...On March 18, 2008, Presidential Candidate Barack Obama, gave a speech entitled “A More Perfect Union” in response to comments and controversy surrounding his former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who had spoken racial remarks that scandalized the country and made Obama look bad. Senator Obama felt the need to bring to the public a speech that distanced himself from Reverend Wright. Obama’s speech attempts to accomplish the goal of saving voters after a scandal through the use of rhetorical devices such as parallel structure, metaphor, alliteration, allusion, and repetition of words for effect. Close to the beginning of the speech, one of the rhetorical devices he uses was parallel structure. Obama states that Reverend Wright, “strengthened my faith, officiated my wedding, and baptized my children” (Obama par. 22). Parallelism is an effective execution of words where Obama stacks good, positive words one on top of the other. In this manner, he lifts Reverend Wright up as a person. He uses this device to show that Reverend Wright had done a lot for him. For example, religion, weddings, and children are intimate and crucial to relationships, so these are all good memories for Obama. This makes it harder for the public to believe that Rev. Wright could say terrible things about race. A second example of parallel structure is when Obama talks about his white grandmother. He describes her as “a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who...
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...By the time of the 2004 presidential election, George W. Bush had already served as president of the United States of America from 2000-2004 and was running for reelection. Because of Bush’s experience holding the presidential office, he had a greater situated ethos than John Kerry, his opponent, who had only served as the governor of Massachusetts at that time. However, through Barack Obama’s speech The Audacity of Hope at the 2004 Democratic National Keynote Address, the gap between the pre-existing ethos of the two candidates is bridged and the audience is swayed in Kerry’s direction. Obama uses personal anecdotes to build excessive pathos which reduces the amount of logos necessary to convince the audience to vote for Kerry because the...
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...many custom ringtones as your heart desires out of any MP3 in your music collection without paying a dime. Here's how. What you'll need In order for your MP3 ringtone to work, you'll need: • A cell phone that plays MP3's and supports custom tones (most modern phones do these days) • A way to transfer the file to your phone (using a cord, Bluetooth or an email to your phone) • Free sound-editing software, Audacity Edit your MP3 You could simply transfer the entire MP3 to your phone, set it as your ringtone and be done with it. But most full-length songs are several minutes, and your phone only rings for about 20 seconds, which will mean a lot of wasted memory space for no good reason. Plus, you may want ONLY the Sweet Child o' Mine guitar solo halfway into the song to play as your tone, not the first twenty seconds of the track. Here's where Audacity comes in. Using the free, open source, cross-platform sound editor, we'll trim your MP3 down to the exact 20 seconds you want and add any effects as well. Download Audacity, install and fire it up. Audacity can't edit MP3's out of the box, it needs what's called the LAME compression library first. Download the lame_enc.dll file here and put it somewhere permanent on your hard drive. From Audacity's Edit menu, choose Preferences. On the File Formats tab, under "MP3 Export Setup," hit the Find Library button and browse to the dll you just downloaded, as shown (click to enlarge.)...
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...Fearlessly, often recklessly daring; bold. 2. Unrestrained by convention or propriety. Where are the individuals who lead with these qualities? Does our current system of military education promote or discourage the fearless, unrestrained and unconventional leadership required to finish the job? We all know the answer to that question. This is why we see no Pattons, Eisenhowers, Bradleys, or MacArthurs in our modern military. I fear that in today’s environment of restraint and political correctness these great warriors would have been forced out early in their careers. Georges Jacques Danton, French revolutionary leader said “De l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace” (“Audacity, more audacity, always audacity”). we must dare, and dare again, and go on daring. Audacity, more audacity, always audacity is needed to finish the job. Can we lose this war? And: What does losing mean? In an article written by the retired Air Force Major General Vernon Chong it is noted that we have experienced a string of major attacks on our country's interests from 1979, when Iran Embassy hostages were taken, throughout the 22 years before September 11, 2001. He numbers 7581 terrorist attacks worldwide from 1981 to 2001 and these attacks were all made by Islamic terrorists. Worldwide attacks have continued with the pace quickening in recent days. General Chong asked the important questions: Can we lose this war? And: What does losing mean? Reviewing the last question first, losing means that we...
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...Homer’s The Odyssey reveals Odysseus to have a multitude of character flaws. One flaw in Odysseus’s character is his audacity. During their travels, Odysseus and his crew come across the land of the cyclopes. Odysseus and twelve of his men decide to explore the land, and they find the cave of a cyclops. Odysseus's men implore him to take the cyclops’s food and leave. Odysseus knows this is the safest plan but rejects it nevertheless: Ah, how sound that was! Yet I refused. I wished to see the caveman, what he had to offer— no pretty sight, it turned out, for my friends (Homer 652) Although Odysseus knows it is risky to enter the cave and wait for the cyclops’s return, he insists that they do so. He does this out of curiousity and eagerness...
