ATTENDANCE AT A COMMUNITY BOARD MEETING 1. Before you attend the meeting‚ write down your expectations. How many people will attend? What are the topics that will be addressed? What will the site be like? Compare these notes with your actual experience and describe this in your report. I attend my first community board meeting and I thought that there would be about 25 people but to my surprise there were more than 45 people in attendance. Upon arrival to the board meeting I imagined that the topics
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7/2/14 Professor Budd Final Draft Oppression in Schools Oppression is defined as an unjust or cruel exercise or action of power. Throughout life‚ everyone has experienced oppression at least once. We have only recently begun to stand up and fight the effects of oppression to gain back our freedom. There are many forms of oppression in American schools‚ including inequality in education‚ the banking concept of education‚ and college lectures. Oppression has divided us to keep us from maintaining
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Rhetorical Analysis of a Cartoon As the presidential election approaches‚ America is split‚ debating between Republicans and Democrats‚ but there is one thing that they all would agree on: the price of gas‚ and how ridiculous it has become. Over the summer‚ for the first time ever the national average for gas hit four dollars a gallon. I am going to guess that I didn’t have to tell you that- you already knew. Since most Americans are against high gas prices‚ it makes it easy for a cartoonist
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Rhetorical Analysis on Martin Luther King Junior’s Letter from Birmingham Jail In Martin Luther King Junior’s Letter from Birmingham Jail‚ MLK uses ethos‚ logos‚ and pathos powerfully and effectively to present his argument that the discrimination of African Americans all over the country is unbearable and should be outlawed forever. King wrote the letter in Birmingham‚ Alabama after a peaceful protest against segregation which was King’s way of reinforcing his belief that without forceful‚ direct
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In the “Address to the People of Massachusetts on Chappaquiddick” Senator Edward Kennedy attempts to persuade the audience to forgive him and understand that his behavior after this tragic accident is not a part of his character‚ but just one action of fleeing the scene to which he pleads guilty. He adopts an apologetic tone in order to appeal to the people emotionally and allow the audience to see that he regrets the actions he made. Senator Kennedy begins his address by voicing the background
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Cortnie Schierman Fijacko English 111 5 October 2012 Rough Draft: Rhetorical Analysis Essay David Eggers‚ in Zeitoun‚ shows a story of a Muslim American family living through many challenges. After 9/11 Muslim families‚ like the Zeitouns‚ face many problems living in America. Eggers wants to inform other Americans on the situation of Muslim living in the United States‚ present day. People who are uneducated about the Muslim religion need to be informed on how similar lives are of other people all
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Slave Oppression During the 19th century‚ slavery was an extremely dehumanizing period. The complete control over another human being’s life brought many hardships and disappointments. Families were separated and‚ for African-Americans‚ the slave era was extremely depressing. Slaves were often beaten‚ or killed for the simple incompletion of a task. Women had no rights and were used for cooking‚ for cleaning‚ and for the creation and nurturing of babies. There were often instances of lynching and
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In recent years‚ America’s attention has been gripped by stories of women who have escaped the Middle East. Each story is unique‚ but they all share the same themes of oppression‚ abuse‚ and domination. Since then‚ Americans have felt compelled to “save” Middle Eastern women and many of the activists are now been highly praised for the influence they have had in the region. Others‚ however‚ have come to question whether the Muslim women in the Middle East really need the U.S. to rescue them from
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In response to Karl Taro Greenfeld’s article‚ Robert Pondiscio’s “Poor Students Need Homework” aims to convince readers of the need of homework for low-income children. Pondiscio effectively persuades his audience that while wealthy children may not necessarily need homework‚ kids who are born into poverty do in order to increase their lack of opportunities through the use of cause and effect based arguments‚ analogy‚ and generalization. Pondiscio begins his article by disagreeing with a quote
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The AA meeting that I attended was at midnight in Bay City‚ at the Log Cabin. When I first walked in I was very startled. There were three women and seven men. I was quite overwhelmed and a tad bit scared to be in that sort of predicament. I know going at midnight was probably not the best idea‚ but it was the only meeting that fit into my schedule. Everyone was very nice to me when I walked in and informed me on how the meeting was held and what went on. At the start of the meeting some book
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