Rhetorical Analysis Of Let's Move

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In the speech “Remarks to the NAACP,” the First Lady Michelle Obama uses rhetorical appeals to communicate with the audience in order to accentuate her “Let’s Move” program, consisting of four modules. Mrs. Obama’s says parents need to have access to information regarding healthy decisions because parents affect their child’s health. The second component is bringing healthy food into schools, forcing the youth to eat one healthy meal a day. Finding motivation for exercising is hard for some, thus the third component of “Let’s Move” is trying to incorporate daily exercising into a normal schedule. Finally, the fourth component is providing families with the correct food to become healthy. Mrs. Obama urges the NAACP to help her in the fight to …show more content…

Mrs. Obama uses research to prove her point about youth exercising saying, “Experts recommend at 60 minutes of exercise a day of activity.” (426) Mrs. Obama says that this is the bare minimum amount of exercise needed each day to prevent someone from becoming obese. Exercising does not have be sports related, but can be anything from walking to the store or school. The third point of “Let’s Move” is to encourage the youth to exercise for at least 60 minutes a day. However exercising may seem boring to some, but Mrs. Obama says school recess and physical education classes will count towards the 60 minutes per day, “And we’re working to get more kids participating in daily physical education classes and to get more schools offering recess fir their students.” (426) The current generation tends to spend most of their time on the couch, thus why under the “Let’s Move” program Mrs. Obama sets a goal, “We’ve set a goal…by 50 percent in the next five years.” (426) Mrs. Obama wants half the kids that go to school to not ride transportation and become active by just going to school. Children who ride their bike to school or walk have a higher chance of escaping

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