Barack Obama Back To School Speech Summary

Barack Obama is infamous for his great speeches and brilliant charisma when doing them, these two assets are very much at display in his speech: Back to school.
In America it’s very common to have national sentimentality, this comes to show in their proud display of the American flag and the very self-given nickname: God’s country. America is on the brink of losing a whole generation to the streets, poverty will take over and soon there will be more people speaking Spanish than English. These things are all linked to bad education, no education and most important of all the students in the schools.
In his speech Obama welcomes the students by saying “hello everyone – how’s everybody doing?” which immediately creates a less formal atmosphere, …show more content…
This is followed by narrative, giving the audience information on the matter he is speaking about and after that the argumentation gets edited in. This makes sure that the audience knows what the speaker is talking about, but more importantly this is where he talks about what experts thinks, what great philosophers thought about this subject years ago and what more familiar people would think of this – teachers, relatives and elder generations who thought for their rights. Usually a speech peaks with refutation, where a speaker would bring in other experts opinions that would be a contrast to the speakers own, thereby making the audience think that they can make a well informed decision when deciding whether or not they agree with the speaker.
The speech “Back to school” uses all the standard rhetorical tricks, Obama starts with an opening, he does the narrative routine and gives good argumentation for his point of view – he does however exclude refutation. This is a wise move, as he otherwise would make an argument against education and the perks from it, which in turn