...analysis Barack Obama: “Back to School” 2009. The education of young students has always been a big issue in politics. Politicians are concerned with the quality of the educational system in the country, because education is the backbone of our modern society. The school system is primarily an investment for the future. So the quality of the educational system equals the quality of the coming working generation. Society is dependent on the students, so they have to be well educated, and well prepared, so they can take over the positions, which the country requires, to function normally. The education is also a political cause, because there are a lot of votes, to be won, for the political parties by holding speeches, etc. President Barack Obama is concerned with the current issues of education; this is mentioned a lot in his speech “Prepared Remarks of President Barack Obama: Back to school” which was presented at Arlington, Virginia, 2009. Obama’s main points of views in the speech, is the importance of education, that every single student has a responsibility to be well educated, and serve their country. It’s their responsibility to do well in school, to be able to fulfill their responsibilities. In the speech to America’s students, President Obama addresses the importance of getting the education, and which responsibilities follow. Addressing all children from 6 to 18 years of age, is a very difficult task, which requires various strategies from President Obama, to reach the...
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...In the Fall of 2016, it is estimated that there are 20.5 million students attending college in America. On September 7, 2009, Barack Obama delivered a speech at Wakefield High School. Barack Obama is the 44th and current president of the United States. Barack Obama was a civil rights lawyer and a teacher before pursuing a career in politics. Obama demonstrates the use of rhetorical situation, timing of conditions and appropriateness within his speech while at the same time motivating students all around the country, as well as myself, who have recently entered the academic community First off, Kairos has a basic definition of when times are right, and Barack Obama demonstrates this when he makes the statement. “...it’s your first day in a new...
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...Barack Obama: Back to school On September 8, 2009 was Barack Obama visiting Wakefield High School. Barack Obama held a Speech “Back to school event” for the first day at school on national television. In this Speech he stressed the importance of education. He would spread a message across the country: do not give up, do not quit because: “you’re not just quitting on yourself, you’re quitting on your country” (l.63-64). The rhetoric in this speech that Barack Obama held to all American pupils is a classic way of build-ing it up: The opening is first. Here Obama says hello and talks about the first day in the semester. Then the narrative, which is some background information. Here Barack Obama talks about his own experience as a pupil. After the narrative comes the argumentation. In the argumentation is all the main weight of the speech. He talks about obligation, the future for the students and so on. Then the ending is coming. Here Barack Obama concludes what he expects from all the students Barack Obama starts off by addressing the audience personally in the very first line, “Hello every-one – how's everybody doing today?” (l.1). He sets the scene and reaffirms his authority not just as the most powerful man in the world but, more importantly, as an equal. That Barack Obama uses ethos creates a much more personal relationship between him and the listeners. After Barack Obama has welcomed all of the students at Wakefield High School and the rest of the American pupils, who...
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...Prepared remarks of Barack Obama: Back to School Event Prepared remarks of Barack Obama: Back to School Event The text ‘Prepared remarks of Barack Obama: Back to School Event, are the words spoken by the United States’ President Barack Obama. The Speech was given in 2009 at Wakefield High School in Virginia. It works as a motivational speech for every single American who will be starting his school after that years''s school holiday. As President Barack Obama is speaking for the schools all over America, he’s using very direct speech, with a lack of metaphors, as it would probably do more harm than good. “So I know some of you are still adjusting to being back to school. But I’m here today because I have something important to discuss with you.”(P. 7, l. 17) It’s important to keep in mind, that Obama is speaking to pupils from smaller grades. Actually pupils who just started school or kindergarten. Therefore it needs to be simple, so it’s possible for everybody to understand. When a president suddenly shows his face on the TV screen of every school in the country, that president has to do an effort to be taken seriously. And to show the viewers that he can be trusted. He does that in various ways: “Hello everyone - how’s everybody doing today?” (p. 7, l. 1), in this example he’s speaking as if he was talking directly to the listener. This creates Ethos, as he’s appealing to the moral. “I know that for many of you, today is the first day of school. … it’s understandable if...
