...Whisper of Aids” BY Maribel Garcia Texas A&M Corpus Christi Composition II English 1302-W01 Rhetorical Analysis of, “A Whisper of Aids” “A Whisper of Aids”, is a speech given by Mary Fisher. Mary Fisher is a republican white female, daughter of a multi-millionaire and mother of two sons. She was once employed at the Whitehouse for President Gerald R. Ford. She held a prominent position as the first female “advance man”. The defined position is “A man who travels ahead to arrange the details of scheduling, publicity, security, and other matters connected with a trip or public appearance, especially one to be made by a politician or dignitary”. Mary Fisher gave her “A Whisper of Aids “speech on August 19, 1992 at the Republican National Convention at the Astrodome in Houston, TX. That day she did not stand in front of her audience to speak for the Republican Party or for any advance man duties. She stood there that day as an HIV positive victim. An Aids victim that did not fit the profile of the stereotype. Behind the podium she voiced awareness through compassion. She wanted to erase stereo type and raise concern. She clearly states the reason for her rhetoric in her plea,” Set aside prejudice and politics to make room for compassion and sound policy.” Mary Fisher in her speech persuasively and successfully used appeals to achieve interest and concern to the rise of the Aids epidemic. Mary Fisher and her personal testimony of an HIV victim offered purpose...
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...Cassio and Iago supposedly discuss Desdemona in Act IV, scene i; and Othello will assume that Cassio is dead without being present when the fight takes place in Act V, scene i. Othello’s status as an outsider may be the reason he is such easy prey for Iago. Although Othello is a cultural and racial outsider in Venice, his skill as a soldier and leader is nevertheless valuable and necessary to the state, and he is an integral part of Venetian civic society. He is in great demand by the duke and senate, as evidenced by Cassio’s comment that the senate “sent about three several quests” to look for Othello (I.ii.46). The Venetian government trusts Othello enough to put him in full martial and political command of Cyprus; indeed, in his dying speech, Othello reminds the Venetians of the “service” he has done their state (V.ii.348). Those who consider Othello their social and civic peer, such as Desdemona and Brabanzio, nevertheless seem drawn to him because of his exotic qualities. Othello admits as much when he tells the duke about his friendship with Brabanzio. He says, -“[Desdemona’s]...
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...Starks, and Vergibal Woods or Tea cake. Janie is initially attracted to each man but she becomes detached to each except one. As each of the marriages progress Janie goes through many fights and bumps in the road and from each challenge she faces, she learns about herself and want she wants from life. Janie’s first marriage is with Logan Killicks. Janie’s is caught kissing a boy named Johnny Taylor under a pear tree during the springtime. Nanny spots them and says that Janie is now a full grown woman even though Janie denies it. Nanny then says that Janie should be married right away, even though Janie does not want to marry. Nanny arranges...
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...Act I, scene i Summary On a dark winter night outside Elsinore Castle in Denmark, an officer named Bernardo comes to relieve the watchman Francisco. In the heavy darkness, the men cannot see each other. Bernardo hears a footstep near him and cries, “Who’s there?” After both men ensure that the other is also a watchman, they relax. Cold, tired, and apprehensive from his many hours of guarding the castle, Francisco thanks Bernardo and prepares to go home and go to bed. Shortly thereafter, Bernardo is joined by Marcellus, another watchman, and Horatio, a friend of Prince Hamlet. Bernardo and Marcellus have urged Horatio to stand watch with them, because they believe they have something shocking to show him. In hushed tones, they discuss the apparition they have seen for the past two nights, and which they now hope to show Horatio: the ghost of the recently deceased King Hamlet, which they claim has appeared before them on the castle ramparts in the late hours of the night. Horatio is skeptical, but then the ghost suddenly appears before the men and just as suddenly vanishes. Terrified, Horatio acknowledges that the specter does indeed resemble the dead King of Denmark, that it even wears the armor King Hamlet wore when he battled against the armies of Norway, and the same frown he wore when he fought against the Poles. Horatio declares that the ghost must bring warning of impending misfortune for Denmark, perhaps in the form of a military attack. He recounts the story of King...
