“ A More Perfect Union” is a speech delivered by the presidential 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 .
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of a determined people.” This was said by Martin Luther King Jr‚ a well known Civil Rights activist. Throughout history‚ people of different skin colors‚ ethnicities‚ and religions have had to fight for their rights. In both Barack Obama’s “A More Perfect Union” speech and the Expert 21 interview “Leader of the Freedom Riders: Bernard Keith Jarvis with James Farmer”‚ the speakers addressed how black people have had to claw their way through society over the years‚ and fight the harsh discrimination
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In Barack Obama’s More Perfect Union speech he used many methods to support his claim of in order to perfect the union‚ the people must become a unit. Obama used many personal anecdotes that gave the audience an appeal of etho’s and patho’s. When he talked about his family background he showed that he was a credible witness to many races working together as one. In John F. Kennedy’s Civil Rights Address he also used many methods to support his claim of Fulfilling the nation’s promise of freedom
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More Perfect Union Speech Cameron B. Ford COM 360: Advanced Communications in Society Dr. Sherell Harrell March 10‚ 2014 A More Perfect Union In his March‚ 18‚ 2008 speech at the Constitution Center in Philadelphia‚ President Obama referenced racial resentments of black and white people as being “counterproductive” and a distraction from the real issues which are plaguing the middle class of America. I have never personally had my job shipped overseas or taken from me by a less qualified person
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crollins English 125 9/28/12 A more perfect union Barack Obama decided to write an essay about the controversy surrounding his campaign. The speech was called A more perfect union. Barack Obama wrote A more perfect union to talk about race and how it has played a huge part in his campaign. He talks about how the American people should be focusing on the main goal that all races face which is bad economy‚ poor education‚ issues concerning the environment etc. Politicians should be judge
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On March 18‚ 2008 president Obama gave a speech known as the “the more perfect union” which addresses the values and morals of race and how it plays out in our lives. There was a lot of tension because Obama was the first African American to run for president. Obama decides to calm down all the anger and resentment the people were feeling by delivering his speech. The very speech that was given may have helped Obama become the new president for the United States‚ it was very new for the people. Obama
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More Perfect Union Speech In President Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign speech‚ the resentments of each subgroup spoken about are valid. Not everyone within the African-American community feels as strongly as he does about the resentments but majority do from what I’ve seen. There are many instances where one can say that because blacks and other minorities don’t get as many opportunities as those in the white community‚ their resentment continues to grow. Many African Americans also think that
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“We the people‚ of these United States‚ in order to form a more perfect union…” (Obama‚ 2008) is how Barack Obama first addresses the American people on March 18‚ 2008 in A More Perfect Union. The effectiveness of this address had a positive as well as a negative effect on his audience. President Barack Obama addressed many issues in his speech. He began his discourse with a brief history of slaves as well as the struggle that they had to go through. He also mentioned the civil war and its effects
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to include president Obama’s More Perfect Union speech. Not only did he address the controversial issues presented‚ he depleted any lingering doubts of his ability to fairly run the nation
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Barack Obama: A More Perfect Union (2008) Barack Obama speaks of the time before the civil war‚ when the founding fathers made the declaration of independence. The declarations of independence were good‚ but not perfect‚ it had been left unfinished. The great question of slavery wasn’t properly answered. But separation isn’t over; Obama wants this generation to keep fighting for equal rights among gender‚ creed and color. Obamas tells about his past‚ how he grew up with his white grandparents‚ in
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