opportunity for the audience to connect with her on a personal level. An initial personal connection‚ such as the one Michelle has made in her speech‚ creates an emotional foundation on which she is able to introduce her husband‚ Barack. The first time Michelle brings up Barack she is able to directly relate his family to the anecdote she shared with the audience about her family. Michelle conveys that‚ “His family was so much like [hers]… grandparents‚ single mom‚ working-class folks just like [her]
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of the speech‚ Barack Obama’s intention is to unify the American people as one nation. He wants to make them proud of being American. The target audience in this speech is therefore all Americans‚ who don’t feel like they are a part of America‚ but it’s focus is also on the group of people that already think USA is a great country that can defeat anything. The focus is also on them‚ to make them feel even more proud to be American and to unify them even more. In the speech Obama uses pronouns like
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quadrennial presidential election‚ in which presidential electors‚ who will elect the President and Vice President of the United States on December 17‚ 2012"(2012 Presidential”). Incumbent President Barack Obama is running for a final term during this election. Who will be more than likely running against Obama is Mitt Romney? There are several candidate issues to consider when deciding whom to vote for in the upcoming presidential election such as health care‚ and the economy. There are radical differences
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African American Studies Paper Metaphysics is the “ultimate reality” the leader has set. This is the way in which the leader perceives the world and the goal they set to achieve within this perception. Although the leader possesses an “ultimate reality”‚ these realities are not always achievable. Epistemology is the way in which a leader comes to believe or know their metaphysical outlook. Epistemology spans from formal education‚ to first hand knowledge from a primary source. Human
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oath‚ the president must kiss the Bible held for him by the Chancellor. This signifies the loyalty ‚ honesty ‚ integrity ‚ and dignity the president must serve to us as a country . The second Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama was held in Washington DC on Monday‚ January 21‚ 2013. A week of festivities included the Presidential Swearing-in Ceremony‚ Inaugural Address‚ Inaugural Parade and numerous inaugural balls and galas honoring the elected President of the United
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Reflection on Presidential Candidate views I personally am a supporter of Barack Obama. My family is considered a middle class family and throughout my life‚ we have been democratic in terms of politics. I have four other siblings and all of us have or are attending college. We find education very important and with raising tuitions‚ this is one of my main concerns. Republicans would have tuition increased while Barack would frankly try to do the opposite and this is another reason he has my
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Amy Penn The article that I read was Interracial Intimacies‚ Barack Obama‚ and the Politics of Multiracialism; written by Kimberly McClain DaCosta in 2009. I choose this article because it hits close to home for me since I have been in a interracial relationship since I was sixteen years old‚ and have three interracial children. In this article‚ the author reviews the way that political discourse of multiracialism has changed in the last twenty years. Multiracials began organizing
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To Follow in the Footsteps of History: A Rhetorical Analysis of President Barack Obama and Donald Trump’s Selected Speeches History has made another round in the United States of America for the past eight years in the White House; can there be affirmation of the next president to fulfill the high expectations? Observing President Barack Obama’s “Acceptance Speech” made in Chicago‚ IL in comparison to Donald Trump’s “NYC Speech on the Stakes of the Election”‚ critics have viewed how both candidates
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a black president?” (Sen) In November 2008‚ I was in Chicago and watching the celebration of the election of Barack Hussein Obama I wondered if the world that I had lived in for the past 58 years was about change. There were people or shall I say fellow Americans of every description sharing in a moment of shock and awe. When this election process began I had little thought that Obama would actually win. My thoughts were that he would put in a very good showing and Hillary Clinton would naturally
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effectively argue specific points that they are attempting to convince the general public of. In the 2012 Presidential Debate‚ President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney make several major claims about topics that are both controversial‚ yet necessary to discuss such as major economic plans and issues regarding Medicare. Throughout the debate‚ both Romney and Obama use eloquent and persuasive language in an attempt to appeal to the ethos‚ logos‚ and pathos of the audience‚ with the ultimate goal
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