How Authors Support Their Claims Video #2
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Visual description – image of President Barack Obama with excerpt from State of the Union address: “We can do this.  I know we can, because we’ve done it before.  At the end of World War II, when another generation of heroes returned home from combat, they built the strongest economy and middle class the world has ever known. My grandfather, a veteran of Patton’s Army, got the chance to go to college on the GI Bill.  My grandmother, who worked on a bomber assembly line, was part of a workforce that turned out the best products on Earth.

Narrator: In this case, the president is appealing to tradition or a common history.

President Obama: "We can do this. I know we can, because weíve done it before."

Narrator: He then references his grandparents, which is also an appeal to common history and tradition in the form of military service.

President Obama: "My grandfather, a veteran of Patton's Army, got the chance to go to college on the GI Bill.