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...patted them and said, ‘This all what left of your wings...but one day you gon get’em back’...It was later I saw what she meant” (Kidd 1). The book opened with a passage introducing the “wings” that Mauma described their ancestors had had. Seeking the “wings” has always been Hetty’s dream, though at times it is buried in the hardships of enslavement. The readers can see development and coming of age of Sarah Grimké through her internal monologues and defiance in the society. She started out to be a confident girl aspiring to become a judge. Her motto was: “If you must err, do so on the side of audacity” (Kidd 8). Her audacity was the motivation to always thrive to change the status quo. Thoughout the book she is bombarded with familial disapproval and societal pressure, and at times she becomes vulnerable and wants to concede. However, no matter how desperate she becomes, the last trace of audacity never leaves her. ...
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...Introduction: The intention of this research paper is to establish that President Barack Obama is a high-minded leader. This composition is aimed towards those who are uncertain whether they support our current president. In this research paper, the question, “Is Obama a great leader? “Will be answered. To support the main question of this paper these questions will also be answered: Does Obama have influence, has he created a positive change, Does he exhibit integrity, Does he have well-defined priorities, and does he display the quality of vision? Mythology: The method of research used in determining whether president Barrack Obama is a good leader was as follows: First, defining what traits a good leader exhibits. Through the article “Great Leaders grow deep roots: six characteristics of exceptional leaders” provided great insight in explain what a good leader is. Second, by researching speech given by Obama the quality of his leadership was able to be determined. Then, a variety of articles were investigated though the internet. Finally a number of blog post where sifted through to experience the opinions of others. By this method of research a wide range of thought was gathered on Obamas leaderships skills. Research: Many sources were used to derive a conclusion on Obamas leadership character. Below our the sources with their Claim, Evidence, and reasoning. Barack Obama in the speech, “American rhetoric” claims that America is a great country full of oppurnitys...
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...Point of View On a nice sunday morning I woke up to go to my church. I got dressed and ready to walk to African M.E. Church. The church lay on the outer limits of macomb and was a short walk from where I live. I headed out on my walk to church and I was almost there I when saw everyone entering the church except there was two white children just among the crowd. I hurryed over to confront them. I entered the front door of the church when i found the two white children holding Calpurnia's hands. I was furious that she had the audacity to bring her white children to our black church. So I confronted her ,“What you up to,Miss Cal?”, I said with a calm voice. She asked me what I wanted, so I told her. “I wants to know why you bringing’ white...
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...middle of the story, Tom becomes more audacious, and less cowardly. One time, Tom wakes up on a school day and, “Presently it occurred to him that he wished he was sick; 1 (Jana 2011) 2 (Twain 2001) pg: 17 Moufarrij 3 then he could stay home from school.”3 Tom tries to get his wishes by acting like he is sick and in extreme pain. Of course, when Tom tells Aunt Polly his tooth hurts, she just takes the tooth out and Tom’s plan fails. Luckily, for Tom, this ends up making him look ‘cooler’ in the eyes of his friends and peers, so he finds a positive tone in the ordeal. So, is Tom a brave character yet? No, but he is getting there by starting to take a more direct route at things. Tom’s audacity will is a good improvement, but he still has a long journey to travel. Remember, audacity is not bravery, audacity is simply the ability to act out, but bravery is the ability to face intimidating things, acting out or not. In the closure of the story, Tom truly becomes a lion. When Tom and Becky play hide and seek in a cave and find out they are trapped with not much more than a few candles, a cake, water and some kite string, readers are left wondering how they will escape. After much walking, and being attacked by bats; Becky grows tired and cannot go on. Then, “Tom kissed her, with a choking sensation in his throat, and made a show of being confident of finding the searchers or an escape from the cave; then he took the kite-line in his hand and went groping down one of the passages on his...
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...Jason Dean Dr. Thomas Lyons English 3360 September 1, 2011 Fredrick Douglass Journal In his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, an American Slave, Douglass invites his audience to view slavery from the inside out. The obvious irony is that the vast majority of his audience, initially, was of the same race as the villains depicted inside his book. Douglass used his experiences both as a spectator and participant in slavery to highlight and challenge the hypocrisies in society he found that were born, bred and sanctioned by the institution of slavery; one in particular was the interpretation and uses of Christianity by slave owners as means of empowering slavery instead of empowering the slaves. From the implied validation of slavery via the Curse of Ham to the deplorable acts inflicted on slaves by men viewed reverently as men of God within their communities, Christianity, a religion embedded with the teaching on the tentacles of peace, miracles and love served largely as a banner of confusion to a group of people whose need of those tentacles stood second to none. The curse of Ham is a biblical reference to the Book of Genesis 9:20-27 where the story is told of Ham having a curse placed upon his son after Ham’s father Noah, after Ham saw his father nude. Black Africans were viewed by many as descendants of Ham, which in the minds of some white Christians at the time validated slavery. Douglass disarms the Ham argument early in the book when...
