...Prepared remarks of Barack Obama: Back to School Event Prepared remarks of Barack Obama: Back to School Event The text ‘Prepared remarks of Barack Obama: Back to School Event, are the words spoken by the United States’ President Barack Obama. The Speech was given in 2009 at Wakefield High School in Virginia. It works as a motivational speech for every single American who will be starting his school after that years''s school holiday. As President Barack Obama is speaking for the schools all over America, he’s using very direct speech, with a lack of metaphors, as it would probably do more harm than good. “So I know some of you are still adjusting to being back to school. But I’m here today because I have something important to discuss with you.”(P. 7, l. 17) It’s important to keep in mind, that Obama is speaking to pupils from smaller grades. Actually pupils who just started school or kindergarten. Therefore it needs to be simple, so it’s possible for everybody to understand. When a president suddenly shows his face on the TV screen of every school in the country, that president has to do an effort to be taken seriously. And to show the viewers that he can be trusted. He does that in various ways: “Hello everyone - how’s everybody doing today?” (p. 7, l. 1), in this example he’s speaking as if he was talking directly to the listener. This creates Ethos, as he’s appealing to the moral. “I know that for many of you, today is the first day of school. … it’s understandable...
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...In the Fall of 2016, it is estimated that there are 20.5 million students attending college in America. On September 7, 2009, Barack Obama delivered a speech at Wakefield High School. Barack Obama is the 44th and current president of the United States. Barack Obama was a civil rights lawyer and a teacher before pursuing a career in politics. Obama demonstrates the use of rhetorical situation, timing of conditions and appropriateness within his speech while at the same time motivating students all around the country, as well as myself, who have recently entered the academic community First off, Kairos has a basic definition of when times are right, and Barack Obama demonstrates this when he makes the statement. “...it’s your first day in a new...
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...Back to School A country thrives when its citizens contribute and make an effort to make the most of what they are offered in life. President Barack Obama is very aware of this and has made it an important subject and goal in his presidential career to inspire youngsters in the right direction, both for their own sake and their country’s. Barack Obamas’ speech “Back to School” at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia was held in September 8, 2009. The age of the present audience varied to children from kindergarten and all the way up to twelfth grade. In addition to that, the speech was also broadcasted to students all over the country. The audience is obviously extremely great, and the speech will therefore have a tremendous impact on several individuals. The first thing Obama seems to focus on in his speech on the first day of the children’s school day are in fact the children themselves. He speaks directly to them, and initiates the whole thing by telling everyone that being nervous is perfectly normal. He has obviously tried it himself when he was their age. Very easily he finds a way to make everyone relate to him by telling stories from his own life. Barack Obama did not grow up under the best circumstances. He was raised by a single mother whom was very passionate about doing what was best for her son. She even sought to homeschool Obama, when he wasn’t at school. She wanted to make sure he would have the best possible future. This particular section of the speech...
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...Barack Hussein Obama II was born on August 4th, 1961 in Honolulu Hawaii to Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Sr. Dunham, originally from Kansas and Obama, from Kenya met at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and eventually married on February 2nd, 1961. Barack moved to Massachusetts to obtain a PhD at Harvard. Consequently, Dunham and Obama divorced in March 1964. Eventually, he went back to Kenya, and Barack didn’t have a relationship with him. In 1965, Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, a student from Indonesia, and the following year moved with Obama to Jakarta, Indonesia. Since Dunham was afraid for Obama’s safety and education, he was sent back to Hawaii to live with his grandparents. He graduated from Punahou Academy with academic honors in 1979. Unfortunately, Obama’s father died on November 24th, 1982 in a car accident in Nairobi....
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...“Obamacare” Barack Hussein Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Barack is the44th and current president of the United States of America. There is no question that Obama’s childhood was anything but normal. At the age of two Obama’s mother and father separated and then eventually divorced. After the divorce Barack’s father went on to continue his own education at Harvard University. Eventually obtaining his Ph.D., he then headed back to his home land of Kenya, Africa. Barack had only seen his father on one more occasion for a short visit in 1971 as he later died in an auto accident in 1982. In 1966 Obama’s mother remarried another East-Western student from Indonesia. The Family later packed up and moved to Jakarta Indonesia, where Barack’s half-sister Maya Soetoro Ng was born. At the age of 10, Barack was sent back to Hawaii to live with his maternal grandparents after a string of incidents in Indonesia left his mother fearing for Obama’s safety. While in Hawaii, Barack enrolled in the well-known Punahou Academy where in 1979, he graduated with academic honors. Living in that era also had its challenges of another sort. Barack quickly realized the life of living among racism. Being only one of three black students at his school, he often found himself looking in the mirror and questioning why he was different and why people treated him and others like him differently. After high school Obama went on to study at the Occidental College in Los...
