assignment:comparative analysis

citizens and elected officials have given speeches that have not only expressed values that relate to american dreams, but that have moved people to reevaluate their beliefs and actions.Use two speeches and write an essay in which you make an argument about how each seems to define the american dream and the tensions between the speaker's visions.

Use these tools:

-where do they agree/disagree?

-what tools they use yo create their vision?

-pay attention to:1. balance 2.distortion 3.emotionalism 4.evidence

-contexts:1.historical 2.cultural

-Perspectives

-political

-religious

-philosophical

-cultural

the construction of the assignment:

subject-by-subject

1.introduction-thesis

2.speaker A

-point 1

-point 2

-point 3

3.transitional paragraph

4.speaker B

-point 1

-point 2

-point 3

5.conclusion

5~6 pages 1200 words