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    spoken in public, captured great attention allowing him to successfully build his image as an intelligent and patriotic candidate. Through the speech, Obama not only responds to the criticisms of his affiliation with his former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who spoke of controversial and incendiary statements about the divisive racial challenges in America and the injustice of the country as a nation by questioning the U.S. government,

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    In 2003, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, President Barack Obama 's former pastor, gave a sermon that seemingly condemned America. Snippets of the reverend 's speech sparked controversy in 2008 due to the fact that President Obama was still running for the democratic nominee for the Presidential Election. Doubts about Obama began to form due to his association with Wright. Can the country trust a man who associates with a person that hate the country? As a response to the reverend 's statement, Obama gave

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    relates to the public’s struggles. His use of characterization depicts aspects of his family, race, and his upbringing. This shows that his diversity is an asset and what makes him a true American. Obama applies repetition in answering all of the controversy about his pastor’s offensive comments. In illustration, he responds to all the questions by saying, “Did I know him be an occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy? Of course. Did I ever hear him make remarks that could

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    conveyed many issues concerning racism throughout the United States, but it starts out stating how the founders of this nation constructed the Declaration of Independence, creating all men equal. Obama then begins to talk about his pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and his racial remarks against America and Israel, as it is “divisive at a time when we need unity”, referring to the “ two wars, a terrorist threat, a falling economy, a chronic health care crisis” going on at the time. (Obama 2) Obama remarks

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    conveyed many issues concerning racism throughout the United States, but it starts out stating how the founders of this nation constructed the Declaration of Independence, creating all men equal. Obama then begins to talk about his pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and his racial remarks against America and Israel, as it is “divisive at a time when we need unity”, referring to the “ two wars, a terrorist threat, a falling economy, a chronic health care crisis” going on at the time. (Obama 2) Obama remarks

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    An overly sentimental appeal in the political advertisement "Judgement" manipulates pathos to discredit Barack Obama's ethos by associating him with his pastor's alarming proclamations. Obama’s ethos fall under attack when a partiality to Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s anti-American appeals is suggested. The advertisement opens with a close up of Obama’s face with an angry expression while the narrative begins by confronting viewers while calling them

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    comes to the culture they come from. In his speech, “A More Perfect Union,” Barack Obama explains his feelings and thoughts of how he feels responsible for Reverend Wright because they are connected by their culture and experiences they shared with one another. They have known each other for more than twenty years because Reverend Wright introduced Obama to Christianity, however he accused the U.S. government for fostering racism and creating lies that attacked people of color.

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    Written by John Legend and accompanied voice Chance the Rapper, Penthouse Floor describes ascension of people from lower floors reaching the penthouse or higher floor. This concept evolved from a single song about romance and the beauty of seeing the skyline from the penthouse, being further developed along with Chance the Rapper’s involvement. John Legend states, “Both Chance and I come from pretty humble backgrounds but our talent and music have allowed us to get into rarefied air.” John Legend

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    2008 United States presidential election between Barack Obama vs John McCain, Obama’s pastor mentioned several controversial and offensive remarks. These statements brought negative publicity for Obama because of his connection towards Reverend Jeremiah Wright, he was Obama’s aforementioned pastor. With his following severely decreasing because of this, Obama had to find a way to regain his supporters by writing the powerful speech, “A More Perfect Union” in which he uses a variety of rhetorical devices

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    On March 18 20008, Obama gave a speech on how to make a more perfect union. This speech was to the potential voters in the 2008 election on the comment Reverend Wright made which was talking about the problems America has and trying to divide the nation at that time instead of bringing unity with his comments. He talked about race equality, our soldiers, our next generation and why we need to come together as a proud country. He was honest with what he said because they are all what we are facing

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