Sydney Graham 10/13/14 Hess/7 Textual Analysis Yes He Can! In 2008‚ Barack Obama was elected into office and became the 44th President of the United States. Obama’s victory speech‚ “Election Night Remarks”‚ was heartfelt and genuine‚ soaking in determination to change the “immaturity and pettiness that poisoned our politics for so long” (680). He argues that America‚ as a people‚ can remake the nation. Obama strategically starts off the speech by appealing to ethos. He shares with us the grueling
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A Study of the Spoken Language of Barrack Obama In this study I will be analysing the speech of Barrack Obama‚ in his Victory Speech and his interview with David Letterman on ‘The Letterman Show’. Obama frequently uses many forms of rhetoric when he talks‚ this is too show emphasis on what he is saying‚ in his Victory Speech he starts off straight away with a tri-colon‚ he uses ‘who still’ as the first two words in three consecutive phrases‚ he then anchors it across time by using ‘our founders’
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Barrack Obama was born August 4th‚ 1961 in Honolulu‚ Hawaii. Before being inaugurated as president on January 20‚ 2009 he had a whole different life. He graduated high school at Punahou School in 1979. Following high school‚ Obama moved to Los Angeles in 1979 to attend Occidental College. Later in 1981‚ he transferred to Columbia University in New York City‚ where he majored in political science with a specialty in international relations and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1983. He worked for
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Speech Analysis Paper Name Institution Speech Analysis Paper I selected a speech that was given by Manal- Al Sharif. The speech was entitled “A Saudi woman who dared to drive”. The speech was delivered sometime in June 2013. It was presented in a worldwide set of conferences referred to as TED (Technology‚ Environment‚ and Design) conference. TED provides live streaming of dialogues and address an extensive array of topics within the practice of science‚ culture and research. The speech was
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The political speech “A More Perfect Union” presented in Philadelphia by Barack Obama‚ discusses the issue of race as it has played a major role historically in the United States. He addresses the Reverend Wright argument and touches upon his own experiences as a black man. Obama’s objective was to persuade Americans to eliminate racial division for the good of all Americans. To obtain the interest of the audience‚ his speech consisted of rhetorical strategies. These strategies were emotional‚ ethical
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president delivers the first State of the Union speech of his second term. With no more presidential elections to face‚ Obama seems to be taking advantage of that newfound freedom to speak more forcefully on his second-term agenda items‚ like immigration overhaul‚ gun control and climate change‚ than he generally did during his first term. So expect to see that increased forcefulness on display during his speech to a joint session of Congress. Obama himself has acknowledged that he has decided to
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Speech is the vocalized form of human communication. It is based upon the syntactic combination of lexical and names that are drawn from very large vocabularies. Each spoken word is created out of the phonetic combination of a limited set of vowel and consonant speech sound units. These vocabularies‚ the syntax which structures them and their set of speech sound units differ‚ creating the existence of many thousands of different types of mutually unintelligible human languages. Most human speakers
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about the difference you make in people’s lives.” – Michelle Obama‚ First Lady. Those who can really comprehend what was being said can understand how gracious and down to earth Michelle Obama is. As a first lady she sees the hardship‚ obstacles‚ the pride‚ the determination Americans have clean across America. As a mother she knows how valuable it is to have that since of family values. First Lady Obama tells us that she and President Obama have been through similar situations most Americans go through
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1 Obama - Hope Introduction Barack Obama’s complex upbringing has polarised the media and brought a lot of controversy.2 His multicultural background made him a hero and villain at the same time. Chicago native? First African American President? Half white? Hawaiian? Indonesian? All of these labels have been used to simply box him into one of these categories. But we should not ignore the life experiences this brought and eventually defined his identity. Obama‚ like any American president
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the importance of education‚ as it will benefit themselves and the society as well. In the speech “Commencement Address” at Bowie State University‚ May 17th 2013‚ she wants to deliver a message about the importance of an education with the aim to reach out to younger people especially the African American. Her message gets clearer for the listener by the way she expresses her self and uses the language. Obama does it by carefully selecting her words and speaking in a chatty tone with
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