A great deal of people would say we are all just products of our environment― for two adolescent boys from Baltimore this couldn't be any truer. In the autobiographical memoir, The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore, unbeknownst, two fatherless African American boys with an identical name and living in the same neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland, ended up on two entirely different paths of life. One evolves to be a Rhodes Scholar, honored and respected combat veteran, and business leader. The other is spending the rest of his life in a federal prison for committing a murder. However, in their separate lives, they both started out as young boys that grew up in single mom households in the rough streets of Baltimore.
In Calvin Coolidge’s autobiography he retells his life from a young boy establishing the characteristics that made him a good vice president and ultimately president. In the novel he depicts the life lessons he learned from those around him whether good or bad. The value of experience is abundantly perspicuous throughout his life because with every event that he recounts for there is a growth in character. As a child former President Coolidge learned primarily from his family, his father and grandfather had established similar practices in life and built a stable life. I share the value of experience because I learn from those around me whether it be what to do or what not to do.
This ad shows Barack Obama talking directly to the camera about his past childhood, and then transitions into pictures from his childhood. This ad aimed to persuade the everyday people, and the working class. Obama was trying to connect with people who have gone through struggle, because if they see that he has been there too, he will keep them mind with his power. The presidential ad put forth by Barack Obama mainly uses pathos.
Obama begins to fixate his vastly different relatives and allegorizes himself as a living embodiment of the melting pot country of America with descriptions such as ‘son of a black man from kenya and a white woman from kansas.’ , but interjects such statements with the quote ‘i’ve gone to some of the best schools in America and lived in one of the world’s poorest nations’; this describes the president as being very well traveled, and thus both qualified for office, and qualified as a representative for a melting pot nation. Additional appeals in the form of logos are used; when referring to the question of his legitimacy as an american based upon the disdained statements of his priest, Obama provides the objecting audience with the rationale ‘i’m sure many of you have heard remarks from your pastors, priests, or rabbis with which you strongly disagreed.’, and the president simply and logically makes an invaluable connection in many people’s minds. When discussing his questionable association with his priest, he admits his own belief that he would ‘react in the same way’ to the imposing connection between friends. However, in order to preserve the honor and relationship to a friend, Obama admires ‘a man who served his country as a united states marine...,who for over 30 years has led a church that serves the community by doing god’s work here on Earth - housing the homeless,
In his novel, The Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell makes note of this several times. When discussing that practice was all that was necessary to reach to the top of their field, referring to it as the 10,000th hour of practice, Gladwell acknowledge that “You can’t be poor, because if you half to hold down a part-time job to make ends meet, there won’t be enough time in the day to practice enough” (Gladwell 42). Gladwell observes the different parenting style from rich parents to poor parents contributes to the struggle that children face. While low-income children were more independent,and discipline, they were never imbued with the sense self-importance necessary to thrive in modern society (Gladwell 104). In his autobiography, Black Boy, Richard Wright retells at several times how the poverty he was brought up in and the strict discipline and parenting he faced left him reluctant to challenge authority.
Rhetorical Analysis Former Illinois State Senator and soon to be Forty-fourth president of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, recounts what happened in the past to make America what is today and how he intends to maintain the ideas of America’s founding fathers throughout his term of presidency. His intended audience of the first inaugural address is the citizens of America and his purpose was to comfort them about the past and encourage the future of America. He creates a patriotic and empowering tone in order to appeal to pathos. His diction throughout the speech illustrates patriotism, allusions, and anaphoras. Obama opens his speech by discussing the views of our forebears and documents and how we have followed through with those views.
Unequal Childhoods is an ethnography outlining the study done by Annette Lareau which researched how socioeconomic classes impact parenting among both white and African American families. She used both participant observation and interviewing. 12 families participated in this study where she came to conclusions on whether they displayed parenting styles of concerted cultivation or natural growth based of their socioeconomic status. Concerted cultivation is a parenting style where the parent(s) are fully invested in creating as much opportunity for their child as possible, but results in a child with a sense of entitlement. An example of this would be a parent who places their children in a wide array of extracurricular activities and/or actively speaks to educators about the accommodations their child needs to effectively learn.
Abstract In the aftermath of the September 2001 attacks, the United States faced a series of ever-growing threats forcing the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations to rely heavily on their National Security Councils. Both administrations sought to meet the demands of new and emerging threats through structural changes to their councils, as well as the positioning of key figures to drive the different administrations national security and defense strategy forward. This paper will seek to discern the similarities, differences, strengths, and weakness between the National Security Counsels of the Bush and Obama administrations. It will further sever to identify the best aspects to propose what the current administrations NSC
At the beginning of his speech, he conveys emotion through telling his own story and putting the audience in his shoes. He states “On the one hand he is born in the shadow of the stars and stripes and he is assured it represents a nation which has never lost a war. He pledges allegiance to that flag which guarantees "liberty and justice for all. " He is part of a country in which anyone can become President, and so forth”. This shows the audience how African American children feel when living in a country made on the premise of equality, but feeling anything but equal to their Caucasian peers.
Throughout his speech, Barack Obama’s use of metaphor allows the audience to make powerful connections and conclusions; therefore, persuading them to support his plans. While analyzing past presidential inaugurations, Obama compares peace and prosperity to the ocean and economic crisis to gathering clouds and raging storms stating: “Forty-four Americans have now taken the
This is a good rhetorical appeal because everyone knows about Martin Luther King Jr., Obama connects with us emotionally by using the fact that Dr. King enrolled into this college at the age of 15, he used his passion to study harder, and with the help of his college, Martin Luther King Jr. is able to thrive towards his dreams. Another example of pathos is when Obama says, “ I was raised by a heroic single mom, wonderful grandparents…”(Obama 8). Obama uses the fact that he did not grow up with the dream family, the family with two supportive parents. No, he specifically said that he grew up with a “heroic” mother and no father figure in his life. Since almost half of the United States lives with two parents, many people will take on pity
Barack Obama’s win for President in 2009 was a historical moment for the United States. His inaugural speech was much anticipated, because this was going to set the tone for his presidency. His speech told the American people that improving the economy is one of his priorities, but there were also other areas he would like to improve like healthcare and the education system. This was a speech that was meant to persuade the American public to take action for them to rise as a nation again, and for them to put their trust into him. His message addressed a couple of specific points like his gratefulness to the American people, the different crises America is facing, how America will overcome these crises, replying to his cynics, addressing the world, and then he reminded America again to be brave like they’ve always been to overcome the hard times (5 Speechwriting Lessons from Obama's Inaugural Speech, (n.d.).
PROLOGUE People assume that I’m from a wealthy family. I do not agree with that sometimes, but the way I dress, act, talk, or eat make people think that way. Both sides of my family come from a humble beginning. My paternal great grandfather’s factory and company crumbled down on a single day, because he guaranteed some contract and got all of his money stolen from him. Eventually, he passed away poor.
Instead, his mother taught him at home throughout the week. “I was not as focused as I should have been,” exclaimed President Obama. With many of second chances, he was able to go to college and law school and still succeed even though there were other things in life that tried to hold him back. Looking back on his struggles, Obama
Introduction On September 4th, 2012, the First Lady Michelle Obama gave a speech about the values of the American Dream. Within her speech she talks about her past and how she shares the same values as the president of the United States of America - her husband, Barack Obama. She talks about why she is proud to be an American and why being the First Lady has changed her life forever. A main focus in the speech is how The American Dream is partly about working to not only make one's own life better, but also to work in order for children and grandchildren of the future to have better opportunities.
