Map of Obama's acceptance speech

                                                                                                                                 Specific appeal to:

Introduction:

-         Importance of the values in society:

o    Obama's love towards his wife => love                                                               (Christians)

o    Thanking Joe Biden, the vice president => loyalty        

-         Great changes between 2004 and now:

o    War

o    Economic crises

o    Political gridlock

-         Difficulties of campaigns

-         Importance of the voters' choice for the future of American people (appeal to children)              Parents

-         Introduction of the topics of the speech:

o    Job

o    Economy (taxes and deficits)

o    Energy

o    Education

o    War and peace

 

 

Paragraph 1:

-         The choice is between two different visions for the future

-         Purpose:

o    Restore the values that were at the base of America's wealth

o    Personal examples (WWII)                                                                     Soldiers

-         Importance of people as a part of society:

o    Advantages: education, family, reward for working and responsibility, equality

 

 

Paragraph 2:

-         Reference to difficulties that grew up year by year:

o    Jobs

o    Tuition

o    Primary needs

-         Criticism towards his opponent:

o    No effective project (only tax cuts)

 

 

Paragraph 3:

-         Cutting taxes is only a way to cover the problem as well as:

o    Firing teachers                                                                                 Teachers

o    Kicking students off financial aid                                                           Students and families

-         Reference to the competition with Chinese engineers and scientists                            (Nationalists)

 

 

Paragraph 4:          

-         Straight to the point and sincere speech:

o    Difficulty for America to recover:

o    Necessary values and actions:

§  Common effort, shared responsibility, bold experimentation

§  Example of Roosevelt and the Great Depression ==> values and not only government programs or dictates

o    Recover will be long => his successor should continue Obama's policy

o    Set of goals to reach:

§  Manufacturing, energy, education, national security

o    Consequences:

§  New jobs, more opportunity, stronger foundation of economy

§  Getting America back to its wealth and values

 

Paragraph 5:

-         Examples of his effort:

o    Meeting with troubled workers and business leaders

o    Signing trade agreements

-         Appeal to American people's worth                                                                           Workers

-         Importance of creating new jobs in the USA:

o    Criticism towards shipping jobs overseas

o    Attractive perspective: a million new manufacturing jobs in 4 years

-         Energy question:

o    More in control and less dependence on foreign oil

o    Scientific progress:

§   more efficient engines

§  renewable energy:

·          new jobs

·         no pollution (reference to climate changing)                     Ecologists

o    Criticism towards his towards Romney and oil companies (wealth, environment)

 

Paragraph 6:

-         Importance of education:                                                                                      Students

o    Without age or money limit

o    Gateway to opportunity

§  Personal examples (he and his wife)

o    Last successes:

§  Raising standards for teaching and learning

§  Less tuition

o    Importance of having skilled American workers (and not foreign workers)

o    Importance of teachers and parents in students' life

o    Goals:

§  Improving early childhood education

§  More opportunities for workers to get skilled

§  Cutting in half the growth of tuition costs

 

 

Paragraph 7:

-         Reference to promises that have been fulfilled:

o    End of war in Iraq

o    Refocus on terrorists of the 9/11 attack

o    Strengthened old alliances

o    Forged new coalitions to the spread of nuclear weapons

o    Reasserted America's power across the Pacific

o    Advanced the rights and dignity of all human being in many countries

-         Reference to the army:                                                                                          Soldiers

o    Importance of having a strong army

-         Importance to continue focusing on foreign policy:

o    Terrorist

o    Europe's crisis

o    Israel security

o    Nuclear ambitions

o    Rights in the Arab World

-         Criticism towards his opponent:

o    New to foreign policy

o    Old mentality (does not understand the new challenges in the world)

-         Reducing army's cost to pay down the debt, create new jobs and improve the USA

-         Criticism towards Iraq and Afghanistan wars:

o    High cost in terms of lives and money

 

 

Paragraph 8:

-         Obama's economic purposes:

o    Reduce the deficit without wrecking the middle class

o    Reform the government

o    Reform the tax code

-         Criticism towards his opponent cutting policy

-         Focus on:

o    Middle class

o    Students

o    Health care

-         Importance of:

o    Risk-takers =>driving force behind the free enterprise system                         Small businessmen

o    Citizenship

-         Focus on:

o    Democracy

o    Responsibility and rights

o    Freedom

-         Appeal to Obama's experience as the President of the United States of America

-         Many examples about the topics of the speech =>summary of the speech that gives a great importance to it with concreteness

 

 

Conclusion:

-         Summary of Obama's ideals, values and projects

-         Reference to the USA as the greatest nation of Earth