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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Baker Professor Washburn English 101- College Writing 19 October 2014 Addiction in the Homeland When Deborah Sontag wrote the article “Heroin’s Small-Town Toll‚ and a Mother’s Pain” it wasn’t to scare or frighten the public. What she wrote were facts and intimate details of a family’s pain and heartache over what happened to the person they loved who had an addiction she couldn’t beat. Deborah wrote this article with the intention of letting everyone know that heroin is a very serious problem that
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1- When I wrote the summary I considered the audience to be in high school because I tried to use the words that I don’t regularly use. 2- There is a lot of points that I learned about summarizing throughout this essay‚ for example‚ I didn’t know that I had to write about the author of the article in the introduction. Secondly‚ I didn’t know about the thesis statement and what should be included within it. 3- The 574 verbs really helped me make my essay a bit less blunt‚ and way less repetitiveness
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There are two articles about different stances on arguing. One writer‚ Tannen‚ writes in her article that arguing is getting out of hand in the media. Everywhere we look arguments have to be taken to the extreme to excite the audience and ultimately leads to humans being disconnected from one another. The other article‚ written by Heinrichs‚ writes about how he teaches his kids to argue and argue correctly. He uses these methods to increase harmony within the family. Although both articles are very
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soldiers of the Massachusetts Fourth Regiment‚ a young Private‚ Robert Shurtliff "…was always mentioned in glowing terms as being one of the toughest‚ strongest‚ and most patriotic soldiers… Shurtliff ’s physical endurance was legendary" (Leonard). In contrast‚ the inexperienced‚ eighteen-year-old Deborah Sampson rarely received compliments nor stood out among the beauties of Plympton and Middleborough‚ Massachusetts. These two seemingly-different personages have much more in common that one might imagine
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Her name was Deborah Fontanel. August knew I was her daughter the day I showed up at her house. When August was younger she worked as a housekeeper in Deborah’s house‚ and took care of her. Deborah and August kept in touch and August told me that Deborah met T-Ray and fell in love. After a while Deborah was losing her love for T-Ray. He asked her to get married‚but she said no. She changed her mind eventually because she was pregnant‚ with me. I was an unwanted baby. One day Deborah called August
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Women Conform to Flapper Culture In today’s society‚ women wear makeup and more revealing clothing‚ smoke‚ drink‚ divorce their husbands‚ and show complete independence. Obviously culture was not always like this; rather‚ it has developed over time due to series of events leading up to evolution. After World War I‚ with men gone for the war‚ the country and women themselves had truly seen what they were able to accomplish‚ and men no longer controlled every decision. No longer did women want to
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The “Song of Deborah” is one of the most famous songs in Jewish history. The song‚ sung by two of the heros of the story‚ Deborah and her husband Barak‚ begins by praising Hashem. It states Hashem’s name “Adoni” five times in the first four lines of the song‚ mentioning some cherry picked miracles he had performed. For instance it mentions the earth quaking and the heavens opening up. After the introductory praise of Hashem‚ the state of the Jewish people is examined. It says that deliverance had
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American Researchers in the late 1920s conducted an experiment the goal of this experiment was to keep five people awake for thirty days using a new gas stimulant. The test subjects were put into a sealed chamber. The researchers carefully watched the subject’s oxygen levels to make sure the gas did not kill them. The researchers did not have cameras to monitor the subjects. All they had was microphones and small thick glass windows. The chamber had books and beds to sleep on but no sheets or covers
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Audience Analysis The audience I will try to reach are young people who have grown up in the information age. They will be approximately 18-35 years old. It doesn’t matter what their educational or ethnic background is. The audience are the ones who grew up in with the internet and media constantly in their face. I believe the targeted audience already knows a lot about confrontation because it’s everywhere on the internet and in the news. I don’t believe they know a lot about the other side
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