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    `Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv It is rather difficult to comprehend out society today. We strive to define ourselves as individuals yet many times we conform to the norm in an effort to fit in. We look for the best in technology with cellphones‚ televisions and vehicles‚ sometimes forgetting to just enjoy the simplicity of nature. It is bitter sweet really‚ watching our world advance so quickly in technology‚ but with that leaving the natural world behind. Today‚ human connection with

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    friends and my academic adjudicators. Without any of you‚ I would not be where I am today. Thank you‚ because without your help‚ I would not have been given this chance to represent the class with a lengthy speech comprised of highly personal anecdotes‚ a chance I now plan to take full advantage of. Thank you teachers‚ for all that you have taught me - lessons that extended well beyond the four walls of a classroom‚ for providing me with myriad opportunities for all round development and values

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    Pressure

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    can possibly‚ greatly affect the future. Wenke structures her essay in a way which we are in the perspective of a student‚ then documenting the process she went through‚ explaining more as she continues. Wenke uses devices such as premises and anecdotes to support her judgment. Wenke uses a technique of point of view to help a reader better understand how students feel in the situation of cheating. This is shown in the quote‚ “You hear the clock ticking in your head‚ and your teacher keeps erasing

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    Margaret Atwood – ‘Spotty-Handed Villainesses’ ________________________________________ 1. Atwood uses a personal anecdote of herself as a child‚ and then her daughter‚ which becomes an intriguing motif throughout her speech 2. Atwood frequently adopts an ironic tone in order to appeal to both Logos and Pathos. She uses logic (Logos) to undermine logic (appealing to Pathos) and this can be shown in the paradoxical line ‘We con-artists do tell the truth’. Overall this paradoxical voice and polyvocal

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    How to Take Notes

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    expect you to" *"Listen closely" *Titles *Main Ideas *Important dates *Key pieces of information -Clarify during rewriting *Anything written on the board *Question you might have *Will it be on the test? What Not to Write Down *Personal anecdotes *Irrelevant stories *Complete sentences *Will it be in the test? -Unless it helps you remember Using Short Cuts *Abbreviation -An Abbreviation is a shortened form of a word or phrase used to represent the whole. *cf (Compare) *ie (that

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    Dave Barry: Lost in the Kitchen Lost in the Kitchen by Dave Barry is a modern social commentary on where gender roles are at right now. The main piece of this essay is a personal anecdote that takes place on a Thanksgiving Day where the women are stereotypically cooking in the kitchen whereas the men are told to simply “keep an eye on the children” (Barry). The synopsis of the story is that the men watch football and forget to watch the children while the wives cook Thanksgiving dinner .Dave uses

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    An Anecdote

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    Martin Buenafe 8/27/12 2317 The Luminous Light with an Endless Night It was the last day of school‚ the exams had just finished‚ and today was the chance to say goodbye. I saw a friend of mine hiding at the corner of the eye‚ nothing more to most people than a background to the view. I had only caught a glimpse of him as I was putting down the last of my things. He’d been

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    The balance of both‚ however‚ is certainly able to convince a country to fight. Thomas Paine accomplishes this tricky balance in “The Crisis No. 1” by utilizing a shifting tone that ranges from assured to dire as well as hypothetical scenarios and anecdotes in order to convince his audience that fighting the British is both possible and necessary. Over the course of the piece‚ Paine’s tone concerning the impending war changes from confident to urgent‚ which gives the impression that the colonists

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    Persuasive Speech Rubric

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     please turn in manuscript of your speech.  Persuasive Speech Rubric  _____/3   Attention Step  ∙​          ​ Reference to a subject‚ event‚ or occasion  ∙​          ​ Personal greeting  ∙​          ​ Rhetorical question  ∙​          ​ Humorous anecdote  ∙​          ​ Illustration  ∙​          ​ Other   ​ _____/7   ​ Need Step  Problem:     Techniques used:  ∙​          ​ Statements   ∙​          ​ Illustration‚ facts‚ examples   ∙​          ​ Show ramifications  (what will happen if this continues) 

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    Advice to Graduates

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    “Advice to Graduates” George Saunders convocation speech‚ “Congratulations‚ by the way” was delivered at Syracuse University for the class of 2013. In this speech‚ George aims to convince his audience that we are going to have a lot of regrets in our lives but the one we will regret most is the failures of unkindness. In order to live a full happy life we need to become kinder. Saunders says‚ “All we want in our hearts is to be less selfish‚ more aware of what’s actually happening in the present

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