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SAT Reading: Analyzing the Effect of Mentioning the Patriots of 1776 on the Entire Speech 9 Views
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Obama encourages everyone to participate in their own governance. He cites the Founding Father's interests as the big driver here. And that we should follow their lead.
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- 00:02
alright people were talking about the Barack Obama inauguration speech 2013
- 00:08
here so we're gonna go back and skim it really fast yeah we're done now the [text on screen]
- 00:13
passages discussion of the Patriots of 1776 primarily serves to do what well
- 00:21
the correct answer here yeah it's B the people the key to answering this [bee on a flower]
- 00:24
question lies in the text surrounding the mention of the Patriots Obama says
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- 00:29
that they provided Americans with a republic quote entrusting each [text on screen]
- 00:33
generation to keep safe our founding Creed unquote see it right there in the
- 00:39
text that's what he said he juxtaposes this with mentions of
- 00:42
tyranny and mob rule which are the unfortunate alternatives to participate
- 00:46
or a democracy so Obama brings up those great fighters from American history not
- 00:50
so much to warn about what they fought against ie the British monarchy doesn't [statue]
- 00:55
seem to be a clear and present danger at least not these days but it was said to
- 00:59
encourage Americans with their example right like they took charge [civil war reenactment]
- 01:03
similarly the reference here is meant to encourage Americans to stand up for [people on strike]
- 01:07
their country not suggest that they're facing a ground up fight build democracy
- 01:12
from nothing and finally while Obama clearly respects a lot of the values the
- 01:16
founding fathers put into their documents he's all about moving forward [old painting of politicians]
- 01:19
right kind of sorta yeah well that's what he said and we're sticking to it
- 01:23
so he's contending that the people with a big P there are responsible for
- 01:27
ensuring that the government functions properly so check your Congressman to [White House]
- 01:31
see what they've spent money on lately yeah it's a good place to start
- 01:34
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