Prior to writing your main critical rhetorical analysis paper, you are required to provide a prospectus. Your prospectus should be 1-2 typed pages, describing the topic you wish to explore. You have three options: 1) Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “Verbal assault against women not new. And that is the problem,” (July 23, 2020); 2) President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (Ukraine)"Can You Only Imagine?" (March 15, 2022) ; 3) President Ronald Reagan “Normandy Speech: Ceremony Commemorating the 40 th Anniversary of the Normandy Invasion, D-Day” (June 6, 1984).

Questions you need to address in your research prospectus include:

1. Identify the speech you interested in researching and analyzing.
2. Describe the context for this speech. When, where and why was this speech given at the time and place it was? What additional research will you need to do to understand the rhetorical situation?
3. What is your initial reaction to the speech? What aspects of this speech are particularly interesting to you?