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SAT Reading: Defining the Word "Creed" in the Context of President Obama's Speech 7 Views
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What is our founding creed - like what does that mean, anyway? The "recipe" for America must be defended; our ideology is precious. We must protect it... unified.
Transcript
- 00:03
alright people were still following presidential speeches namely Barack
- 00:07
Obama's 2013 inaugural and then we've skimmed it while skim it again we [text on screen]
- 00:11
promise but let's start with a question here as used in the passage Creed and my
- 00:15
country that most closely means what the sentence is right there they gave to us
- 00:20
a republic a government of and By and For the People
Full Transcript
- 00:22
entrusting each generation to it keep safe our founding Creed let's see well
- 00:26
the correct answer it's easy ology see well the shmoop family has been passing [students writing]
- 00:30
down a secret chili recipe from generation to generation and you can
- 00:35
find it on the website too somewhere I think each generation keeps that recipe
- 00:39
safe believing that deliciousness is worth defending an ideology is a bit [tomato sauce in a pot]
- 00:45
like a recipe for what people believe and how they think and act Obama is
- 00:49
saying the recipe for America must be safeguarded if Americans start adding [picture of Obama]
- 00:54
broccoli or taking out freedom well the country won't think or act like the [melting pot]
- 00:58
founders intended will Creed often has religious overtones the president is
- 01:04
using it here to convey the importance and depth of this foundational idea but [text on screen]
- 01:08
he's not saying the country is a religion faith a and sect be right there [Jesus]
- 01:14
are both strongly religious words faith is about having trust in an idea not
- 01:19
about the idea itself insect also implies division while Obama is
- 01:24
appealing for unity well the declaration is itself a
- 01:27
document D but as with our secret chili recipe the idea contained in the
- 01:32
document has a separate existence that is much more important or a much more
- 01:36
delicious than the paper on which it's written over where the paper does have
- 01:40
high fiber which is supposed to be good for you [melting pot]
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