...Analysis of political rhetoric in “The American Promise” 2. Divide the speech into sections. Give each section a headline. American workers have kept the promise alive for more than 200 years. Page 109, Line 1-15. Hard work, Individuals, American Family, Sacrifice, Dreams, Belief. The American Promise. Page 109, Line 16-Page 110, Line 2. “Our own lives”, Freedom, Drive, Innovation, Growth, Education, Opportunity, “I am my brother’s keeper; I am my sister’s keeper”. The American Spirit Page 110, Line 4-Page 110, Line 17. Wealth, Rich, Strong, Powerful, Envy, Binds us together, differences, promise. Martin Luther King, an inspiration. Page 110, Line 19-Page 110, Line 31. Destiny, Lincoln’s Memorial, A young preacher, “people of every creed and color”. Be a man of your word. Page 110, Line 33-Page 110, Line 42. No turning back, much to be done, fix, rebuild, save, protect, mend, Walk together. 3. The American Promise according to Barack Obama. The American Promise is about being helpful, responsible, industrious, believing and not giving up. You have to look out for your fellow Americans, and the government has to make sure everyone has the same opportunities. You are not only responsible for yourself, and you rise and fall as a nation. And when you get these opportunities, you are responsible of using the opportunities. You have to be hard working even in hard times. 4. Rhetorical Techniques used in the text. Alliteration: “.. who weren’t well-off or well-known” ...
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...get to the audiences ethics to get them to understand what will be happening after Caesar is gone. Within Brutus speech he uses ethos to get to all the people to make them understand that he is really sad the Caesar is dead. Brutus said "Believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor that you may believe." Even though he is not very sad because he is the one that killed Caesar ,his own friend. Caesar said he didn’t die because all of the stab wounds he said he died because he saw Brutus the one stabbing him which upset him and killed him. Antony says " They both use pathos to get to the sad and pathetic side of the audience. Brutus is wanting all of the audience to feel his petty. Brutus ask this question "Had you rather Caesar were living and die all slaves or have Caesar were dead and live all free men." He is asking them a Rhetorical question and wanting to know is are they seriously wanting to be mad the Caesar is dead or...
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...censored in America? Today we have to be careful what we say because someone will take it the wrong way and be offended. In America, we have the right to say what we want, but to what cost? People don’t have the right to tell them what is okay to say and what is not. Where are the boundaries for what we say? This is where social media and laws don’t help us today. Wounds and wars are beginning because of something someone said. Does social media help us? Today, most everyone uses social media. It helps us get the information we need, but does it help us? People can be rude. Events can be escalated into a big misunderstanding. The stories can be changed to what people want them to be. Someone's words can be twisted and turned around to make them a big ordeal. It can make a small two car accident into a semi-driver ran into six other cars. People also instagram, tweet, and post rude comments that will make someone mad, upset, and heartbroken to see those comments a friend or a complete stranger said about them. Today people say what they want and they don’t care if it hurts somebody’s feelings, but who gets to decide whether it is rude or harmful....
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...Joseph Fitzpatrick 4/22/2015 Poetry Analysis 1.Gretel in Darkness Listening to Gretel voice I believe she may have post-traumatic stress disorder. She cannot get the idea of the killing out of her head. She seems like she is praying to Hansel to help her with her guilt. She seems to want to wash away the pain of killing even though she knows what she did was right. 2. Suicide Note The speaker apologizes to her parents for not being a strong man. She believes that if she were a boy her parents would not have been disappointed with her less than perfect grade point average. The attitude she displays to her parents is on of despair and resignation. 3. The World is Too Much With Us The speaker feels that people have lost touch with nature because of modernization of the world. He thinks that man is wasting away because of how he has touched every piece of land the eye can see. 4. Porphyrias Lover This poem reminded me a lot of the short story “The Lottery” in regards to situational irony. The poem begins with the narrator observing a beautiful woman who he wants very much to love him. He then changes from the observer to a crazed psycho participant. 5. Ozymandias This is a different type of situational irony. The irony here is one of beliefs. That a boastful king can build a monument that will last forever. The poem shows that the king is silly to believe he can stop time. 6. Pied Beauty The poet uses words to describe...
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... “If you bully someone face to face, and they get upset you see them cry and be hurt. When it’s over the Internet, you can’t see the emotional reaction and go along thinking it’s no big deal”, said by Robin Kowalski who is now a mentor for teens who have been cyber bullied. Cyber bullying is gossip, talk, or rumors about the personal or private affairs of other people. It is an important issue because it impacts teenagers emotionally and can ruin their lives. Cyber bullying is happening more often in today’s time than it did ten years ago and the end outcome has become more serious. Most teenagers worry about what other people think about them, and cyber bullying allows for everyone to know what that one person thinks. Teenagers who cyber bully believe they have the freedom of speech and are able to say whatever they want. They don’t think others should take words so seriously, and make a big deal out of it. The victims of cyber bullying need to put an end to it. Even though most teenagers are afraid of what others think and don’t want to be judged, Teens who are victims of cyber bullying should tell a teacher, parent, or an adult they trust, because in order to end cyber bullying someone needs to know, so it doesn’t stay hidden behind the computer screen and cause them harm. No teenager should have to go through being cyber bullied; in 1997 Georgia Woods attempted suicide after being bullied online. Someone posted a site about her asking people to “sign here if you wish Georgia...
