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    In his speech on April 10‚1962‚ John F. Kennedy accentuates the corruption and negligence of United States Steel and other leading steel corporations for raising steel prices that would in turn have an immense‚ financial-burden impact on everyday Americans. The intended purpose of his writing piece was to chastise and defame the greedy steel corporations as well as obtain support and unification from Americans. Through the use of patriotic diction‚ hypothetical reasoning‚ and consistent factual evidence

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    Sonnet 116

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    Sonnet 116 is about love in its most ideal form. It is praising the glories of lovers who have come to each other freely‚ and enter into a relationship based on trust and understanding. The first four lines reveal the poet’s pleasure in love that is constant and strong‚ and will not "alter when it alteration finds." The following lines proclaim that true love is indeed an "ever-fix’d mark" which will survive any crisis. In lines 7-8‚ the poet claims that we may be able to measure love to some degree

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    Sonnet 116

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    word “love” isn’t just a 4 letter word… It’s way beyond that. This is what William Shakespeare is trying to clarify in his Sonnet 116. He wants to expound what love is‚ & what it isn’t. Using a couple of metaphors‚ Shakespeare’s main aim is to elucidate the theme that real love is immortal‚ consistent and certainly not under the mercy of time. Shakespeare starts off sonnet 116 by saying that true love overcomes impediments and doesn’t get affected by the changes in the surrounding. Following

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    Sonnet Lx

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    Sonnet LX In this Shakespearean sonnet with 14 lines‚ we can note that it includes 3 quatrains with 4 lines each and a couplet at the end of the sonnet‚ each underlying a recurring theme ; Time and Death; in which we can note the passing of human life from childhood to old age. In the first quatrain Shakespeare is looking at the beach and at the waves racing towards the shore and disappearing hence he uses the metaphor: ‘like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore’ to compare the movement

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    John F. Kennedy was inaugurated as president on January 20‚ 1961. Throughout his speech‚ Kennedy addressed an unspoken enemy -- Russia -- further uniting the nation. However‚ Kennedy’s speech was effective because of the style of his writing. By simply stating something in a unique way‚ he increased the effect it had on the nation. Authors John F. Kennedy‚ Eleanor Clift and the United States Army Signal Corps each have a unique style. It was a cold January afternoon when Kennedy was inaugurated

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    Sonnet 18

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    fair sometime declines.” The final quatrain of the sonnet tells how the beloved differs from the summer in that respect: his beauty will last forever (“Thy eternal summer shall not fade...”) and never die. In the couplet‚ the speaker explains how the beloved’s beauty will accomplish this feat‚ and not perish because it is preserved in the poem‚ which will last forever; it will live “as long as men can breathe or eyes can see.” THEMES: LOVE: Sonnet 18 opens up looking an awful lot like a traditional

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    Sonnet 18

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    Sonnet 18 breakdown The poem Sonnet 18 was written by William Shakespeare. A poet from the 17th century who was a renowned writer for his works on theater and poems. Sonnet 18 describes the power of love and immortality of the poem and himself as long as men walk the earth. He gives a message of eternal beauty and love through out the poem with his selective word choices. He describes the beauty of the poem as immortal as long as men breathe‚ due to the beauty of the poem and love of the men. The

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    Lissajous Figures

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    Lissajous figures are patterns generated by the junction of a pair of sinusoidal waves with axes that are perpendicular to one another. Jules-Antione Lissajous studied these figures by producing sounds of different frequencies which were used to vibrate a mirror. A beam of light was then reflected from the mirror to produce trace patterns which were dependent on the frequencies. This setup used by Lissajous is similar to what is used today to project laser light shows. Today‚ Lissajous figures are generated

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    Robert F. Kennedy‚ in his speech following Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination (1968)‚ highlights the serious impact of America’s violent culture throughout the country. Kennedy relays his strong message of justice by emphasizing the negative effects of violence‚ as well as pointing out America’s numbness to violent deaths through the media. The purpose of this speech is to encourage the people of America to unite as one nation and work towards the common goal of happiness together. Kennedy uses

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    winning the election by only 115‚000 popular votes‚ John F. Kennedy became the first Roman Catholic president on January 20‚ 1961 (historyplace.com online). Kennedy’s Inaugural Address uses logic‚ emotion‚ and figurative language to make it a remarkable speech. Kennedy’s use of logic is one of the many techniques that make his speech noteworthy. In Kennedy’s speech‚ he describes how people can improve life on Earth during the new era. John F. Kennedy uses many examples of logic to explain how the

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