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    forces. Even though African Americans were not allowed to fight for their country during the year of 1861‚ Alfred M. Green uses many powerful strategies in order to get them prepared to fight in this war when the time came. Green uses an abundance rhetorical strategies to argue his message and speak back to counter arguments that his actions he’s encouraging may lead to. In the first three paragraphs in which Green is speaking‚ he maintains a positive tone. Green addresses the negative counter arguments

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    be remembered in our nation’s history. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. not only had a way with his powerful words‚ but also with the way that he carried himself in a professional and highly educated manner. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. used several rhetorical devices in his‚ “I have a dream speech‚” but none more powerful than the point he was trying to convey to the African American community and to the nation that was listening. He would not stop until African Americans had justice‚ real freedom‚ and rights

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    Georgi Romano Patrick Swayze was born August 18‚ 1952‚ in Houston‚ Texas. He was an actor‚ singer‚ and song writer. He was voted the most sexist man alive and is best known for playing the roles of the tough guys and the romantic leading man. Some of the famous films that he has played a role in are‚ Dirty Dancing‚ Ghost‚ and the T.V. mini-series North and South. The Swayze family was a Roman Catholic family‚ his father Jesse Wayne Swayze worked as an engineering draftsman and his mother Pasty

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    America was supposed to abide by. But‚ Martin Luther King Jr. shined a beacon of hope and took action against racism that was tearing the United States apart through his iconic “ I Have a Dream” speech. King effectively uses a plethora of linguistic devices‚ such as extended metaphors‚

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    Thoreau Directions: Answer the following questions in paragraph format. Be thorough in your response‚ use examples from the text‚ and be sure to address all parts of each question. 1. In the final paragraphs of “Solitude‚” Thoreau asks the following rhetorical questions: “Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself?” What does he mean when he writes “intelligence with the earth” (a very different thing from saying intelligence of the earth). Thoreau

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    For my research paper‚ I chose to write about Henry Mercer because his art with pottery and title work is very interesting. I decided to learn more about his history and artwork. Henry Mercer was born on June 24‚ 1856 in Doylestown‚ PA. As a child‚ Henry lived with his family members in New York and as a teenager he traveled to Europe‚ Scotland‚ Netherlands and other countries with his parents and aunts. Eventually‚ Henry decided to go to law school at Harvard University‚ which he graduated in the

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    even comforting‚ to terrifying and unsettling. The author uses many different literary devices‚ punctuation‚ and diction choices throughout the paragraph to do so. All of these different techniques make the style of this writing very unique and makes the overall mood more dramatic. The author uses all these things to show us how sleeping overnight in a church is terrifying. There are a lot of literary devices you can see being used during this paragraph; for example‚ personification and comparison

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    Rhetorical Devices and Strategies: Coca Cola and Grove Press Within society power struggles are inevitable and in the business world it is no different. The letters of correspondence between an executive of the Coca-Cola Company‚ Ira C. Herbert and a representative of Grove Press‚ Richard Seaver express their different viewpoints on the use of Coca-Cola’s slogan “It’s the Real Thing”‚ in an advertisement promoting Diary of a Harlem Schoolteacher by Jim Haskins. Both Herbert and Seaver attempt

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    Henry also incorporated analogies to persuade his audience to join the war effort‚ but it was only towards the end that the analogies pertained to war. Henry appealed to their nationalism by saying the Americans were “lying supinely on [their] backs” and in no time the British would “[bind them] in hand and foot.” Henry’s analogy is used to compare the situation the Colonists faced to the situations an animal would face; an animal that did not run away from someone attempting to capture it represented

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    In George W. Bush’s Columbia Speech the speaker uses tone and a pathos appeal to accomplish in soothing the country after a terrible accident. The president’s tone throughout his speech is very somber and very sad for the majority of the speech. “Our entire nation grieves with you. And those you loved will have the respect and gratitude of this country.” He is very sad that the astronauts on the Columbia died. The president also appeals the nation’s pathos ideals by taking verses out of the bible

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