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<span>Academic writing can be written in first person and contain personal opinions.
This is true because in academic writing, you may state your own personal opinions about a subject or an issue. Academic writing is a freedom in writing about your own personal perspective and view of the subject with ofcourse the right kind of sources and statements.</span>
So that the audience isn’t confused on the authors purpose. With a smaller area it leaves not much confusion and allows the reader to know what he/her is reading.
Granholm uses a slow and steady pace to deliver her speech in "remembering Rosa Parks" so that the audience has time to associate with the significance of her words, thus her audience become familiar with the influence and impact of the words.
She wanted the audience to recognize the meaning of her words and to connect with them.
Jennifer Mulhern Granholm is a Canadian-American politician, lawyer, educator, author, political commentator and member of the Democratic Party who was the Attorney General of Michigan from 1999 to 2003 and served the 47th Governor of Michigan from 2003 to 2011.