On January 21, 2013, President Barack Obama was re-elected for a second term. As tradition with previous Presidents, a speech is given as a way for the President to connect with the citizens of the country. The significance about a second inaugural address is that the President has already run the country for 4 years and instead of connecting for the first time, Obama is reconnecting with America and articulating how he sees the progress of America and how he wants to continue to improve the country. Critical aspects of his speech address what makes us American, how to protect American values such as freedom and liberty, and how citizens of the United States have to take a responsibility to change and revamp different institutions within the country; such as in government and schools. Obama employs anaphora, repetition, pronouns, and allusions to confront many social inequalities that still linger within the United States and demonstrates how he believes change can be elicited by American unity. Obama’s use of anaphora or the repetition of the beginning of sentences throughout a passage illustrates the connections people can have despite having diverse backgrounds. Throughout the passage, Obama repeats the phrase, "We, the people, still believe" (Obama, 2013). The importance of implementing an anaphora helps aurally repeat a direct address to his audience. Instead of saying "We, the people, still believe" just once, Obama carefully crafts his argument by repeating the
Within his speech, Barack Obama admits that the United States is in the "midst of a crisis" but he believes that it can change, but he also makes it clear that the change cannot happen overnight. Obama's inspirational tone stirs up the nation with phrases such as “dust ourselves off” and “bigger than the sum of our individual ambitions.” Barack Obama's message persuades his audience because the message is believable and delivered by an honest man. In his previous speeches, Obama spoke of race and prejudice, an economic crisis and his hopes and fears with such intelligence that when
This inaugural speech marked the beginning of the second term of Barack Obama as president of the United States of America. It was delivered at United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. on January 21, 2013. The event followed the presidential election in the United States and it was very important all over the world, about a million of people gathered outside the Capitol to witness the president's words and millions more from around the world watched him on television (Staff). For first time, a president talked about same sex marriage and gay rights, he also talked about divisive issues such as reform of immigration policies, stopping climate change and preserving a social welfare safety net. Obama showed a progressive and liberal agenda, focused on equal rights and possibilities for all the citizens. The theme of the speech was “Faith in America's Future,” (Caldwell) and he successfully used various rhetorical techniques and resources to influence the audience.
President Obama, like all Presidents before him, delivered a farewell address to the United States on January 20, 2017. As he stepped down as President he was eloquent and it was as clear as ever that he is a master of oration. Obama will go down in history as the first Black President as well as a strong orator who had the ability to captivate an audience through his use of ethos, pathos and logos amongst other rhetorical devices. His farewell address is a perfect example of Obama’s mastery of discourse as it is chock full of oratorical devices. Obama’s message to the American people and to the rest of the world is that it is essential that we maintain a sense of what it means to have a democracy and that in order to maintain peace and
Barrack Obama’s inauguration speech successfully accomplished his goal by using rhetoric to ensure our nation that we will be under safe hands. The speech is similar from ideas obtained from the founding documents and Martin Luther King’s speech to establish ‘our’ goal to get together and take some action on the problems our country is now facing. As President Barrack Obama starts his speech, he keeps himself from using ‘me’, ‘myself’, and ‘I’ and replacing it with ‘we’, ‘us’, and ‘together’ to achieve ethos. He makes sure his audience connects with him directly by making them feel at his level, and him at theirs. This way he connects to the audience, and in exchange, helps his
Primarily, Obama’s victory speech was about his winning the election for the office as the president. President Barack Obama delivered his speech on Nov. 4, 2008, in Grant Park, Chicago. The speech was a powerful, positive, and persuasive, also it inspired the audience. The main point of the speech is to cover three important pictures at the beginning, he drew a comparison between the past and present, by answering a rhetorical question “If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible” (Obama 685). Subsequently, he stated the gratitude for his running mate Joe Biden, campaign manager and his lovely family. Also, Obama was formal and candid to describe the catastrophic financial crises that happened in 2008 and the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. At the end of his speech, he painted a big picture of the upcoming change, by giving a comparison of women rights to vote and slavery between hundred years ago and now, also by mentioning and inspiring the younger generation. He also advised the American people to keep moving into the future and the adapting to the progressive movement theme.
Barack Obama’s use of presidency is a controversial topic even as his final term is coming to an end. Obama went to great lengths to get what he wanted accomplished during his two terms. He did this by using executive orders. Executive orders are controversial because they are not specifically allowed in the constitution. Obama accomplished many great things using the different powers granted to him during his presidency.
