.... ‘A More Perfect Union’ is a speech that was delivered by the then US Senator for Chicago, Barack Hussein Obama, in response to criticism and condemnation that was hurled at him due to his association with Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Reverend Wright had come under attack from many corners of American society due to what people termed as ‘anti-American’ sentiments that Reverend Wright shared with his congregants, the most prominent of them being Senator Obama. (Obama, B. 2008) Obama’s speech will give insight on rhetorical appeal, pattern of development, context, and intended audience to educate it’s reader.. Senator Obama, who was then running for presidential nomination by the Democratic Party, was accused of tolerating anti-American sentiments. People, politicians and academics wondered how he could put up with such sentiments yet he hoped to lead a society as diverse ethnically and racially as America. This speech, ‘A More Perfect Union’, was Senator Obama’s response to these accusations. The speech has been hailed by many people as being the one that won him not only the Democratic Party nomination but also the U.S Presidency. For instance, the speech played a role in prompting New Mexico governor Bill Richardson to back Mr. Obama for the Democratic nomination. Governor Richardson was courted by both Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton as he was America’s only Latino governor and as such, whoever he supported may have won most of the Latino votes. Many people, including rivals...
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...The Presidency of Barrack Obama The first African-American United States’ president was born in Hawaii, raised by his grandparents prior to becoming an Illinois Senator. The presidency of Barrack Obama was offset in January 20th, 2009. Obama’s Presidency was inherited from George Bush whose presidency was facilitated with a series of terrorist attacks. Taking into consideration Obama’s speech noted in National Archives, it is evident that Obama’s presidency has an aim of ensuring higher levels of national security through eliminating any form of terror attack on the United States soil. While in office, matters related to financial crises was listed among Obama’s policy decisions. Inclusively, issues on tax policy changes and the matter of the healthcare industry were also covered. Obama’s victory came about when the economy of the state was at a devastating state: It was near a fall. As a result, the presidency has an aim of saving the near free-fall economy resulting into a great recession within the levels of the economy. Obama’s presidency has a characteristic of series of wins and losses. Within the first two years, president Obama successfully passed a number of legislation such as the healthcare bill. The bill on health care meant offering massive coverage with an ability of providing an affordable healthcare on universal grounds. In addition, Barrack’s presidency is also characterized by prominent victories such as the $787 billion Stimulus Bill as a characteristic...
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...Asbjørn Møller 3.u - Grenaa Gymnasium DATE \@ "d. MMM y" 21. nov. 2014 Opgave B 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...
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...` Philip Combs Jed Wyman WR121 05 May 2011 A Controlled Mayhem By: Philip Combs The idea of boot camp is dreaded by most everyone that has to face the reality of replacing their nice, warm, loving, and familiar home environment with military barracks, filled with drill sergeants who are now your over bearing parents, and hundreds of other people of the same sex who are now your wretchedly unhappy brothers or sisters. The amiable bedroom where you lay your head to rest so often is gone, but don’t worry, you’ll now have a new bedroom to sleep in, the carpet is replaced with concrete floors, your bed has grown legs stretching upward to support the second mattress laying above you, and your privacy is now shared with 10 other stinky human beings, all as homesick and miserable as you. The closet where you had all of your dirty laundry thrown in a ragged pile in the corner has transformed into a wall locker that includes a cabinet with three pull out drawers, and exactly 18 hangers, no more, no less. Don’t worry though, in this essay I’m going to provide you with enough information to help you prepare for your 9 weeks of controlled mayhem, and help you get a glimpse of what to expect, allowing you to make an educated decision, hopefully before you have signed the dotted line. I’m going to start by explaining how to prepare for BCT (basic combat training). After enlisting and taking your oath of allegiance you will be given your ship...
