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    Queer as Folk

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    There should be a warning before purchasing Queer as Folk. Warning: What you are about to watch is extremely explicit or Warning: Naked bodies are guaranteed to be shown ever 3 minutes. Many gay advocates hate the series because they believe its obsession with sex overshadows other aspects of the gay community. Think about it though. Certain heterosexual television shows like Sex and The City are all about sex and sexuality‚ and it is accepted because ultimately the majority of the relationships

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    The rhetorical device that I think is most effective in Martin Luther King Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is logical appeals. King’s purpose for using logical appeals is because he is stating facts and injustice rules in the society. The effectiveness of the rhetorical appeal logos is working because it made me put myself into their shoes and all that they had to experience just because of their race. For example‚ the letter says in paragraph 1. “If I sought to answer all the criticisms that

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    In the Folk Museum

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    In the Folk Museum The concept of belonging The Museum A museum is a place of past. A folk museum celebrates the lives and lifestyle of a bygone era. This particular ‘folk museum’ is displaying the culture and life of the early Australians. The persona feels disconnected from the experience – the almost deathly scene betrays his‚ and others‚ lack of interest. Through the use of imagery‚ the poet sets a cold‚ stale‚ dark and a silent place and this highlights the persona’s feeling of not belonging

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    forces. Even though African Americans were not allowed to fight for their country during the year of 1861‚ Alfred M. Green uses many powerful strategies in order to get them prepared to fight in this war when the time came. Green uses an abundance rhetorical strategies to argue his message and speak back to counter arguments that his actions he’s encouraging may lead to. In the first three paragraphs in which Green is speaking‚ he maintains a positive tone. Green addresses the negative counter arguments

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    by using this parallelism in this passage only in paragraph three he demonstrates addition to the strong emotion in paragraph three. This difference reinforces Douglass’s rhetorical analysis. The use of an apostrophe as one of his stylistic elements also rhetorical questions and exclamatory sentences to reinforce his rhetorical purpose in this passage. He uses in total nine exclamation marks only in paragraph three. This is due to his emotion and feelings that is displayed through that paragraph

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    In the Folk Museum

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    In the folk museum  A darkness in the rooms - sinister connotations Betrays the absence of voices‚ - personification Departing from steps  And veranda rails – Hyphen marks a break to the extended metaphor of Autumn On to a street that leads around Autumn  Which stands at the door  Dressed in yellow and brown. Personification/metaphor I look at words – connotes disconnection‚ diction “look” not “read” That describe machinery‚ clothes‚ transport‚ - accumulation‚ shows little interest

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    The author’s main purpose The subject is interesting to the audience because Alice is an important person in the writer’s life‚ and she describes how Alice has changed her life. This essay makes the reader‚ think about a person that has positively changed their life. The writer should add more description about the senses is highlighted in the essay. The writer should describe what the chocolate dipped pretzels taste like‚ smell‚ and feel like. Describe Alice’s appearance‚ and describe what she

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    In This I Believe‚ by Jeffrey‚ covers what afterlife is in this perspective. This is what he believe;things change but you have to be the change. To begininng in This I Believe it uses a horrify lead. The author uses words like dismantled‚ ruined‚ and vital. This lead is so exhilarating that it made me as a reader continue his writing. He uses precise vocabulary to make his point clear and real life examples to show what will never change‚ but what is everlasting. He uses tone to make the reader

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    As one of the only powerful female monarchs in English history‚ Queen Elizabeth must have been wary of her words. In this specific speech‚ she attempts to bolster the military morale by providing a profound speech to ensure the success of repelling the Spanish Armada. Her use of various sentences‚ pathos‚ and parallelism itself‚ convinces the listener that victory is inevitable. Queen Elizabeth successfully reinforced the military morale through the variety of sentences applied while providing

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    44th president‚ Barack Obama‚ in his 2009 Inaugural Address‚ discusses the economic decline within America. Obama’s purpose is to be rid of the economic decline of America while remaining true to America’s roots. He adopts a determined tone in order to inspire the Nation by appealing to the Nation’s history‚ struggles‚ and duties as U.S. citizens. Obama begins his address by paying oath to previous generations before him. He appeals to the audience by making references to the past narrating that

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