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    Nathaniel Hawthorne in the novel‚ the scarlet letter‚ portrays the level of wickedness that lives within humans. Pyle proves this to his audience by his precise and various strategies. Hawthorns dramatic irony both helps build suspense while foreshadowing how blind the Puritans are towards Chillingsworth true character‚ he foreshadows the pain and suffering Chillingworth will soon unravel upon dimmesdale; he does this through foreshadow‚ hyperbole and point of view. Foreshadowing allows the audience

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    The Scarlett Letter Argumentative Essay In the Scarlett Letter by Hawthorn‚ public humiliation is used as a form of punishment. In that place and time period‚ the seventeenth century‚ Puritanical Boston‚ Massachusettes‚ this form of punishment was quite common. There was no separation of church and state at that time and since Puritan beliefs were based on good versus evil‚ it was a common practice to humiliate‚ chastise‚ and berate people as a scare tactic to keep order. Fast forward to the

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    For many US school students‚ it is not uncommon to hear that their schooling system is an inefficient and terrible one. In Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay‚ “Education‚” he addresses many of the problems with the schooling system in the United States in his time; problems that still plague the country over 150 years later. One issue that Emerson focuses on is that of mass education and its inefficacy. Emerson writes that “our modes of Education aim to expedite‚ to save labor; to do for masses what cannot

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    Things Fall Apart Rhetorical Analysis Essay By Saad Malhi The novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe discusses the rise of an Igbo chieftain who came from great poverty to power and the eventual loss of Igbo traditions‚ rites‚ and the influence of his clan through his eyes due to western imperialism and colonialism. The intended audience for this novel is very broad‚ but if we tried to define it would primarily be people who have not experienced the Igbo culture and westerners or people who speak

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    Jonathan Swift – Rhetorical Analysis "A Modest Proposal"‚ by Jonathan Swift‚ is a biting satire about life in 18th century Ireland‚ in which the author seeks to find "a fair‚ cheap‚ and easy method" to transform the sick and starving children of Ireland into productive members of society. Paragraph 20 -26 of the essay illustrates the advantages of Swift’s proposal‚ hardly modest‚ which is to fatten up undernourished poor children and then sell them to more well-to-do families as food. By presenting

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    Rhetorical pentagon Topic Reader Speaker Language – How is the topic presented; Vocabulary‚ Tone‚ Style. Circumstance Modes of persuasion/ Rhetorical appeals (Appelformer) 1. Ethos – The speakers ability to establish credibility /trust. 2. Pathos – Appeals to emotions‚ affects the subconscious‚ often use of adjectives. (Language) 3. Logos – Appeals to logic‚ via facts and statistics. Discourse- Choice of words/The way you choose to say something. Them/us‚ I/we President Obama’s

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    was written to change American’a attitude toward the environment around us. In "Silent Spring" Carson targets the hostile actions committed towards birds which result in other animals also being negatively impacted. Carson uses an array of rhetorical strategies‚ ranging from creating a serious and justified tone‚ to exaggerating the situation‚ and lastly by using rep it ion to get her point across. To begin with‚ the start of

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    A. The rhetorical situation is the expected context and circumstance surrounding the written piece of work. Without this situation‚ there would be no actual purpose to the writing. The rhetorical situation actually pieces together different structural elements of the work—like the occasion‚ purpose‚ topic‚ audience‚ and voice. The occasion is usually time-restrictive. For instance‚ a person may be chosen to write a very specific paper around Christmas time based on the history of related carols‚

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    Professor Mageean English 1C 1 April 2014 Rhetorical Analysis Obesity rates are soaring throughout the United States. “Today‚ two thirds of American adults are obese or overweight”(Brink and Querna 620). This quote is explaining how obesity has become a concern for many people in our culture. The obesity rate among Americans has gotten worse over the years. The topic of weight is very prevalent among people in today’s society. Everywhere you look you see people of different weights and appearances

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    Gautreau September 7‚ 2014 College Writing II Rhetorical Analysis Throughout Kathryn Lopez’s article “Egg Heads”‚ she uses many rhetorical strategies in order to encourage her readers to agree with her argument‚ as well as to inform them of the harm that is done to young women’s bodies during in-vitro fertilization (IVF). With the use of pathos‚ ethos‚ and logos‚ Lopez makes her argument rather easy to agree with.  Lopez executes the rhetorical element of pathos very well throughout her

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