State of the Union Speech Word Cloud

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President Obama's State of the Union speech included more than 6,500 words, led by variations on "America," "people," "new" and "jobs," with "future," "work" and "years" also high in the word count. While word repetition doesn't offer any deep analysis of the speech, the broad message is clear: "American people need new jobs and work in future years." 

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[bobnjersey]

[the broad message is clear: "American people need new jobs and work in future years." ]
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love the word clouds ... but it could also be interpreted as:

People of America know the best future jobs of the nation will be taken to another country ? made possible by government republicans and democrats.

[IMP578]

First of all Americans need to learn how to read and write!

[tsigili]

What he means is.....the US government has allowed all current manufacturing to be shipped to China, so if we want new jobs, we have to invent new stuff that China doesn't know how to make!

Good luck with that!

[sjc_1]

We may come up with new stuff, but it will just be made in China.

[RedWings_ninety_one]

There have been numerour studies that have shown the decline of education in the past 50 years. A HS graduate in the 50s had a vocabulary consisting of 45,000 words. Not bad then you realize that most of those words are little words we use everyday, like the, at, a, etc. However in recent years the studies have shown that the vocabulary of HS graduates was 17,000. No wonder people didn't seem to understand his speech.

In one of my classes last week, we were given a project to debate on. It was on the wording of the 14th amendment and whether or not that it was clear on what it wanted. In my group I was randomly given the actual words to the 14th amendment. When my group asked me what I had to read, I told them it was the actual words to the 14th amendment...so they naturally assumed that I couldn't understand what it said. I knew and interpreted exactly what it said, although it took a little longer than reading normal documents...just shows the education levels in this country.