The Words of the Wise

As I found myself browsing over all the different words that the president's have used since 1789, I found myself to be rather surprised at how much certain words were used and at how little words were used.

When I think of a new president, I think of improvement. For some reason it has always seemed to me that when a new president takes office, he is going to work on something and make our nation a better place. Looking through the words used by the presidents, I realized my assumption was way off. There were only two presidents who even had that word listed. I guess it's not as popularly used as I thought. Although there were some words that didn't surprise me all that much.

During the time I was looking for improvement, I seemed to notice how often nation and government were used. It seemed to me that those two words were very common in almost all of the president's speeches. Sometimes, through the early years, these words weren't as common, but as the years turned towards being more current the usage of those words were very high.

Through this activity, I was able to really think about the words that presidents commonly use in their speech, and I thought that was really neat. It got me to be creative in the ways in which some of the presidents used so many of the unpopular words that were so frequently used by them as an individual. Hopefully throughout the course we will have more opportunities to do more activities like this.