Analyzing Obama's Song 'Yes We Can'

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Every fight for freedom and rights is fought by people who believe that change can be possible. In Obama’s speech of 2008 is collaborated into a song created on pinpointing the ongoing fight for rights and freedom through the courage of having hope. The purpose of “Yes We Can” bands together the American people into believing the possibility of “Yes We Can” gain freedom, justice, opportunity, and prosperity. It seeks of what can be done for a possible change. The collaboration song with Obama’s speech and Black Eyed Peas proposed a sense of pathos and ethos. The song becomes a sense of pridal uprising, which reflects to women's rights, race equality, and war. Therefore which connects the point of the “All American Dream.” Within the song grasp the feelings of the American people by knowing that they can do what they put their minds to. The song becomes a persuasion of influence, reflecting back the many accomplishments in history, in addition creates the pride of being a true American. “Yes We Can” involves the building of power, to rise and take charge and believe in yourself. Obama as president using this speech connects with the people, knowing that he can lead the country on a changing route. He builds trust with the American people as he believe in them. Obama reaches out to the “millions of voices calling for …show more content…
Other Americans can connect on a personal level with the song for the sense of enlightenment. Black Eyed Peas is known to create movement within different songs. Black Eyed Peas support in the moving speech, “Yes We Can,” will create a following of other activist. The message conveyed in the speech is that hope is always around, and that change is possible. Combining people singing the song of Obama’s speech raises awareness of truth and a power taking a

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