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...his father. Hamlet is outraged when he learns that what appeared to be an accidental death was actually a murder carried out by his uncle. He vows to get revenge on the murderer at all costs. Throughout the play, Hamlet is hesitant about his actions until he sees a group of soldiers preparing to battle over a very small piece of land. At this point Hamlet has a soliloquy; he reflects on his actions and is upset with himself for not fulfilling his plan yet. He decides that it is time to complete what he has started and kill his uncle. This speech directly affects the target audience, the people of the Elizabethan Era. The audience is captured by the use of poetic devices, they can relate to Hamlet and feel his pain, and his speech adds excitement as the audience knows there will be a change of events. Shakespeare uses an abundance of literary devices to enhance his work. In this soliloquy there are multiple examples that draw in the viewer and intensify the meaning of his words. The speech opens with an example of assonance: “How all occasions do inform against me,/ And spur my dull revenge!” (4.4.31-32). The repetition of the “o” sound in the first line and the “u” sound in the second line make the words flow together. This captures the audience’s attention because it makes the phrase easy to listen to. The words are not harsh and they show that the lines to follow will be important to the play. In the middle of the speech there is an example of alliteration: “To all that fortune...
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...Persuasive Speech: Euthanasia Everyone, at least know one person that drinks. There is nothing wrong with having a beer or two every now and then. It gets dangerous when people mix it with other substances. And that’s exactly what Karen Quinlan did when she was only 17 years old. She mixed alcohol and valium. This bad combination put her in a persistent vegetative state. After fighting the New Jersey’s Supreme Court for over ten years, her parents were finally able to remove all artificial forms of life and allow her to die with dignity at the age of 31 years old. Karen Quinlan is the symbol of the right to die. A coma or a terminal illness can come anytime. And this is going to affect us even though we feel that at this age it cannot. You must be ready to deal with these instances and know exactly where you stand when it comes to life and death. Today I’d like to discuss the difference between being alive and living. Explain more about the right to choose. And expose the necessity of having a living will. In 1983, Paul suffered a brain aneurism. His brain dissipated in swelled, forcing him to a persistent coma. For 3 and a half year he remained in this state. At the beginning, friends and family members came to visit but after a few years, people stopped asking about him, people stopped to visit him so his wife, Patricia, knew that something had to be done. The doctors refused to remove his feeding tubes. Therefore she created a petition to end his life. But the pro...
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...SPEECH OUTLINE (Persuasive Speech) Title : Euthanasia: To live and let die. Specific purpose : To persuade my audience that euthanasia should be legalized in Malaysia. Central idea : Euthanasia is about giving people the right to choose how they want to live and die, saves money in medical bills, and it also stops the person from having a bad quality of life. INTRODUCTION Attention getter : Imagine yourself being unable to walk, unable to see, and can barely breathe let alone speak. Your life was well lived all those years before. You are now in such unbearable pain that you can’t even cry. You can no longer complete simple tasks on your own and there is no way that you could function without assistance. You think and feel as if your life has no meaning. Although your family is there to support you, you wonder could ending your life be the answer? Well in all reality this isn’t something anyone needs to imagine. This is a real situation for many, many people. These people should be able to make their own choices and have control of their own lives. Thesis What’s life without the quality of life? Now let's take a look and examine 3 reasons why Physician Assistant suicide should be legalized. PAS is about giving people the right to choose how they want to live and die, saves money in medical bills, and it also stops the person from having a bad quality of life. Transition to body of speech : BODY ...
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...than half of us feel this way. Yes, public speaking is "really that scary" if you consider the forced attention of a crowd a punishment and not a prize. I can't have been the only one to shiver when Lauren Laverne a pro! muddled her last speech at the Mercury awards on Wednesday, announcing that the winner was James Blunt, not James Blake. What chance does the amateur have of making it through an address without humiliation? Everyone's fears are personal, particular and I suspect quietly cherished. When you're a kid a fear is almost a badge of honour; it helps you begin to define yourself. I can still list my earliest friends and what they were afraid of heights, spiders, Ursula from The Little Mermaid. At that age my stated fear was sharks, and public speaking was easy. I wanted the speaking parts in school plays and then suddenly puberty – it became unthinkable to stand up and say words in front of an audience. For a clear 15 years, from speaking at funerals and at classes , I managed to avoid it. Two years ago, at a wedding, I saw a man give as much of his brain as he feasibly could to feelings of joy, and love of, and the rest, I'm afraid,that I may be lost to terror about a speech. Viv Groskop, journalist, writer and comedian responded by saying “You mean you couldn't even get it together to give a speech at your own wedding? Man up! Or are you saying you gave such a bad speech that it was just blubbing? Because that can often be the best kind of speech. I want video evidence...
