First of all I would just like to say I have never listened to Presdient Obama give a speech before. I know that sounds really bad but I have listened to bits or pieces but I've never listened to a whole one. So thank you Mrs. Cardona because I now feel like I'm a better citizen because I listened to this.
Now for the analysis part. I noticed that used short sentence to place emaphsis on the longer ones. An example is " And if that means college for you, just getting into college is not enough. You also have to graduate. One of the biggest challenges we have right now is that too many of our young people enroll in college but don’t actually end up getting their degree, and as a consequence -- our country used to have the world’s highest proportion of young people with a college degree; we now rank 16th." He use the first two shorter sentences to talk bring up a topic and then use a longer one to show what he's truely getting at.
I also noticed that he used language that could be understood by any high schooler. He does this on purpose to make sure that he gets his point across because if kids cound't unederstand what he was saying they would have tuned him out even though what he has to say is important.
Lastly I noticed that he hardly used any pathos. There wasn't any moment in his speech where I caught myself going "awww". He stuck mostly with logos. He uses facts like "60% of the US jobs will require more than a high school diploma" this backs up his idea of how student need to continue with their education after high school. He also appeals to the students own chacter talking about how we have a responsiblity to ourselves, our familes, and our countries to get the best education possible and do the most we can with our lifes.
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