Question

Please help I’m really stressing out

1. List four areas in which Obama felt change was necessary that he mentions in the acceptance speech. Next to each item, explain what type of changes you think might be made in relation to those four things, to make the world a better place.

2. Choose one quote about change that Obama says in the acceptance speech. Write that quote, and include what you think Obama meant by that quote.

Answer 1

Answer:Barack Obama was describing to me the manner in which the Mongol emperor and war-crimes innovator Genghis Khan would besiege a town. “They gave you two choices,” he said. “‘If you open the gates, we’ll just kill you quickly and take your women and enslave your children, but we won’t slaughter them. But if you hold out, then we’ll slowly boil you in oil and peel off your skin.’”

This was not meant to be commentary on the Trump presidency—not directly, at least. In any case, Obama has more respect for Genghis Khan than he has for Donald Trump. He raised the subject of Genghis Khan in order to make a specific, extremely Obama-like point: If you think today’s world is grim, simply cast your mind back 800 years to the steppes of Central Asia. “Compare the degree of brutality and venality and corruption and just sheer folly that you see across human history with how things are now,” he said. “It’s not even close.”

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