Barack Obama's New Hampshire "Yes We Can" speech
This study guide will help you analyze Barack Obama’s New Hampshire Primary Speech. We will show you examples of elements in the text that will be relevant for your analysis. In these notes, we will focus on summary, topic, speaker, audience, language, circumstances, and intention.
Presentation of the speech
Title: “New Hampshire Primary Speech”
Speaker: Barack Obama
Where: New Hampshire
When: 8th of January, 2008 during the primary elections in the 2008 US presidential campaign, after Obama lost the elections in New Hampshire.
Barack Obama (b. 1961) is a politician who served as the 44th President of the United States between 2009 and 2017. The “New Hampshire Primary Speech” was delivered during his first presidential campaign in the primary elections for becoming the nominee of the Democratic Party for the US Presidency.
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