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Reading A Speech: When Reading A Speech By Barack Obama
When Reading a speech you read it how you read it but, when listening to a speech it makes it a whole other level. When he reads it he might miss the key details and not understand. But when listening to it you understand and the speaker and see the main point of their speech. In the “New Hampshire Primary 2008 ” speech by Barack Obama he tries to give hope to the nation after losing the primary to Hillary Clinton. When he delivered this speech and the reader listened to it he really saw how Obama felt but when he read it it did not matter because it was how he read it. Reading a speech is different than listening to the speaker give the speech because when listening one can hear the confidence, emotion, and repetition.

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When reading the speech that Senator Barack Obama Made at the 2008 New Hampshire Primary you could read the repetition that he had in the speech. “Yes, we can. Yes, we can.¨ (Obama 2). When reading this statement yes we can over and over again you start to feel like what he is saying you can do. When learning through listening it was not how you picture it but it is how the speaker is putting emphasis on the things he is repeating.We can stop sending our children to schools with corridors of shame and start putting them on a pathway to success. We can stop talking about how great teachers are and start rewarding them for their greatness by giving them more pay and more support. We can stop talking about how great teachers are and start rewarding them for their greatness by giving them more pay and more support. (Obama 1-2). When you listen to what he is proposing and what he is saying then you feel like you have to stop making excuses and do something. No matter how you learn from a speech weather through listening or through reading there will be a difference through

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