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...tax supported? Jermaine Coble English 120 Dr. Sonya Brown February 17, 2009 As a student at Fayetteville State University you will pay $8,000 a year for tuition. For four years at this university, you will pay around $32,000, which is a lot of money. However, if you chose to enroll at the University of Chapel Hill, tuition would be $15,040 a year. For four years, you would pay around $60,160. (UNC 2008) This is a lot of money. Most people have to take loans out to pay for college and when they graduate they are already in debt to banks. Now, think about how the first thirteen year of your education was paid for by taxes and the government. The government should just pay for four more year. Are programs like Pell Grant working to help lower our tuition? What does our former president and president think about the topic? We go through thirteen years of free public education or what seemed to be free. According to The Washington Post, it cost on an average $8,322 a year for one child to go to public school. For a senior in high school tax payer have spent on an average of $108,186 on one child. If taxes pay for thirteen years of public schooling, why not pay for four more years of higher education at state supported colleges? The cost of college would be cheaper for tax payers’ then public school because only about three fifths of high school seniors who graduate from high school actually go to college. These numbers would go up but would all of those students...
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...Back to School A country thrives when its citizens contribute and make an effort to make the most of what they are offered in life. President Barack Obama is very aware of this and has made it an important subject and goal in his presidential career to inspire youngsters in the right direction, both for their own sake and their country’s. Barack Obamas’ speech “Back to School” at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia was held in September 8, 2009. The age of the present audience varied to children from kindergarten and all the way up to twelfth grade. In addition to that, the speech was also broadcasted to students all over the country. The audience is obviously extremely great, and the speech will therefore have a tremendous impact on several individuals. The first thing Obama seems to focus on in his speech on the first day of the children’s school day are in fact the children themselves. He speaks directly to them, and initiates the whole thing by telling everyone that being nervous is perfectly normal. He has obviously tried it himself when he was their age. Very easily he finds a way to make everyone relate to him by telling stories from his own life. Barack Obama did not grow up under the best circumstances. He was raised by a single mother whom was very passionate about doing what was best for her son. She even sought to homeschool Obama, when he wasn’t at school. She wanted to make sure he would have the best possible future. This particular section of the speech...
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...On August 4th ,1961 Barack Hussein Obama Jr. was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. His mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was a white American from Wichita, Kansas. His father, Barack Obama Sr. was black American from Alego, Kenya. His parents separated, and his father moved back to Kenya. Barack's mother remarried an Indonesian oil manager and moved to Jakarta, Indonesia when Barack was six. In 1970 Obama moved back to Hawaii, to live with his grandparents. They lived in a small apartment where his grandfather was a furniture salesman and his grandmother worked in a bank. Barack still managed to get into Punahou School, Hawaii's top prep academy. His father wrote to him regularly but, he visited only once, when Barack was ten. Obama later attended Columbia...
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...Budgeting and Finance Introduction In 2009, Barack Obama took office as the 44th President of the United States. In February that same year, President Obama signed a stimulus bill into law that included tax cuts and a safety net of spending and appropriations for projects in our nation. When President Obama took office, he was faced with experts stating that this is the “worst U.S. economy since the Great Depression” (CNN U.S. 2009). Several documents that incorporate 2009 funding levels for the U.S. Government and the Department of Education, will attempt to identify trends for the years 2009 to 2011 in regards to outlays and receipts along with the GDP relationship. The following articles will be analyzed; The Budget Message of the President, Restoring Responsibility, Rescuing the Economy and Reviving Job Creation and Laying A New Foundation For Economic Growth. When analyzing this articles, we will look at what progress has the country made during this past year, what issues are we facing as we move forward, what is the economic situation and what significant issues and initiatives are discussed in these articles. One other piece of document that will be analyzed is the Department of Education. When we look at the Department of Education, we need to know what departments mission is, major funding items and what the budget in regards to outlays and receipts for the years of 2009, 2010 and 2011. When looking at these figures, a Budget Summary will...
