Comments and discussion

If you are writing about Michelle Obama's Commencement Address in connection with the exam question from August 18th, 2017, you are also asked to comment on it. This means that you are asked to discuss the claims made in her speech and consider how convincing it is. As part of your comment you can also put the spee…

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Discrimination in the field of education today

Obama provides many examples of historical discrimination against African Americans in the field of education. However, when she talks about the situation today she says relatively little about contemporary discrimination. Instead, she suggests that the low representation of African Am…

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The importance of higher education

Another issue to discuss could be the importance of a higher education. Obama argues that getting a college degree will make both your own life and society better in multiple ways, but does not address the issue that college graduates within some fields sometimes end up unemployed and overquali…