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...Draenor. The Followers that populate your Garrison will grow in number and power, and what they can do for you depends which buildings you choose to construct in your base. Start Small, Think Big Even in its fledgling state, your Garrison will contribute to your professional development almost immediately. You’ll have many choices for what to build, and your choices directly impact what your Followers can do and the rewards you’ll get from them. The space you have available for buildings is determined by your Garrison Tier. At Garrison Tier 1, you’ll have one small and one large plot for buildings of those sizes. Quests will take you through placing a building that matches one of your primary professions in your first small plot and a Barracks in your first large plot. At Garrison Tier 2, you’ll gain one additional small plot, one medium plot, and room for three of four preset buildings: the Fishing Shack, Herb Garden, Pet Menagerie, and Lunarfall Excavation (Alliance) or Frostwolf Mine (Horde). Everyone can eventually unlock and use all four presets, and each provides a great deal of synergy with its associated activities. For example, the Fishing Shack not only allows you to fish in Garrison waters and take on daily fishing quests—it also...
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...K. Bell February 2, 2011 Life in a College Dormitory Life is a characteristic state or mode of living social life, city life, or real life. Once students reach a certain age they are allowed to make their own decisions. Those decisions can be based on how and where they live. Those decisions can also be based on what they want to do with their life after they reach a certain age. People get their own opinions about what is right and what is wrong and decide to practice what they speak. Many students go through different phases during college and see things differently. As for as the dormitory part of college life students chose three areas that are criticized the most. Life in a college dormitory can be pathetic due to poor maintenance, room sizes, and personal relationships. To continue, a major downfall in dormitories is poor maintenance. Most of the problems dorms have are lack of hot water, broken heaters, broken washing machines, etc. that are never fixed properly. During the season of winter these problems should be checked before the season actually comes. There is a problem with the heating system at Totty Hall that can lead to student’s sickness because the system does not work properly. For instance the heaters blow cold air during the winter instead of heat and seldomly, students might feel warm air. Recently, the water was turned off during the night due to a busted pipe because of winter conditions. The problem took three days to be fixed and...
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...Findings, Conclusions, and Recommendations for Student Housing in H University Summary We make this report to inform you about the current situation of student housing in H University, and propose recommendations for you to make a better place for students to live. The results show that the current state of housing is not yet satisfying for students, and the government officials should subsidy the housing program. Findings History H University Housing 1936-2014: A Chronology of Events Our university is well known for its long history, here is a brief outline for its housing history, which indicates a rough record of its student housing: [pic] Figure 1 Kenneth R. Pierce (2005), Web Site Usability Report for Harvard University https://libraries.mit.edu/archives/mithistory/housing.html *1936 Construction of new campus dormitories President M, 10 March 1936, offers room in two units of the apartment to students. *1956 full sets of apartment were occupied *2010 Draft report of renovating Senior House was in the discussion by M University Corporation Executive Committee. Description Types of units There are two major types of units for student housing, it is clearly represented in the following figures (Michelle R. Schemine, 2010): [pic][pic] |①One-bedroom floor dorm |②Two-bedroom floor dorm | |Figure 2 Interior Dorm Design ...
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...When enter colleges, college students will face many new problems or decisions, which they have to make. Among which there is a choice for them at first place, that is, he or she has to decide whether to live on campus or live outside of campus. Actually, both of the two choices have their own advantages and disadvantages. So, different people may have different opinions. For example, they will think about the cost, location, how to make friends easily and be specific. Sometimes, it is very hard for the students to tell which one is better and which one is worse because the two choices share a lot of similarities. However, through this analysis, they may find out which one they prefer. First of all, let’s see the advantages of living on campus. First and foremost, living on campus is more convenient than living outside of campus. For instance, If you live on-campus, you can easily walk to classes, libraries, computer labs and cafeterias.You don't have to waste time and money on driving to college, finding a parking space, and so forth. And also, Residences halls usually provide almost all equipment one may need. When living off-campus, it may not be convenient for you to walk to campus so you would have to find transportation. Whether you drive your car or use a form of public transportation, it is still going to cost you money. Traffic can also be an issue if you live in a crowded area. The second advantage of living on campus is can allow you to meet more people...
