Rhetorical Analysis on Seeing and Making Culture: Representing the Poor In the essay‚ “Seeing and Making Culture: Representing the Poor” written by Hooks‚ the author addresses on how the society represents‚ and displays poverty through false assumptions made by the higher class popular culture‚ and media representations . Hooks uses her own personal experiences to connect with her readers‚ about the issue on poverty. Also adding to that‚ she references to a black philosopher‚ named Cornel West
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the event. President Lincoln willingly accepted even though he had only a short amount of time to prepare. Although the North and South were at odds with each other during the Civil War‚ Abraham Lincoln creates unity among Americans by using many rhetorical strategies such as parallelism‚ juxtaposition‚ repetition‚ and strong diction in his speech full of reverence and dedication to the brave soldiers that perished in the Battle of Gettysburg. The purpose of president Lincoln’s speech is to honor
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Rhetorical Analysis of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle The Jungle‚ being a persuasive novel in nature‚ is filled with different rhetorical devices or tools used by Sinclair to effectively convey his message. Sinclair’s goal of encouraging change in America’s economic structure is not an easy feat and Sinclair uses a number of different rhetorical devices to aid him. Through his intense tone‚ use of periodic sentencing‚ descriptive diction and other tools of rhetoric‚ Upton Sinclair constructs a moving
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transformed in actuality.The Gettysburg Address proposed by Abraham Lincoln serves for the sole purpose of conceding and pledging to advance and execute the undertaking the servicemen in The Civil War unfortunately failed to obtain. In order for this to be accomplished‚ Lincoln conveys his speech with a blend of honor and a powerful utilization of verbage to transmit his primary ambition and both motivate and sway U.S Citizens to go forth and assemble an integrated nation. Abraham Lincoln addresses his
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Rhetorical Analysis In the early spring of 1986‚ The Challenger was scheduled to launch in the morning from the Kennedy Space Center. The Challenger had seven passengers. One of these passengers was a Christa McAuliffe‚ a social studies teacher from New Hampshire. She was the first ordinary citizen to be going to space. The social studies teacher had won the opportunity through NASA’s Teachers in space program. The spacecraft was in the air only seventy-three seconds before it exploded and broke
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Anti-Wal-Mart Advertisement Claim: Wal-Mart’s uncharacteristic low prices on merchandise in comparison to other businesses have jeopardized the survival of smaller companies. When anyone in general thinks about Wal-Mart‚ they would probably think to themselves that it is a great place to shop for merchandise and apparel‚ and how there is so much selection. While they think of the previously mentioned‚ their number one reason in all likelyhood for considering Wal-Mart is the low prices
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Jose Perez P.4 8/20/13 Humorists and their Role “There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they’re called humorists.” Alen De Botton states that “the chief aim of humorists is not merely to entertain but`to convey with impunity messages that might be dangerous or impossible to state directly`” I agree with his opinion. Humorists are entertainers; even before written history they have always been essential to society. Comedians such
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The Article‚ Supplements are a Shame by Mike Tanier‚ argues one big factor that is influenced by many athletes‚ gym rats‚ and regular Americans who take supplements on a daily basis. The main argument that this article stresses is how most of the supplements that people take is just a big waste of money. Mike Tanier also argues that there is a lot more we don’t know about supplements than what we actually do know. For instance‚ even though we do not know how big the supplement industry is‚ we have
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Growing up and still to this day I am told how to uphold an image‚ a reputation‚ the same as Lynn Peril wrote about in her essay “Pink Think”. Femininity suggests that women and girls will never be looked at as someone who will ever reach an expectation of anything higher than being the wife at home raising a family and loving their husband. Being seen as that gentle‚ soft‚ delicate‚ nurturing being as Peril notes‚ pink think is a set of ideas and attitudes about what constitutes proper female behavior
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In light of the recent shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown‚ Connecticut‚ people across the country—especially politicians—have been pushing for immediate action towards gun policies. Some believe that the government should allow for guns in schools‚ others think that there needs to be more gun regulations and less firearms in the hands of citizens. Nicholas D. Kristof‚ a columnist for The New York Times‚ has a firm belief in the latter. In his essay‚ “Do We Have the Courage to Stop
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