Equality should be the foundation of peace in the world. Sojourner Truth‚ an ex-slave and women’s rights muckraker presented a speech at a women’s rights convention titled “Ain’t I a Woman” (1851). She explicates the need for revision of the rules within her society to motivate the audience to push for rights equal to all. Truth elaborates difference between men and women by using the repetition of rhetorical questions and illuminates the advantage of being a white woman versus an African-American
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“With These Words I Can Sell You Anything” is an article written by William Lutz‚ explaining the tactics of marketers to sell their products. It is an excerpt from his book Doublespeak‚ published in 1990. William Lutz has been called “the George Orwell of the 1990s”‚ and indeed many of his books are titled in direct reference to Orwell’s works. Lutz claims in his article that there’s a big conspiracy where the people trying to sell us things are giving us ineffective products disguised as something
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Coeducation‚ also known as Mixed-sex education‚ is the integrated education of male and female persons in the same institution under same roof. Most of the older institutions of higher education were reserved for the male students but now changed their policies to become coeducational. The first co educational institute of higher education was Oberlin College in United States‚ which was established in 1833. In 1844‚ Hillsdale College became the second college to admit mixed-sex classes
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and Catholics‚ will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty‚ we are free at last!”(American Rhetoric). These where the famous words spoken by the famous Martin Luther King Jr.‚ the African American Civil Rights leader‚ in his “I have a dream speech” delivered on August 28‚ 1963. One hundred years after the Emancipation Proclamation passed on January 1‚ 1863‚ which freed all the
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If someone told me “I don’t get the cover!”. I would respond in a variety ways. For instance‚ I would tell them “Yearbook came up with the cover as a team’ because that’s blunt and straightforward‚ so no questions needed. Whereas if I said‚ “The cover relates to Ned’s Declassified ‚ an old T.V. show on nickelodeon”. This would bring up questions that I might not even have the answer to. Overall‚ my response is to create understanding‚ not an offense because I don’t need drama. Most likely a freshman
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Malala Yousafzai declared‚ “I don’t want to be thought of as the ‘girl who was shot by the Taliban’ but the ‘girl who fought for education’ (309). This statement proves the bravery and fearlessness that Malala has after facing a struggle that no teenager should have to face. In her memoir‚ I Am Malala‚ Malala tells her story about the battle between her and the Taliban. After her father‚ Ziauddin Yousafzai‚ opened up a school that allowed women to attend‚ the Taliban tried to prevent it‚ but Malala
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“Had I gained something at the Sillington House? Or had I lost something there? The answer is yes.” A remarkable quote with unknown meaning by Ethan Potter from “The View From Saturday” By E.L. Konigsburg. Ethan would never guess that he would finally show someone who he truly is‚ but with The Souls‚ he finally did. Ethan Potter is known for his silence‚ and so is the rest of his family‚ He has impenetrable dreams and a perfect brother named Luke‚ a secret crush on her Souls teammate
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action of repeating something that has already been said or written. Dr. Martin Luther King used repetition the most effectively. This essay will talk about the three speeches and how Kings speech used repetition the best. First we will pull apart Sojourner Truth’s Ain’t I a Woman? speech. In her speech she uses repetition quite a lot throughout her speech. “And ain’t I a woman?” is her most repeated quote in the speech. Truth uses this method to try and prove her point to the audience but she just
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time I finished reading the last page‚ I was full on crying. I threw the notebook on the ground and started crying. Jexavier and Daniel were right beside me and I didn’t care. They have never seen me cry before‚ I have seen them cry but they haven’t seen me. I rarely even cry. Not even in funerals for I didn’t seem to have the motive too. I would still be hurting‚ but I wouldn’t cry. It’s just not the way that I express my grief. Whenever I do cry‚ it’s because of something huge. In my life‚ I have
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The island of O’ahu is most infamously known for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th‚ 1941. However‚ there are more than just one military base on that island alone. In addition to Pearl Harbor - currently referred to as Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam (JBPHH) which connects with the neighboring air force base - there are also the Army’s Schofield Barracks/Fort Shafter‚ Wheeler Army base‚ Bellows
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