Thursday, January 24, 2013

Quick-Write Assignment #2: Due Tues 1/29

Listen to and/or read President Obama's Inauguration Speech delivered this past Monday.
Analyze it and make an argument about what kind of ethos he is trying to craft using his language, images, allusions, and even body language. (Your thesis statement should be a sum of your analysis/argument.) Use specific language (direct quotes) from the speech as evidence to back up your ideas and help prove your thesis.

A transcript of the speech can be found here.

A video of the speech can be found here.

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