Perspectives

Historical perspective

It is important to analyze Barack Obama’s “Audacity of Hope” speech from a historical perspective. The speech was delivered in 2004, three years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks against the United States. In this light, Obama’s warning about America’s “real enemies” highlights a serious threat to the security of America. Similarly, Obama draws attention to the war in Iraq, which began in…

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Textual perspectives

In his “Audacity of Hope” speech, Barack Obama uses the phrase “I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper”. The same phrase is repeated four years after, during Obama’s 2008 Acceptance Speech usually referred to as "The American Promise". On August 28, Obama accepted his party’s nomination for president and delivered a speech in which he mirrored some of the themes explored in “Audacity of Hope”…