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...Essay about President Barack Obama’s speech “Back to school” Education is enormously important. The wish of having a good education system and people who freely use it is not something that only a few countries want or wish, but almost the whole world takes aim at this. The focus on education has particularly in the United States big mentions and support. The current Government, which are sitting on the power right now, has this area high on their list of upcoming plans for the future of the US. President Barack Obama has therefore also this topic involved in most of his performances and in most of the speeches he makes. Therefor, it’s definitely an option for the President to talk about the education topic in his speeches, which we also see in one of his speeches from 2009. This speech was held in Arlington, Virginia on September the 8. Obama visited Wakefield High School and presented his speech in front of a lot of older students, but also upcoming students, who was just about to start in a new step in the school system. As mentioned earlier, a clear point in President Barack Obama’s speech is how important the role of education has. This may also be the most important point he tells his audience about. He explains how, in this century one only can count on being considered for a job if one has an education. One can’t just expect that a job will appear and choose one, if the person has no proper education. Therefore will many good properties and abilities of the people...
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...is the one and only our 44th President Barack Hussein Obama. The reason I choose him is that his story is an amazing of triumph and his inspiration to the Africa American people and other alike. Is a true American story that needs to be shared and honored! A brief background of what I consider a great man: Obama was born as Barack Hussein Obama on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Barack was born to parents from two different f racial back grounds. Barack’s mother Ann Dunham a white woman from Kansas and father Barack Obama, Sr. a black man from Kenya. Barack parents were individuals that believe in education, both parent attended University of Hawaii in Manoa. Around age of two, Barack parent’s separate and later divorce, Barack father returned to Kenya and mother later married an Indonesian oil manager, and moved to Jakarta with Barack. Where would began his elementary start in the Indonesian schools system. Barack also was introduces to different culture setting where attended both a couple of years in a Muslim school, and a few years in a Catholic school in Jakarta. Around the age of ten Barack would return to live with his maternal grandparents in Hawaii. Where he continued his education at the highly-regarded non-sectarian Punanou school , in the fifth grade. At an early age you could see the quality of leader being born. Barack was dedicated to his studies and graduated with honors in 1979. After Barack complete high schools, like his parents he went on to further...
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...On August 4th ,1961 Barack Hussein Obama Jr. was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. His mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was a white American from Wichita, Kansas. His father, Barack Obama Sr. was black American from Alego, Kenya. His parents separated, and his father moved back to Kenya. Barack's mother remarried an Indonesian oil manager and moved to Jakarta, Indonesia when Barack was six. In 1970 Obama moved back to Hawaii, to live with his grandparents. They lived in a small apartment where his grandfather was a furniture salesman and his grandmother worked in a bank. Barack still managed to get into Punahou School, Hawaii's top prep academy. His father wrote to him regularly but, he visited only once, when Barack was ten. Obama later attended Columbia...
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...A person of interest in my life over the last few years has been Barack Obama. I don’t consider myself to be someone with immense knowledge in politics, just someone that tries to read into both sides of the story assuming that I’m not intended to know the whole story. Living in New Braunfels, Texas for the past five years I have heard more than my fair share of opinions on the man; however I stay committed to doing my own research and forming my own opinion. I believe that Obama has impacted my life and changed the world in a positive manner. His ethnic background and humble beginnings differ from presidents throughout my lifetime. This will be a stepping stone for more people of a diverse background to make an impact on today’s society. His politics aside, I want to divulge into Barack the person and learn more about his past. I believe that you can see the direction someone is going, if you take a look into what they’ve done. Barrack was born on August 4th 1961 to Ann Dunham and Barrack Obama Sr. in Hawaii where his parents both had attended the University of Hawaii. His father was there on a Kenyan based scholarship that would be very impactful on his life. Ann was also enrolled at the university pursuing her degree in Mathematics, but dropped out after news of her pregnancy (). Even in those times it was a given that education was a key tool in making advancements in life. “The African American Students Foundation, whose founders included charismatic Kenyan activist...
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...When Barack Obama stood before a cheering crowd in his home state Illinois and announced his candidacy, no believed that this guy had any chance of winning the nomination. Majority of Americans did not believe that the country was actually ready for an African American president with a promise of changing the course of politics in Washington. The son of a white American mother and a black Kenyan father, Obama grew up in Hawaii. Leaving the state to attend college, he earned degrees from Columbia University and Harvard Law School. Obama's father left the family when Obama was two and, after further studies at Harvard University, returned to Kenya, where he died in an automobile accident nineteen years later. After his parents divorced, Obama's mother married another foreign student at the University of Hawaii, Lolo Soetoro of Indonesia. From age six through ten, Obama lived with his mother and stepfather in Indonesia, where he attended Catholic and Muslim schools. "I was raised as an Indonesian child and a Hawaiian child and as a black child and as a white child," Obama later recalled. "And so what I benefited from is a multiplicity of cultures that all fed me."Concerned for his education, Obama's mother sent him back to Hawaii to live with her parents, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham, and to attend Hawaii's prestigious Punahou School from fifth grade through graduation from high school. While Obama was in school, she divorced Soetoro, returned to Hawaii...
