To start off I’d like to say that I thought speaker was very entertaining. She presented her message well with a good mix of humor and seriousness. Going into this I was thinking that it was going to be another vague speech about rape being bad and that we shouldn’t do it. Instead the speaker went into more detail on how to avoid and prevent rape from happening. She also said in her presentation that “Not all rapist are the creepy old man in the trench coat hiding in an alley. Instead, they
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The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant the social satire. Mathilde Loisel was a pretty woman born to be marrying a man of wealth. Mathilde in time married a little clerk who worked in the Ministry Of Education, sometimes things don’t go as planned or expected. The author does a very good job in describing the good and bad physical, moral, and emotional conflicts brought by Mathilda when she barrow the necklace from Madame Forestier. The only thing that Mathilde didn't knew was that the gorgeous necklace
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Where there is light, there is dark. In the eatly 20th century, American industrialization developed rapidly. It made a prosperous society of America, but it also made the dark. Social evils hiding behind the peosperity were reflected by the the lowest level workers lives. “The great corporation which employed you lied to you, and lied to the whole country—from top to bottom it was nothing but one gigantic lie.” was written by Upton Sinclair in his book, The Jungle. In his book, he tells about a
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Odysseus, the man of winning words, uses multiple tactics to persuade Achilles to join the Argive cause. Odysseus uses Hector in his speech to persuade Achilles to aid them in battle. “And headlong Hector, delirious with his strength, rages uncontrollably, trusting to Zeus—no fear of man or god, nothing—a powerful rabid frenzy has him in its grip!”(9.286-289) Achilles prior to this war was seen as Hector’s equal. Both are the best fighters in their nation. Odysseus brings up Hector as a man who is
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Over the past decade internet usage has rapidly grown in America. The development of search engines allow immediate access of information and growing online communities allow users to connect with others instantly. We are regularly exposed to advertisements regarding the convenience of the internet. Through television advertising, eHarmony encourages us to use the internet to form relationships, and ultimately narrow millions of possible matches down to a single soulmate. By analyzing the rhetoric
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Ariely’s incorporates a variety of rhetorical strategies to effectively present his argument, persuade the audience of his subject’s importance, and instruct them on methods of overcoming the tendency to make irrational decisions. His style of language switches back and forth between a formal and scientific tone with a conventional, familiar, and informal tone. Ariely demonstrates a good control in appropriately balancing his familiar style of speaking, implementing humorous personal anecdotes
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Jack Roth 10-28-15 Period 1 Funeral Compare/Contrast These two passages both deal with funerals and narrate the observances of them. The first anecdote describes a funeral as an entertaining view on how society lavishes social classes. This is shown through a mildly sardonic tone. The second passage describes the depression that the narrator feels within and around oneself, including a somber tone. Each short story differs in attitude through diction, details, and syntax. In the first narrative
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A Movie, a Word, and My Family’s Battle is written by Patricia E. Bauer, a mother of a daughter with Down syndrome. Bauer writes about her family’s struggle, emotionally and physically with the word “retarded” being used in a joking manor. She emphasizes that fact that the word “retarded” is an actual diagnosis, making the word a hurtful phrase when used casually to describe something or someone. Bauer begins with the production of a movie called, Tropic Thunder, that was made to make audiences
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Purpose of JFK’s Use of Rhetorical Strategies President JFK eloquently discusses the present issue of the hike in steel prices during a time of recession in America in a speech in 1962. Kennedy talks about how at this time the US is involved with some issues outside of the country in Europe and Southeast Asia, specifically in Vietnam. It is apparent throughout the speech that Kennedy takes care in sharing thorough information about the state of the US and its steel companies. All of this shows that
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American colonies. His audience would consist of the people who read Letters from an American Farmer in 1782. Crevecoeur’s diction, metaphors, and rhetorical questions show that his tone is proud for Americans. His purpose of this essay was to praise American society and prove that America is doing great. Crevecoeur starts off his essay by using a rhetorical question “…; to what purpose should they ask one another what countrymen they are?” Crevecoeur does this to get Americans thinking about their
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