Landmark Speech by John F. Kennedy

Born in Brookline, Massauchussets on 29th May 1917,
John Fitzerzgerald Kennedy or came to be known as JFK is a son of Josepf P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzergerald. On
the other hand, in 1953 he was married Jacqueline Bouvier, two years later he received a Pulitzer Prize for his Profiles in Courage which tells about his own experiences in NAVY.

Apart from that, JFK was elected as a President in 1961

and this remarked the history of the United States when he became the 35th president and also

the youngest person that ever become a president. He was also the only Roman Catholic to

become a president. Unfortunately, his presidency only last for almost three years because in

1963 he was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.

With regards to his background of the speech, he was basically delivers his inaugural speech with

a beautiful words when he was first elected as the 35th President of the United States after he

initially pledged in front of the Americans who came together to bear witness of his presidency

on Friday, January 20, 1961. His inaugural speech was become a landmark speech until today:

"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country".

In terms of JFK's speech style, I might say that his speech consists of many different speech

styles. It was consists of inaugural, motivational, persuasive, and inspirational speech styles,

though every President's speech is regarded as an informative speech.

An inaugural speech means the first speech that a person delivers, especially by the new leader

of an organization or a country.

If one might notice, he was using a lot of motivational, inspirational and persuasive words that

directed to his people. Among the words are: "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask

what you can do for your country"; "Let both sides in creating a new endeavour, not a new

balance of power, but a new world of law, where the strong are just and the weak secure and the

peace preserved...all this will not be finished in 100 days nor in 1000 days, but let us begin";

"Never negotiate out of fear and let us never fear to negotiate".

In my opinion, he has good personality, he was young, brave, ambitious. He loved his people and

so does his people loved him. His ambitious manner can be seen when he was speak to his people

"Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, tap the ocean depths and encourage the

arts and commerce".

For the group who presented this topic (Amalina, Wahida, Marziana, Nor Jannah, Nadia, and

Lutfi), you guys are really fantastic!!! (^_^)v

All of you have done a good job!!! well done...

The presentation was really good because all of you organized it well and well prepaid...

(seems that you guys did a lot of research..huh?? =p)

Overall, their presentation was goooooooooooood.....