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    Thank You M Am Analysis

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    There may be many reasons why Ms. Jones takes Roger home‚ but one strong claim is Mrs. Jones intended to help Roger‚ rather than force a blame. “Thank you‚ m’am” by Langston Hughes‚ is a short story about a large woman named Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones‚ who finds a dirty-faced boy attempting to steal her pocketbook. This boy’s name was Roger. After confronting the shameful boy‚ Ms. Jones takes Roger to her sizable house and offers him help in different ways: teaching right from wrong‚ turning

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    Good afternoon Annika. Thank you for taking the time to speak with me today. I truly enjoyed speaking with you and learning more about Amber Road and the Marketing Coordinator position. Based on our discussion‚ I am confident that I will contribute to the success of Amber Road through dedication and hard work as well as cultivate my passion for marketing and nurture my creative communication skills. As we discussed‚ I have attached links to my online portfolio and LinkedIn page as well as additional

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    Peter‚ Peter’s Quotations: Ideas for Our Time‚ p.425.) A fallacy is an (as cited in “List of fallacies” from Wikipedia‚ pg. 1) “incorrect argument in logic and rhetoric resulting in a lack of validity‚ or more generally‚ a lack of soundness.” Knowing what defines a fallacy and how to dispute one can provide clarity on valid arguments. There are formal and informal fallacies that commonly used in arguments that are not sound. There are fallacies can be very difficult to detect because the reader has

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    society now fifty two percent of the population are the people who are in need. Fifty two percent of this people needs to tighten their belt in order to have their daily needs. Among the two stories I would probably agree with the deconstruction of Thank You Ma’am because nowadays people in the society cannot directly give money to someone they don’t even know just to let them buy the things that would pleasure them. I can’t even imagine it! Practically what people need for their daily lives now is money

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    3/4/12 Fallacies I’ve Used I have use many fallacies on a daily basis‚ but I have noticed that the fallacies I use the most are the appeal to bandwagon‚ poisoning the well‚ and apples and oranges. I appeal to bandwagon by always using peer pressure whenever I try to convince people to do things. For example during my senior year in high school‚ the upcoming senior ditch day was coming up and I tried to convince my friends to skip the day with me. To convince them‚ I said that most seniors in our

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    Roger‚ the protagonist of “Thank You Mom” is not a bad kid. Roger’s mistake does not reflect his true characteristic. First‚ he was not like the real bad kid who can run really fast‚ also not the kid who is pretty agile‚ who have much muscle which means that it was the first Roger try to steal or rob‚ he is just a kid who fail when he was running away‚ been caught by a woman‚ and been beaten by woman with no power to fight back. It seem like his first crime and he didn’t even prepared for it before

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    Theme Of Thank You Ma Am

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    Have you ever wanted an object very badly‚ but you were not able to get it? Well that’s what happens in the story Thank You Ma’am by Langston Hues. One of the main characters Roger had wanted a new pair of blue suede shoes. Though he did not have the money for them‚ so he resorted to a way of making the money. One dark night he was walking down the street when he tried to snatch a lady’s purse. Instead of taking him to jail or calling the police she was kind to him and took him into her home to clean

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    Robert Orsi’s book‚ Thank You‚ St. Jude: Women’s Devotion to the Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes‚ chronicles Jude’s Thaddeus’s story and the specific appeal of this Saint of Hopeless Causes to the Catholic women in America. Furthermore‚ the book illustrates the major religious events that happened in the mid-twentieth century. St. Jude‚ who was a virtually unrecognized figure before 1929‚ captured the earnest and faithful consecration of millions of women in various ways. Therefore‚ the reading raises

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    When arguing‚ do you often keep talking until your opponent realizes they’re wrong? Or do you give examples in Logical‚ Ethos‚ or Pathos relation? Jay Heinrichs‚ author of Thank You For Arguing : What Aristotle‚ Lincoln‚ and Homer Simpson can teach us about the art of persuasion demonstrates and teaches the basics of arguing by showing Ethos‚ Pathos‚ And logos. Ethos meaning credibility‚ “Pathos” as in emotional‚ persuasion‚ And lastly Logical arguing. Jay Heinrichs has a total of seven books published

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    in different aspects of other people’s lives. Mrs. Luella in "Thank you Ma’am" and Sherlock Holmes in "The Blue Carbuncle" both give mercy to someone they did not even know because they overflow with love‚ forgiveness‚ and trust. To begin with‚ both figures in the two stories show love to people they have never met before. They offer the culprits mercy by displaying love to them even though they might not deserve it. In "Thank you Ma’am" by Langston Hughes‚ Mrs. Luella Bates shows love to a boy

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