44th president, Barack Obama, in his 2009 Holocaust Days of Remembrance Commemoration Address, discusses the effect of the Holocaust in America. Obama’s purpose is to make sure the tragedies of the Holocaust will not be repeated in the future. He adopts a purposeful tone to inspire the Nation by use of history, diction, and generalization. Obama begins his address paying oath to survivors and victims of the Holocaust by stating, ¨We gather today to mourn the loss of so many lives, and celebrate those who saved them; honor those who survived, and contemplate the obligations of the living¨ (2). He makes references to the past narrating that “barbaric acts of evil in history began in one of the most modernized societies of its time” (3). He