Recreate Obama's Logo

For the recreation of Obama's logo my group decided that we were going to keep the circle with the sun rising and the red and white strips. We like the idea of change that Obama's logo already evokes. Even though we might have to tweek it a little bit for copyright reasons. But other than that it will be staying the basic same way. What my group plans on doing is creating designs that combine and the picture into the future plan that we discussed in Obama's speech. For example, we are using the education plan that Obama has. Our group agreed on doing an apple with a bite out of it, and the bite will be the Obama logo. We also plan on doing this for healthcare and possibly foreign policy. The pictured will be represented on t-shirts, billboards, and on buttons. We wanted to use simple pictures that could get the basic idea of what Obama is addressing in his campaign. So people that are aware of Obama's healthcare, education, and foriegn policy plans could reflect on them after looking at this picture or the pictures could catch the eye of someonewho is not familiar with the plan and it may spark interest in looking up obama's plan. I think our logo transformations would have been useful before the election in sparking interest to look up the information about these topics and after the election to let viewers know that Obama is working on these topics. I am very excited to start really making these come to life!

Grou Approach

discuss why and how your group chose to approach the speech and the candidate’s response... My group decided to approach the speech in a serious manner. We decided this because we felt this would be the best way to really demonstrate the essence of Obama's speech. His speech was very good and out group wanted to attempt to be just as good as he was. Also, we wanted his response to be just as powerful and strong as his when we spoke. So we attempted to keep a majority of the content around the same lines as Obama's was. Once again we did not want to take away anything from the speech. That is once again why my group wanted to make the speech serious and attempt to keep the content the same. We collectively felt that his speech was very good and we wanted to give the rewrite of his speech justice. We approached the speech by first looking at Obama's speech and pulling out the ideas that we defiantly wanted to add in our own speech. We looked at the values that we thought were the most important to us and the people of America in a whole. Then we wrote an outline to organize and make sure that we did manage to get all the points in to the speech. Lastly, Sean, our speech writer, wrote the speech with the outline and with Madison and I's input or ideas of what could go into the speech. Thus making the speech we have to present today. We were all very pleased with Sean's final product.

Obama Logo

For Obama's logo I would not say it re creacted him but it created him. The look of the logo, to me, looks as if it is a sun rising over the American flag. Signifying the dawn of a new America and Obama is going to bring that. That is the message that I got after looking at the logo and I think this is the idea that Obama was going for when he was choosing what he wanted for the logo for his campaign. The logo must be done strategically because this represents them and this is one picture that will be in the people's mind when the canidadte is mentioned. I do believe that Obama's logo matches all the ideals and the change that he wanted to come across. I also love that the sun in the background can be seen as the O for Oba,a once again making an appeal to the logo because he does have multiple things that can be seen in the logo. Also the colors are vibrant and patriotic with the red white and blue also the yellow of the sun. The red white and blue obviously are the patiotic colors and the yellow I feel is an amazing way to try and express the change. good logo in all.

2008 Concession and Victory Speech

For Obama's Victory speech he does an amazing job at really drawing people into the speech with his confidence and the way he presents himself infront of the crowd. The use of diction that he uses to really brnig across the strength of America and how all things are possible in America. At the beginning of the speech he really discusses how the people of America are important and how they were abe to change and bring across unity of America. He empasizes how America is one and not seperated even in an election. Obama does continue to use his slogan change in his speech to make the promise that he made through his campaign still relevent now after being elected. Obama also, thanked his running mate, his wife and all his supporters. Obama talks about how the change that he promised will be hard and he can not gaurantee a sudden change. It will talk time and he really puts it in true life and time perspective. I imagine to save himself if the promises that he made during his campaign do not happen right away. To save himself if they take time to happen and really work for the United sates. Obama also uses famous quotes like "government for the people and by the people" To make it have a strong and powerful punch to it. Also, the use of repetition like in his thank you section where he is talkg about how his supporters "drew strnghth" in his campaign. To show that the people of the united states is his strength and his rock. Also, the use of "yes we can" at the end of the speech really impacts that we as a people of the united states can do everything. We can do everything together. All in all obama did a great speech and through his diction, repetition, and quotes he made the point he wanted to come across come across perfectly.
I like that in McCain's concession speech he is very generous and very respectful. Especially when he is praising Obama and when he says he is recognizing the importance of the election. I also do like the McCain is respectful and askes his supporters to stop booing when Obama's name is mentioned. He does make his speech very respectful again and is a very good sport about not becoming the president. I do appluad him by admitting that there are differences and not sugar coating that he is going ot back everything up that Obama likes but instead he is willing to help and put input in for Obama to listen to. I like that even though you can tell that McCain is upst by his voice, since he sounds like he is going to cry, he stays strong and positive. Out of the three concession speeches I have reviewed latley McCain is the best at being the best sport and really staying positive during his concession speech. McCain does a great job at the end of his speech in using the sentence where we are americans and how we never surrendor. Putting in an illusion to the army and strength, which I feel people knew MCain for. All in all I thought MCain had a very good speech also.

