Feb Post

An insert from rhetoric as a symbolic action goes, "People's symbol use also makes a difference in public communication. The words of public figures, as well as symbols of citizenship, possess the power to lead, reflect, inspire, praise, unite, confront, provoke, and entertain." The examples of this are how Martin Luther King Jr. used "I have a dream" speech. How Abe Lincoln, in his remarks of the Gettysburg battlefield said, 'But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. Words from George W. Bush on September 11, "None of us will ever forget that day, yet we go forward to defend freedom and all that is good and just in our world." In all these speeches the speakers use a symbol to lead their people or inspire them in some sort of way. What people communicate, and how they communicate it, have effects on others and their perceptions. People cannot know what things or events mean until they have the symbols to attach meaning to them.