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    The Fisher Effect

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    The Fisher Effect To determine true return on a company ’s investment‚ the financial manager (FM) must be able to determine the real interest the company ’s investments are achieving‚ regardless of inflation. Irving Fisher theorized in his work The Theory of Interest: As Determined by Impatience to Spend Income and Opportunity to Invest it? that real interest is the price at which the supply of capital is equal to the demand for capital. The supply is dependent on peoples willingness to save and

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    Brave New World Chapter 9-10 1. Rhetorical device (can use diction‚ sentence structure‚ grammar‚ etc) and/or Logical Fallacies: Identify 5 Rhetorical devices or Logical Fallacies in each chapter and discuss what effect it has on the tone‚ message‚ etc – in other words‚ what is its significance? Quote with page number Rhetorical Device/ Fallacy Effect ** This is the MOST IMPORTANT part‚ so make this really insightful** “Zip‚ and then zip; zip‚ and then zip; he was enchanted.” pg. 143 Epanalepsis

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    King Jr. was able to bring about a change for African Americans was by motivating his audience during rallies‚ by delivering great rhetorical speeches. He brought about awareness to the nation and his followers with his speech “I Have a Dream‚” delivered on 28 August 1963‚ at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. He connected with his listeners through the rhetorical appeals Karios‚ Telos‚ Ethos‚ Logos‚ and Pathos. King’s speech is most remembered because it proved such a crucial step towards the

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    huge technique used; in chapter 16‚ Obierka revealed a flashback of him finding out that Nwoye was converted into Christianity. Another flashback in Chapter 9 is when Enzima’s iyi-uwa was discovered. Use of flashback reveals more information about specific situations and lets the reader

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    speech that is famously known around the world. King was a civil rights leader who was assassinated for protecting the rights and stolen opportunity of the black people. King uses a series of rhetorical devices and speech conventions to give meaning and impact towards the audience. Some of these conventions and devices extended metaphor‚ alliteration and anaphora. In King’s speech‚ extended metaphors were used many times to create imagery of racial injustice. He compares the unkept promises of freedom

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    MATERIAL FALLACIES MATERIAL FALLACIESFallacies of Relevance – irrelevant premises (diversion) • • • • • The appeal to populace (ad populum) The appeal to pity (ad misericordiam) The appeal to force (ad baculum) The argument against person (ad hominem) Irrelevant Conclusion • Fallacies of Defective Induction – weak premises • • • • The argument from ignorance (ad ignorantiam) The appeal to inappropriate authority (ad vericundiam) False Cause Hasty Generalization MATERIAL FALLACIES • Fallacies

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    over and American citizens were exhausted. He used rhetorical devices such as religion‚ biblical references‚ and pathos to explain high hopes for the future of their country and express to his thoughts. The Civil War was the most vicious war the United States had to go through. The war made friends turn against each other and tore the country apart. The issues of slavery had divided the north and south. That is how Lincoln incorporated the rhetorical strategy of pathos. The North did not want to continue

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    In Dandelion Wine‚ Ray Bradbury uses a vast variety of rhetorical devices to emphasize Douglas imagination. The author describes his living area and the wonders he see’s. In lines 18-19 the writer highlights the "swarming seas of oak and maple." In the quote Bradbury imply that these trees resembles the swooshing;whirl wind sound that emits from rapid seas. The author states that when he said "swarming is being used to insinuate that the seas are vigorous‚ viscous and violent. Halfway to the passage

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    Aileen Lucia Fisher Aileen Fisher wrote many books for children and earned many awards for them. She wrote many appealing children’s books and poems. Her family taught her many things especially her mother. She also earned several awards and honors for her writing. Her interesting childhood‚ achievements and successes‚ variety of books and poems‚ and personal experiences resulted in the amazingly talented poet and writer she was then. Born and raised on a farm in Michigan in 1906

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    The main texts presented throughout this learning segment include poems written by Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman‚ transcendentalist poets from the nineteenth century who made everlasting contributions to the literary field through their usage of authentic writing techniques and rhetorical devices. Emily Dickinson’s usage of traditional verse to compose her poetry with highly structured form and meter will be examined in the second lesson through the poems “I’m Nobody‚” “If I Can Stop‚” “The Brain

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