In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson delivered a graduation address at the University of Michigan. He discussed his hope for a "great society" without poverty or inequality. Read the excerpt from his speech and respond to the question that follows. Woodrow Wilson once wrote: "Every man sent out from his university should be a man of his Nation as well as a man of his time." Within your lifetime powerful forces, already loosed, will take us toward a way of life beyond the realm of our experience, almost beyond the bounds of our imagination. For better or for worse, your generation has been appointed by history to deal with those problems and to lead America toward a new age. You have the chance never before afforded to any people in any age. You can help build a society where the demands of morality, and the needs of the spirit, can be realized in the life of the Nation. So, will you join in the battle to give every citizen the full equality which God enjoins and the law requires, whatever his belief, or race, or the color of his skin? Will you join in the battle to give every citizen an escape from the crushing weight of poverty? Will you join in the battle to make it possible for all nations to live in enduring peace -- as neighbors and not as mortal enemies? Will you join in the battle to build the Great Society, to prove that our material progress is only the foundation on which we will build a richer life of mind and spirit? Write a paragraph of 5-7 sentences that accomplishes the following: identify a rhetorical appeal used in the excerpt identify a rhetorical device used in the excerpt explain how the rhetorical appeal and rhetorical device work to accomplish Johnson's purpose of convincing his audience that a "great society" is possible with their help



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