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...A Mafia Wife Makes Lorraine Bracco a Princess By ALEX WITCHEL Published: September 27, 1990 * Lorraine Bracco is the kind of actress people are sure they've met before. After she played Tom Berenger's put-upon wife in ''Someone to Watch Over Me,'' women cornered her on the street with their own similar stories, as if she were a friend who had somehow forgotten to return their call. And in her role in ''Goodfellas'' as perhaps the ultimate in put-upon wives - a Mafia wife - she touches a nerve with every woman who ever got past the first date. * When she calls to talk about ''Goodfellas'' from Los Angeles, where she is shooting ''Talent for the Game'' with Edward James Olmos, it is the morning - actually, early afternoon - after the film's premiere. She is lying in bed with a cup of coffee while her husband, the actor Harvey Keitel, sleeps. She is having what she terms a ''hangout day,'' and chatting is not a priority. Not only is she ''bored stiff talking about myself,'' but last night, for the first time, she realized that at the age of 35, she is about to become a star. ''So I'm the princess today,'' she says as giddily as someone can who just woke up. Now that ''Goodfellas,'' a chilling account of life in the Mafia, has everyone connected with ''Godfather III'' losing sleep, Ms. Bracco is receiving double attention. Not only have most critics dubbed the Martin Scorsese film an instant classic, but her role as Karen Hill, the wife of the mobster Henry...
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...and that led her to espouse a range of controversial causes. Goldman was a radical thinker. Forty years on she is more than emblematic, she is iconic. Emma Goldman was born in the imperial city of Russia of Kovno on June 27, 1869. Emma’s mother Taube was married to a man when she was 15 years old He later died and she was left with two children. Emma’s mother had a second marriage arranged to Abraham Goldman. First of all, when Emma was a child she constantly was abused by her stepfather when she displeased him. Emma was uncontrollable and rebellious to her stepfather “I’ll kill that brat”, he often said. (Gornick 7). Also, the family constantly moved from Konovo to Konigsberg to Petersburg. Emma’s education was very limited. Although she passed the exam to secondary school, she was denied the character reference necessary for admission. The religion teacher declared her “a terrible child who would grow into a worse woman” (Gornick 7.)When Emma became 12 years old education came to an end for her. When Emma was 16 years old her father told her it was time for her to get married and he would arrange this. She begged once more to return to school instead of getting married. Emma begged her father to immigrate to the United States with her sister Helena; they both wanted to join their older sister Lena already living in upstate New York. She had threated suicide to her stepfather because her stepfather did not let her immigrate and later he let her go. In 1885, Emma immigrated...
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...Marriage Practices Michelle Moses ANT 101 Prof. Larissa Begley November 28, 2013 Marriage Practices Decades ago, what was known as the traditional wedding would be between one man and one woman. Today, traditional and other marriage practices have changed tremendously. When it comes to marriage, all cultures respect and honors its own marriage practice. Many marriage practices may be confusing and misunderstood from an outsider but will always be sacred within his/her tribe. In today’s society, we tend to self-judge another’s culture marriage practices because it is not the traditional marriage that we were brought believing. Even though we have become narrow-minded towards other forms of marriage and have come to believe that any other way wrong, marriage practices will always be performed differently. While some cultures believe in arranged marriages and same sex marriages, other cultures believe in multiple marriage partners which is known as polygamy. In some types of culture, all three of these marriage practices are accepted. Because of this, we should research farther into various cultures and find out what the reason is behind performing the different martial practices that they do because marriage will still continue in several different ways. Even though traditions might be similar to a particular point, the meaning and the marriage practices behind them are very different. When we do not have the power to choose who we want our future mate to be...
