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    Being able to persuade someone without them knowing via spoken language will literally change your life‚ beyond belief. Once you gain the ability to be persuasive you can influence others to do what you want‚ and become much more successful in business‚ friendships‚ dating and in life in general. Today you are going to learn a couple of the best persuasive language techniques that will enable you to start learning covert persuasion and conversational hypnosis. Firstly‚ let me ask you a question

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    Language reveals the hidden messages the author is trying to convey through the powerful use of language. The language also highlights the characters emotions‚ and the significance of the story. It also allows readers to gain a better understanding of the characters. William Shakespeare‚ a English poet‚ and actor wrote a variety of amazing plays and sonnets. One of his famous plays‚ Othello highlights the importance of diction throughout the play. The play opens with an argument between Iago and

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    well known words from Patrick Henry’s speech to the Virginia Convention. This speech along with others‚ helped persuade American colonists to gain freedom from Britain. From the mid 1770’s to the early 1780’s American colonists fought against a world superpower for independence from unreasonable laws and regulations. This needs to tie into the paper. Right now its just a statement with not footing. In Patrick Henry’s speech‚ “Speech to the Virginia Convention”‚ Henry used logos (using logic to persuade

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    disturbed by the argument of the couple‚ as John couldn’t understand what Allison’s actual intentions were. The author tells an anecdote in order to explain features of women’s spoken language‚ such as indirect speech‚ in more entertaining way that would capture the reader’s attention. He implements spoken language features‚ for example non standard structuring of questions “everything OK darling?” and punctuation marks “… “ which indentifies the pause of the speaker‚ so the story would be easy to

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    colonists in Virginia also displayed a profound fear of witchcraft and the works of the Devil. To guard against this phenomenon‚ witch pots were employed just as they had been in England. In 1978‚ a witch pot was recovered in Virginia Beach. Unfortunately‚ the relic was found by an amateur collector and most of the details regarding the find have been lost due to negligence. However‚ the loss of information does not render the discovery invalid as it clearly displayed that colonists in Virginia were attempting

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    A memoir is a piece of writing that is written by a person explaining a certain period of time in their lives. It is a honest piece of writing‚ that will explain things in detail‚ not making you have to really try and figure out what the author is trying to say. Holden does none of these things. If Holden was a real person telling the story‚ it could not be considered a memoir. He continually lies throughout the book‚ and he does not tell the full story by leaving out how he is feeling. Holden

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    Why do we go from Indentured servants to Slavery in Virginia? * Race does not scientifically exist nor is it defined. We made it up. It evolved out of one group deciding another group is different and cultures are different. Racism has to be taught. * English and European Racism: wanting to believe how you are and who you are is the best and your way is better. Evolved out of the type of society they came out of. White was always looked at as light and a good thing. Black is associated with

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    In her essay‚ “Professions for Women”‚ Virginia Woolf writes of the internal conflict many women endured every day in the face of a male dominated society. They are pressured to hide their intellect behind the façade of a delicate‚ emotional person who is unable think for themselves. Woolf uses metaphor and anaphora to urge women to think and stand up for themselves. Woolf’s purpose of inspiring women to be whatever they want to be is conveyed through two explicit metaphors predominantly used in

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    Emily Benzing Mrs. Bogati July 16‚ 2013 Vocabulary 1. Alliteration- The repetition of a particular sound or letter at the beginning of a series of words or phrases. Ex: Bob bought big brown bagels. 2. Allusion- An indirect mention or reference to something else. Ex: Obama made an allusion to John F. Kennedy when he said “ask not just what our government can do for us‚ but what we can do for ourselves” 3. Anaphora- Repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more

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    stylistic allusions to 20th century greats such as Virginia Woolf show his intellectual knowledge of and debt to 20th century modernist writing‚ it is McEwan’s ability to transform these stylistic and thematic elements and mold them into a postmodern classic that makes Atonement a more than adequate culmination to the readings of a 20th century British Literature course. Stylistically‚ McEwan draws most heavily from the works of Virginia Woolf for the opening portion of Atonement. The slow pace

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