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    healthy and safe life. While reading the play Fences‚ by August Wilson‚ I came across a quote that I found very interesting. Wilson wrote‚ ¨LYONS: I know I got to eat. But I got to live too. I need something that gonna help me to get out of the bed in the morning. Make me feel like I belong in the world (1.1).¨ The quote is illuminating on peoples want to do what they love and not have to worry about anything else. As long as they do something they love‚ they are completely content and happy with their

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    English 1020.11N 17 September 2012 A Girl Like Me While reading a book by the name‚ “Pretty Little Liars‚” I found myself favoring a tall‚ slender‚ dark haired character by the name of Aria Montgomery. This character immediately jumped out at me when I started to notice that she had many of the same qualities as and also had been through many of the same experiences as I have. So when asked to right this paper is was not a brainier. It made me realize the reason I was drawn to her was because

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    Patrick Henry Speech In the “Speech to the Virginia Convention”(1775) Patrick Henry convinced colonist to fight against Britain; he constructed extensive use of three main rhetorical devices in his speech to persuade colonist to go to war and fight for what they truly desire. Presenting his speech in House of Burgesses‚ Henry sincerely respected his audience to gain their respect and attention to comprehend his urgency. Patrick Henry said in his speech “listen to the song of that siren till she

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    Still focusing on the scene at 1:24:10 to 1:25:40 and on pages 114-117‚ both the author and the director establishes their use of pathos as previously noted. However‚ on the terms of ethos‚ only author demonstrates the use of them as director’s use of ethos is not present in this scene. The author establishes his use of ethos by providing the player’s personal thoughts on the situation. An example of one of these thoughts if found on page 116 when the author states that “One of Rob’s McClanahan’s

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    | The Rhetorical Analysis of “He’s Not Black” by Marie Arana | Likita M.Taylor | ITT Tech | ENG: 1320: Composition I | 10/30/2012 | | Rhetorical Analysis of “He’s Not Black” by Marie Arana I selected “He’s Not Black” by Marie Arana. Arana discusses a topic that affects all of us today; especially “minorities” in America; how do we define ourselves racially. Like most of us‚ the author has many different heritages in her ancestry. I like how she described

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    speaker it offers him peace and tranquility in which he cannot get being in crowed cities and towns. When he visits this time he brings his sister so she can embrace this experience as well. This visit has a differs feel for him though. Its nothing like his first time his emotions and so on. When he views it again he gets a different kind of connection in which its no longer how amazing it looks it more of a connected feel between it

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    ways‚ those rhetorical devices that are most often used in love poetry. Shakespeare backhanded romantic poetry and it made quite abang. “This poem became popular among the satirical poems of traditional love”(sparknote). To begin the poem Shakespeare references his lover’s eyes quoting‚ “my mistress’s eyes are nothing like the sun”(line 1). He does not do this to be cruel to her or to offend but instead to make a bold statement. The statement being that his lover’s eyes could not be like the sun. They

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    Aneta Leja 04/13/2024 Jazz Media Assignment #6. Gilberto was a Brazilian samba and bossa nova songwriter and Stan Getz was an American jazz saxophonist. Stan Getz and Gilberto’s song is very smooth and romantic. The song features smooth‚ sultry vocals by Astrud Gilberto‚ accompanied by the melodic saxophone of Stan Getz. Musically‚ "The Girl from Ipanema" is characterized by its gentle bossa nova rhythm‚ characterized by syncopated guitar chords and a laid-back groove. Getz’s saxophone solo adds

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    born as a slave‚ but he managed to escape to the north. After that‚ he became an activist in helping black slaves escape to the north and devoted himself into the abolition of slavery in the United States. In 1852‚ he made a famous speech in Rochester on 4th of July‚ which was the Independence Day in the U.S. In his speech‚ Douglass’s main audience is the white citizens of Rochester. He uses rhetorical questions‚ parallelism‚ and metaphor to criticize the hypocritical situation that slavery still existed

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    Faulkner cautiously celebrated his accomplishment with a message that will forever change the field of literature. Under his belt‚ Faulkner went on to write a vast collection of poems‚ short stories‚ and more. Throughout his speech‚ he used rhetorical devices such as tone‚ modes of persuasion and extrinsic proofs to directly convey his message‚ that of which was wildly neglected by many authors of literature until brought forward by Faulkner. His speech‚

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