President Barak Obama in a "National Address to America's Schoolchildren" at Wakefield High School opens with a warm welcome and acknowledgments of his broad audience. To gain the attention of his audience he plays on the pathos of his attentive audience by telling a story of his own childhood education. President Obama points out he got up at 4:30 in the morning, so his mother could teach him extra to stay up with an American Education.…
"Education has to start at the earliest possible age," Obama said in a speech in Georgia, a state he said has shown leadership on the issue. "We are not doing enough to give all of our kids that chance."…
Today, 314.5 million people call themselves Americans. Each of them, with God permitting, will make the journey to old age. However, in this huge set of individuals, roughly fifteen percent of adults over the age of twenty-five have not received a high school diploma (“Educational Attainment in the United States: 2009”). By itself, this percentage feels rather small, and so we as Americans pride ourselves in our educational system. After crunching the numbers, however, this measly percentage actually represents twenty-nine million Americans, twenty-nine million individuals who lack an accomplished high school education. Aristotle would be displeased to say the least. In 2008, then senator Barack Obama delivered a speech to the Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts titled “What’s Possible for our Children.” Though intended for his election campaign, the speech also reflected this introduction’s attitude, calling attention to the gaping holes in American education. More specifically, however, Obama promoted educational reform based on a three-point platform: “fixing” No Child Left Behind (an act which encourages state standardized tests to measure and regulate primary and secondary education in the United States), encouraging teacher reforms and furthering teaching…
Whatever path America chooses to travel, if the decision to invest in our country’s education is made, the United States is definitely headed on the right path. Now is the time to act! Lets make education a priority to ALL American students not just the precious few, before its too late. In closing, a quote from our 35th president sum it up, “Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.”…
After closely analyzing the structure of two Presidential Inaugural Addresses made by President Obama and former President George W. Bush, the perspicuous rhetoric of President Obama reigned supreme. Barack Obama delivered his Inaugural Address as the first African American president of the United States. However, he did not dwell on the social and historical significance of his election. Instead he remained humble, focusing on illuminating the social, political, economic, and environmental issues threatening our nation, and establishing himself as a member of the general masses. Implementing a calm, confident, and hopeful tone allowed Obama to reassure the people of his loyalty and determination to improving our country.…
President Obama’s speech was mainly about gun control to immigration, climate change, education, and the role of government, among other things.…
Obama has a gift at writing and the deliverance to his speeches to the crowd. But sometimes he can lose or bore people because his intelligence confuses people. Sometimes he uses words people never heard of because a limited education. But it’s not his fault he doesn’t try to flaunt his intelligence that’s just the person he is an intelligent black man. But no matter Black, White, Asian, Dominican, Hispanic, Mexican, African, or whatever he speaks for us the people. Whether you have master degrees or a GED he represents all of us. In a particular speak he says “We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.” Obama wants the best for everyone he wants to see everyone be successful.…
First of all, in today’s society while set on laws that require an education to anyone who is ready to start school, whereas in the past, people would leave school early in life to work and help support their family. Today with educational grants, scholarships, student loans for continued education to colleges and universities, opportunities are unlimited. Education has been a priority for the government for the past Presidents helping people to get a higher education.…
Our young adolescents are America’s future leaders so educating them early would help our nation to grow as time progress. Obama said that 3-10% of young adolescents aren’t enrolled in high quality preschools because most middle class families can’t afford to send their children to private pre-schools. Poor children have a worse situation because they are denied access to that learning that’s important for their growth into adult hood. The lack of education leads to more violent crime from my perspective; so Obama has a strong point about the development of our children. He said that he’s working on a proposal with the states to ensure that high quality early childhood programs are available to children throughout the United States.…
Education is a fundamental principle of The United States of America: a building block of this country. All American children are required to attend school beginning at a young age and continue until they reach early adulthood. In today’s society it is even stressed to the younger generation that continuing their education to a higher level is critical to their ability to be successful in the world. Current issues in the education system have become a primary social and political problem in this country. It has been a main topic of discussion for political leaders, and a main concern for U.S. citizens. Unequal access to education, violence in schools, high dropout rates, and standardized testing are just some of the weaknesses in the system…
President Barak Obama’s second inaugural address as the 44th president of the United States was a speech with hope for the future. There are many changes he hopes to make such as to help stop global warming, gun control, enactment of immigration reform and true equality for all. In addition, the president assured to keep alliances strong, to make an economic recovery, and to end all war. President Obama refers to many American memes which are commonly held beliefs. President Obama also makes many historical references which is using a tool of common persuasion. Obama also uses political bias and persuasion that deals with the broad issues.…
The audience verifies the way he directs the audience. He utilizes an informal style where he places himself at the same level as the students. Obama opens the speech with the line”Hello everyone – how’s everybody doing today?” (page 1 line 1). The language is quite simple and easy to understand. This is the language a six year old and an eighteen year old will comprehend.…
In a world where the all the countries compete with each other all the time, it’s important for every country to make sure that the future adults are well educated and capable of participating in this competition. In the speech ‘Back to School’ Barack Obama encourages the young people of America to get an education and work hard in order to continue America’s history of success.…
How do you motivate the young people to go to school – which is a great privilege – and get a good education instead of using all their spear time on video games and the TV? “Obama: Back to School Event” is a speech by the American president Barack Obama which he held at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia at September 8 in 2009 – and in this speech Obama emphasizes the importance of education and hard work. The president is expecting to get the reaction that the entire county’s future depends on the young people and to make the students, whom he is speaking to, more interested and motivated towards school, to work hard and to get a brighter future.…
The speech is directed to the students, because in the debate about education and school it’s often the teachers, parents or the school system that are getting blamed when it goes wrong, it’s never the students. (And) However, their effort is just as important as the teachers’s effort. If a student denies getting help and denies improving, is it then the teacher’s fault? Svarer Obama på dette? Kæd dit spørgsmål sammen med Obamas pointer, ellers lyder det som om du stiller dette spørgsmål, hvilket jo ikke er relevant for opgaven.…