State of the Union Address

So. Here is the State of the Union Address given by the one and only, President Obama.

Yeah. Pretty interesting stuff.

1. This video touches upon the triune brain in several ways. It touches upon the limbic brain because of the emotion he uses in the speech, and the speech drew emotion from the viewer. It touched upon the neocortex because you had to think about the speech. Neurons had to fire, and the viewer had to process the information Obama was saying. I was unsure if it touched upon the reptilian, and couldn't think of any way it did because it didn't involve anything that makes me think of fighting, flighting or mating.

2. I think the main trend this video used was the fact that it was on YouTube. This was the first presidential speech to be put on YouTube by the White House officials, so I would say that is a pretty big trend right there.

3. For the 7 Principles, there was obviously production techniques used. There were multiple shots that were used, as well as various other techniques with the audio and video. There was also very obvious Value Messages. Pretty much the whole thing was a value message about the current state of the U.S. There was also some emotional transfer used, with the whole losing jobs and homes thing, and how our soldiers are needlessly dying.

4. There were many of the 29 techniques of persuasion used. The really big, important ones I found were group dynamics, by using the word "we" instead of "I". Nostalgia, because he talked of when things were better. Scientific evidence, whenever he stated a fact. Warm fuzzies, with the mention of children. Plain folks, talking about how everyone is in the same boat together, no matter who you are. Humor, because he cracked some jokes. Maybe, because he wasn't would use words that weren't totally definitive. Testimonials, because he used people's stories of hardships in his speech. THose were the really big ones that I saw.

5. I think the thesis of the speech was how things are bad now, but they will get better with the countries support and we will all live happily ever after.

6. Three facts to back up his thesis are:

-How bad the unemployment rates are and have been.

-How the house market has been so bad, and people are getting evicted left and right.

-How things have been getting better, like the unemployment rates are going down, and the economy is getting better with each passing day.