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    Rhetorical Devices

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    Zitlaly Hernandez Honors English 4 Ms. Howe Period 1 27 February 2013 Rhetorical Devices Seven score and ten years ago‚ Abraham Lincoln used his powerful words to persuade his audience to take the first step in their obligation of taking action. Uniting the people is the only way to start uniting the country for the people during the hard times of the Civil War. In Abraham Lincoln’s “The Gettysburg Address”‚ Lincoln uses rhetoric to convince his audience to come together. To effectively

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    To the Ladies Analysis

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    To the Ladies: Analysis Essay During the late 1600’s‚ women were viewed as though they we’re property of men. Through out childhood their fathers control them‚ and once given to a man for marriage‚ her husband claims ownership over her. However‚ a woman’s standing in society and marriage has changed drastically over the last 400 years. When viewing ones identity‚ work and tolerance to violence today and compare it to that of the life of a women described in Lady Mary Chudleigh’s poem to the ladies

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    The Lady or the Tiger?

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    ZEYNEP YALCIN ‘’THE LADY OR THE TIGER?’’ CHARACTERS Main Characters: The King; he is a semi-barbaric king who has the authority and the power of his kingdom. His system of judging the criminals is based on an arena that he built on his land. This arena has two doors that lead to accused person freedom or to a terrible death. In the story‚ he punishes the young man who falls in love with her daughter and also he punishes her daughter by putting her lover to the arena and letting her watch

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    Woman and Lady

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    allowed to speak about‚ and the ways we were spoken of. Having learned our linguistic lesson well‚ we go out in the world‚ only to discover that we are communicative cripples -- damned if we do‚ and damned if we do not. If we refuse to talk “like a lady”‚ we are ridiculed and criticised for being unfeminine. (“She thinks like a man” is‚ at best‚ a left-handed compliment.) If we do learn all the fuzzy-headed‚ unassertive language of our sex‚ we are ridiculed for being unable to think clearly‚ unable

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    The Lady or the Tiger

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    “The Lady or Tiger” By: Frank R. Stockson Critical Analysis: Who actually came out the door was it the tiger or the lady? According to the story‚ there was a conflict between the boy and the king so; the king had a punishment in mind which was the boy to come down the arena. There was two doors in the arena one has a tiger and the other is simply a lady who was so beautiful. In the watching set there was a princess who was also pretty. The princess was in the arena and the boy was

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    Lady Macbeth

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    Lady Macbeth‚ a leading character in William Shakespeare’s famous tragedy Macbeth‚ progresses throughout the play from a savage and heartless creature to a delicate and fragile woman‚ having no regard for mortality. In the beginning of the play‚ Lady Macbeth is both equally ambitious and evil as she urges her husband to kill King Duncan in order to fulfill the witches’ prophecies by gaining social power on the throne as king and queen. Lady Macbeth calls upon the spirits to give her

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    The Lady of Warka

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    human face it is. However‚ no one comments on a similar work of art from a much‚ much earlier time; “The Lady of Warka”. The Lady of Warka is considered to be the “Mona Lisa of Mesopotamia”. It is one of the earliest relief sculptures known to man (Iraqi Artifact‚ 1). This wonderful artifact teaches a great deal about how rich in culture and literacy the Mesopotamian civilization was. The Lady of Warka is a life-size sculpture of a woman’s face dating back around 5000 years (Banerjee‚ 1). It is shocking

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    The Lady or the Tiger

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    difficult dilemma in his short story‚ “The Lady or the Tiger.” A semi barbaric princess must decide her lover’s fate by choosing to send him death or to another woman in her father’s arena of chance. She spends hour after hour deliberating the two options. Finally‚ she finds herself picking the door in which the cruel fangs of the tiger await. It is her jealousy that allows her to send the suitor to his brutal death. The amount of envy and spite she has toward the lady is titanic. She is also aware of the

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    Lady Or The Tiger

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    All actions have consequences. In the story “The Lady or the Tiger” written by Frank R. Stockton‚ the princess is left with the decision to either feed her lover to a tiger or watch her lover be happily married to another beautiful woman. The reader is led to believe that the princess persuaded her lover to pick the door with the tiger behind it. The princess had concluded that the consequence of killing her lover was better than having to deal with the jealousy of watching him live happily with

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    Lady Brett

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    The Characterization of Lady Brett In the novel by Ernest Hemingway‚ The Sun Also Rises‚ the character named Lady Brett Ashley is assimilated in the words of another character‚ Mike‚ with the Greek Goddess Circe. This Goddess is known in Homer’s Odyssey for luring men with her irresistible charms and transforming them into animals. If this myth was to partake in reality‚ it would be without doubt represented in this novel. The majority of men in the story are tormented and subject to Brett’s

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