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+// Notes were not included in the final submission.
+// Religious tones
+// gratitude
+// continue work even though in good place
+// vainglory = vanity and undue pride
+// good stature of US =/= due to hard work, more like luck
+// don't be boastful; be diplomatic
+// humble
+Subject: International Relations
+Occasion: He is being elected. 1901 is before world wars, and US is thought
+    of as very successful on the world stage, mostly because it's 
+    starting to colonize stuff (diplomacy)
+Audience: "My fellow citizens." He wants public to support his diplomatic
+    approach to governance.
+Purpose: Try to get America to be diplomatic on the world stage
+Speaker: Roosevelt will assume this power ("big stick and speak softly")
+
+Rhetorical device: elaborate syntax with a considerate biblical tone,
+
+Roosevelt is delivering his inauguration speech to get the American
+people to support and accomodate his preferred style of diplomacy and
+international relations. Roosevelt's style consists of Big Stick
+Diplomacy, where reasonable motivation is used in negotiations to
+motivate compromise and agreement with the United States---the
+negotiations themselves being friendly and theoretically occurring well
+in advance of any legitimate crisis. Roosevelt appeals to the religious
+(primarily Christian) belief system of his audience with elaborate
+syntax and a considerate biblical tone which takes humanity as a whole.
+
+His introduction readily establishes this biblical and theistic tone by
+talking about a personified ``Giver of Good.'' This is directly related
+to Christian theology with a personal and benevolent God which appeals
+to the audience's sense of personal gain from this bounty, and leads
+into talk of humility and great gratitude that the Bible preaches.
+Roosevelt uses words like ``vainglory'' and ``abiding'' to push this
+idea that there is a specific personal power which has allowed the US to
+get this far and that Roosevelt's style of local governance will follow
+this: that the hard-working American to which this appeals (``vigor and
+effort'' and ``virtue'') will thrive under a government which takes
+these values as its own, and that Roosevelt's will be that government.
+
+Roosevelt takes these domestic theological values and extends them
+further by reusing much of the biblical tone towards two points:
+humanity as a whole deserves the kindness and involvement of the United
+States government and that international diplomacy is the extent of such
+an attitude. The specific words ``in our deeds...spirit of just and
+generous,'' ``wrongdoing,'' and ``righteousness'' maintain the biblical
+tone because religious oughtness is useful to convince his audience and
+the idea that the US is backed by a great benevolent power established
+in the last paragraph builds towards the belief that Roosevelt's int'l
+affairs will act as fairly towards other nations, and the biblical tones
+help to reduce the possible counterpoint of nationalistic isolationism
+which is very popular at the time.
+
+After creating this framework of ideals based in Christian good faith,
+Roosevelt returns to the idea of great growth in prosperity but with the
+added caveats that continued prosperity will require continued sacrifice
+and that prosperity is not singularly beneficial (``care and anxiety'').
+The person who considers themselves a hard-working American is being
+targeted by this speech and this section in particular. Industrial
+development and a ``rise to greatness'' by the US are intended to tell
+this person being targeted by the speech that, by virtue of thriving in
+this ``complex and intense'' environment, that he or she has high
+``energy, self-reliance, and individual initiative,'' which contributes
+to the country at large. Because Roosevelt is such a proponent of
+diplomacy at a time when isolationism is fashionable, he is trying to
+link that ideology to fear and shirking from duty. Because he has
+phrased this approach as a duty of the American citizen, Roosevelt
+has developed the emotional argument that support of the government's
+``unbending, unflinching purpose'' will work towards ``the welfare of
+mankind,'' which is a biblical imperative.
+
+The emotional arguments which appeal directly to the ``hardworking
+American patriot'' ideal's sense of righteousness and virtue push a
+listener of this speech towards support of strong-handed government
+endeavour and international connections of the American government.
+Theistic tone and the connection of government action to a higher
+calling make the listener believe that Roosevelt's government will
+uphold his or her own beliefs and values.