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...Outline Thesis statement: In addition to the frequent references to nature, certain animals have symbolic weight in Their Eyes Were Watching God. The animal with the greatest symbolic charge in this novel is the mule. Mentioned frequently throughout “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, the mule obviously represents the carrier of heavy loads and burdens, but it can also, and does, represent stubborn resistance. The mule serves to illustrate the strained relationship between Janie and Joe Starks. The figure of the mule can also refer not only to Janie herself but to any black woman struggling for independence. Janie identifies with the mule, which remains stubbornly independent despite its masters efforts to beat it down. Ironically, while Jody's position in the city gives him the power to free the mule, his pride and ambition cause him to virtually enslave his wife. He can free Janie only by his death. The mule is also a symbol of the control that men have over things. Watson’s mule was worked hard and was not fed properly so he didn’t look healthy. Women are associated with this mule because the men in Eatonville made them work hard and they were not treated fairly (49). Some of the women in the town worked just as hard as the men and they were not allowed to enjoy a lot of the things men got to. The men liked to relax on the porch and play checkers. None of the women got to participate in these activities. This segregation was unfair to the women of Eatonville. Janie...
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...that period; she is virtuous and of a moral high ground. These Chaucer’s opposing characters demonstrate how women behave in society, both the correct and incorrect ways. In The Merchant's Tale, Chaucer depicts January, who lives “in great prosperity” as a bachelor for “sixty years”, who one day decides to be a “wedded man”. He believes that a wife is a “gift of God”, who is going to obey him and make him live like in “paradise” on earth. After “clever and prudent negotiations” he marries a beautiful girl, named May. Therefore, we assume that this is an arranged marriage between an aging man and a young maiden. Subsequently, one can undertake that, a younger, more handsome male would cuckold the old man. Chaucer pictures May as a less passive personage than many other women in his tales. Her desire for sexual pleasure is as strong as the desire of any man. Chaucer doesn’t reveal how May feels about her marriage and old husband; during love consummation, she obeys her husband, “weather it was agreeable to her or loathsome”. And only in a course of time, we finally can perceive how May really feels and what desires. At a wedding ceremony, we see Damian, a young and ignoble squire, who works for January; he gets so “ravished with his lady May”, that...
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...bars, with the common man. “Prince Hal is a perplexing character: during his short life, we witness a cynical teenager with a fondness for hard-drinking, low company, and delinquent amusements become a spectacularly successful king and conquerer,” asserts Tim Spiekerman in “The making of A Politician: Shakespeare's Prince Hal at Work and Play.” Once Henry’s father had died, he began cleaning up his act and it was perhaps his past knowing of the common man that would play an important role in helping him to become the great King he was known as. The church, who is at risk of a bill being passed that would greatly reduce their funding, devises a plan to convince the young king that he has a just and rightful claim to the French kingdom. He arranges a meeting with all of his dukes to help make his decision. “May I with just conscience make this claim?” He asks. Henry didn't want to begin an unjust war because he believed that God would not be on his side, which was a very important factor at the time. All of the Dukes agreed that it would In fact be just to invade France. After the decision was made, a French ambassador enters with a gift for Henry and the news that he will not be granted the dukedoms that were once King Edward III’s, due to his troubled past. Upon receiving the news and a mocking gift of tennis balls from the dauphin, a French prince, King Henry declares war. In this play, Shakespeare is presenting the concept that wars are often caused for unjust reasons and that...
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...Audrey Hepburn was born on May 4, 1929 in Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium. She was a British actress, model,dance and humanitarian. Audrey was a talented performer known for her beauty, style, and grace. Her Parents Ella Van Heemstra, which is her mother and her father Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston. She has 2 brothers Ian Edgar Bruce Quarles Van Ufford, and Arnoud Robert Alexander Quarles Van Ufford. Audrey has 2 sons Luca Dotti and Sean Hepburn Ferrer. At age 5, Audrey was sent to boarding school in England by her mother. Ella arranges her for her to spend holidays with a coal miner family to help her study in english language and customs. When she was 6 her father walks out on the family leaving no forwarding address. Audrey would later say her father's disappearance was“ the most traumatic event of my life”. Audrey being taking ballet classes, her love for dancing started by being taken to several ballet shows in...
