Michelle Obama's Speech At Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School

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To understand why Michelle Obama gave a speech at school, “The Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School has about 1,000 students, all of them girls ages 11 to 17, two-thirds of whom speak English as a second language” (Scherer, 2009,para.4). Michelle Obama decided to show up at Elizabeth G. Anderson School and gave a public speech because one of her campaigns was encouraged young women’s education. In fact, “62 million girls around the world do not attend school, some because of lack of access, others because of cultural factors in countries where women are raised to be subservient to men”(Lenahan, 2016, para.6).“Nothing that education would influence the nation’s economic future and rate of upward mobility” (Slevin, 2015, p.340). Michelle Obama

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