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Analysis of the acceptance speech by Obama.
Paragraph 2,3,4,5,6
The text is Obama's acceptance speech, delivered on the 6th of November in Charlotte.
In a 38-minute speech, greeted by raucous applause, he emphasized the vast differences between the parties: leaving out the introductive paragraph, the whoole speech is based on the big division the parties have and the importance votes and voters have in this situation, because the future of all America is dipending on them; the repetition of the simple sentence "the choice beetween two" in lines 1, 2 and 3 (of the second paragraph) specyfies better the subject of the speech. Furthermore the three lines are also linked together by the repetition of the same concept.
Going on with the text, the reader – or the listener – notices the use of the pronouns "Ours" and "We". In this way, he wants to involve more his audience, underlining again their importance, but also rendering the background more united, introducing even a sense of sharing something. In this case Obamas' project. In the following lines, after referring on the most important values for American people, Obama provides personal examples to render more credible his word and the previous sense of sharing.
He also touches on the fascism period because he wants to highlight the strength of America, that triumphed over it, and this means freedom and indipendence. It also underlines his will and his involvment agains a totalitarity politic.
Obama had a complex political mission during his acceptance speech: he was trying to convince a small group of undecided voters to give him another term. That's why he is going back to his previous years and tries to talk as an adult politician and not more as the first African-American that won the presidential nomination. Campaigning on a theme of hope and change then, Obama's new prospects now turn on the idea of restablishing a struggling economy, working and collaborating. Everybody is on the same level, everybody has the same problems and so everybody needs the same solutions. He is speaking criticizing the solutions provided by the opposition whose generally prescription is the tax-cut. But Obama underlines well what he means: "I won't pretend the path I'm offering is quick or easy," Obama said. "It will take more than a few years for us to solve challenges that have built up over decades." In this way he is warning voters. The promise of a better future can be reached only with a common effort. He listed second-term goals such as expanding manufacturing jobs, increasing exports, curbing college tuition and recruiting new math and science teachers.in order to provide new jobs and more opportunity to make a stronger foundation of the american economy. He reached out reducing the deficit over the next decade and create a “leaner and more efficient” government.