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...Prepared Remarks of President Barack Obama: Back to School Event President Barack Obama held a speech for school students at Wakefield high school in Arlington, Virginia back in 2009. Obama's focus in the entire speech was about the importance of education and the young peoples enthusiasm for education. The speech was for students in all ages since the main message in the speech ”you’re not just quitting on yourself, you’re quitting on your country”. Obamas main intention with his speech was to get the students to think the entire future of the country was depending on them, so the importance the students will get of the speech is hopefully a good motivation, so they will work harder for a brighter tomorrow and a promising future. But a good education does not come by itself it requires hard work and willpower. Barack Obama. The President. A president who has a lot of electors because he knows how he can get them. He starts his speech asking, “Hello everyone – How’s everybody doing today?.” Already there he has their attention. He can be a very formal guy, but in this occasion, is he very informal. He tries to sound more personal than professional in his speech the huge different in age from kindergarten to high school makes it hard for Obama to reach the whole audience. He involves the receivers and talks on a level where pupils from kindergarten can understand without he makes the speech boring for seniors in high schools. The president does not sound like a higher authority...
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...analysis Barack Obama: “Back to School” 2009. The education of young students has always been a big issue in politics. Politicians are concerned with the quality of the educational system in the country, because education is the backbone of our modern society. The school system is primarily an investment for the future. So the quality of the educational system equals the quality of the coming working generation. Society is dependent on the students, so they have to be well educated, and well prepared, so they can take over the positions, which the country requires, to function normally. The education is also a political cause, because there are a lot of votes, to be won, for the political parties by holding speeches, etc. President Barack Obama is concerned with the current issues of education; this is mentioned a lot in his speech “Prepared Remarks of President Barack Obama: Back to school” which was presented at Arlington, Virginia, 2009. Obama’s main points of views in the speech, is the importance of education, that every single student has a responsibility to be well educated, and serve their country. It’s their responsibility to do well in school, to be able to fulfill their responsibilities. In the speech to America’s students, President Obama addresses the importance of getting the education, and which responsibilities follow. Addressing all children from 6 to 18 years of age, is a very difficult task, which requires various strategies from President Obama, to reach...
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...preschool to the day they start their career”, said President Barack Obama. To prepare people for jobs of the future and help restore middle-class security we have to out-educate the world and that starts with a strong and healthy school system. There is no code or bill that has taken place yet to implement higher education, but President Barack Obama and his team have created several initiatives to help all students receive an education beyond high school. Helping middle class families afford college, trying to keep the cost down, strengthening Community Colleges, and Improving Transparency and Accountability are all the ways President Barack Obama, and his team plan to use to accomplish his goal in higher education. After interviewing a principal of a local elementary school she stated that, “higher education after high school should be a #1 priority in high school students.” She also felt that the students should be encouraged by their teachers, counselors, and school representatives to achieve their maximum education. More programs are needed to build a connection for students in high school and with local colleges/vocational schools that will encourage them to seek higher education. President Obama and his team are working extremely hard to make college more accessible, affordable, and attainable for all families to receive the education and training needed for the jobs of today and tomorrow. Teachers and school officials all agree with the idea of a student obtaining a...
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...write every part of the paper. 3. I must start in the paper earlier than a day before, this would also make me remember those things above. Back to school Every time we all hear about how important it is to finish an education. People without an education do not have the same possibilities, as the people who worked hard to finish it. Making it through the whole education system and getting started with working and developing the place around you, is important for everyone, no matter if they believe in it or not. Barack Obama wants to make this clear for the students at their first day at school at Wakefield High School in Arlington. The speech has a typical composition for a speech of this kind. Barack Obama starts by making contact to them all. Then he talks about how that he can understand how they are feeling at their first day at school and that he have tried the same things back in his days. Then the main point is coming, that everybody has to take responsibility and get things done and work hard. He ends the whole point by asking what people should remember them for, which gives all of the students a lot of responsibility for their own lives. During the whole speech, Barack Obama uses a lot of pathos. One clear example is the national feeling that every American has “If you don’t do that – if you quit on school – you’re not just quitting on yourself, you’re quitting on your country.” (line 63). This national sentiment makes the students think once again about...
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...1. Obama was born on the 4th August 1961 U.S. Hawaii Honolulu 2. Obama's father, Barack Hussein Obama Sr., was from the Kenyan Luo tribe. 3. Obama `s mother Ann bulrush was from Kansas. 4. When Barack was two years old, his father left his family and attended a few semesters in a doctoral program at Harvard before he moved back to Kenya. 5. When Barack was six years old, his mother married with an Indonesian man. 6. Four years later, after the mother's second marriage, Obama was sent to his grandparents in Hawaii, while the mother continued her studies in Indonesia. 7. After high school, Obama got a scholarship and began studying at Occidental College, a private high school in Los Angeles. After two years he transferred to Columbia, where he completed the lower level studios in the recesses of political science. 8. In Chicago, he worked three years at a church relief organization that helped unemployed people in poor neighborhoods 9. In 1988 he left Chicago to study law at Harvard University. Here, he became the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review and received the equivalent of a Danish cand.jur degree in 1991 with top marks 10. Back in Chicago, Obama took part in work to get voters to register before he joined a law firm that works with civil rights. He also tought law at the University of Chicago. 11. Obama’s knowledge about his African father, whom he only met once again when he was in the States on short...
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