Peirce‚ an insecure American woman from the 1860’s who looks up to Marian Evan Lewes and aspires to become a writer herself‚ Lewes uses rhetorical strategies to establish her position that writing is a process and that a writer must write faithfully and honestly and a writer should never be absolutely satisfied with their work. Perhaps the strongest rhetorical strategy Lewes employs to establish her position is her personal anecdote. She writes of her experience of being a writer and how as a writer
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Rhetorical Questions the movie “Waiting for Superman‚” the filmmaker’s purpose is to show the viewing audience how America needs to improve its school system‚ and raise the standards to move on to the next grade level. I detected the purpose of the filmmaker by listening closely to the opening five minutes of the documentary. In the opening minutes the filmmaker‚ Davis Guggenheim‚ gives examples of how schools and teachers have started to trail other western countries in the education process.
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East of Eden Rhetorical Analysis Excerpt John Steinbeck’s purpose of the excerpt with Alice and Cathy subsists on Cathy that finds a place to get away from her enemies‚ being lonely and hated by the world. In order to make his purpose expedient he writes‚ “Alice was her friend‚ always waiting to welcome her to tininess. All this so good-so good that it was almost worthwhile to be miserable. But good as it was‚ there was one more thing always held in reserve. It was her threat and her safety. She
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Brooklynn Giancaterino Rhetorical Analysis David McCullough Jr.‚ the son of a Pulitzer Prize winning historian‚ was a teacher at Wellesley High School. In June of 2012‚ he made a speech at the commencement ceremony for the graduating class of Wellesley High School. On this day‚ he gave these teenagers a very unexpected reality check. The argument of this speech is that each and every one of them students is pretty much just another statistic in our harsh real world. Throughout this speech‚ he gives
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DOUGLAS HOUSE‚ RICHARD MEIER‚ 1971-1973 The Douglas House was built by Richard Meier in 1971-1973 for Jim and Jean Douglas. The house is gently placed on a steep slope over the water‚ almost as if it is floating amongst the trees. As Meier stated about the house‚ “So steep is the slope to the water that the house appears to have been dropped into the site‚ a machine-crafted object that has landed in a natural world. The dramatic dialogue between the whiteness of the house and the primary blues and
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Gatsby lived his American dream and in the end found his heart flooded by the power of love and its remarkable betrayal. In time‚ the clothes we decide to wear‚ or the objects we put faith into are but beautiful masks covering broken creatures. The desires Gatsby longs for‚ force him to remember the past in hope of strengthening the dimming light of Daisy’s love. Gatsby’s life gives way to circumstances that connect two separate ideas in ways least expected. In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby the morals
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The Impact of Frederick Douglas The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass‚ an American Slave was written by Frederick Douglass himself‚ a runaway slave who had learned to read and wrote against his masters’ wishes. Within this narrative‚ Douglass speaks of many aspects of slavery that he has either seen or experienced for himself throughout his life before freedom; for example‚ he describes how many hours the slaves worked‚ general violence towards slaves‚ and the relationship between master
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Brianna Henderson Professor Katherine Kincer ENGL 1101 21 October 2014 She Couldn’t Say No Entering college comes with a new sense of freedom to do whatever a person wants. Partying and drinking‚ be it legal or illegal‚ is one of these freedoms. Its common‚ even encouraged and pressured that while out we partake in drinking and getting “wasted”. This has become a common stigma about college‚ and binge drinking has become a serious problem on all U.S. college campus. In an attempt to bring awareness
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Rhetorical Analysis of the Essay "Richer and Poorer" In the essay "Richer and Poorer" which was written by Mrs. Jill Lepore and published on March 16‚ 2015 at The New Yorker‚ which is the Kairos used. In the article "Richer and Poorer" Mrs. Jill Lepore explains how the Gini index is used to calculate the inequality among nations‚ America‚ so called the greatest nation‚ has the highest rate of inequality of all times. Inequalities segregate power and authority between the affluent and the destitute
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An Analysis of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas In the autobiography Frederick Douglass presents a clear picture to me of a horrifying period of American history that far too few people understand. Douglass’s personal narrative as a slave lets you feel the fear of his past and allows us to experience the suffering and pain inflicted by underserved beatings and an unhealthy lifestyle with too much physical exertion. Douglass expresses very personal feelings about his history and
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