Robert Jensen’s Citizens of the Empire is a warning. It is a message to the citizens of the world’s “greatest” nation and a remedy‚ as he describes‚ “to despair over the future of democracy.” In the manifesto‚ Jensen focuses on the political actions following the terror attacks of 9/11 and questions why it is hard for the American public to challenge the acts done in the name of freedom‚ the corrupt political culture‚ and the failure of universities to promote citizens who are politically active
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Outgroup Homogeneity Bias Outgroup Homogeneity Bias is: “the assumption that outgroup members are more similar to one another than ingroup members are to one another.” So in saying that your group (two or more people that have the same interests‚ traits or goals) are different people with different lives and traits while the people that are in the outgroup (anyone that is not in your group) are all the same and can be categorized and described the same way. With this definition
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In the poem “A Poison Tree” by William Blake‚ the poet employs diction of deception‚ archetypal symbolism‚ and misleading syntax in order to convey the message that when someone subdues their anger‚ it will eventually turn into the growth of poisonous thoughts/feelings. The speaker in Blake’s poem displays their anger in the first stanza in explaining that “I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath‚ my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not‚ my wrath did grow.” This is relevant
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The poem titled “A Poison Tree” by William Blake is about how ineffective communication can affect a person. The poem starts with the speaker being able to let out his anger to his friend and was able to end it. Then the speaker was angry at his enemy but held it in and it started to grow into something poisonous. The poem is about how suppressing your emotions can cause consequences. The poem begins with the speaker explaining how he was able to stop his anger towards his friend by talking; however
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Millions of Americans are tired of the same boring workday schedule that they are forcing themselves to comply with in order to ¨secure¨ a healthy and safe life. While reading the play Fences‚ by August Wilson‚ I came across a quote that I found very interesting. Wilson wrote‚ ¨LYONS: I know I got to eat. But I got to live too. I need something that gonna help me to get out of the bed in the morning. Make me feel like I belong in the world (1.1).¨ The quote is illuminating on peoples want to do
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Throughout history there are many different perspectives‚ but what they all have in common is that the man narrating wishes to gain from his perspective and he will manipulate his words to form bias. There are three forms of Bias in American History‚ first and most easily identifiable is propaganda. An occurrence of propaganda is the two tellings of the battle of sand creek. Chivington states that the casualties for women and children were very low. He went so far as to say that the greater number
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Robert Neville followed a man‚ who was turning‚ into an ocean of unlike humans. In an excerpt from‚ I Am Legend Richard Matheson uses a wide array of rhetorical devices in order to convey the strong action he uses. Matheson uses different types of imagery and similes to describe the man who was leading him in the beginning of the excerpt. Neville hears the man’s voice as "a grating rasp" that is labeled as sonic imagery that the reader can connect to someone/thing in their own life. Furthermore
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speeches in history. Martin Luther King used a number of rhetorical devices in his speech. The main rhetorical device used throughout the speech is repetition and parallelism. In each paragraph he repeats different sentences to emphasise what he is saying. He repeats phrases such as ‘one hundred years later’‚ ‘we can never be satisfied’‚ ‘I have a dream’ and ‘now is the time’ to make the listener remember the parts he wants to emphasise. It is effective because the people are anticipating to expect it so
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poetic line. In modern poetry‚ some words receive greater vocal emphasis than others. Lyrics: what poets write‚ the actual words used to form the framework of rhythm and meter. Mood: the overall feeling the poem creates. Mood‚ or tone‚ for example‚ can be playful‚ sad‚ lonely‚ angry or joyful.
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speech that is famously known around the world. King was a civil rights leader who was assassinated for protecting the rights and stolen opportunity of the black people. King uses a series of rhetorical devices and speech conventions to give meaning and impact towards the audience. Some of these conventions and devices extended metaphor‚ alliteration and anaphora. In King’s speech‚ extended metaphors were used many times to create imagery of racial injustice. He compares the unkept promises of freedom
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