12. November 2013 was a special day for the Sophomores at the Bell Multicultural High School, Columbia Heights Education Campus, Washington, D.C.. The reason for that was that the First Lady Michelle Obama held a speech for them. The speech’s theme was education and how important education is for the United States of America.
The person who held the speech was Michelle Obama. Michelle Obama is the First Lady of the United states of America. She has a very good education as showed here “But through it all, I kept that college diploma as my North Star. And four years later, I reached that goal, and then I went on to build a life I never could have imagined for myself. I went to law school, became a lawyer.” Here …show more content…
to get a good and long education there can help them for the rest of their lives. Another purpose is to reach the North Star goal there is set by her husband the President of the United States. “that by the year 2020, the year that all of you will be graduating from college, that this country will have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world.”. Since she wants to motivate the students to get a better education this goal is also a purpose. “Because when the year 2020 rolls around, nearly two-thirds of all jobs in this country are going to require some form of training beyond high school.” and she continuous “you all are going to need some form of higher education in order to build the kind of lives that you want for yourselves, good careers, to be able to provide for your family.”. Not only does she want to help them get a better life where they can take care of their family but she does also want to help her husband to succeed with his North Star goal about that the United states of America should be the country in the world with the highest proportion of college graduates in the world. The reason that they want to help the students to get an education is that without any education there is also a very little jobs in the future so if they want to make America great again that also includes a low number of unemployed