What the text says What the text means Rhetorical Devices I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately‚ to front only the essential facts of life‚ and see if I could not learn what it had to teach‚ and not‚ when I came to die‚ discover that I had not lived. Thoreau wanted to get the most from his life by determining what was really important. In this quote Thoreau uses the rhetorical device‚ aphorism: a pithy observation that contains a general truth‚ such as‚ “if it ain’t broke‚
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DO YOU DESERVE WHAT YOU HAVE? Yes I deserve to have what I have right now‚ because what have earned. Whatever I have known is because I learned it so I deserve to know it. Every one deserves to have whatever they have unless they are thief or cheater. Only thieves don’t deserve to have what they have because they are not the original owner of what they have. In our lives there will always be times in which we feel as though we aren’t deserving of much‚ but we should not forget to how valuable
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Gee I wish I were a man “ is insulting to women. Men are not better than women. The creator of the poster proposes to say that men are more admirable than women. For an ad to imply that women believe that men are better is a whole other scenario. Women believe men are superior because men are the leaders in the world. Women are not seen in high powerful positions as much men are; therefore‚ the ad makes women believe that men are estimable than themselves. For feminists‚ the ad would enrage them
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Michael’s great-great aunt Dewbert is one hundred years old and she has a penny for every year that she has been alive. Aunt Dew keeps her pennies in an old wooden box that she calls her hundred penny box. When Aunt Dew moves from Atlanta to live with Michael’s family‚ he is drawn to the hundred year old woman. Michael spends a lot of time with her counting the pennies from the box‚ and with the count of each penny aunt Dew tells him a story about that particular year that the penny was added into
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“All I know is that I know nothing” argued the deep ancient philosopher Socrates. His argument is based on the fact that one cannot know anything with absolute certainty; they could only know something with a fractional amount of confidence. Socrates had written this quote nearly two thousand year ago. With our vast advances in modern technology‚ science‚ mathematics‚ and equipment to record data‚ over the last two millenniums‚ one would assume that we would long grow this view of not knowing anything
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I am a thirty three year old teen mother. Sixteen years ago‚ at the age of 17‚ I became pregnant with a child that would eventually dictate‚ run‚ and be the deciding factor of who I would become. Well‚ let’s be honest‚ still defining who I will be. Today‚ I feel the effects of how a teenage pregnancy‚ now glorified by reality TV‚ has truly impacted my life now as an adult. How did this happen? At seventeen I entered my junior year of high school with a plan‚ I would graduate early‚ midyear at
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I woke up like any other day. I sat straight up and looked around‚ as I looked I thought how in the world am I not dead yet? Everyday that we woke up alive to me was a blessed day. To many it was the worst possible thing because they all just wanted to die away from the pain. Our beds were made of concrete‚ we went to bed in pain and woke up in pain and that was my life for about 7 months. You had to get use to everyday things or else you would die away like everyone else. I didn’t want anything
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ADVANCED CREATIVE WRITING SKILL AN ACCIDENT I WITNESSED Assignment by: OLADIPO Tosin Ayobami I have longed for this getaway from the moment my friends told me of their plans to have us all go to Ghana for the weekend. I packed my bags and got my nails and hair done. Nothing on earth was going to deprive me of a weekend in La Palm Royal Beach Hotel situated on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean. We had decided it was going to be a road trip. The thoughts of the nice things usually sold on the road
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Superpowers That I Want When I was a little kid back then‚ my childhood years was filled with cartoons that have great superpower. I am very sure that all the kids in the world will have their own cartoon idol. Moreover‚ kids will have the tendency to imagine that they will also have the same kind of superpower of the cartoon character they are idolizing. That kind of thing also occurred to me as I also have my own superpowers that I would like to have. Even now as a teenager‚ I still hope that
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I AM PAPER I AM THE RESURECTION AND THE LIFE David P. Velez 201120 Spring 2011BIBL 323-B10 LUO Liberty University David P. Velez 22829002 201120Spring 2011 BIBL 323-B10 LUO I Am Paper; I Am the resurrection and the life. I Am the Resurrection and the Life The apostle John‚ illuminated by the Holy Spirit‚ cites eight statements spoken by Jesus that shines evidence of His deity and His authority over all things. They are found in the book of John. I Am the Bread of Life (John 6:35)
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