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Analysis of Barack Obama's "Yes We Can" Speech to Nashua, New Hampshire (January, 2008)
Barack Obama's "Yes We Can" speech presented in Nashua, New Hampshire on the 8th of January 2008 is a defining moment in his career due to its implications to Obama's presidential campaign. The speech was presented in the Nashua South High School Gym on the night of the New Hampshire primary, where Obama lost marginally to Hilary Clinton. The audience of the speech is the people in the high school gym, but the target audience is the whole of America, as the speech was televised and available to Americans. In this speech, Obama aims to persuade people to vote for him when election time comes around ... imagined that we'd have accomplished what we did here tonight." This attracts the attention of the audience because he uses the inclusive pronoun, "...
Immigration contributes magnificently to national and local economies in America while they themselves often confront difficult hurdles on the way to achieving the American dream. There are mainly three things getting in their way. Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, some immigrants have been inaccessible to driver's licenses, whi...
Lizhi Du COUNS 20 HW (Critical Thinking from Two Videos) Outfoxed * What do you think about this video's depiction of the media? What did you like? What didn't you like? Do you believe this is true? Why or why not? * "Outfoxed" examines whether and how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have an active campaign to misinform people f...
Bureaucrats and aristocrats, the former evident in the government in the Tang dynasty (617-907) and the ladder pronoun in the government of Heian Japan. Both are different in many different aspects, such as within government, government structure, law, economy, and society. A bureaucrat can be defined by the following: an appointed government offic...
Jeff Jacobys' essay, entitled 'Bring Back Flogging' was, in my sincere opinion, poorly constructed. There are numerous instances where I felt that he had either not supported his premises with valid information or had negated his support in later sentences. The essay begins by drawing forth images of Puritan punishment. He cites two instances of p...
Good morning my fellow schoolmates and teachers, I am speaker two from the negative side of this topic. Today, I have found two major flaws in their arguments. Firstly, historically the Chinese already claimed that Diaoyu Islands belongs to them many centuries ago. The earliest historical records of the islands are Chinese navigation records from...
