Good morning/afternoon members of the board from Penguin. I am here today to convince you why the three texts Dear Mr President by Pink‚ Magnanimous In Victory by Tim Collins and Nelson Mandela release speech deserve to be in your new book “ Protests that changed the world”. The first text that I would like to submit for your anthology is the song Dear Mr President as sung by P!nk. This song is a protest piece about war‚ poverty and societal classes. The song is full of rhetorical questions asking
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Nelson Mandela joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1944 to fight the apartheid system in South Africa.To understand what the African National Congress is‚ it defines as “a national liberation movement” (“What is the ANC?” 1). Basically‚ Africans wanted to see a change in political‚ social‚ and economic circumstances‚ but they found themselves struggling because of racism‚ oppression‚ and apartheid. My own view‚ however‚ it is very difficult to imagine what the South Africans had gone through
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Book Review of “Time Management for Teachers” by Ian Nelson Design &Format: Time Management for Teachers by Ian Nelson was published in 1995 by Routledge publishers. It is a very handy book for teachers and administrators. It describes in a very precise manner that increased administrative duties‚ tests‚ exams‚ marking‚ etc. have brought teachers under great pressure. Therefore‚ in a limited time a teacher is supposed to do a lot of tasks. For this purpose‚ the teacher must know how to manage
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With no end in sight‚ the Americans people looked to their government to protect them against starvation‚ hopelessness‚ and perpetual poverty. When Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his First Inaugural Address‚ the United States was middle of the Great Depression. The economy was at rock bottom. In his first Inaugural Address‚ Roosevelt vowed to help the nation recover from the Great Depression. He wanted to stabilize and direct the American economy (American Yawp). He says that the greatest task is to
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delivers a speech to the people of the nation‚ which are divided‚ reflecting on the causes and meaning of the American Civil War. Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address requests the North and the South to put aside the disputes that are causing the division in order to restore the broken nation. Through powerful diction‚ figurative language‚ and rhetorical devices‚ Lincoln’s moving speech help accomplish his determination of uniting the nation back together. Lincoln introduces his speech by reminding
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An Analysis of the Inaugural Address of John F. Kennedy In America history‚ every elected president will have an Inaugural Address to use multiple techniques to win their audiences. There is no exception in John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address which invokes the use of many rhetorical devices such as consonance‚ parallelism and anaphora. First‚ let’s talk about consonance which refers to the repetition of the final and identical consonants whose preceding vowels are different. for example‚ -----Symbolizing
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Number One By: Jill Nelson I like this story by Jill Nelson. Jill Nelson and her family were living well for a black family back in the 1960s. Jill’s father would have the family sit at the table for Sunday breakfast and preach his own version of the sermon. Jill’s favorite Sunday breakfast sermon was the "Rockefeller wouldn’t let his dog shit in our dining room" sermon. Her father was smart because he made Jill try to be number one all the time. For 15 years straight Jill’s dad
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Ronald Reagan’s Second Inaugural Address‚ 1985 Balance of Power‚ Defense‚ and Security In reading the excerpt from Ronald Reagan’s second inaugural address‚ the three concepts that I found to be of meaning to me are the Balance of Power‚ Defense in terms of military strength‚ and Security for the means of protecting this nation at a time when super-power uncertainty between the United States and the Soviet Union was unbalanced. In 1985‚ the United States and the Soviet Union relations
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Abraham Lincoln was more than qualified to be the president during his first inauguration‚ let alone by the time he was speaking at his second inauguration. In his Second Inaugural Address‚ Lincoln examines the fact that slavery was going to rip the fact that slavery is not only a sin of the South‚ but also of the North. (Basler‚ p.793) He understands the nation to have a progressive aspect built into its very nature‚ and it must overcome any shortcomings along the way. For a nation to erupt in a
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On March 4‚ 1865‚ Abraham Lincoln delivered his Second Inaugural Address. The man known as “Honest Abe” was the sixteenth president of the United States of America who was an abolitionist of the Republican party. About forty-thousand people were present at the U.S. Capitol to witness Abe’s speech after his reelection. Now‚ President Lincoln’s first inauguration was the last straw for South Carolina‚ as they seceded from the U.S. with others to follow. But now about four years later Abraham Lincoln’s
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