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    from Acoma and Zumi villages” (Berlo and Phillips 1998‚ 14)‚ causing a huge portion of native history to completely disintegrate. While completely preserving the pottery it made sure that the continuance was no longer possible. Story telling and oratory history are a tremendous and important part of Native art and culture‚ something passed down from generation to generation. During the second half of the 19th century native children were removed from their families and their homes and were put in

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    Julius Caesar’s Mark Antony prevails as the master of persuasion through language. In a eulogy speech for the recently deceased Caesar‚ he expertly employs repetition‚ reverse psychology‚ and flattery to manipulate the minds and hearts of his audience. Mark Antony’s use of repetition showcases brilliant sarcasm. He utilizes the word “honorable” to describe Brutus and Cassius‚ two of Caesar’s assassins‚ on nine different occasions: “for Brutus is an honorable man” (3.2. 82)‚ “so are they all‚ all

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    parents to not play with him anymore‚ this was one of Martin Luther King’s first encounters of racism. Another encounter of racism for Martin Luther King was when he was coming home on a bus from Dublin‚ Georgia‚ with his teacher‚ after he had won an oratory contest. Then he was disrespectful asked by the driver to move seats so a white person could sit there. He had to stand all the way back to Atlanta. He said‚ ‘That night will never leave my memory. It was the angriest I have ever been in my

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    Britain to victory during the Second Word War‚ but also was prolific writer. He passed on January 24th‚ 1965. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values

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    Ethos In Julius Caesar

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    “Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools‚ because they have to say something” (Plato). This theme becomes prevalent in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar‚ a historical tragedy. In Act III‚ Brutus and Antony both deliver eloquent speeches to the plebeian crowd discussing Caesar’s recent death. Brutus‚ who arises after Caesar’s death as the next leader‚ speaks only to appease the crowd‚ but Antony‚ a close friend of Caesar’s‚ speaks to rally the people for his causes. Throughout the

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    1. Doesn’t the same hold for all the other things? Don’t you call shapes and colours admirable on the account of either some pleasure or benefit or both? 2. Doesn’t this also hold for sounds and all things musical? 3. And certainly things that pertain to laws and practices – the admirable ones‚ that is- don’t fall outside the limits of being either pleasant or beneficial. 4. Doesn’t the same hold for the admirability of the fields of learning‚ too? Conclusion. Whenever one of two admirable things

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    imprisonment‚ during which time he wrote his memoir‚ Mein Kampf (My Struggle). After his release in 1924‚ Hitler gained popular support by attacking the Treaty of Versailles and promoting Pan-Germanism‚ antisemitism‚ and anti-communism with charismatic oratory and Nazi propaganda. After his appointment as chancellor in 1933‚ he transformed the Weimar Republic into the Third Reich‚ a single-party dictatorship based on the totalitarian and autocratic ideology of Nazism. Hitler’s aim was to establish a New

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    Critical Discourse Analysis on Political Texts Abstract Critical Discourse Analysis (hereafter abbreviated as CDA) concerns power relationships between language and society. Meanwhile‚ politics have influence in many facets around the society. Presenting samples of political texts collected‚ this paper aims at analyzing the power relationships in political texts with CDA. 1. Introduction CDA can be summarized as a study of language use through discourse as well as social problems‚ revealing

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    Macbeth vs. Hitler

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    Iron Cross for his bravery in War World I (American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise‚ 2010). Both of these men were loved by their people‚ but used the method of manipulation to gain power. Hitler soon discovered his talent for speaking a powerful oratory‚ “His hoarse‚ grating voice‚ for all the bombastic‚ humourless‚ histrionic content of his speeches‚ dominated audiences by dint of his tone of impassioned conviction and gift for self-dramatization.” (Wistrich‚ 1997) . In act III‚ scene I‚ Macbeth

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    broad subdivision of all styles into 2 classes literary and colloquial and their varieties. These generally include from three to five functional styles. Galperins system of styles 1. Belles-lettres style (poetry‚ emotive prose‚ drama) 1. Publicist (oratory and speeches‚ essay‚ article) 3. Newspaper (brief news items‚ headlines‚ ads‚ editorial) 4. scientific prose 5. official documents. Arnolds system of styles 1. Poetic 2. Scientific 3. Newspaper 4. Colloquial. Screbnevs system of styles Number of styles

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