Our parents and other adults always tell us that we are the future. Problems like the environment, for example, will be long term and what their generation and generations before them have done is what we need to fix now and when we are running the country. When we get older, in not too many years, we will be responsible to figure out a solution to turn around this trend that has put our world at risk.
This is one reason which we did not discuss about President Obama's speech which I thought about after the discussion. An article discussed how the President wants kids to stay in school to help their country. Some may say that this is just the governments "agenda", however I thought, and I know it's kind of a long shot, but maybe it's a cry for help. Obama's ratings have gone down, the whole country is in somewhat of a state of panic because of the recession and maybe Obama just wants some help, from anyone. If we can become more educated we can give a voice and fix the mistakes that were made before us.
Besides a cry for help, I just thought maybe it's a warning. Stay in school, get as much knowledge as you can, use the resources schools give to you because you as a country will need it.
These ideas literally just came to me as I began writing the beginning which is why they aren't very detailed. So I guess since this is for us, we can ask before and after the speech why exactly is he giving it? Lets try and read his mind and think about what prompted the idea.
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I can see what you mean by that. I'm hesitant to refer to this speech as a 'cry for help' as that sounds extremely desperate, but I'd agree you could see this speech as a way to become more popular and do something very neutral. I mean, what Obama's speech basically did was say something that you cannot disagree with unless you are a whole new kind of crazy. Perhaps as a side effect of this may be showing how uptight some people are over anything Obama does, even if it isn't a bad thing, ultimately making them look bad.
ReplyDeleteBut I recall during his campaign he talked a lot about education and the importance of self-responsibility and rewarding good teachers, etc. I think this may have sort of reinforced his image?