Today my friends and I wrote a poem based off of words or phrases taken from Clinton and Obama's inaugurations. We read the speeches and highlighted the things that we liked the best. It was interesting to see what we came up with. My friends chose words that didn't seem to relate to what I chosebut, when we formed our poem, we made everything fit together.
It was a great activity to do with the theme of struggle for equality because it showed that two presidents may say different words, but many of the issues addressed in Clinton's speech were in Obama's. We're still struggling some of the same problems of the past.
Does this mean that the speeches are for nothing? Will we never achieve what we set out to do? I certainly don't think so, but America's faults will take time to perfect. Taking time makes us impatient; we must remember our history and "be the change" to form this country into what the Founding Fathers originally wrote it was going to be.
"The preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
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