I.Setting/Climate of the Speech A. The Speaker: Michelle Obama is the first African-American woman to become first lady of the United States. She is the wife of Barack Obama‚ the 44th and current President of the United States. Michelle started taking gifted classes by sixth grade. She went to Harvard for law school and earned her J.D (Obama‚ 2013). According to New York Times‚ she founded the Chicago office of Public Allies‚ which is a nonprofit program that works with young leaders on social
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legislation on the federal level. In the 2008 presidential campaign‚ neither Hillary Clinton nor Barack Obama talked at all about gun control. In fact‚ Obama received an F for leadership on gun control to prevent gun violence from “A Brady Campaign” (Grunwald). However‚ Barack Obama did acknowledge the gun control dilemma only enough to make it seem unimportant in comparison to other issues he takes on. Obama stated “We essentially have two realities when it comes to guns in this country. We can reconcile
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In 2010 President Obama fulfilled a promise to the Democrats that healthcare would be available to all Americans and would be much more affordable.When the Affordable Care Act was established‚ there were 27 million previously uninsured people that would gain coverage under the Affordable Care Act. Thanks to this new healthcare establishment‚ “about 16.4 million Americans gained health care coverage and the uninsured rate had been reduced by more than a third “Health”. The first example was that when
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white American mother—a struggle that takes him from the American heartland to the ancestral home of his great-aunt in the tiny African village of Alego. Obama opens his story in New York‚ where he hears that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has died in a car accident. The news triggers a chain of memories as Barack retraces his family’s unusual history: the migration of his mother’s family from small-town Kansas to the Hawaiian islands; the love that develops between his
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There is no doubt that leadership is not easy and that a good leader should be characterized with various virtues. His or her actions should be visible all around the world‚ on international scale. However‚ there are politicians such as Tony Blair‚ Barack Obama or Vladimir Putin whose international presence can be clearly seen and cannot be omitted. First of all‚ one of the most recognizable political figures‚ not only in Britain is definitely former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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wrote here that the fundamentals of the 2008 race decisively favor Barack Obama. As is often the case‚ however‚ my words were met with a familiar riposte: What about the race factor? Are white Americans really ready to elect a black man as president? It’s a recurrent refrain among Democrats and even some hopeful Republicans. As Andrew Kohut wrote here‚ “56 percent of Democrats believe that many people will not vote for Mr. Obama because he is black.” With the first ever African-American presidential
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candidate Barack Obama in 2008. The speech was a response to the controversial comments about race segregation in America made by his former pastor J. Wright. Obama revealed his personal history as a man of color‚ living in the United States. He encouraged the nation to end the racial division‚ to overlook all the issues and unite to form A More Perfect Union . In the middle of the presidential campaign Barack Obama found himself
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Political Culture Change In 2004‚ Americans were proud of the War on Terrorism‚ our accomplishments in the Middle East‚ and the incumbent president that had kept us safe from harm since 9/11. The Republican Party capitalized on the War on Terror during the 2004 elections‚ but being affiliated with the Republican Party and a pro-war stance in 2008 wasn’t considered a good thing to the majority. Even other Republicans were openly embarrassed by the Bush Administration’s mistakes with the War on
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owner while barack was not‚ so there Farewell addresses will be different in their own way . in Obama’s farewell speech he talks about the good and bads of his presidency and things america needs to fix. Obama’s strengths of his presidency include taking down osama bin laden who was the mastermind of 9/11. He also increased employment rates by creating more jobs. He also improved military equipment and founded the military. One issue that obama’s presidency had was the heath care program(Obama Care).Obama’s
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Conflict Studies By John W. Odom‚ III Abstract Affordable Care Act (A.C.A.) The conflict about the Affordable Care Act (or ObamaCare as it commonly called) has been one of the most controversial subjects in our country since the beginning of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in 2007. Ironically‚ the majority on both sides of the political aisle are in agreement that a law was needed to deal with the more than 32 million citizens in our country who don’t have healthcare. The conflict
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