Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. (Organizing For Action). Before obtaining a political career, Barack Obama was a teacher and a civil-rights lawyer. In 1996, Barack Obama was elected into the Illinois State Senate and served for seven years, from 1997 to 2004. In 2008, Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States of America. Obama made history, as he was the first African American president to be elected. In 2012, President Obama beat his Republican opponent, Mitt Romney and won re-election. While he lived with his grandparents, Barack Obama went to school at Punahou Academy and played basketball. In 1979, Obama graduated from Punahou University with honors. Not long after high school, Barack
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Throughout Mr. Obama’s speech, he makes use of goodwill by talking about his hopes of the current and future success of precision medicine in the United States. At the beginning of the speech, President Obama makes reference to working with Lamar Alexander in encouraging and improving precision medicine. Just by the President’s words, you can see his bold, vivid vision of success. (Obama, 2015)
Another part of ethos that is present during this speech is good sense. Good sense appears throughout Obama’s speech, “Remarks by the President on Precision Medicine”, but there was one main part that truly stood out to me. President Obama’s use of good sense was evident to me as he used practical judgment when he begins to discuss experience in general of people watching a loved one battle and illness and the future of medicine itself. (Obama, …show more content…
He presents this speech in hopes of giving his country a better understanding of his thoughts and hopes of precision medicine and all of the good that it could and will bring to the medical field. President Obama’s motivation for this speech is simply not only his personal health and his future, but the health and future of his family and the people of his country. The public motivation of Obama in this speech would be that he is wanting for his country to be able to see precision medicine and the good it can do just as he sees it. His personal motivation is that he feels as if it is his duty as the President of the United States to do nothing less than to help the people of his country get the type of health care treatment that each and every one of them deserve. (Obama,
Throughout Mr. Obama’s speech, he makes use of goodwill by talking about his hopes of the current and future success of precision medicine in the United States. At the beginning of the speech, President Obama makes reference to working with Lamar Alexander in encouraging and improving precision medicine. Just by the President’s words, you can see his bold, vivid vision of success. (Obama, 2015)
Another part of ethos that is present during this speech is good sense. Good sense appears throughout Obama’s speech, “Remarks by the President on Precision Medicine”, but there was one main part that truly stood out to me. President Obama’s use of good sense was evident to me as he used practical judgment when he begins to discuss experience in general of people watching a loved one battle and illness and the future of medicine itself. (Obama, …show more content…
He presents this speech in hopes of giving his country a better understanding of his thoughts and hopes of precision medicine and all of the good that it could and will bring to the medical field. President Obama’s motivation for this speech is simply not only his personal health and his future, but the health and future of his family and the people of his country. The public motivation of Obama in this speech would be that he is wanting for his country to be able to see precision medicine and the good it can do just as he sees it. His personal motivation is that he feels as if it is his duty as the President of the United States to do nothing less than to help the people of his country get the type of health care treatment that each and every one of them deserve. (Obama,