Introduction The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century‚ both in literature and in everyday life aspects‚ can be characterized by a great deal of conventions and rules. The social conventions‚ in particular those concerning life of a young woman‚ were presented in conduct manuals. Many of these conventions were supported by plenty literary authors‚ who made their protagonists basing on the ideal image of woman which was shown in the conduct books. Moreover‚ the authors created
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If You Were President Acceptance in America really isn’t an African-American man’s forte. But that was not the case in the year 2008. The Acceptance Speech at the Democratic National Convention‚ on August 28‚ 2008 was given by a man named Barack Obama. The Democratic National Convention (DNC) is a convention held by the Democratic national committee. At the (DNC) the Democratic party nominates the candidate who they want to become the next President of the United States of America. The DNC has
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Patrick Henry Speech Rhetorical Analysis In his speech to the Virginia Convention on March 23‚ 1775‚ lawyer Patrick Henry addressed delegates of the St. John’s Church in Richmond‚ Virginia‚ on the issue of the inevitable war with Britain. Henry’s purpose was to encourage the delegation to take up arms in the form of a militia and actively resist the oppression of Britain. By using a series of rhetorical questions and appealing to the delegation’s religious tendencies as well as their strong senses
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There was a critical disagreement between the small states and the large states. The small states believed all states should have equal representation in congress‚ while the larger states thought states should have proportional representation. The framers put forth various plans to solve this difficulty. The two plans proposed were the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan. Each of these had advantages and disadvantages for each of the sides. Overall‚ the Virginia Plan favored the larger states‚
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In the “Speech to the Virginia Convention” (1775)‚ Patrick Henry convinced the colonist to fight against Britain using several different rhetorical devices; the four main ones were rhetorical questions‚ parallelism‚ diction‚ and allusion. These devices helped give him the power to be able to connect to the audience and show them what he see’s through examples of common stories that the audience already knew about. The use of rhetorical questions‚ the first rhetorical device‚ allows the audience
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Binge drinking‚ drug use‚ rape‚ murder and mateship. These five relatively serious social issues have been under weighed by our society. The issues that have been hidden in life are then revealed through texts. The play Blackrock and expository text Damage Done clearly reveals truths that reality has obscured. Binge drinking is a major issue which concerns teenagers. Blackrock is a play written by Nick Enright and shows how teenagers are allowed to purchase alcohol for a beach party that was unsupervised
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On May 25 1787‚ the most powerful men in our history met in Philadelphia to create a guide for the Democracy that we enjoy today. There were three plans at the Constitutional Convention in 1787. The Virginia Plan was drafted by James Madison‚ from Virginia‚ and presented to the delegates by Edmund Randolph on May 29th‚ 1787 who was also from Virginia. The hope behind this plan was to create a central government that could collect taxes‚ regulate foreign and interstate trade‚ and also be able to
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is perhaps the purest example in English literature of the use of the double convention to represent the duality of human nature. That Dr. Jekyll represents the conventional and socially acceptable personality and Mr. Hyde the uninhibited and criminal self is the most obvious aspect of Stevenson’s story. The final chapter‚ which presents Jekyll’s full statement of the case‚ makes this theme explicit. In this chapter‚ Jekyll fully explains‚ though he does
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In the “Speech to the Virginia Convention” (1775) Patrick Henry convinced colonists to fight against Britain; he uses four main rhetorical devices‚ rhetorical questions‚ allusions‚ imagery‚ and parallelism. Through these devices he softens his tone to get his fiery messages across. With rhetorical questions he suggests the answer he wants the colonists to make. Likewise‚ as he uses imagery‚ colonists can better understand the whole picture. One device that he employs is asking a rhetorical question
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Timeline 1951 – The UN Convention relating to the Status of Refugees is first adopted. The convention “provides the most comprehensive codification of the rights of refugees at the international level” (UNHCR). Later revised in 1967‚ the agreement sets a guideline for the treatment of refugees by individual states”. 1980 – Various groups in Somalia compete against each other for influence during a power vacuum. The nation is‚ to this day‚ in an ongoing state of turmoil as the government struggles
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