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...When Barack Obama stood before a cheering crowd in his home state Illinois and announced his candidacy, no believed that this guy had any chance of winning the nomination. Majority of Americans did not believe that the country was actually ready for an African American president with a promise of changing the course of politics in Washington. The son of a white American mother and a black Kenyan father, Obama grew up in Hawaii. Leaving the state to attend college, he earned degrees from Columbia University and Harvard Law School. Obama's father left the family when Obama was two and, after further studies at Harvard University, returned to Kenya, where he died in an automobile accident nineteen years later. After his parents divorced, Obama's mother married another foreign student at the University of Hawaii, Lolo Soetoro of Indonesia. From age six through ten, Obama lived with his mother and stepfather in Indonesia, where he attended Catholic and Muslim schools. "I was raised as an Indonesian child and a Hawaiian child and as a black child and as a white child," Obama later recalled. "And so what I benefited from is a multiplicity of cultures that all fed me."Concerned for his education, Obama's mother sent him back to Hawaii to live with her parents, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham, and to attend Hawaii's prestigious Punahou School from fifth grade through graduation from high school. While Obama was in school, she divorced Soetoro, returned to Hawaii...
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...POTUS" Introduction Barrack Obama became the 44th President of the United States of America on January 20th, 2009. He is the first African American to take office and with his presidency he promised to make changes to America that would liberate the American people from crisis into a bright new beginning. In his Inauguration speech, he claimed to mend the financial crisis by stimulating jobs and laying a “new foundation for growth” (Naughton, “Inauguration speech”). He promised to rebuild the Nation’s foundations such as roads, bridges, electric grids, and digital lines, to revive the prosperity and importance of science, to increase the care and lower the cost of health care, to mend the threat of global warming, to enact peace with Afghanistan, to withdraw from Iraq, and to transform the educational system to meet the conditions of a new era (Naughton, “Inauguration speech”). Throughout his first year as president Obama has enacted many policies and regulations such as the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and Health Care Bill. However, has Obama stayed true to his original promises stated throughout his campaigns, in his Inauguration speech, as well as his first State of Union speech. Has Obamba’s first year been a success or a failure? This essay will explore the history of Obama’s ascend to presidency, his success and failures, and an overall evaluation of Obama’s first year in office. The Rise of Barrack Obama Obama was born on August 4, 1961...
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...Essay about President Barack Obama’s speech “Back to school” Education is enormously important. The wish of having a good education system and people who freely use it is not something that only a few countries want or wish, but almost the whole world takes aim at this. The focus on education has particularly in the United States big mentions and support. The current Government, which are sitting on the power right now, has this area high on their list of upcoming plans for the future of the US. President Barack Obama has therefore also this topic involved in most of his performances and in most of the speeches he makes. Therefor, it’s definitely an option for the President to talk about the education topic in his speeches, which we also see in one of his speeches from 2009. This speech was held in Arlington, Virginia on September the 8. Obama visited Wakefield High School and presented his speech in front of a lot of older students, but also upcoming students, who was just about to start in a new step in the school system. As mentioned earlier, a clear point in President Barack Obama’s speech is how important the role of education has. This may also be the most important point he tells his audience about. He explains how, in this century one only can count on being considered for a job if one has an education. One can’t just expect that a job will appear and choose one, if the person has no proper education. Therefore will many good properties and abilities of the people...
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...Prepared Remarks of President Barack Obama: Back to School Event President Barack Obama held a speech for school students at Wakefield high school in Arlington, Virginia back in 2009. Obama's focus in the entire speech was about the importance of education and the young peoples enthusiasm for education. The speech was for students in all ages since the main message in the speech ”you’re not just quitting on yourself, you’re quitting on your country”. Obamas main intention with his speech was to get the students to think the entire future of the country was depending on them, so the importance the students will get of the speech is hopefully a good motivation, so they will work harder for a brighter tomorrow and a promising future. But a good education does not come by itself it requires hard work and willpower. Barack Obama. The President. A president who has a lot of electors because he knows how he can get them. He starts his speech asking, “Hello everyone – How’s everybody doing today?.” Already there he has their attention. He can be a very formal guy, but in this occasion, is he very informal. He tries to sound more personal than professional in his speech the huge different in age from kindergarten to high school makes it hard for Obama to reach the whole audience. He involves the receivers and talks on a level where pupils from kindergarten can understand without he makes the speech boring for seniors in high schools. The president does not sound like a higher authority...