Barack Obama has shown The American people that if you want to change you had to violate the Constitution. During Barack Obama 's last term of presidency in 2015 Obama has violated the constitution ten times. His first violation was the Obama care bailout. The idea of getting the state of Massachusetts care was a great idea but the way Obama did it was not. In the national review article, it was stated, to a bill out of Massachusetts 's malfunction healthcare exchange President Obama and government deal picture for more than 300,000 state residents to receive Medicaid coverage without any verification of eligibility." I believe all Barack Obama was trying to do was give people I can 't with noninsurance to finally be able to afford health care. Been Elaine Obama care employees actual date to have injures was a violation awesome because mostly not have coverage until 2016.I believe that is very unconstitutional because what person will allow someone to put their take into something but it never comes through. It was announced on February 10, 2014 that the ministration deadline delaying them for mandate. Which may 50 to 100 full-time employees letting them be existed with coverage (national review). One of a violation still contains with Obama care subsidies to non-exchange plans .which was giving coverage without the Application even being accepted.it states on national review, “The administration found in February 2014 that some exchanges were having difficulty
The year 2014, President Obama presents the State of the Union, this is his 5th address to Congress. The State of the Union address, is an annual message to Congress in which the president reports on the state of the nation and outlines a legislative program every year. Throughout the speech he addresses major topics; foreign policy, unemployment and, etc. Obama calls 2014 is the “year of action”. Calling both parties to help make this a breakthrough year in the United States by bringing back more good jobs and expanding opportunities for the middle class. The overall performance of President Obama's speech is excellent, at the start he was inclusive, to include every possible demographic, mentioning major controversial topics, minimum wage, foreign policy, and he focuses on the future, doing what they can do to improve quality of the nation's future.
Thank you, thank you! Thank you Joe, and thank you Massachusetts for the great honor of serving as your senator. Thank you guys! What a night. Wow. Michelle Obama, Cory Booker. And we still have Bernie coming up. Bernie reminds us what Democrats fight for every day. Thank you, Bernie. Thank you.
In 2016, the end of the Obama administration but the beginning of someone else’s, who will it be? In the 2016 presidential race there are seven candidates, five republicans and two democrats but only two will win their respective party nomination. The Republican candidates are Donald Trump, an entrepreneur, Ted Cruz, a United States Senator of Texas, Marco Rubio, a U.S. Senator of Florida, John Kasich, Governor of Ohio, and Ben Carson, a neurosurgeon. On the Democrat side the running candidates are former First Lady, Secretary of State, and Senator of New York, Hilary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, former U.S. Representative and sitting U.S. Senator of Vermont. As of March 1, 2016, only three of the republican candidates have a fighting chance of winning the party nominee, Trump, Cruz, and Rubio.
Barrack Obama’s inauguration speech successfully executed crafty rhetoric to ensure our country that we will be under safe hands. The speech draws from ideas straight from the founding documents and Martin Luther King’s speech to establish ‘our’ goal to join together and take action on the many problems facing our country. As President Barrack Obama begins his speech, He refrains from using ‘me’, ‘myself’, and ‘I’ but instead ‘we’, ‘us’, and ‘together’ to establish ethos. He makes sure his audience feels at his level, and he at theirs. This way he connects to the audience, and in turn, aids his
America has carried on.... We the People have remained faithful to the ideals of our forbearers, and true to our founding document.” President Obama had more than 200 years of guidance from previous presidents. This makes his inauguration speech much different than
November 5th 2008 was a historical day for the American nation. On this day President Barack Obama gave his victory speech. In the speech Obama addressed multiple things that he wants to accomplish. He uses many ways to connect with the audience and gives them hope to change America. He remains humble and shows character by giving all the credit to the people. He uses a lot of ethos, pathos and logos to persuade the audience that he will do good and honest work in the office.
I chose to do my historical event essay on the Elections of President Barack Obama. I chose this because President Obama is a well- respected man and also the first African American president ever in history. President Obama is the 44th president of the United States. He was first the senate of Illinois and that’s how he got a boost in his election for president. President Obama was first elected on November 4th of 2008 and is currently serving his second and last term in office. As of 2016 Obama will be done with his last term as President Barack Obama.
The 2016 presidential race is one of the closest and most interesting elections in our nation’s history. At the end of 2016, Barack Obama will leave the White House and Americans will be faced will big decision of selecting his successor. On the Democratic ticket is former First Lady, Senator and Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, along with her Vice Presidential running mate, former Virginia senator, Tim Kaine. On the Republican ticket is Businessman and former reality television host, Donald Trump with his pick for Vice President, former governor of Indiana, Mike Pence. Whichever candidate wins the presidency will take on the task of trying to alleviate many of the issues our country faces today. One of those issues is to strengthen our economy and create new jobs within the United States. Hillary Clinton’s plan involves making college debt-free for students, making corporations pay their share of taxes, fixing America’s infrastructure and creating new manufacturing jobs in the United States, just to name a few. Donald Trump’s economic plans involve cutting taxes for all Americans, creating new U.S. jobs, and putting stricter trade policies in place (Hillary Clinton 2016; Donald J. Trump For President).