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SAT Reading: Analyzing President Obama's Choice of the Phrase "Outworn Programs" 6 Views


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Obama wanted innovation back in 2013. How do we know? Watch this video on analyzing text.


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all right people we are still on the Obama inauguration 2013 it's his long

00:08

speech all right here we go question in the context of the passage the [text on screen]

00:11

president's use of the phrase outworn programs I want to III there were there

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helps illustrate his idea that what let's go back line 83 way up here

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cruising down down down and let's find it 83 all right we understand that

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Warren program fucking adequate to the needs of our time so we got to have new

00:27

ideas and technology and yeah so well let's see we're thinking about all of

00:32

this how does this come together how does this play well it's gotta be a [girl wondering]

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innovations necessary to cope yeah and that's it well returning to the main [text on screen]

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point of his speech Obama is asking people to accept changes in policy that

00:45

he hopes to enact he's already lobbying for whatever his next bills are in

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keeping with the idea that we need to embrace new approaches he's suggesting [Obama smiling]

00:53

that Americans should support the changes he wants to make because well

00:58

some programs are just too out-of-date to cope with today's challenges Obama [social security and medicare cards]

01:02

doesn't address his first term in this speech and he definitely doesn't level

01:06

any criticisms at it so get rid of B the president suggests that Americans have

01:10

to come together like a Beatles song but doesn't say that we're sick of being

01:14

divided like a u2 song so get rid of see based on what happens on the Internet [text on screen]

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while divisive political issues are America's second favorite hobby after

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cat pictures by Todd the president also doesn't make any sweeping [newspaper articles]

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generalizations about government programs failing people D even if they

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do there are clearly some things he wants to change but well he doesn't want

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to change everything he was a politician at the end of the day right so well [people holding up signs]

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that's it the answer is a innovations necessary to cope with current

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challenges yeah G vote for change boy that'll really stir up a hornet's nest

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don't ever say that in an election yeah how about if we said vote for keeping

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everything the same you know try that see if that gets you elected at your

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next to student body gathering it yeah good luck [students debating]

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