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...THESIS PROPOSAL Course: School Year/Term: Proposed Thesis Title: Abstract BS Information Technology 2013-2014, 1st Semester Ang Paglalakbay Ni Bobby: A 3D Movie The proposed 3D short film was cover 27 minutes and 33 seconds of time. This story shows about the love and guidance of the parents to their child. It also gives moral lesson all viewers. The short 3D film covers comedy, drama, adventure and also a lesson that can touch and put in mind to all the viewers. The character was in form of animals. An Animal Tale which animals are featured prominently, either as the main characters or as important participants in the unfolding of a narrative manner. The movie was rated as General Patronage which benefits and admitted to all ages of viewer. The study was similar to 3D short film Turbo, Monsters University and Rio in a way of main characters was in animal forms; and also similar to the study Brave and Transcend that acquired lesson to all age’s of viewer and gives a deep message about the importance of family and life. The difference of the study was the new conducted story that shows the creativity of the proponents. It also gives moral lesson to everyone, which lesson realizes that everyone was lucky to have their family which gives us love and guidance; also lucky to have people around whom always give support and we can rely on. In order to develop the studies, the proponents meet a deep research. Profound research was chosen as a starting point to engage in the...
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...Jason Dean Dr. Thomas Lyons English 3360 September 1, 2011 Fredrick Douglass Journal In his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, an American Slave, Douglass invites his audience to view slavery from the inside out. The obvious irony is that the vast majority of his audience, initially, was of the same race as the villains depicted inside his book. Douglass used his experiences both as a spectator and participant in slavery to highlight and challenge the hypocrisies in society he found that were born, bred and sanctioned by the institution of slavery; one in particular was the interpretation and uses of Christianity by slave owners as means of empowering slavery instead of empowering the slaves. From the implied validation of slavery via the Curse of Ham to the deplorable acts inflicted on slaves by men viewed reverently as men of God within their communities, Christianity, a religion embedded with the teaching on the tentacles of peace, miracles and love served largely as a banner of confusion to a group of people whose need of those tentacles stood second to none. The curse of Ham is a biblical reference to the Book of Genesis 9:20-27 where the story is told of Ham having a curse placed upon his son after Ham’s father Noah, after Ham saw his father nude. Black Africans were viewed by many as descendants of Ham, which in the minds of some white Christians at the time validated slavery. Douglass disarms the Ham argument early in the book when...
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...Camy Miner McGuire American History September 18th, 2017 The Challenges of Daily Immigrant Lives All throughout history Immigrants have faced daily challenges and problems. The many problems and challenges range from discrimination to trying to just survive. The problems occurred in history but surprisingly happen in present day time as well. You would think that everything would be completely better for these people when they arrived to “the land of the free” well sadly they didn't. Challenges One of the basic challenges they had when they arrived to America was that they had a difficulty learning and speaking English. It's hard to just pick up a new language especially when you don't know anything about that new language. It's hard for...
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...decision-making, and action. Then, it has led to the awareness that the time from stimulus to response – the reaction time – can be inspected as the sum of processing times required for the different stages. The reaction time has been measured for various kinds of human behaviour, including the time required for initiating a vocal response to diverse stimuli. The fastest a human can react to some stimulus with a vocal response under maximally favourable conditions is about 200 ms (Fry, 1975). In short, in this present study, a break in speech longer to 200 ms is counted as a pause, which applied in a silent pause or a filled pause. Besides that, to reveal the exact length of pauses we employ a voice analysing software called Audacity®. According to Walsh (2017), Audacity® is a reliable software not only for editing an audio file, but it can also be used to look into pause duration during a speech that may hard to be measured...
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...In chapter 23 of Harper Lee’s TKAM, unjustified hypocrisy becomes central theme. Aunt Alexandra hosts a missionary circle to discuss their biblical beliefs. Their conversations about Jesus become tainted with frustrating hypocrisy as they choose to discuss their hate for the black community. The women have the audacity to attend Tom’s trial and then come to Atticus’ house just to slander the people he supports. Mrs. Merriweather lectures Mrs. Farrow about her black maid and shows the extreme hypocrisy she holds when she says, “‘There’s nothing more distracting than a sulky darky. Their mouths go down to here. Just ruins your day to have ‘em in the kitchen… you simply are not being a Christian lady. Jesus Christ never went around grumbling and...
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