Hillary Clinton Acceptance Speech Analysis

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In the following text, I will analyze Hillary Clinton acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania this July. Her speech was anti climatic: she used prior speakers such as First Lady Michele Obama, President Barack Obama, President Bill Clinton and Cory Booker to build her report.
I’ll begin with the first part of her speech, recognizing Bill Clinton and the love and support he had given her, which are front and center at the convention and had major publicity during this election cycle. She jokingly names him “Editor-in-Chief” and President Obama had earlier named him as the Secretary of explanations. She goes on to thank Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and Senator Bernie Sanders for the support.
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The blue-collar crowd. “Democrats, we are the party of working people. But we haven 't done a good enough job showing we get what you 're going through, and we 're going to do something to help.” This pinpoint crowd used to be for the Democratic Party. For the past generation, wages have stagnated, and Hillary states that she is going to make it better. She mentions that she will help Coal Country when in fact she attacked it earlier that year saying during a town hall that she would “put it out of business.”
As she goes on to talk about how the middle class needs to thrive, she transitions to “that’s why we need to appoint Supreme Court justices who will get money out of politics and expand voting rights, not restrict them.” It’s been a major uproar this year when Obama had appointed Garland for Justice. In my personal opinion, I believe that if Hillary Clinton is in office that she will appoint current President Barack Obama.
“The minimum wage should be a living wage.” This is an issue that Obama has been trying to push in office, every small business owners nightmare that would eventually eliminate jobs.
During this announcement, she was able to pinpoint a description of how dangerous Trump would be as president. It made the passage seem vivid and real. She used a lot of enactments - the speaker or writer is proof of the claim that he/she is making, where she uses quotes against her opponent,

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