Rhetorical Analysis: Vice President Kamala Harris' Speech

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Rhetorical Analysis
The United States Vice President Kamala Harris is traveling across the country with a mission to understand the challenges facing small enterprises and trying to provide solutions towards ensuring their sustainable growth and development. On her recent visit to Greenville, Mississippi, the Vice President delivered a speech to the residents on investments in Community Lenders as a critical ingredient for supporting the development of small businesses in the community. Delivered on 1st April 4, 2022, in Greenville, Mississippi, to the city officials, small business entrepreneurs, residents, and other community stakeholders, the Vice President’s speech reiterates the important role of community lenders to support the vision and aspiration of growth for small businesses in Greenville and across the nation CITATION Rev22 \l 1033 (Rev). Kamala Harris establishes logos with the audience by delivering a logical breakdown of the crucial role played by community lenders in enhancing accessibility to the much-needed financial resources for small businesses in rural areas.
The Vice President begins her speech by saluting the audience and appreciating the preceding speaker and local entrepreneur, Ms. Joyce, for her introduction CITATION Rev22 \l 1033 (Rev). She then shares her encounter with Ms. Joyce at her business premises before holding the press conference, revealing that her mother was also a small business owner CITATION Rev22 \l 1033 (Rev). The Vice President also identifies the community leaders and industry players present at the presser, recognizing each of them by name while also acknowledging their input towards promoting the well-being of the Greenville community and Mississippi as a whole CITATION Rev22 \l 1033 (Rev). She then describes the city of Greenville as she prepares to introduce to the audience the purpose of her visit and the intended message or theme of her speech. She provides a brief historical background of the city’s ability to rise against challenges, including its remarkable resilience upon facing one of the most destructive floods in the United States’ history, the 1927 Greenville, Mississippi flood CITATION Rev22 \l 1033 (Rev). The city’s growth and development amidst the past and present challenges reflect the nation’s ambitious and aspirational characters upon which the nation formed, claims the Vice President. She then states that such characters foster and drive the country’s economic growth and transformation CITATION Rev22 \l 1033 (Rev). At this juncture, she connects the audience to her main point by stating that financial resources or capital are essential for the economic transformation witnessed across the nation CITATION Rev22 \l 1033 (Rev). However, she acknowledges the existing challenges and disparities in accessing the capital and other financial resources for business and other needs such as housing CITATION Rev22 \l 1033 (Rev). The Vice President states that the traditional banking services do not share in the vision of small businesses development, with the rural areas experiencing most of their indifferences CITATION Rev22 \l 1033 (Rev). She hails the role of community lenders...