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...Romeo and Juliet Essay - Critical Commentary Critical Commentary Opening Prologue: The first act prologue not only reveals what will happen during the course of the play, but also some of the major dichotomies. The opening line shows us that the Capulet and Montague houses are, although at odds, equal in their aristocratic status. It was considered "fashionable" in the Renaissance for aristocratic families to have feuds, but they were not to engage in public fighting, a taboo which is broken by the Capulets and the Montagues. However, line 4 indicates that these equal families are in an ungoverned situation where no rules will be obeyed, which is why they are able to fight. The Chorus reveals one of the most important themes of the play in line 5-8, which is that Romeo and Juliet are destined not only to love each other, but to die, which will end the feud. The fact that Shakespeare tells us the end of the play before it even begins is intentional—this creates a tension between what we as the audience know must happen, and what could have happened if the characters had acted differently. Thus the theme of fate versus free will emerges: do Romeo and Juliet die because it was their destiny, or do they die because of their actions and the actions of those around them? The third major point that surfaces in the opening prologue is one of extremes. There is extreme hatred between the Capulet and Montague families. The only solution to...
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...the African Methodist Episcopal Church, argued for African American emigration to Africa. Henry McNeal Turner's life was guided by a faith in the capabilities of himself and his people. He grew up in Abbeville, South Carolina. He was born free, and raised by his mother and maternal grandmother. Legend had it that his paternal grandfather was an African prince. As a young boy, Turner dreamed that millions of people would look to him as a teacher, and he was determined to act on that vision. But first, he had to learn to read and write; in South Carolina, teaching blacks to do either was forbidden. Turner was raised in the heart of the Confederacy, where it was illegal for blacks to learn to read and write. His mother would often try to arrange lessons for him, but each time she would found out about the sessions, it was too late and the lessons ended. Finally, an elderly slave taught him to sound out words, and Turner wrote that an angel would come to him in his dreams and teach him the connection between sounds and the alphabet. Because Turner was unable to go to school he was forced to work in local cotton fields but later ran away and found a job as sweeper for Abbeville law office, around 1849. His education progressed when the lawyers at a firm tested his memory by teaching him science. Within four years, he had learned enough to become a licensed preacher. He was licensed to preach in 1853. He was the first black man to hold the position of Chaplain in the U.S. Army. Turner...
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...him of my woe." Whitman's "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" contains assonantal "I's" in the following lines: "How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, / Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself." Character An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work. Literary characters may be major or minor, static (unchanging) or dynamic (capable of change). In Shakespeare's Othello, Desdemona is a major character, but one who is static, like the minor character Bianca. Othello is a major character who is dynamic, exhibiting an ability to change. Characterization The means by which writers present and reveal character. Although techniques of characterization are complex, writers typically reveal characters through their speech, dress, manner, and actions. Readers come to understand the character Miss Emily in Faulkner's story "A Rose for Emily" through what she...
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...THE RAMAYANA (“The Deeds of Rama”) Valmiki once was wandering through the forest along the bank of a river, when he noticed a pair of curlews hopping about on the grass, singing sweetly. Suddenly a hunter came along and killed the male bird with his arrow. As the bird was weltering in his blood and his mate mourning for him in pitiful tones, Valmiki was overcome with pity, and pronounced a curse on the hunter. But the words of the curse left his mouth in the form of a shloka-verse. Then the god Brahma appeared and bade the poet sing of the deeds of Rama in this very meter. Book I: Bala-Kanda (The Chapter on Rama as a Youth) In the land of the Kosalas (north of the Ganges), in the city of Ayodhya, there ruled a king named Dasharatha, who was mighty and wise, but still childless. The court advisor urged him to offer an imperial horse-sacrifice. The sage Rishyashringa, as the chief priest of this great sacrifice, includes an especially powerful offering rite that can cause the begetting of sons. When the offerings had been placed in the fire, the remnants were divided between the kings wives, who ate them. Just at that time the gods in heaven were much troubled by Ravana, the ten-headed demon king of Lanka. They therefore turned to Lord Vishnu, begging him to take human form in order to defeat Ravana. Vishnu agrees and resolves to be born on earth as the son of Dasharatha. So, after the horse-sacrifice was concluded, the three wives of King Dasharatha bore him four sons:...
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