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Answer 1

What is the benefit of Kennedy's placement of the details about the cost per person?

First, it promotes Kennedy's vision as a realistic goal from the beginning; second, it educates the public about how realizing this vision will affect them personally.

First, it places the emphasis on other issues more important to listeners; second, it allows listeners to understand the project's value.

First, it highlights the importance of supporting the project; second, it discusses how each person's financial support will enable the vision to be realized.

First, it buries what might be a negative in the middle of the speech; second, it allows Kennedy to end with the amazing rocketry being built.

Answer 2

The speech: To be sure, all this costs us all a good deal of money. This year's space budget is three times what it was in January 1961, and it is greater than the space budget of the previous eight years combined. That budget now stands at $5.4 billion a year—a staggering sum, though somewhat less than we pay for cigarettes and cigars every year. Space expenditures will soon rise some more, from 40 cents per person per week to more than 50 cents a week for every man, woman and child in the United Stated, for we have given this program a high national priority—even though I realize that this is in some measure an act of faith and vision, for we do not now know what benefits await us.

Answer 3

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