Florence Nigena English 1101 Reynolds Caroline 04/19/2013 The Union Address Barack Obama is the 44th president of the United States. President Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4‚ 1961. In his 2012 “State of the Union Address‚” Obama announces a clearly defined for government to take conveys in repairing an economy that works for all Americans and to renew the engagement of many united politics that performed him to the White House in 2008. Many of the particular measured
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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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“Cheating is taking work done by somebody else […] and saying it is yours.” (Colleen Wenke 532). Through the use of contrast‚ surveys‚ credibility‚ and emotions‚ Wenke is able to successfully make her claim that cheating will decline only when the need for a grade without the work diminishes and the desire for knowledge is resurrected in a student’s mind. Wenke ______. High school aged students are represented in the text by Wenke. Wenke’s target audience she is writing to the high school administration
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Growing up and still to this day I am told how to uphold an image‚ a reputation‚ the same as Lynn Peril wrote about in her essay “Pink Think”. Femininity suggests that women and girls will never be looked at as someone who will ever reach an expectation of anything higher than being the wife at home raising a family and loving their husband. Being seen as that gentle‚ soft‚ delicate‚ nurturing being as Peril notes‚ pink think is a set of ideas and attitudes about what constitutes proper female behavior
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Rhetorical Analysis of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle The Jungle‚ being a persuasive novel in nature‚ is filled with different rhetorical devices or tools used by Sinclair to effectively convey his message. Sinclair’s goal of encouraging change in America’s economic structure is not an easy feat and Sinclair uses a number of different rhetorical devices to aid him. Through his intense tone‚ use of periodic sentencing‚ descriptive diction and other tools of rhetoric‚ Upton Sinclair constructs a moving
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merchandise and apparel‚ and how there is so much selection. While they think of the previously mentioned‚ their number one reason in all likelyhood for considering Wal-Mart is the low prices. This advertisement uses Wal-Mart’s motto ’’Always Low Prices. Always.’’ against them by adding the attacking shark plus the phrase ’’Predator of the Poor’’‚ using pathos (emotional) appeal through fear‚ and ethos (ethical) appeal. If the viewer does not know about Wal-Mart and how they have the lowest prices
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Byoungho Kang Trent Hudley English 122 17 February 2013 As Families Change‚ Korea’s Elderly Are Turning to Suicide “As Families Change‚ Korea’s Elderly Are Turning to Suicide” is an article of The New York Times. The article shows us an increasing suicide rate of old people in South Korea because of Korea’s social changes. Author‚ Sang-hun Choe‚ is well known as a Pulitzer Prize-winning South Korean journalist. In terms of his career‚ he began his journalism career as a political reporter
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present variations of ethos‚ pathos‚ and logos and make identical arguments claiming that texting and driving is not only dangerous but is shaping the way Americans live. Both articles illustrate several accounts on the dangers of texting and driving and how the activity could potentially be stopped proving both articles to be well accounted for. While Matt Richtel and Alexis. M. Farris both reach the conclusion that texting while driving has a negative impact on people‚ Farris’ article is far deeper and
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the novel “Where the Wild Things Are” by Maurice Sendak‚ the author writes about a young boy named Max who wreaks havoc while wearing a wolf costume. He is told to go to sleep by his mother‚ and he soon is transported into a jungle. He finds a boat and sails to a land inhabited by ferocious monsters called “Wild Things” where he is crowned king because he is the wildest one of all. He holds an event where his kingdom can go wild‚ and he soon decides to go home. Despite the Wild Thing’s dismay‚ he goes
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Transitional Phases "Mother Tongue" written by Amy Tan shows the many differences between immigrant families and non-immigrant families. Amy Tan describes the difficulty of growing up in a Chinese home and the transitions that she had to overcome to "fit in" to an American society. Personally‚ the transition between living above the Mason-Dixon line and then moving below it‚ was similar to that of Tan’s situation. Even though mine and Tan’s experiences vary from cultural and ethnic backgrounds
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