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1、“Ask not what the country can do for you，ask what you can do for the country。”,2016.3.26,Group members:肖莉 贺文景 郑重 黄米拉 杜阳春,John Fitzgerald Kennedy (19171963),Born: May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts Died: November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas Nickname: JFK Married: Jacqueline Lee Bouvier (1929-19
2、94), on September 12, 1953 Religion: Roman Catholic Education: Graduated from Harvard College (1940) Political Party: Democrat,the 35th president of the United states, the first Roman Catholic to become president of the United Stated. He faced the religion issue frankly. He decided his firm belief i
3、n the separation of Church and state.At 43 he was also the youngest man ever elected to the highest office of his country.,John F . Kennedy,Career: 1941-45 Author; officer, U.S. Navy; 1947-53 newspaper correspondent; member of U.S. House of Representatives; 1953-61 United States Senator,; 1961-63 Pr
4、esident of the United States,John F. Kennedy,Father:Joseph Kennedy: 4 sons and 5 daughters,The son of An Irish immigrant (a pub keeper) -a millionaire,1.A good son of a rich family,2. A handsome young manA brave soldierAn ambitious politician,Kennedy studied at Harvard and after he had finished, he
5、also had to serve in the war. During the war he once was shipwrecked, but he survived and because of his heroism he saved the lives of his crew.,In 1952 he became senator of Massachusetts. In 1956 he almost became running mate of Adlai Stevenson, but lost the elections. In 1958 he won reelection in
6、Massachusetts by 875,000 votes, the largest majority in the states history. He was elected for president in November 1960, defeated Richard Nixon,1953 9 12,3.A passionate husband with a beautiful wife,Jacqueline Kennedy,A kind father,22 November 1963 On 22 November 1963 Kennedy visited Dallas with h
7、is wife Jackie. He was shot during a riding tour in an open limousine and died after about half an hour.,A tragic end,JFK(1991),(刺杀肯尼迪）,A New Orleans DA discovers theres more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.,1960 presidential election,On January 2, 1960, Kennedy initiated his ca
8、mpaign for President in the Democratic primary election, where he faced challenges from Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota and Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon. Kennedy defeated Humphrey in Wisconsin and West Virginia, Morse in Maryland and Oregon, as well as from token opposition (often write-in can
9、didates) in New Hampshire, Indiana, and Nebraska. Kennedy visited a coal mine in West Virginia; most miners and others in that predominantly conservative, Protestant state were quite wary of Kennedys Roman Catholicism. His victory in West Virginia confirmed his broad popular appeal. At the Democrati
10、c Convention, he gave his well-known New Frontier speech, saying: For the problems are not all solved and the battles are not all wonand we stand today on the edge of a New Frontier. But the New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promisesit is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend
11、 to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them.,The purpose of a political speech,to persuade to explain to convince people : to accept his point of view, to accept what he says so as to support him,Characteristics:,1. The order is clear.Each para. has its own topic.2. The tone is a
12、ppropriate.He uses different tone to different people.,Characteristics:,3. The style is rigid.It is made beforehand. So it is a sort of written language.4. The language is rhetorical.parallelism, metaphor, antithesis, balanced structure, repetition of words and phrases - for force, vividness and emo
13、tional appeal.,General analysis of a political speech,1. He must try every possible means to arouse the feelings of audience. What he says represents the interests of the whole people. successful appeal to the emotion of the audience2. specific policyThe speech must have high-sounding words and empt
14、y promises3. The speech must be concise and short,General analysis of a political speech,4. clever-choice of words to convey different meanings/tones.5. the use of biblical style to make it formal/ rigid.6. the use of a lot of rhetorical devices to make his address as powerful/ impressive as possibl
15、e.,In what period in history did Kennedy become president? in 1960s Cold war is sth. which marks the situation in 1960s. The world is mainly divided into two hostile camps. Socialist camp - headed by the Soviet UnionCapitalist camp - headed by the USThe camps opposed each other politically.,The soci
16、al background,The Cold War was a period of East-West competition, tension, and conflict, short of full-scale war, characterized by mutual perceptions of hostile intention between military-political alliances or blocs. There were real wars, sometimes called proxy wars because they were fought by Sovi
17、et allies rather than the USSR itself - along with competition for influence in the Third World, and a major superpower arms race.,The social background,Contribution to America,No.1 Immigration,John F. Kennedy first proposed a comprehensive immigration policy of U.S, which later became Immigration a
18、nd Nationality Act of 1965,No.2 Aviation,“We choose to go to the moon!” In this 1962 speech given at Rice University in Houston, Texas, President John F. Kennedy reaffirmed Americas commitment to landing a man on the moon before the end of the 1960s.,No.3 Racial problems,When President Kennedy took
19、office, the issue of apartheid was still very serious. Kennedy did not hesitate to take action to break the apartheid, and the racial equality developed to an unprecedented level .,His specific policy was mainly to break the apartheid in the field of education and housing. Whats more, he supported that black shoud be equally treated in public.,Public evaluation,John F. Kennedy was the most popular president in U.S. history. Americans evaluate him as one of the five greatest presidents in history.,
