President Obama’s famous sec…

President Obama’s famous second inaugural speech delivered on the day of inauguration was given as a thanking speech combined by a declaration of needs to urge Americans to reclaim from conservatives the spirit of the founding fathers for equality among all. Americas first African American President who believed in democracy and believed in peace, justice, and most importantly equality. The speech shared much emotion, logic, and credibility by the leader of our country along with other rhetorical devices to enhance his speech. President Obama, in a close comparison on the day of his delivered speech, ties it to the speech spoken by Marin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” alludes to establishing more ethos by reminding us (whom he is addressing) that equality is still of great importance to this very day as it was at the time it was written.

Both in the importance of unity and structure of language, the president brings us to the past, telling us that freedom had a long line of being taken rather than given.

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He uses logos to reinforce this idea by referring back to the American Revolution, which is reminding us, in a periodic sentence, that the patriots didn’t fight for revenge, but for freedom. Freedom that we would keep safe passing it on to every single generation with it. Just as Martin Luther King had long before in his speech, President Obama springs us back into the present. He lists off our country’s accomplishments, starting each achievement of society by “together” or “we” to express that it was a collective effort of many, giving the audience (everyone) a sense of pride and acknowledgement of the greatness and achievements that can come out of unity. President Obama begins next by starting his next paragraph with a rebuttal by beginning with “But’, bringing out a noticeable change of tone. Using deductive reasoning Obama more simply than previously words it out that the Nation cannot work under one individual, but work as a single unit as “American people can no more meet the demands of today’s world” and “No single person can train (what we need), Now, more than ever, we must do these things together, as one nation and one people”.

At this point, it creates a huge sense of unity and direction towards equality and togetherness. President Obama juxtaposes the “ending of economic recovery” which solidifies hope and of use parallelism “we are made for this moment and we will seize it – so long as we seize it together”. He rallies again, a parallelism which is used frequently throughout the rest of the speech, “we, the people,” to drive further in establishing togetherness but also builds his presidential ethos, which is important to our freedom and our rights, while still a part of our nation’s unit as a whole. As he implements this form of credibility into the rest of his speech, the president lists the current issues facing our society today, and how we, as one unit, can tackle the issues, pursuing to solve them. He alludes to many events that have taken place in the past year at the time such as the hurricanes that “swept away a home”, and gun violence in relation to child safety. These real issues help draw the listener back into the reality from the vision of just equality. Finally, President Obama calls for action by reminding us, through anaphora, that “our journey is not complete” until we are all equal and more open to opportunity, also Obama tells us that it is our task, alluding to the Declaration of Independence, to “make these words, rights, these values of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness real for every American” is a task that we all as Americans will face together as one to achieve for all.

Concluding his speech, the president reminds us that we, himself included with the audience are the hope, and the change that is needed to be in action. Obama signs off his address thanking God and proclaiming that “may He forever bless these United States of America.” For the final push of ethos gathering all emotions at the end to conclude the speech.