Each year, the president addresses a joint session of Congress to report on the state of the union.
This annual event is known as the State of the Union address (SOTU).This assignment asks you to review the most recent SOTU address and analyze the president speech.
Assess the president's speech by answering the following questions.
What is the president's general impression of the state of the union (the general direction or condition of the country)?
what does he identify as the primary accomplishments of the past year(s)?
Does he mention any issues that haven't been dealt with or started but did not completed?
Whom does he blame?
What are the issues of greatest concern to the president, and what initiative does he announce to solve these problems?