state of union 2012

State of the Union Critique

The main topic for this speech is to talk about issues and problems within the area that we live in. This speech talks about how to lower cost on things like living cost, education cost, and many more necessities that we the people need. The speech also provides information on how we can get more jobs and decrease teen pregnancy, crime in the streets, and protect the children. If we had more jobs and less crime this would boost the economy a great deal. They also would like to decrease gun control to really decrease the violence on the streets and save more lives of citizens and even noncitizens. The speakers name is Barrack Obama. The occasion of the speech is the “State of the Union”. This speech was taken place in Washington D.C. The intention of the speech is to open the eyes to the House of Representatives and congress and all the other people on the audience on how to solve the problems we are facing. I feel that this speech will be effective because of the topics he mentioned in the beginning. During the speech President Barrack Obama was calm and got his point across to the audience clearly. He established his creditability by describing how the job market used to be before he started to create jobs to help families and stimulate the economy. Also he talks about education and how he is making a new plan for college students. This plan will help the college students see where they can get more for their money when they are paying for their college tuition. Then he talks about new health care and our veterans overseas and how they are coming home now and that they expect more to come back soon. During the speech President Obama made great eye contact with the audience. He didn’t have many pauses except for when the audience felt the need to clap. His voice was steady and call, and wasn’t rising nor falling which made the speech more effective. He also used many hand gestures to show expressions according to the words involved in his speech. He didn’t try to take any copying material that he had already had spoken on. I think that this speech was kind of like his last speech by discussing more issues and how to solve them. This speeches structure was to persuade the audience and to inform about the issues and problems we face today. Throughout the speech he talked about the economy and how to get it back to where it needs to be. My reasoning on saying that this speech was to inform and to persuade is simply because I think that his intention was to inform and persuade the audience on how to get the economy and middle class back to where it needs to be. I think that the beginning was more recognizable because he told about which topics and themes he would speak on throughout the speech. Also I think that President Obama spoke in very clear sentences and put what he had to say in a way we can all relate to and understand. The content of this speech was to address issues to the audience and the form in which President Barrack Obama presented it complimented it quite well. President Obama was calm, polite and spoke clearly about the issues which made it easier to understand and how to solve them. When someone is collected and talks like they have a plan about the issues then it makes the audience calmer and more open to what he has to say. Although he was calm he was also firm and stood strong about what he wanted for the economy and the citizens. The content of the speech and the form of the speech complimented each other very well in my perspective. The tone of the speech was very calm and informative. President Barrack used many metaphors and was very alliterate in his speech. At the beginning of the speech he told the basic topics that he was going to talk about and towards the middle he began to talk about each one thoroughly. I felt that the tone of the speech was very rich and when he talked about one topic he stayed on that one topic. Because of the tone that President Obama used I felt very informed and that he knew what he was talking about and that he would continue to get things done. Also I feel that President Barrack Obama got his point across to the audience as well as he did me. In conclusion, this speech was very informative and persuasive and I think that President Obama talked about his plans clearly and that they were very well stated. The highlight of the speech was then he talked about the how to decrease gun violence and the plan for college students. These plans basically talk about decreasing who can purchase a gun and what type of guns people can have, also the plan for college students is to make something to help them choose wisely and get more for their money when they are playing for their tuition or enrolling in a college. I do believe that President Obama is serious about getting the economy back to where it once was economically and a better place to live or raise a family.