Questions!

-Try and make a summary of his speech, keeping the main outlines of his speech and ideas clear.

-Find examples in the text that show how Obama can be the man of the people and explain.

-Find examples in the text that show Obama's point of view on war and explain.

-A man whose ethnic group has historically lacked power is becoming the leader of a nation accustomed to exercise its unrivaled power on the world stage. What could this change?

-Comment on the text about how US policy should change.

- President Obama signed executive orders last tuesday directing the Central Intelligence Agency to shut what remains of its network of secret prisons and ordering the closing of the Guantanamo detention camp within a year. What will this change?

- "The way to make a government responsible is to hold it accountable and the way to make it accountable is to make it transparent so that the American people know how decisions are being made." Obama is lifting the secrecy act concerning the Freedom of Information Act, revealing or hiding information for a reason such as national security, this is now over.
Give your opinion about that.

- In the video about Barack Obama's power of persuasion; the journalist says : "There is some truth to the axiom you can campain in poetry, but you have to govern in prose." Give your opinion.