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...contributes to its popularity. Examples include figures of speech, symbolism, allusions, imagery, similes, metaphors, personification and hyperboles. These elements are of my group’s interest. The first figurative language example I’d like to explain is the figure of speech. Lee uses many figures of speech throughout the book. One example which captured my interest was on when Atticus finds the flaw in Mayella’s account of the Tom Robinson case. “Somehow, Atticus had hit her hard in a way that was not clear to me, but it gave him no pleasure to do so” (188). Here, Atticus discovers the hole in Mayella’s testimony, and proves that...
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...seasoned for his passage? No. Up, sword, and know thou a more horrid hent. When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage, Or in th’ incestuous pleasure of his bed, At game a-swearing, or about some act That has no relish of salvation it ‘t- Then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven, And that his soul may be as damned and black As hell, whereto it goes. My mother stays This physic but prolongs thy sickly days. Summarize the context of the soliloquy, explaining what has happened just before to motivate this soliloquy * When Hamlet comes across Clauduis he is a praying. Just before Hamlet walks in on him praying Clauduis is confessing his sins for murdering King Hamlet and asking for forgiveness for what he has done with admitting his guilt is stronger than what his intentions were. Clauduis wishes he could pray but he wonders whether he can be forgiven with also being able to keep the crown and his queen. Break the speech into complete thoughts. Clearly mark the different thoughts. (You may obtain the text electronically and copy and paste it into a Word document in order to do this) Original Text Now might I do it pat. Now he is...
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...Jennita Coates DEV107 Critical Communication (Speech) February 29, 2016 Speech What would you do if you had unlimited resources and finances to investigate a medical problem? I know what I would do. I would investigate the cause of Autism. Autism is a mental condition, present from early childhood, characterized by difficulty in communicating and forming relationships with other people and in using language and abstract concepts. This is a passion of mines because my three year old son, Nathan, was diagnosed with Autism at the tender age of two. No one know where it came from or how it started. Some experts believe that environmental factors like mercury poisoning, dietary habits and early childhood vaccines can cause Autism. However, none of these theories have been convincingly proven. Having a child with Autism can be very challenging and time consuming. Its hard to communicate with them and their behavior can be all over the place. When my son, Nathan, was first diagnosed with Autism, we could not communicate at all. He would sit, stare into space and not answer to his name. At one point I thought he was deaf because he was so unresponsive. When we are in public, Nathan tends to fall and spaz out, making it hard to control him. In that moment, it made me feel hopeless like I have no power. As a parent it broke my heart to see my child in this state. I blamed myself for his condition. This is typical with many parents with children on...
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...Analysis;“Elie Wiesel’s Acceptance Speech for the Nobel Peace Prize” Author and human rights activist Elie Wiesel, in his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize, discusses the nature of human injustice and its impact on his life and humanity as a whole. He adopts a forthright and heartfelt tone throughout his speech in order to gain support from his audience. Wiesel's purpose is to convince the audience to unite against injustice and human rights violations. In the beginning of the speech, Wiesel’s intention is to remind the audience of the scale and inhumanity of the Jewish genocide and to establish his own personal experiences with it. When presented with the Nobel Peace Prize, Wiesel asks a hypophora “do I have the right to accept this great honor on their behalf? I do not”. He includes this in order to establish a sense of humility with his audience so the case he presents is much more convincing to them. This...
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...New York Senator, Robert F. Kennedy, gave a speech to a group of mostly African American’s about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. as he landed in Indianapolis, Indiana on April 4th 1968, the same night the prominent leader, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed by a white man named James Earl Ray. Robert F. Kennedy was the first to inform the death of Dr. King to the crowd which gave him the opportunity to speak of the peace and the unity their leader followed hoping to settle the potential rioters and riots and tension that have been occurring throughout America as the devastating news spread. His message is compelling because he makes great use of connecting with his audience. O’Connor claims that Kennedy’s speech was immediately effective because there were no riots in Indianapolis compared to other Black cities in the nation and I feel like this is a valid point made. Although Kennedy’s speech was short, it was within an appropriate amount of time, given the fact that he didn’t have a lot of time to prepare the speech since he had also just recently heard the news about the death of Martin Luther King. He appeals to his audience with the use of...
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...ones. Some families even lose an important member who unknowingly impacts other people in many ways. In the 20th century biography The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot utilizes the rhetorical strategy of emotional appeals to reveal that physical, mental, and emotional pain bring effects that can greatly impact and separate families. The physical and emotional pain that people feel due to cancer devastates the sufferers as they divide from their family. In Henrietta’s case, she desires to keep her sickness a secret so she does not upset anyone or cause a large fuss: “No sense upsetting anyone over something she could deal with herself”(Skloot 31). Skloot builds despair as she emphasizes how Henrietta does not communicate to her family about her cancer because she does not want to cause any trouble. On top of Henrietta’s desire to prevent her family from worry, the cancer embarrasses her and seems difficult to speak of. Consequently to Henrietta’s choice to remain quiet about her fatal illness, her family expresses even more surprise and anxiety when they actually discover what Henrietta goes through and how she suffers. Even though Henrietta stays strong and tries to tough out the pain without her...
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