Perspectives

In what follows, we will help you put the speech “A More Perfect Union” by Barack Obama in perspective by looking at current issues and other speeche…

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Current issues

The speech you have to analyze was delivered during the 2008 Presidential campaign in the US. While some parts of the speech were strictly related to the events of the time (Barack Obama trying to explain his relationship with his pastor following some controversial statements of the latter), the topic of the speech rema…

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Textual perspective

When analyzing the speech, we encourage you to look at other speeches by Barack Obama during the electoral campaign, such as Barack Obama's announcement speech from 2007. If you compare the two speeches you will notice that they share the same optimistic message that unity can be achieved in American society, as well as similar structure and language techniques.

In both speeches, Barack Obama begins by talking ab…