Insight of the Obama’s Speech at Sandy Hook In President Barack Obamas remarks at Sandy Hook Elementary School he is speaking as a parent in this speech. Consequently, this helps him to connect to the audience gathered and the nation watching on TV. Accordingly, if he tried to do this speech as the leader of our country, it would not have been received as well. He uses Pathos shows his deep sorrow and compassion for all the parents that lost children that day. He does this by stating that no matter how much you love your child, you cannot protect and raise them by yourself. That the task takes “the help of neighbors, the help of the community, and the help of the nation...”(Obama) That the children belong to all of us and that we all owe
Obama also addressed his counterclaim which states that some kids might have not have the advantages or opportunities that he or other kids had or maybe you do not have the support from others . Another way you situation can affect your education is if you live in a neighborhood that is not safe. His refutation stated that those types of situations and environments should not affect your choices in your future and your education and also he provided examples of students that did not let their environment affect them and he was also an example. He wants all schoolchildren to take action and do something to help their future and he uses rhetorical appeals to help his case.
I don’t want that future for my daughters. I don’t want that future for your sons. I don’t want that future for America.” Obama wants to help children, he doesn’t want children to fail in society, that’s Obama’ vision.
D.Thesis: At the beginning of his term as president, Barack Obama vowed to get Osama bin Laden one way or another, and on May 1, 2011 Obama gave a speech informing the public that bin Laden was dead and did so using pathos, ethos, and logos in order to make his speech effective.
The strongest of Obama’s points reside in his use of pathos, or emotional appeal, to connect with his audience. The audience and appeal are blatant from the beginning of the essay to the final word. Americans. Due to the loss of American lives, the emotional charge within the audience is almost palpable. Obama highlights this when he states:
President Obama made clear that the budget for the country was the first thing mentioned when discussing finance and economics. Obama suggested that the budget was directly tied to the strength of the nation. The president spoke about the deficit reduction of over $2.5 trillion over the last few years.
The State of the Union Address given by President Barack Obama on January 12, 2016, has a confident tone. Throughout his speech, Obama references the strength and influence America has on other countries. The dominant and assertive diction and sentence structure used by Obama is confident, which leads to a powerful climax, “The United States of America is the most powerful nation on Earth. Period...when it comes to every important international issue, people of the world do not look to Beijing or Moscow to lead — they call us” (Obama). Tone is a speaker’s attitude toward the subject and audience. By including a confident tone in his speech, Obama was able to directly orate to the entire country his point of view on the country’s presence and
Throughout the course of American history, one conflict which has never been solved is the conflict of illegal immigration. There have been an influx of illegal immigrants crossing the southern border and trying to thrive and achieve the American dream however people oppose that because illegal immigrants can pose a threat to the American country due to the number of drug cartels which run in Mexico. The United States of America’s former president, Barack Obama addresses the nation over the crises of immigration. Obama writes the speech because of the conflict of multiple illegal immigrants flooding into the United States. This address which Barack writes is directed towards the American citizens. The main intention of President Obama
By doing so, he has acted as Head of State. During said address, President Obama urged the American people to put aside the politics, controversy, and fear that have come with the campaign to find his successor and build a great and optimistic nation (Collinson). The President acknowledged that great amounts of change and technological advances have left many Americans frightful of the future and apprehensive to the social changes of the nation. In an attempt to calm our nerves and restore our nation’s confidence in its future, Obama Stated during his speech, “Each time, there have been those who told us to fear the future; who claimed we could slam the brakes on change, promising to restore past glory if we just got some group or idea that was threatening America under control, and each time, we overcame those fears.” … “That's the America I know. That’s the country we love. Clear-eyed. Big-hearted. Undaunted by challenge. Optimistic that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. That’s what makes me so hopeful about our future. I believe in change because I believe in you, the American people. And that’s why I stand here confident as I have ever been that the State of our Union is strong.” So whilst acting as a ceremonial leader i.e. our Head of state, President Obama manages to deliver a strong and powerful message through his speech.
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.¨This means that we got to work for what we need to do because it's not just gonna come we got to work as a country in the united states.The reason I can relate to this just because I feel where he coming from. Obama was a game changer when he first step into the white house becoming the first black president of the united states.
Throughout Obama’s entire speech, she uses conduplicatio to emphasize her words and to evoke feelings in her audience. For example, when Obama introduces the speech to the audience, she states, “That is the story of this country, the story that has brought me to this stage tonight, the story of generations of people who felt the lash of bondage….” This repetition of “the story” is used to emphasize that America’s history is an important matter, and in that history, people fought for freedom. People often use the word “freedom” and its synonyms to describe America. By stating that people “felt the lash of bondage” in America’s past and present evokes feelings in the audience as it insinuates that this country is not as free as Americans believe.
Fellow citizens of these United States, thank you. It is such an honor to stand before you on this day as your President. To start, I’d like to thank President Obama for his service to our nation. For the past eight years, you have devoted your life to this country, and in recent months, your guidance and your hospitality have facilitated this transition. For that, I thank you.
Moreover, speech also used a vivid imagery of “red states and blue states” to stand for the different politic party in the America, and Obama link this sentence with “we are, and always will be the United States of America.” which its aim is to keep his nation in peace and unity. Nevertheless, in this speech, Barack Obama did not trying to play a role as a leader but a normal person that same with most of American citizen, and the 6th paragraph in the speech used a technique of pathos to convey it.
Obama effectively convinces his audience about his background . He states “I’ve gone to some of the best schools in America and lived in one of the world's poorest nation” and “I am married to a black American who carries within her the blood of slaves and slaveowners - an inheritance we pass on to our two precious daughters”. In the statement he was saying that he has been through the struggle but also been successful.He connects his personal life with his audience
Barack Obama’s insightful speech into the intricacies of race relations, delivered in March 2008, outlined his views surrounding the difficulties many Americans faced. The majority of the speech extolled features of the experiences of an African-American and the various problems seemingly without solution. Much of this portion of the speech was addressed to the white population to give them context for the hardships in the African-American community that led to “the erosion of black families,” high crime rates and lack of “building code enforcement” creating a “cycle of violence” (Obama). The speech then adresses black people concerning the feelings of the middle-class white population in an attempt to show that each can relate to and sympathize with the experiences of the other. It outlines the “white resentment” at seeing people of other races receiving compensation for an “injustice that they themselves never committed” (Obama). Given the recent incendiary comments of his former pastor, Reverend Wright, Obama decidedly stated that many of the comments were racially or ethnically charged in a manner inappropriate for the goal of creating a united society for the benefit of his critics.
Barack had a strong devotion to helping the young kids of Chicago. He wanted to give them a life, a chance at something. His discussions often got pretty heated with other leaders in the community over this issue as well as many other. "No, I'm just asking you a question. You say you're tired, the same way most folks out here are tired. So I'm just trying to figure out what's going to happen to these boys. Who's going to make sure they get a fair shot? The alderman? The social workers? The gangs?" (172). This is just an example of the several outbursts Barack had while facing opposition throughout his community. The way in which he calls to action, allows the reader to question his/her own involvement in their own community . It lets the reader reflect upon their own choices and makes them realize that they have a commitment to uphold to their community. Furthermore, the way Barack is able to captivate a