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...Dormitory History From the beginning of the college in 1922 until the mid- to late 1960s, the college had functioned predominantly as a commuter campus. Most of the students were Arkansas City or Cowley County residents, certainly within driving distance to the college. The few who were non-residents were able to obtain housing from private citizens. During the 1960s, the number of students coming from outside Cowley County began to increase dramatically. College personnel such as Del Heidebrecht, Ben Cleveland, Bill Scott, and Dr. Gwen Nelson attempted to secure privately owned facilities in which students could rent. At the same time enrollment was increasing, the college also was losing potential students because of a lack of housing. Heidebrecht, Cleveland and Scott began to solve the problem by identifying private individuals who would be happy to cooperate with the college in an effort to ease the situation. Some early pioneers in that venture include Aileen Haynes, Norman Iverson, George and Betty Sybrant, Vic Bryant, Aubrey Foster, Elmer Morris, Vera Tipton, Ethel Young, Walt and Ruth Fesler, Bruce and Dorothy Smith, Chuck Dumenil and Fern Culmer. And when Dr. Nelson and his wife Lu discovered that it was next to impossible for non-resident African American students to find housing, the Nelsons purchased a house at 215 N. Fifth St. to rent to all students: black, white, athletes and non-athletes. These efforts helped, but other approaches to solving the problem needed...
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...African Journal of Business Management Vol. 5(17), pp. 7335-7341, 4 September, 2011 Available online at http://www.academicjournals.org/AJBM ISSN 1993-8233 ©2011 Academic Journals Full Length Research Paper The students’ degree of preference for residence hall facilities and amenities, study of a developing country Fatemeh Khozaei1*, Ahmad Sanusi Hassan1 and T Ramayah2 1 School of Housing Building and Planning, Universiti Sains, Malaysia. 2 School of management, Universiti Sains, Malaysia. Accepted 15 June, 2011 The main purpose of this study was to explore the degree of university residence hall students’ preferences for some facilities and amenities. With a case study of a developing country, this paper also aimed to determine whether the mean score of these preferences differed significantly with regard to students’ gender, nationality, race and study level. Structured questionnaires were administrated to 850 residence hall students, and 752 questionnaires were usable out of these numbers. The result of the study indicated that free internet access, lockable storage space and mirror inside student’s room, water machine and variety of food in food stall were the 5 most preferred facilities in the residence halls. Additionally, this study highlighted the importance of some specific facilities such as kitchen, laundry monitoring system and 24 h available taxi from students’ perspective. It was found that students had a great interest to these facilities...
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...Chelsea Clough Professor Dingle English 13 December 2012 Commuting vs. Dorming The hardest decision a student has to make during their senior year of high school is which school to attend and whether to live on campus or commute. There are both advantages and disadvantages to both scenarios. The entire college experience is a learning trip and it is oftentimes a young adults first step towards independence. Living on campus is an adjustment and is a huge eye-opener to the real world. The college dorm life is considered to be part of the "full college experience," but the costs of living in a residence hall can persuade students to remain home while they are in college in order to avoid housing fees. The biggest advantage of living on campus is that it gives you a chance to gain independence. Some students know they want to move out of the house but aren't quite sure they're ready to have their own apartments. Living on campus can provide an in-between step (Lyons 1). Students will still be living on their own and responsible for taking care of their living space, it just wont be as overwhelming as paying rent and everything else that comes with owning an apartment. Another great thing about living on campus is you are much closer to your classes so it will take much less time to get there. Being able to get to and from classes more quickly means students living on campus will also have more time to devote to getting their coursework done (Lyons 1). One main advantage...
