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    I HAVE A DREAM MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DELIVERED 28 AUGUST 1963‚ AT THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL‚ WASHINGTON D.C. CONTEXT SOCIAL CONTEXT This speech was Martin Luther King Jr.’s most iconic and influential speeches. Delivered to a large gathering to civil rights marchers‚ this speech’s purpose was to press the US government for racial equality. At this point in history‚ "black" Americans were strongly racially targeted particularly in the southern states. Laws in these particular states forcibly segregated

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    One key figure of speech that runs through the discourse of Bush’s rhetoric throughout his presidential career is that of metaphors of friendship. The term friend(s) is used very liberally in Bush’s speeches‚ sometimes alone‚ sometimes along with the term allies as the examples below show: “I recognize that not all of our friends agreed with our decision to enforce the Security Council before committing troops to Iraq” “We will hunt them by day and by night in every corner of the world until

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    Critical Discourse Analysis of Obama’s Political Discourse Juraj Horváth Abstract This paper examines the persuasive strategies of President Obama’s public speaking as well as the covert ideology of the same‚ enshrined in his inaugural address. Our analysis is grounded in Norman Fairclough’s assumptions in critical discourse analysis‚ claiming that "ideologies reside in texts" that "it is not possible to ’read off’ ideologies from texts" and that "texts are open to diverse interpretations"

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    During the beginning of the Revolution many documents‚ speeches and drawings were created in an attempt to unify the colonists and fight the British tyranny. Of these documents‚ there were three that played an important role in the Revolution. These three documents used similar writing methods to persuade colonists into one common goal; rallying against Great Britain. All three of these documents were persuasive speeches‚ written to unify the colonists. None of the documents were actually written

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    Rhetorical Analysis: President Ronald Reagan ’s Farwell Address Rhetorical Analysis: Reagan ’s Farwell Address Ronald Reagan ’s Farewell Address was an amazing example of conveying the fundamentals for freedom through an emotional and visual lesson. It is no wonder that the president known as the "great communicator" was successful in painting for us a picture of who we were‚ past and present‚ and the improvements in the areas of strength‚ security‚ and

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    Choose two prescribed speeches and write an essay where‚ through close analysis of specific aspects of the speeches‚ you demonstrate the speeches textual integrity. We Recognise a text as possessing textual integrity when we see form‚ structure and language producing a unified conceptual whole. The speeches ‘Spotty-Handed Villainesses’ by Margret Atwood and ‘Faith‚ Hope and Reconciliation’ by Faith Bandler‚ represent how a combination of structure‚ form‚ language as well as exploring the human condition

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    members from the Board of Studies‚ As a year 12 student my peers and I are intrigued as to why we study a compilation of speeches that were delivered before our time to audiences in contrasting contexts? And how this has any form of relevance to a contemporary audience studying the HSC in 2013? Through study I have discovered the answer is that these carefully selected speeches all deliver universal themes that are significant despite the period in time and the audience to which they are delivered

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    Chapter 9 Thinking and Intelligence Elements of cognition Concept Mental category that groups objects‚ relations‚ activities‚ abstractions‚ or qualities having common properties Basic concepts have a moderate number of instances and are easier to acquire. Prototype is an especially representative example. Proposition A meaningful unit‚ built of concepts‚ expressing a single idea Schema An integrated mental network of knowledge‚ beliefs‚ and expectations concerning a particular topic

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    Maria Nina D. Dollentes BSAct 2-1 I. Introduction Good Morning everyone! I’m here today to talk to you about an extremely serious issue that society faces today‚ racism. Racism is the discrimination of a person because of the race that they have inherited. There are many different types of racism‚ like racial discrimination‚ ethnic jokes‚ racial assumptions‚ and harassment‚ but they all got a couple of things in common. All kinds of racism are despicable and create a negative and sometimes dangerous

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    (*) Acting Capacity # | Name | Term Began | Term Ended | President | 1 | Jose Antonio Gonzales | March 1986 | June 30‚ 1987 | Corazon Aquino | 2 | Rafael Alunan III | July 1‚ 1987 | June 30‚ 1989 | | 3 | Narzalina Z. Lim | July 1‚ 1989 | June 30‚ 1992 | | 4 | Vicente Carlos | July 1‚ 1992 | 1996 | Fidel Ramos | * | Evelyn B. Pantig | 1996 | 1996 | | 5 | Guillermina T. Gabor | May 19‚ 1996 | June 30‚ 1998 | | 6 | Gemma Cruz-Araneta | June 30‚ 1998 | January 20‚ 2001 | Joseph Estrada

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