Influential K’s Two of the most influential speeches given throughout the history of America are “I Have A Dream” by Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address. They were both meant to rally together America in hope for a better future and they were each given by people both loved and revered by American citizens. Although both speeches had similarities, they are not without their differences.…
The constitution was written to assure that the people are practicing their bill of rights, religion, and to declaration of independency, however it was not complete because it did not provide the Americans with equal chances to pursue happiness. In Racial Formation in the United States, Michael Omi and Howard Winant elaborate on the concept of race, how it evolved, how it changed from science to politics, and how it became a way in which people use to judge others. President Barak Obama also discussed the concept of race during his campaign, in his speech “A More Perfect Union”. He emphasizes that all the citizens in the United States are considered Americans and therefore it is crucial to transcend about the anger, resulted from racism, and…
Obama's speech overall focus on the Islam and how in america we are taking our anger on the Muslims who fight for our country because of the hate we have on the Islam. During the speech president Borock Obama was using language in his speech so that it does not just relate to just Islam's but to many cultures in the world. He was stating that we as a county should not fight against one another,that we should stick together in this time of crises. Also their something that stuck with me through the speech is when he said “Freedom is better than Fear”. Then I asked myself how are we free when we are living in fear from our own law enforcement ?…
Following a recent chemical attack on the Syrian people, by the Assad regime, President Barack Obama uses negatively and emotionally charged diction to convince Congress to vote for military action. Later in the speech, Obama also gains the support of the American public by appealing to their weariness of large scale wars. He reasons that military force is necessary to prevent further conflict down the road which will keep Americans safe, at home and abroad. In the beginning of the text, President Obama appeals to Americans fear of war by using vivid imagery.…
“(We have) more to do for the young woman in East St. Louis, and thousands more like her, who has the grades, has the drive, has the will, but doesn’t have the money to go to college (Obama, para 6).” Interestingly, he follows this statement with an attempt to dissatisfy one of the commonplace arguments against liberal policies. Mr. Obama says that these people do not ‘expect that government will solve all of their problems,’ but that they are willing to work hard in order to achieve their dreams. This seems to solidify Obama’s ethos with the audience, especially when combined with the specific scenarios that he uses to exemplify the need for his policies. The middle section of the speech is dedicated to the 2004 Presidential Election.…
On March 18, 2008, weeks before the 44th presidential election, Barack Obama, the first African American candidate to be nominated by a major party, stood in front of hundreds of American citizens in Philadelphia to present his speech “A More Perfect Union”. At this time, Obama was experiencing a political-personal crisis, in which his former pastor Jeremiah Wright had exerted inflammatory language to express views that regarded United States as source of violence and inequality. As a response to the intense media scrutiny, Obama addresses a speech that would give “one of the most detailed statements about race made by a presidential candidate” (NCC staff, para. 6). While subject of racism was always perceived as an emotional and a controversial…
1. Michael Eric Dyson’s made a lot of points and argument on his critique of, ‘The Black Presidency” in the video that we watch in class. In his argument he made the connection that President Barack Obama’s presidency whether we want to believe it to be true or not significantly change the ways in which we look at not only American Politics but society as a whole. In the one hour and fifty something minutes video Dyson eloquently stated the fact that one President Barack Obama, presidency has change the way in which race relations are viewed and depicts in the terms of a black man being in such high political power.…
On November 4, 2008, this country witnessed a life changing moment in history. The first visibly black male became The President of the United States. I remember watching the results come in while sitting in my mom’s room. Everyone in the room broke out in prayer, tears, and pure and utter joy for our future. Barack Hussein Obama came into the oval office with a vision for change to redesign our country.…
While President Obama is giving his speech at Michigan’s graduation ceremony he starts off by trying to relate to the American people by having to do normal everyday things like commuting in traffic. Obama also wants to connect with the American public by telling them that he reads their letters every day to show them that he is a part of them and not in control of them. He has a progressive mentality when opening up his speech. He is reaching out to the hearts and minds of the average person by telling a heartwarming story about a kid in kindergarten and asking him if people are nice to him. When Obama says “there are some things that we can only do together, as a nation- and that our government must keep pace with the times” I believe that…
Zac O’Neal Dr. Ketzle Writing 2211 On the fiftieth anniversary of the historic civil rights march in Selma, Alabama, President Barack Obama, the first African American president of the United States addressed the crowd around him, giving a speech as much to address the continuing racial inequalities in the United States as to honor the price paid by the marchers so many years ago. In this speech, he offers a hopeful view of the United States. This speech runs in direct contrast with the book Between The World And Me by Ta-nehisi Coates. Coates takes a much more negative view on the situation as a whole, and offers a very differ perspective of burden of the inequalities placed upon black america.…
In the U.S. racism has been prevalent since its formation. All of the built history of segregation, slavery, white supremacy, etc, has built the foundations for the racism presented in today’s U.S. society. Maybe today we don’t have strict laws against other races, but we do have a racial bias that’s prevalent in the minds of Americans, and most of the time it may go unnoticed. In the Daily Show, Trevor Noah alludes to this fact but addressing the arrest and shooting of Terence Crutcher. The way the media talked about Terrance, the way the police even saw him as a threat suggests to the greater problem of racial bias (The Daily Show).…
The speech “A More Perfect Union” is about how Obama says we should do unto others as we would want unto us. The speech explains that he finds the world to be against each other in way, because we all do not work together. He explains that if one person was to pull the race card, then it would be hard for us to change anything. I agree with Barack Obama’s, because he uses logos, pathos, and kairos to get all of his best points a crossed. How he uses kairos…
The two speeches I decided to compare and contrast are, Republican President, Ronald Reagan’s 1983 speech on the Creation of the Martin Luther King Jr., National Holiday and Democratic President Bill Clinton’s 1995 address on Race Relations. In Reagan’s speech he addressed the King family, the members of Congress and honored guests, about Martin Luther King Jr. Day becoming a national holiday and how racism still remains in the United States, however every Martin Luther King Day we as Americans should reflect on Dr. King and the commandments he believed in and lived by every day. In Clinton’s speech he talked about the issue of ending racial discrimination and the problem won’t be solved through the work of leaders alone, but with the American people as a whole. I choose these two because they both parallel on the topic of race relation in the United States, how Martin Luther King Jr spent his life combating racism and trying to create equality for all, and that even as the times change there is still traces of bigotry left.…
On November 4, 2008, we listen and saw the most iconic moment in history. Which was to hear Barack Obama's "Victory Speech" that took place in Grant Park, Chicago. This iconic speech took place in front of his supporters, voters, and family. Which Barack Obama was delivering because he had just been elected to become the president of the United States. It was more significant that Obama had succeed because he would be our 1st African American president that understood what it means to work from the bottom up till you reach your goals.…
: In his speech to the NAACP Obama argues several points surrounding the nation’s inequities and short comings when it comes to its justice system. Obama is particularly concerned with the number of colored community members who sitting in overcrowded prisons. Obama begins to dissect this issue by taking a look at the statistics from the last thirty years which show a dramatic increase in the number of people incarcerated, and of those prisoners that belong to the Latino and African American race. The main factor Obama sees for the large number of incarcerations in the justice system, is due to the number of nonviolent drug offenders sitting behind bars. He wants to reform the justice system so that these nonviolent offenders are not paying…