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Since the large companies challenge the publics best interest their actions are also very irresponsible and unnecessary. During this time of economic distress, the public at large had more important issues to respond to than the steel company’s raising their steel prices. In the second paragraph of Kennedy’s speech, he dedicates one long sentence to the entirety of the paragraph to account for the handful of interests the public is already involved in. The length of the sentence provokes thoughtfulness and permits the function which is needed to clarify and see why the public interest is affected when steel companies are to raise their prices. Included in the sentence is an emotional argument Kennedy uses when he states in lines 2-3, four [reservists] were killed in the last two days in Vietnam. The argument presented appeals to the public’s emotions and evokes them to contemplate how the steel companies defiance of the publics interest have disreg

arded the lives lost of the people protecting our country and making it a safe place
According to Kennedy, the steel company’s actions are also irresponsible. He proclaims, …steel executives whose pursuit of private power and profit exceeds their sense of public responsibility can show such utter contempt for their interests of 85 million Americans.(lines 7-20) Kennedy uses this statement to try and get a response from steel executives of breaking their honorable responsibilities. Kennedy makes his argument stronger when he appeals to the steel company’s selfish actions to not just the country, but all 85 million Americans with him. The use of the word contempt describes the actions of the steel companies and provides the audience with more meaning than what it shows. The strong use of words suggests the company’s actions be selfish and show disrespect to the public because of how the steel companies failed to meet their requirements of the public.