According to Blitzer's Rhetorical Situation the main components of a speech are searching for an appropriate response, a listening audience, constraints, and a rhetorical response. (Bitzer, 1968) The speech I used to illustrate Bitzer's rhetorical situation was the speech given by President Obama on the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting in Connecticut. The school shooting occurred on December 14, 2012. A twenty-year-old man named Adam Lanza shot and killed twenty-six people and then committed suicide; Adam Lanza killed twenty children and six adults. In this speech I will tell you about the need, the audience, the constraints and Obama's appropriate response. In Obama's speech on the Sandy Hook school shooting, the need that Obama talked about was the tragedy of the school shooting. In the speech he talks about how he is reacting as a parent and not as a president. Obama also talks about how the children had their lives ahead of them. It basically said that children would become something in life; some would get married, some wouldn't...