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.
The sentence I would choose is: "He was looking down at his outstretched hands as he talked". To me, it implies that he cannot look into the eyes of the person he is speaking to, as if he doesn't feel he is worthy.
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