Summer School reading on President Obama

Barack Obama Eulogy

1) Describe how multi-media enhances the eulogy. (Consider still and moving images as well as text)

2) Comment on Ted Kennedy's attitude to service. Provide examples.

3) Comment on the effective use of rhetoric (e.g. contrasting public and private; serious and humorous; triumph and failure) and diction (adjectives of praise, verbs, etc.) in Obama's speech. There is a link to an online dictionary of rhetorical terms posted above.

This Eulogy that the President of the United States gave upon the death of a great senator, and Patriotic American. Multi - media enhances the eulogy because the President is such a International figure. He describes Ted Kennedy as the nicest Senator ever,s well he showed that he was one of the hardest working Senators ever.

The President depicts Ted Kennedy's service to America, and to his fellow man. An example of him being as nice as he was, when he would finish a debate or election, he would always make sure his fellow colleges where happy. That meant anything from calling them and asking if they were alright, to getting them where they wanted to be in the senate. It didn't stop there, he also made it a obligation to reach out and call every family and people who lost loved ones in the 9/11 attacks. Once he started he never stopped. He would make sure that all the distraught families and relationships, he made sure they were reimbursed and able to make a living still.

The usage of rhetoric terms from the President in his eulogy was very well stated and communicative. He jokes about Ted Kennedy bribing a Texan Senator with his favorite type of Cigars, when everyone knows that can be something borderline illegal. When Ted Kennedy lost so many loved ones before he was even 30, it took a lot out of him, and it was very hard. But instead of feeling sorry for himself and sulking, he kept on trucking, and doing what his brothers would have wanted him to.