importantly‚ separate him from his dark hallucinations of being shamed in front of the entire city. By grasping onto their hands‚ the minister is reminded of life and has temporary relief from his self-torturing guilt. The passage uses a simile to illustrate this idea more clearly‚ “pouring like a
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Georgia State University English Dissertations Department of English 12-20-2012 From the ’Hood to the Classroom: A Rhetorical Perspective on Teaching Secondary English to the Urban Student Shae A. Anderson Georgia State University Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/english_diss Recommended Citation Anderson‚ Shae A.‚ "From the ’Hood to the Classroom: A Rhetorical Perspective on Teaching Secondary English to the Urban Student" (2012). English Dissertations
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The poem of “Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall is about a little African American girl who wants to join the march for the civil rights movement‚ but her mother thinks it is too dangerous. Instead‚ the mother advises her daughter to go to church; however‚ the white terrorists kill her daughter by bombing the church. The mother is desperately searching for her daughter and she finds only her daughter’s shoes at the end instead of her body. The form‚ the meaning‚ and settling of the poem help
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In a letter to Captain Thomas Auld published in a newspaper‚ Frederick Douglass confronts Captain Auld in a public manner about their previous relationship as slave and slave master. Douglass presents himself as intelligent and sophisticated‚ which proves that he is capable of acting in a manner that is opposite of current stereotypes. Some of these stereotypes of slaves are that they are uneducated‚ always violent‚ of low class‚ and inferior to white men. Douglass presents himself in this way by
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readers perceive Dimmesdale’s actions to be in The Scarlet Letter‚ an acclaimed novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The story is a romance involving characters that have been embroidered so intricately
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inspiration for this letter to the incoming freshmen
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upon himself to address the tyranny that is slavery‚ in his letter to former secretary of state‚ Thomas Jefferson. He expresses his negative viewpoint through ethos‚ logos and pathos which help him appeal to his audience; as do his constant use of biblical references‚ repetition and emotional diction. Banneker continually addresses Jefferson as “Sir” in attempts to maintain a polite disposition throughout his letter. He opens his letter with “Sir” and then repeats it six other times in order to create
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Martin Luther King composed this letter with a specific end goal to clarify black’s aims of peaceful protests during the civil rights movement. Martin Luther King talks with an individual and instructed tone‚ tending to the ministers who talked bad about Dr. King and his member’s harmful protest against segregation in Birmingham. Injustice anyplace is a danger to equity all over the place. King writes in his letter to priests‚ clarifying that segregation laws against blacks are shameful‚ yet lawful
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The understanding of varied historical and cultural meanings associated with ‘walks’ aid the 21st century reader in interpreting how Nathaniel Hawthorne purposefully characterizes Hester and Dimmesdale to unify a thematic concern for The Scarlet Letter. Solnit’s diction develops important imagery (specifically metaphors) to guide the reader’s understanding of ‘walking’. “Walking becomes testifying” (Wanderlust: A History of Walking) The denotation of the word ‘testifying’ means to serve as evidence
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In a letter from a logical thinker‚ “the greatest scientist” of the twentieth century‚ and a noble prize winner‚ Albert Einstein‚ to a young student‚ the most imperious characteristic is Einstein’s objectivity. Einstein takes a logical approach to the ideas of prayer‚ but clarifies the obscure reasoning by differentiating prayer‚ faith‚ and religion in a research scientist’s point of view to give an idea of a research scientist’s approach to the subject of prayer. Einstein’s tone is distinctly
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