top, learn from our mistakes, and advance ourselves toward the greater good of all. Since its founding, America has grown as a whole. We have fought to eliminate injustices while promoting integrity, courage and greatness. The right of freedom of speech granted to us by our founding fathers ensures that if there are injustices being committed that the American people will find out about them and we will be courageous enough to stand up and face the oppressors. We are a country that fights for what
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On January 20th, 2009 President Barack Obama made an inaugural speech in front of millions of people all over the world. His purpose was to inform others that he would help change the world if others would too. In order to make his vision stick in the minds of his audience, Obama speaks about the country's past history, and how we should join together as a country. Obama uses rhetoric to present his message of creating hope and change together in America while fixing the economic and social issues
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President-elect Barack Obama, in his 2009 inaugural address, discusses the issues with healthcare, government corruption and much more. Obama's purpose is to show that even though the nation is at its worst, there is still hope beyond the fear. To do this he uses: either or thinking, pathos and the plain-folk aspect. Obama uses either/or thinking in order to instill fear into the audience. He appeals to this sense of fear by implying that ¨Either we make this change or America will be no more.¨
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POTUS" Introduction Barrack Obama became the 44th President of the United States of America on January 20th, 2009. He is the first African American to take office and with his presidency he promised to make changes to America that would liberate the American people from crisis into a bright new beginning. In his Inauguration speech, he claimed to mend the financial crisis by stimulating jobs and laying a “new foundation for growth” (Naughton, “Inauguration speech”). He promised to rebuild the Nation’s
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One of the most important social problems faced by any person is unemployment. Unemployment may lead to loss of self-esteem, depression, and chronic worry about how to provide for dependents. Underemployment is when a person is either not actually out of a job, but due to need for money, has taken a job which does not allow him (her) to take care of the people and housing as it was done before. It also may include joblessness when people give up on looking for a job. Both situations can be stressful
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“Here in America, we don’t give in to our fears. We don’t build up walls to keep people out.” (Obama). These words of Michelle Obama, recent first lady of the United States, interprets that we do not let things come between us, because we do not build block pathways for people to be kept out. Michelle Obama mainly focuses her attention in social works and poverty, which had lead her into the path of wanting to be a lawyer. She has accomplished so much more, she is being relied on for children in
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history. January 20, 2009, will forever be among the most remarkable events in my life. Witnessing the inauguration of our nation's’ first African American president holds a momentous place in my heart and mind. Two a.m. Sunday morning before Barack Obamas’ inauguration ceremony, many of my family and friends loaded a crowded charter bus for the historic journey to our Nations’ Capital to witness this life changing event. As we traveled 10 hours by bus to Washington D.C, you could hear women laugh like
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president during his inaugural speech, Obama says, “change has come to America” (Balz 63). At first when he began to campaign most blacks thought that he had no shot in winning but when we won over the state of Iowa people began changing their minds and started to believe in him because Iowa was an all white state. As more and more people started to know who Barack Obama was he became the clear choice of who the next president should be. In another one of his speeches Obama claims that, “there is
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election year, a Democratic Senator would become one of the youngest men ever elected to the office of President of the United States of America in a historically barrier-breaking election. No, the year is not 2008, and the President is not Barack Obama. Instead, turning the calendars back to 1960 brings us the year that John Fitzgerald Kennedy was elected the thirty-fifth President of the United States of America, the youngest man ever elected to the office, as well as being the only Roman Catholic
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George W.Bush was the 43rd president of the United States. I think hHe was a good president. and I am going to be writing about his early life, education and about his political career. He was a pPresident that had to deal with September 11,2001, the global war on terror, the war in Iraq, Where is Hurricane Katrina? and the economic downturn of 2008. George W.Bush had to faced many obstacles and other things and overcame them or was brought down by them while in office. during his time in office
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