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Four Freedoms

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Are the poor and the wealthy equally concerned about the “freedom from fear”? It’s very clear that the poor and the wealthy have different concerns. The poor worry more about finical issues while the wealthy are more concerned with economic or personal issues. But there are some concerns that they share quite equally such as the freedom from fear. To prove this, we will analyze the text from Barack Obama’s “Welcoming Remarks” speech and Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” speech. During the time period in which Franklin D. Roosevelt gave “The Four Freedoms” speech it was a time of hardship for all Americans, not just the poor. “And that is why the future of all the American Republics is today in serious danger”. Even the president …show more content…

In his speech Obama said how we have stood together as a nation and we fight as a nation to make sure that citizens can live free from fear. “We stand together and we work together and we bleed together and build together, in good times and in bad… We believe that our citizens should be able to live free from fear. So, like generations before us, we stand untied in the defense of our countries and against those who would terrorize our people”. In this he makes a good a point that regardless of your finical situation if the United States was taken over it would not matter how much money you had you would still live in fear. In conclusion, as you can see from both speeches that both the poor and rich have to deal with fear and that they both want freedom from this fear. In “The Four Freedoms” speech we hear how it was a time of hardship for all Americans showing us that in the worst of times we are all in it together. In the “Welcoming Remarks” speech we hear again how in hard times we stand, work, and bleed together. Americans, regardless of their money situation, truly do face the United States problems

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