Analytical Outline
I. Introduction
A. Background info: Since the presidency of George Washington, America has
become trillions in debt.
B. Background info: Families are losing homes and the poverty levels continue to
spike.
C. Background info: The verge of another war is leading America on edge.
D. Thesis statement: Barack Obama’s Acceptance Speech at the Democratic
Convention Mile High Stadium, Denver Colorado uses the past presidencies to
show America the way he will change on America.
II. Body Paragraph 1
A. Topic sentence: America’s continued failures over the last eight years with
Washington as president; has led to debt, war, and grief on the American people.
1. passage: “This country is more decent than one where a woman in Ohio,
on the brink of retirement, finds herself one illness away from disaster
after a lifetime of hard work” (Obama 2008).
a. interpretation: In context, one can see that the women in Ohio
would not have the funds of survival after retirement. The money
she had would be vanished by medications and medical issues. She
would then have to rely on family for help; thus causing more debt
for her and the family.
2. passage: “This country is more generous than one where a man in Indiana
has to pack up the equipment he’s worked on for twenty years and watch it
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shipped off to China, and then chokes up as he explains how he felt like a
failure when he went home to tell his family the news” (Obama 2008).
a. interpretation: The materials being shipped are providing his
family an entire loss which led the main to despair and hurt when
having to tell his family that he lost everything.
3. passage: “We are more compassionate than a government that lets
veterans sleep on our streets and families slide into poverty; that sits on its
hands while a major American city drowns before our eyes” (Obama
2008).
a. interpretation: Those who served shouldn’t have to be fighting the
streets after serving this country, but the poverty and debt ratio
spiking is not creating jobs, leaving those veterans with medical
issues that they can’t afford to treat, and leaving them jobless after
serving.
4. passage: “When the average American family saw its income go up
$7,500 instead of down $2,000 like it has under George Bush” (Obama
2008).
a. interpretation: Income ratios depleting, showing the American
poverty rates increasing due to Washington’s presidency over eight
years.
5. passage: “When I listen to another worker tell me that his factory has shut
down, I remember all those men and women on the South Side of Chicago
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who I stood by and fought for two decades ago after the local steel plant
closed” (Obama 2008).
a. interpretation: The loss of businesses during his presidency didn’t
help the average American worker be able to provide for their
families. The rate of employment decreasing.
6. passage: “I think about my mom, who raised my sister and me on her own
while she worked and earned her degree; who once turned to food stamps
but was still able to send us to the best schools in the country with the help
of student loans and scholarships” (Obama 2008).
a. interpretation: For those single mothers continuing to fight to
provide, lack of sleep and student loans, they still continued to
struggle with the economy.
III. Body Paragraph 2
A. Topic/transition sentence: Through promises of changes; The American people
have hope.
1. passage: “It’s a promise that says the market should reward drive and
innovation and generate growth, but that businesses should live up to their
responsibilities to create American jobs, look out for American workers,
and play by the rules of the road” (Obama 2008).
a. interpretation: When workers continue to prove diligence and
compassion at work, raises should come. People should be able to
create more businesses within the improving economy.
2. passage: “…Provide every child a decent education” (Obama 2008).
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a. interpretation: The education system will improve as teachers
would become more generous in salary. The more teachers we
have to educate the children, we are able to show the kids more
dedication to the future.
3. passage: “..invest in new schools and new roads and new science and
technology” (Obama 2008).
a. interpretation: Investing in science/technology aspects will lead to
future improvements on businesses and the overall being of life
and communication methods.
4. passage: “Our Government should work for us, not against us. It should
help us, not hurt us” (Obama 2008).
a. interpretation: Doesn’t matter race, gender, religion, but those
willing to work should be able. No discrimination.
5. passage: “I am my brother’s keeper; I am my sister’s keeper” (Obama
2008).
a. interpretation: Everyone needs to help everyone as ONE nation.
IV. Conclusion
A. Restatement of thesis: Lowered taxes, compassion in one’s country and less war
according to Obama, will lead America to be great again.
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