How Obama Does That Thing He Does Jack Shafer 1. Who do you believe was the author’s intended audience? Shafer is writing to the American voters‚ and non-voters. He is writing to explain Obama’s excellent speech skills. 2. What was the author’s intended purpose in writing the piece? He is explaining the methods‚ tactics and brilliance to Obama’s speech‚ composure and leadership skills. 3. What point does the author make in the text? Despite Obama’s race‚ he is able to confront
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America and Obama Care America and Obama Care Carl Snider English 112 Professor: Michaeline Rojek December 19‚ 2012 For most of my life I’ve been opposed to universal health care for the burden on small business. My personal observation of people choosing between putting food on the table and going to the doctor‚ I’ve made a180 degree turn and now it has my full support . I still must point out some very reasonable people are opposed on economic and constitutional reasons. The Patient Protection
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The United States budget is in major need of reform. Each year the country plunges further into debt due to poor money management and ineffective programs costing the country billions. A large portion of the annual budget is comprised of entitlement programs‚ almost all of which are overpowered and wasteful. The three main ones are The New Deal‚ The Great Society and The Affordable Healthcare Act. While the intent of these initiatives were to aid those‚ their effects in reality are just the opposite
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Thesis: equality‚ unity‚ protection Body paragraph of Obama Barak Obama is the first and current African American president inaugurated. His cultural background‚ being of mix race gives rise to his plight for equality and exposed the ethos and desire to obtain political unity and to protect the vulnerable and elderly American people. Obama opens his “inaugural speech” of 2013 with a quote from the American Constitution and its statement in regards to equality‚ acknowledging that the quest will
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I remember that soccer game like it was yesterday. The entire season of our hard work and sweat would pay off in this final game. If we won‚ we got everything from bragging rights to the last spot in the highest part of the league we played in. The other team had scored in the first half‚ leaving the score 1 to 0. We knew if we were going to win we would have to find something to keep us going for that last five minutes. The right forward for our team had a beautiful run to the goal which
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ABORTION: OBAMA VS. ROMNEY In today’s society‚ abortion is a very important topic in politics. Right now‚ President Obama and Governor Mitt Romney are running for presidency. I think that the view on abortion for these two candidates will be very important in this election. One reason I think this is because “In an October Gallup poll‚ most Americans identified abortion as an important issue in the coming election. Forty-five percent said that it will become one of the many factors that will affect
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and Barack Obama. Donald Trump and Barack Obama are both people that have been and are presidents. Donald Trump is a very rich man that has sworn to presidency for 4 years until 2021. For Donald Trump‚ I first became apprised of him when the race for the 45th president had started. When it had started‚ I had immediately gone onto the web to see the polls and continued to check them. Barack Obama is a man that became president for eight years and left office in January 2017. For Barack Obama‚ I first
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Obama and Reagan’s position in the United States both started during hard economic times. While Reagans term was during the inflation period‚ Obama also addressed the weak economy he was faced with when he took office. These presidents have different views and ideas of how government works and how much government should be involved in citizens personal lives. Reagan believed that the United States was “a nation that has a government – not the other way around.” He strongly believed that the government
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topics in which many of those controversial issues lie. The easiest ways to determine whether or not Obama has been successful‚ is to look at his accomplishments as President‚ look at the principle promises he made regarding those issues prior to and during his time in office‚ and lastly the public’s overall rating of his presidency. After looking at all of those factors‚ I have determined that Obama has failed as President after the first two years being in office. The first aspects of Obama’s presidency
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Student 2/22/13 Dr. Chambers Arts & Humanities 2 sec. 5 Extra Credit: Obama State of the Union Address On February 12th of this year President Barack Obama gave his State of the Union address to the congress and people of this nation. In this address Obama would touch base on manufacturing‚ climate change‚ raising minimum wage‚ expanding pre-k‚ etc. Our lives are changing each day and most of us are lost and depend on the government to provide us with new information. It’s essential to do
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