English 1113 Composition I Fall 2008 Professor: Laura Gray‚ Ph.D. Phone: 918-343-7593 Office: Downs Hall 102 B Email: lgray@rsu.edu Office Hours: (appointments encouraged) Monday and Wednesday 9-10; 11:30-2 Tuesday and Thursday 10-11 Friday 9-10 [pic] Course Introduction The first semester of college writing provides a foundation for the academic writing you will be expected to do throughout your college tenure. This course will help students: 1. Recognize and implement writing
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Name:____________________________ Period: ________ Using Triangle Skills to Solve Problems For each word problem below‚ you must draw a picture and show your work towards a solution. Solutions are given for each problem. Since these are real-life type problems‚ answers should be decimal approximations as opposed to being in simplest radical form. You are allowed to use anything you know about triangle similarity‚ right triangles and right triangle trigonometry. This assignment is a learning
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Patrick Henry’s Speech Analysis In the speech‚ “Give Me Liberty‚ or Give Me Death‚” Patrick Henry set out to convince the VirginaVirginia delegates that war with England was inevitable and the longer they waited the harder the war would be to win. Patrick Henry displays immaculate persuasion skills that disarm his audience from favoring reconciliation with Britain. Henry uses rhetorical strategies‚ such as‚ allusions‚ parallelism‚ and repetition to captivate his audience and appeal to their emotions
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Colin Summers November 5‚ 2012 COM 340 Zulick “Give me Liberty or Give me Death!” The American Revolution was an extraordinary time filled with uncertainty and ambiguity and allowed Patriots such as Patrick Henry the opportunity to speak out against the discriminating behavior and actions towards American Colonists. In his most famous speech known as “Speech to the Virginia Convention”‚ Henry illustrates the need to act out against the British and convince the Virginian delegates to send
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AP English 11 26 September 2013 Journal 1.2 Henry‚ Patrick. “Give me Liberty or Give me Death.” Colonial Williamsburg. 23 March 1775. Web. 23 September 2013. -Analysis -Read the speech‚ “Give me Liberty or Give me Death” by Patrick Henry and determine how he is able to persuade the colonists to go to war against Britain. Identify the purpose of his explanation of freedom or slavery‚ his mentions of God‚ and his use of rhetorical devices throughout the speech. Compose an essay response and
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Patrick Henry: Fallacy In his speech during the Virginia Convention‚ Patrick Henry used a dynamic tone to express his ideas. He utilized the rhetorical technique of fallacy to persuade his audience into thinking that America’s independence was necessary for the good of the nation and its people. Henry takes advantage of fallacies such as the either or fallacy‚ fallacy of complex questions‚ appeal of consequence‚ and appeal to emotion to implement his ideas into the audience. One common
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the conflict with the British? Who was treating us poorly? Some leaders continued peaceful means to resolve conflict. Patrick Henry thought differently. He wrote the famous “Speech of the Virginia Convention” to push for war. Because of how Patrick Henry used appeals and rhetorical devices‚ he was able to convince the other colonists to go to war with England. The first thing Henry does to persuade the colonists to go to war is to establish his credible representation was use ethos. One way he establishes
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Are They Heroes or Fanatics? “Give me liberty or give me death.” Patrick Henry. He stands for the freedom of the country like everyone else. Unlike where Samuel Adams and Paul Revere decide to go to war for freedom first Patrick Henry decided to go the political way first. The Boston massacre was the first battle of the american revolution. Paul Revere wanted to get more people to be on their side so that they could go to war with Britain to gain their freedom. So that they didn’t have to by
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Patrick Henry‚ one of the biggest speakers that convince the colonists that they want liberty and freedom. His famous quote said‚ “Give me Liberty or Give me Death!”(83). In the Virginia Convention‚ the continental congress are arguing about the coming of the british. Patrick Henry stands up and talk convincely that he admits that we have no peace in any solution‚ but to fight for our country’s rights. Patrick Henry convinced the colonists to go to war by using appeal of Logos and Pathos‚ and rhetorical
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foundations of the town’s only General Store. On the porch they walk to the old oak rocking chairs‚ and begin to discuss the recent political events and opinions of the well known Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry. A: Good Morning Sir B: Good Morning‚ I recently heard the speech made by Patrick Henry‚ have you heard of his glorious propositions? A: Sir‚ I would hardly call his outrageous ideas to go to war with our Motherland glorious. Why fight in a war‚ when instead we could simply separate‚ as
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