main character‚ Oedipus Rex‚ killed his father and married his mother. Approaching the end of the play‚ Creon‚ now the King of Thebes‚ said to Oedipus‚ "Think no longer/That you are in command here‚ but rather think/How‚ when you were‚ you served your own destruction." Creon is correct in this pronouncement. Three times throughout the play‚ Oedipus failed to take the advice of significant people in his life. His father‚ Polybus‚ the prophet‚ Teiresias‚ and his wife‚ Jocasta‚ all tried to advise him
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Pathos is extremely effective when it involves children and the mistreated. A good example would be “Darkies work on de Mississippi‚ Darkies work while de white folks play” in”O’l Man River ”. Pathos can still be used effectively‚ even when children or the weak aren’t blatantly being mistreated‚ as long as genuine emotion is being conjured up. Lewis
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Alan Goda‚ Jr. English 10 Honors – 2nd 11/9/12 Oedipus the King Essay Sight and Blindness has many different meanings throughout the world. The concept of blindness can be seen as the literal inability to look at the world and it is also perceived as being blind to a situation or event that is obvious. The Sophocles Tragedy‚ Oedipus the King‚ portrays both of the viewpoints of sight and blindness. The characters in Sophocles’ work live a hectic‚ ever-changing‚ life
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artist to become famous for pop art. Warhol was a successful magazine and ad illustrator who came to become the world’s icon of the twenty first century. From there he became painter and filmmaker. I think people are drawn to andy because he is a very odd individual‚ even as a small child.He made the simplest things pop ‚ i think that’s why it’s called pop art.The way he thought that everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes made him famous. Warhol did have struggles becoming famous. The pop art movement
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An announcement to encourage students to avoid binge drinking. The best appeal for this situation would be pathos. Using a scare tactic approach will help emphasize the reality of the consequences for binge drinking. This appeal is likely to be the most effective when speaking to students. Logos could be applied in the sense that there are real short and long-term effects from binge-drinking. However‚ a disadvantage of this appeal is it is easy for students to think that facts don’t
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existed in the British North American colonies prior to 1700. (98) 4. Analyze the cultural and economic responses of TWO of the following groups to the Indians of North America before 1750. British French Spanish (00) 5. How did economic‚ geographic‚ and social factors encourage the growth of slavery as an important part of the economy of the southern colonies between 1607 and 1775? (01) 6. Compare the ways in which religion shaped the development of colonial society
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Jail"‚ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. responds to a letter he was sent by white clergymen that challenge his right to protest. He was called an outsider and an extremist. Dr. King shows from the start that he is a man of knowledge and can be trusted. To build on that trust and knowledge he must present an argument that appeals to his audience using the three pillars; ethos‚ pathos and logos. First‚ he must convince his audience‚ the clergymen‚ that he is credible and has good character. He does so by
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To what extent does Gandhi use relatively simple syntax‚ expressing ethos and pathos‚ to appeal to a larger audience. The ’Quit India’ speech was given by Mahatma Gandhi on August 8th of 1942. "Let me explain my position clearly"‚ Gandhi said‚ to begin his first point. He uses very simple syntax when giving this speech because he wants his points to be made more "clearly". Throughout the whole speech‚ Gandhi’s speaks using very basic language‚ therefore appealing to a much larger audience‚ of
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Throughout his reign as the King of the Belgians‚ Leopold II both followed and went against some of the ideas Niccolo Machiavelli lists in “The Prince”. One of the first things Leopold II did when he came into power in 1865 was pulling Belgium into neutrality in Europe due to recent shifts in the European balance of power. This goes against what Niccolo Machiavelli says in “The Prince” about what a prince must do to be esteemed. “A prince can also win prestige by declaring himself an ally of one
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civilization. In William Shakespeare’s King Lear it is shown how justice trumps mercy through the King’s loss of the throne‚ the God’s cruelty and the horrid treatment of Lear by his two daughters. At the beginning of the play‚ King Lear’s loss of the throne is his responsibility and entirely his own fault. Lear had hopes to rid himself of the burden of the throne by giving away the power of his kingdom to the daughter whom he feels loves him most. When speaking with his three daughters‚ Lear inquires
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