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...Barrack Hussein Obama was born to America by Ann Dunham and Kenyan father, Barrack Obama Sr, who were college students at the University of Hawaii. His father later came back to Kenya to work as a government economist leaving the junior Obama and his mother in America. His mother later remarried an Indonesian oil manager and they moved to Jakarta when Barrack was six. In Indonesia he experienced real weight of poverty and he later moved back to Hawaii where he lived with his grandparents. His grandfather was furniture salesman while his grandmother was a banker. He managed to join Punahou School, the best preparatory school in Hawaii. His father used to write to him regularly but he managed to visit Barrack only once when he was ten. Obama attended Chicago University. Later on he worked as a community organizer of a small Chicago church-based group for three years helping poor South Side residents to deal with a wave of plant closings. He visited Harvard law school and in 1990 he became the first African-American editor of the Harvard Law Review. He married Michelle Robinson a fellow attorney and has two daughters, Malia Obama and Sasha Obama. In 2004 he was elected as a democrat to the US Senate to represent Illinois and gained national attention by giving a rousing speech during the Democratic National convention in Boston. In 2008 he ran for the presidency despite having four year experience in politics and he won defeating his close rival McCain. In 2009 he was sworn the...
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...INQUIRY RESEARCH PAPER- MERIT PAY Action Inquiry Research Paper- School Finance Jennifer Ponton Grand Canyon EDA 535 July 01, 2012 Action Inquiry Research Paper- School Finance Statement of the Problem This past spring thousands of teachers protested at the Louisiana State Capital to prevent Louisiana lawmakers from passing an educational reform bill proposed by Governor Bobby Jindall that would change the face of public education in Louisiana forever. Many superintendents and school personnel were relieved of their professional responsibilities on the days they protested hoping that they could sway the governor and the lawmakers from passing the bill. The bill was passed even without the support of many educational leaders and lawmakers in Louisiana. The laws passed by Louisiana lawmakers read like a conservative education reformer’s wish list. Teacher tenure in Louisiana after three years of employment was eliminated and replaced with teachers receiving a “highly effective rating for five out of six consecutive years of teaching. Back to back “ineffective rating will result in a teacher being fired. Seniority will no longer be a dominant factor in layoff decisions. In fact most decisions involving teacher employment and pay will now be the responsibility of both the principal and the superintendent of school. Before Governor Jindall’s reform plan it was the responsibility of the local school board. The reform proposed by the governor goes well beyond just...
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...Barack Obama Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States —becoming the first African American to serve in that office —on January 20, 2009. The son of a white American mother and a black Kenyan father, Obama grew up in Hawaii. Leaving the state to attend college, he earned degrees from Columbia University and Harvard Law School. Obama worked as a community organizer in Chicago, where he met and married Michelle LaVaughn Robinson in 1992. Their two daughters, Malia Ann and Natasha (Sasha) were born in 1998 and 2001, respectively. Obama was elected to the Illinois state senate in 1996 and served there for eight years. In 2004, he was elected by a record majority to the U.S. Senate from Illinois and, in February 2007, announced his candidacy for President. After winning a closely-fought contest against New York Senator and former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic nomination, Obama handily defeated Senator John McCain of Arizona, the Republican nominee for President, in the general election. When President Obama took office, he faced very significant challenges. The economy was officially in a recession, and the outgoing administration of George W. Bush had begun to implement a controversial "bail-out" package to try to help struggling financial institutions. In foreign affairs, the United States still had troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, and warfare had broken out between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, illustrating the...
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