Dylan Baur Mrs. Passarella AP Lang January 27 2014 Politics and the English Language: Questions on Rhetoric and Style 1: Orwell’s thesis is somewhat stated‚ but also implied. His thesis is that any effect can become a cause‚ such that something that starts as an aid for a different ailment may eventually become detrimental. 2: Orwell’s analogy of the cause and effect of alcohol abuse to the demise of lanuage in paragraph two is very effective. It shows a chain reaction‚ where the person starts
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upcoming election and everything that changes with the government. The spring of my sophomore year I was looking for different classes to take‚ I saw AP Government. I thought I could do well in that class‚ I was motivated to learn something new and excel at something I was not very interested in. The first day of junior year came quickly. Then the first AP government test came even quicker. I studied the night before for hours thinking positive thoughts and finding funny ways to remember different answers
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animals to represent some important people‚ Orwell made his point clear about power being able to corrupt. In Animal farm the author uses common diction making it known to us that he intended to write for an everyday person. In addition‚ Orwell uses a detached 3rd person narrative point of view and shows no emotion.While Orwell used many literary devices the two that impacted the most on the message of animal farm are symbolism and irony. Ultimately‚ Orwell effectively fuses his “political” and “artistic”
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2008 AP® ENGLISH LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS ENGLISH LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION SECTION II Total time—2 hours Question 1 In the two poems below‚ Keats and Longfellow reflect on similar concerns. Read the poems carefully. Then write an essay in which you compare and contrast the two poems‚ analyzing the poetic techniques each writer uses to explore his particular situation. When I Have Fears When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean’d my
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In the essay “Shooting an Elephant” George Orwell is conveying the message that imperialism within a society creates an imbalance in power amongst individuals‚ where Orwell came to realize that he was not on the top of the heap but a tool to oppress the Burmese people. Orwell employs the use of metaphors to enforce his message. When Orwell states‚ “conjurer about to perform a trick”. This way of looking at Orwell is contrary to the way that white Europeans would be looked at in ordinarily. In this
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"Shooting an Elephant‚" by George Orwell is a first person view on living and working as a European police officer in Moulmein‚ Lower Burma. There was a bit of tension between the locals and the foreign law enforcement since the British had taken over the country‚ so Orwell was not thought fondly of. The climax of this essay was when a otherwise tame elephant starts rampaging because is had gone into "must" a term used on page 118 that means in heat. The owner loses track of the animal in the
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DNA QUESTION 1995: L. PETERSON/AP BIOLOGY The diagram below shows a segment of DNA with a total length of 4‚900 base pairs. The arrows indicate reaction sites for two restriction enzymes (enzyme X and enzyme Y). (A) Explain how the principles of gel electrophoresis allow for the separation of DNA fragments. (B) Describe the results you would expect from electrophoretic separation of fragments from the following treatments of the DNA segment above. Assume that the digestion
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Nardine Salama 1998 DBQ ESSAY AP. USHISTORY The origins of the Federalist and Democratic-Republican parties can be traced back to the early 1790s. Initially‚ the Federalists‚ or broad constructionists‚ favored the growth of federal power and a strong central government. The Federalists promulgated a loose interpretation of the Constitution‚ which meant that they believed that the government could do anything by the implied powers of the Constitution or that congress had the right to
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In George Orwell’s essay‚ Shooting an Elephant‚ he is an outsider in his country. As a European in a mainly Burman consumed country he was thought of an outcast or treated as a fool for just being from a different origin than the others. Throughout his days he is continuously taunted and bullied by his own community members‚ yet ironically they are the ones that he is supposed to be protecting. One day he is presented a problem that he had two potential ways to solve‚ the non-lethal choice that
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The Liberating Power of Music In his autobiography "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass‚ An American Slave‚” Frederick Douglass uses various rhetorical techniques to illustrate how slaves use music as a form of expression of their sorrow and grief. He describes how music‚ more specifically in the form of singing‚ liberates the deep despair and anguish of his subjugated people. Music is typically seen an expression of joy and satisfaction‚ however‚ through his own personal experience Douglass
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