Concession Speech by John Kerry

Kerry's concession speech was a very gracious and thank full speech. Kerry did express his frustration that he will not be the next president in the beginning. Especially, in the ways that the vote is calculated through a legal process and not by the voters. He apologizes to his supporters for not being able to represent his supporters and for not winning. He emphasizes later that his party will continue to "fight" for what they believe in and that he will continue to "fight" for what they believe in. The word choice, fight, that Kerry used at the beginning of every sentence in this section makes the readers and listeners of this speech believe that after this speech even after losing for the president Kerry can be trusted to continue to work on the ideas that he built his campaign off of. This helps Kerry in his career after the elections because if he does decide to run for any other position after his seat in the senate ran out then he could still have a strong democratic base and supporters. He sets himself up with this enlightening and encouraging section to keep up his supporters moral to help him later in his career and to not really burn any bridges. He also sets himself up for success at the beginning when he admits that there was not way that he was going to win based off Ohio but he encourages his party to support Bush and not allow the country to be split due to his loss. Kerry basically tells the American people to support and back Bush because we are America and we are stronger together. He tells them not to hold a grudge because of the loss. This also keeps Kerry from burning any bridges that could hurt him in his career if he so chooses to continue in politics. Kerry is very gracious and positive in all his diction through out this speech keeping an uplifting and positive mood. He did very well not to come off as too disappointed after the beginning section. Kerry was able through diction and how he presented himself in his voice and appearances to make the situation into a positive one. Also, a majority of his speech was focus don thanking his supporters. There was a huge chunk where he named certain supporters that he meet and thanked them by name. Also, he keep mentioning how much much he appreciated everything that they did for him. Once, again trying to continue that strong supporter base that, I believe, was his goal the whole speech. Kerry did do an very good job with his word choices to make his speech come off as gracious and thankful even if he was disappointed and I think that was the angle he was aiming for.

Prospective About the Topic

My prospective about this topic while I have research has actually changed. I started doing this topic about elementary teting in the State of Texas under the No Child Left Behind Act. However, now I feel like I am aiming toward how the No CHild Left Behind Act wants testing to fold out in states like Texas. I have found a lot of articles on the NCLB website discussing how the tgest is soppoused to help the students and the guide lines that the states are meant to follow to make the testing successful. So I am going to start my paper off with the source describing why the testing is going to work and how it will benefit the students. So my main point about the importance of looking at the No Child LEft Behind Act is made at the beginning of the paper. The I am going to trickle my sources in. First I am going to add the state guide lines that I found on the No Child LEft Behind Website so the readers can have an idea of what states must do to meet the standards. Then I plan on adding my article about the superintendent who talks about how the state testing has good intensions, however, it really needs to watch how it labels schools. I also want to find a article that is totally for state testing and some quotes that back it up then I want to find some quotes and articles that say how there is negative points to the state testing. My prospective has totally changed and I am now all about state testing and why it is a "good" thing and how it will benefit the students according to the NCLB Act. I just feel this is a bettter way to show the importance of education and make people pay more attention to how this act affects the United States right now.

Sources Handling My Issue

My sources handle my issue well. I feel like they cover all the points that I want to cover. In my source #1 applies the quotes from the superintendent of Brownsville in Texas. I like this because I have a quote that I can analyze from a upper person in education. However, I do want to get a quote from a teacher and from some students or parents to also analyze in my paper. For my source #2 I have a document from the No Child Left Behind website that tells why the testing will work for the students. It goes into depth about the way that it will help the teachers, parents, and students and how it will follow the progress of the child. This ties in because this is a legitimate document from the No Child Left Behind Law. I can tie it in to analyze what the makers of the Law thought about the No Child Left Behind law and how they believe that it will work. This will make my paper stronger. Source #3 is also off the No Child Left Behind Document. This document is from the Education Secretary and it is explaining what the states should do for the students through the state testing. It basically gives the states an outline on what they expect. I think this will tie into my paper well because I do have my paper narrowed down to state testing in Texas in the elementary level. This is a good tie in so people who read my paper can have an idea of what Texas is supposed to do and what they are expected to do with the students. I like it because it gives the expectations.