Sydney Graham 10/13/14 Hess/7 Textual Analysis Yes He Can! In 2008‚ Barack Obama was elected into office and became the 44th President of the United States. Obama’s victory speech‚ “Election Night Remarks”‚ was heartfelt and genuine‚ soaking in determination to change the “immaturity and pettiness that poisoned our politics for so long” (680). He argues that America‚ as a people‚ can remake the nation. Obama strategically starts off the speech by appealing to ethos. He shares with us the grueling
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INTRODUCTION The present document represents the discourse analysis of the former U.S. President Obama’s speech in Tokyo‚ Japan. The speech was held on November 2009‚ during his first official visit as new U.S. president. According to our analysis‚ Obama’s speech stands as a commendation of the 50 years-long U.S. and Japan partnership in the context of global dominance as well as‚ more specifically‚ the control of the Pacific area. In order to support this conclusion‚ our team will investigate three
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Obama Education Speech In September of 2008‚ senator Obama stated in his speech that he would make a beneficial change to the nations education system if elected president of the United States. His speech was effective in stating the main purpose and reaching the intended audience. I stand by every one of Obama’s proposed changes to the education system and it’s importance to our nation. Considering the academic ranking of the United States to other Countries‚ we can see the lack of attention
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speeches even though the speeches were made for different reasons. Pericles’s speech eulogized the Athenian soldiers who died in the war against Sparta in 431 B.C.E. and comforted their families. Whereas‚ Obama’s speech was written to address the state of the union and inform the citizens of the United States of tasks ahead to help improve the nation. Both speeches however‚ are still highly respected by many people today. Both Obama and Pericles speak of civic duty in their speeches. Pericles speaks about
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Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States and the nation’s first African-American president Tuesday. This is a transcript of his prepared speech. In his speech Tuesday‚ President Obama said America must play its role in ushering in a new era of peace. My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task before us‚ grateful for the trust you have bestowed‚ mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to our nation‚ as well
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action. In his speech addressed at the 50th anniversary of Selma march‚ President Barack Obama uses rhetoric to persuade his audience‚ Americans as a whole‚ to discourage racism in the United States. President Obama appeals to the rhetorical strategies‚ uses rhetorical devices‚ and applies a presentation style; which make his speech effective in terms of rhetoric. President Obama appeals to ethos‚ pathos‚ and logos to get his message about racism across to his audience. Throughout his speech‚ the President
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Analysis of Obama’s victory speech Obama’s victory speech is a speech that the democrat Barack Obama held in his hometown Chicago‚ after being elected for president on November 4th‚ 2012. Chicago is where he in 2008 won his first presidential election. When taking a starting point in the pentagon model‚ we know that a text (in this case a speech) is always centered around an intention of the writer/speaker and is always dependent on the interrelationship between the topic‚ the writer‚ the reader/audience
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mother’s feelings of pain and anguish of giving birth to a child in the poem The Victory: "I thought you were my victory / though you cut me like a knife" (Lines 1-2). Although she must endure such pain‚ it is also exciting for the mother to bring new life into the world‚ which in fact feels like a "victory" to a new parent. However‚ throughout the poem‚ the speaker denies the fact that giving birth to a child is a victory‚ by using words such as "antagonist" (Line 5)‚ "bruise" (Line 6) and "scary" (Line
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In his speech‚ “Responsibly ending the war in Iraq”‚ President Obama uses a lot of euphemisms to sound politically correct‚ to minimize the impact of the war in Iraq and to justify the continued presence of the US military in Iraq. This essay includes a rebuttal of these euphemisms and shows how the euphemisms used downplay certain situations arising from the war‚ and how they are used to justify the continued occupation of Iraq. Euphemisms used in the speech. The euphemisms used by Obama are mainly
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President Barack Obama uses a wide variety of techniques to make a successful victory speech. The main features that allowed this were his choices of language; rhetorical devices; his mode of delivery; paralinguistic & prosodic features; and his structure. Obama’s speech is full of carefully thought out language choices that all give a specific effect on the audience. For example‚ many times in the speech Obama repeats the first person pronoun ‘we’ which makes the audience feel included and
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