Once he was inaugurated on January 20th‚ 1961‚ John F. Kennedy prepared to deliver his famous speech. By using a multitude of devices‚ Kennedy created a speech that would be remembered as a great ‘call to action’ in history. In a time of trouble and confusion for the American people where threats could attack at any time Kennedy had to portray himself as the blanket of warmth in the Cold War. With his use of Scesis Onomaton‚ Consonance‚ and more‚ Kennedy was able to provide an empowering speech to
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“Shitty First Drafts” by Anne Lamott‚ is a hilarious must read for junior high school students and any other aspiring writers. Her essay inspires comfort and confidence in writing a first draft. It concretes that all writers experience the “shitty” first draft. Anne Lamott wrote this instructional information in 1995‚ but it is timeless information. She blows the idea of writing an immaculate first draft out of the water. Anne supports the idea that bad first drafts will almost always lead to better
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Hollywood scene and probably a rather erotic book. Add Puritan ideals and writing styles‚ making it long‚ drawn out‚ sleep inducing‚ tedious‚ dim-witted‚ and the end result is The Scarlet Letter. Despite all these unfavorable factors it is considered a classic and was a statement of the era (Letter 1).<br><br>The Scarlet Letter is pervaded with profound symbolism and revolves around the idea that hidden guilt causes more suffering than open guilt. This theme along with its symbolism is demonstrated through
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adequately use all three parts of an argument: ethos‚ pathos and logos. Quinn’s intended audience is very clearly every Taker/human that is living everyday without really realizing the destruction of the environment and society around them. His rhetorical purpose is to show these people what they’re doing wrong and not necessarily tell them how to fix it‚ but telling them how they should inform everyone and essentially start a revolution. He does this because the world is very quickly being destroyed
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The rhetorical device that I think is most effective in Martin Luther King Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is logical appeals. King’s purpose for using logical appeals is because he is stating facts and injustice rules in the society. The effectiveness of the rhetorical appeal logos is working because it made me put myself into their shoes and all that they had to experience just because of their race. For example‚ the letter says in paragraph 1. “If I sought to answer all the criticisms that
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Abigail Williams. Abigail is a very ironic hypocritical woman‚ she claims herself to be pure yet she has had an affair with the married John Procter and now out of lust plans to murder the his wife Elizabeth. Despite all of Abigail’s effort to be with John Procter‚ he dies to keep his honor. The town was in desperate need of a way to test for witchcraft summons John Hale‚ however he ends up defending a lot of the supposed witches. Lastly and probably the largest and most ironic item is the town’s
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Dear John Braun (Senator of R- Centralia)‚ “Soaring tuition and shrinking incomes are making college less and less affordable‚” Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA)‚ chairman of the Senate Health‚ Education‚ Labor and Pensions Committee‚ told Bloomberg. “For millions of young people‚ rising college costs are putting the American dream on hold‚ or out of reach.” The price of a public four-year college has increased by 27% in the past five years. I think prices of college‚ college tuition‚ should be lowered and
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Charles V‚ the peasant class even the Pope was included in this religious conflict. After Luther’s reveal of the New Testament Charles V was too busy running an empire‚ but the peasants wanted in to the new way. But unfortunately unlike Jan Hus and John Wycliffe Luther did not care for the peasants. The Reformation was the Protestant Reformation and the result of that was the Counter Reformation. Luther’s fortune was based on luck and being at the right place at the right time. The printing press
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In this letter‚ Martin Luther King utilizes both the rhetorical field of religion‚ and the rhetorical element of audience as a combination to support his arguments against the clergymen and the white moderate’s view of the civil rights movement as a whole. \ By using religion in various points of the text‚ King uses the clergymen’s own knowledge against them to prove his cause just. He provides examples of lesser known stories to place a metaphorical spotlight on the clergymen in particular. The
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One of the most famous documents in American writing is the 1963 letter written by Dr. Martin Luther King‚ Jr. from his jail cell in Birmingham. King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” was written in response to eight clergymen who had condemned his recent anti-segregation protests calling them “unwise and untimely” (1). Shortly before this time‚ slavery and segregation had been abolished. However‚ these laws were not enforced; African Americans were not not treated as equals‚ and nothing was being
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