Daniel Aubertine Dr. Viera 10/11/2011 Final Draft Embarking Patriotic Immortality: Rhetorical Analysis of the Gettysburg Address The Gettysburg address was given on the grounds of a historical battlefield in Gettysburg Pennsylvania during the American Civil War on November 19th‚ 1863 by the late President Abraham Lincoln. The brief‚ powerful speech that he delivered to fifteen to twenty thousand people is regarded as one of the greatest in American history. It is considered the turning
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Shakespeare’s "Sonnet 129" is cited as an invective poem‚ but it is much more complicated than that. Invective poetry refers to vituperative or censoriously abusive poetry used to express blame or rebuke. "Sonnet 129" is a poem of mixed emotions and is not singularly invective. It expresses hate‚ but‚ underneath its loathing‚ lies layers of shame and madness. How the poem is set up is the main way the reader can see these underlying emotions. On the surface‚ Shakespeare’s "Sonnet 129" is an uniquely
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Ruth Baez AP/UCONN English Mr. Dodge February 5‚ 2009 The Mortality of Marriage Edmund Spenser’s “Sonnet 75” is an epithalamium regarding the mortality of marriage. The speaker acts upon his lust‚ flattering his lover with bribery and continuously asking her to marry him. The poem implies marriage in the third line‚ with the word “hand‚” because it is a synecdoche to marriage. His lover responds with the statement “taking a mortal thing [marriage] so to immortalize [her name]” is senseless
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talented he is. William Shakespeare shows many differences and similarities in both sonnets 116 and 130. However‚ his theory is that love is a true bond that two companions possess as rare. Even though he wasn’t a hopeless romantic‚ he does show a slight softer side in a lot of his work. Most people might feel like a lot of his work is hard to read it’s easy to pick up the similarities his work shares. In his sonnets he has some resemblances that are quite easy to point out. First‚ both these poems
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When reading Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s "Sonnet 32" I noticed that this was her only sonnet of the four in Sonnets From the Portuguese that wasn’t written directly for another person. It seems as if she was writing this sonnet in a diary for herself. This makes me believe that during the time of writing this sonnet the speaker‚ or Elizabeth Barrett Browning‚ had some internal conflict over the relationship she was in at the time and was confiding in her own secrecy to try to work out her controversial
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Shannon Hernandez English 2 Ms. Williams 25 July 2011 Lower the Minimum Legal Drinking Age to 18 Lowering the minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) of 21 to 18 is a heavily debated topic in the US. Currently‚ the MLDA is widely believed to save lives by reducing traffic fatalities among underage drivers. Further‚ the federal Uniform Drinking Age Act (FUDAA)‚ which pressured all states to adopt an MLDA of 21‚ is regarded as having contributed enormously to this life saving effect. It is also believed
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old. Many people want to know why the age limit is not eighteen if it is the age of adulthood in the United States. If a person can vote at eighteen and change the president of the country‚ then he/she should be able to pick up a drink at the age of 18 (adulthood) when he/she wants to. If the age for drinking cannot be eighteen then why does it have to be twenty one? Who said twenty one year old people are mature enough? Since the age of adulthood is eighteen‚ then people should be able to make their
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Art and Intention ART/101 Shelly Scott-Harmon I was undoubtedly surprised at the difference and similarities between my first thoughts on the piece and my thoughts after reading about it. When I was first looked at Hung Liu’s Painting Three Fujins the figures looked very solemn‚ serious‚ and balanced. The piece seemed to have both a controlled and abstract feel about it. Most of the figures contain a lot of detail but with the drips going through them it
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Most children are very excited about turning 18 because it means adulthood‚ running off to college‚ and gaining freedom. When turning this age‚ you are allowed to join the military‚ get married and receive all the rights and responsibilities of an adult. However‚ having a wedding at this age means that during the celebration‚ one is not allowed to share a glass of Champagne during the toasts because the drinking age is 21. The United States is one of the few countries in the world to have such a
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"How Shakespeare Changed the Sonnet World" Although sonnets have been modified by individual poets and adapted to changing literary expectations‚ they usually still retained certain characteristics of the traditional Italian sonnet. Especially in terms of subject matter. Those early modern poets paved the way for Shakespeare’s sonnet‚ which diverges significantly from the traditional sonnet subject matter. His sonnets mark a turn towards a more sincere interiority‚ and take on many more subjects
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