The Reflection Of President Barack Obama's Speech

Our basic education and commitment to learn and stay in school lays the foundation of a stable future full of accomplishments and a chance to be whoever we want to be. Responsibility and suc-cess coexists, whether it is the responsibility of parents, teachers or us selves. If you keep trying to be the best version of yourself and commit to school and your dream profession, you will have a higher chance of experiencing success in life. Education is the topic and focus of President Barack Hussein Obama’s inspirational, informative and expectant speech. The speech was held at Waker-field High School in Arlington, which is located in Virginia, at the very beginning of the new school year of 2009. The 8th of Sepember 2009 and the beginning

The expressive language function is often seen in political speeches because of the clear intention of stating an opinion. The expressive language function also has a focus on the language, which Obama has in his speech where the rhetorical device of repetition and under-standable language is used. The directive language function shines through the most. The spokes-person has a clear focus on the receiver as well as an intention of requesting and encouraging. The spokesperson also speaks directly to the receiver by using the personal pronoun “you”. Obama uses all the modes of appeal in his speech to strengthen his argumentation. As already mentioned, he uses pathos to appeal to the receivers emotions. He does this by making them feel some kind of guilt toward the nation’s future and to make them feel like they only can do well in life if they use a lot of energy on school. He uses logos by appealing to the receiver’s common sense of staying in school and make the best effort possible to have a stable future. Lastly he uses ethos by being the President of the United States of America, and therefore has some kind of reliability and the re-ceiver therefor trusts his intentions and statement, as well as him mentioning previous speech upon responsibility of parents, teachers and the government to make the school life

The values he believes a good student has, is their own responsibility and their will to put in a lot of effort in order to be the best version of themselves as possible, as well to experience success in their future occupation. His attempts to include and address the students are working quite well, and the students most definitely had the speech in mind throughout their time in school. Obama talks about education a lot in his speeches, and it is clear in his speech that he wants the best America as possible and hopes the students all around United States has the oppor-tunity to become whoever he or she wants to