economic policies on the jobs market is open to interpretation...." This shows that this speech, is only Romney's opinion, there can be other ones.
ReplyDeleteHe tried to Persuede women to vote for him
ReplyDeleteCBS News (Romney: "Time to Put Obama behind us")
ReplyDeleteI think Romney tries to hard to be relatable to the people. He always tries to relate his life to the middle class lives, but it doesn't always work very well. I think his tone is persuasive, and sincere in the speech.