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...Role as a Leader In 2008 during my residential semester of BRAC University, I lead to arrange a cultural program as a cultural president of my dormitory. Our dorm was “Nikunjo” which consist of 32 boys, where all most all of them were unknown to each other as it was only their second semester in university. The purpose of our residential semester was through competition of different activities like cultural, sports and social among the dormitories helping us to know each other’s potentialities as well as making friendship among them. So as a cultural president I took it as a challenge to arrange a cultural program that will be best among the dormitories and will help 32 students to come close to each other. I employed S3 style which means participating style as I believed to serve the purpose of growing friendship among the new students as well as to bring the best of their potentialities I had to allow them to participate in decision making. There were 6 dormitory among them 3 for the boys and 3 for the girls. After a week after another, each dormitory were allowed to arrange the cultural program with the help of its own students. So, in the whole semester each dormitory were allowed just once to put up a show. We were the 2nd among the 6 and 1st among the boys in the sequence of performance. That gives us one advantage & one disadvantage as well. The advantage was we could introduce new ideas and thoughts before any dormitory did and the disadvantage was we got less time...
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...HOUSING REGULATIONS The following policies are very important to the college and we want to place special emphasis on them. Read over the policies carefully so that you will be fully aware of our policies and your responsibilities. Connors State College reserves the right to change these policies or any portion thereof at any time without prior notice. 1. Air Vent Blockage The air vents located above and/or in the room door in the air conditioned buildings are designed for airflow from room to room/hallway. Blockage of these vents will result in disrupting the air flow in other rooms. Contact your resident manager if your room is too hot or too cold. 2. Alcohol Students are expected to comply with state and local laws regarding the use of alcohol. Possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages in any residence hall or on college grounds is prohibited. In accordance with federal law, if a student is under 21 and documented for an alcohol violation, their parents may be notified. (See: Student Code of Conduct, II. Alcohol) 3. Attendance a. Failure to attend class on a regular basis may result in expulsion from college housing. Attendance will be checked at mid-term. b. All residents in family or student housing must attend the monthly housing meetings unless excused by a resident coordinator 4. Borrowing Furniture c. For inventory and maintenance reasons, all furniture in rooms/suites and common areas should remain where it was...
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...Samuel Conner Lusby My Freshmen Year By Rebekah Nathan Chapter 2 Lessons from My Year as a Freshman Short Written Assignment #2 Section #1 – Introduction In the second chapter of Rebekah Nathan’s book, “Life in the Dorms” in My Freshman Year, she goes in detail of how the college dorm life works. From her first hand perspective, she provides insight on day to day activity of the students around her as well as her own duties and experiences as a freshmen living in the dormitory. In this chapter, Nathen gives vivid details on the behavior of the students, their study habits, social interactions between students, and even dorm functionality and educates. Section #2 - Personal comments I find the techniques that Nathan uses to gain insight on students personal daily lifestyle very fascinating. A grown woman with the experience of a very successful professor jumping into the lifestyle of a college freshman. Nathan did not view the students from a second hand perspective or during certain times of their day, but gained her understanding of them by actually being a freshman! I chose this chapter specifically because I have experienced the dorm life that she was introduced to and it amazes me to think of this highly intellectual professor gaining information from students by simply being one. She even mentions the obscenities that are very evident during the freshmen experience, such as when she says, “Nudity, sexuality, drinking, craziness. These are certainly...
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...Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States and is the first African American to be president. He was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, HI. He and Michelle have been married for 21 years. They have two daughters, Malia Ann 16 and Natasha 13. His father was from Kenya and his mother is from Kansas. His grandfather used to serve in Patton’s army and his grandmother worked her way from the secretarial pool to become vice president at a local bank. This is his second year running as president. You can only run for president two times. You can be president for four years and when and after the four years are up he will no longer be president. Other people will try to become president when he steps down. In 1996, President Barrack Obama was first elected to the Illinois state senate. Nelson Mandela was born in 1918 and died in 2013 at the age of 95. He was the former South African President and activist. He was a member of the African National Congress party beginning in the 1940’s. Rolihlahla Mandela was born into the Madiba clan in Mvezo, Transkei on July 19, 1918. He graduated from the University of South Africa. When he got old he had white hair and a little bit of gray in the back. Soon, Nelson Mandela began his studies for his bachelor of arts. He was 9 years old when his father died in 1927. In his 20’s he was actively involved in the anti-apartheid movement. Mandela’s full name is Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela and he died in Johannesburg, South Africa. Barrack...
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