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    Rhetorical pentagon Topic Reader Speaker Language – How is the topic presented; Vocabulary‚ Tone‚ Style. Circumstance Modes of persuasion/ Rhetorical appeals (Appelformer) 1. Ethos – The speakers ability to establish credibility /trust. 2. Pathos – Appeals to emotions‚ affects the subconscious‚ often use of adjectives. (Language) 3. Logos – Appeals to logic‚ via facts and statistics. Discourse- Choice of words/The way you choose to say something. Them/us‚ I/we President Obama’s

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    Throughout President Franklin Roosevelt’s Pearl Harbor speech‚ he uses various devices to appeal to the audience listening. Although‚ the most effective excerpt from the speech is when President Roosevelt depicts the resilience and determination of the United States to fight back‚ both figuratively and metaphorically‚ “With confidence in our armed forces - with the unbounding determination of our people - we will gain the inevitable triumph - so help us God” (paragraph 17). By accentuating the unity

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    Riley Bergue Ms. Cornelius AP Literature p.3 31 March 2013 Literary Device Four – Symbol A symbol “may be roughly defined as a something that means more than what it is” (Arp 91). A poem written by Robert Frost called The Road Not Taken shows an example of symbolism with the use of choosing between two roads. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood‚ and sorry I could not travel both‚ and be one traveler‚ long I stood … Somewhere ages and ages hence: two roads diverged in a wood‚ and I

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    pities doctors because he thinks they have lost the eye for beauty when examining a maiden. He wonders if the doctors realize that they have lost something besides gaining the knowledge and skills of their trade. Similarly‚ the author had stated in the first paragraph that he had lost something. To my understanding‚ that ‘something’ must be his ability to be in awe and to be dumbfounded by the magnificent scene of the sunset painted by Mother Nature herself. His knowledge and experience had stolen his

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    In the article “Seeing Things”‚ the author called Cole‚ professor of journalism at University of South California‚ claims that what we perceive from our surrounding world is not always accurate. To clarify‚ human eyes cannot counter to any electromagnetic vibrations; they respond only to electromagnetic waves between 0.00007 and 0.00004 of a centimeter long (Cole‚2002). I‚ totally‚ agree with that because there are some matters that we can absorb by our human eyes. Bacteria‚ for example‚ are too

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    ACC 205: Week Two Exercise Answers Revenue and Expenses 1. Recognition of concepts a. Accrued Expense b. Accrued Revenue c. None of the foregoing d. Unearned Revenue e. Prepaid Expense f. Prepaid Expense g. None of the foregoing h. None of the foregoing 2. Understanding the closing process a. Note Payable‚ Accounts Receivable‚ Accumulated Depreciation: Building‚ Accounts Payable‚ Cash b. Product Revenue‚ Utility Expense‚ Supplies Expense c. Utility Expense‚ Supplies

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    Many of the problems now and in time have been the product of someone stereotyping someone else for being “different” than they are. It can be based off the pigmentation of one’s skin‚ the religious differences between people‚ but more often than not‚ it is because of the class a person falls into economically. Class is a system that distinguishes people by the amount of money a person makes‚ or that is what class is supposed to be. We often see the upper-class portrayed as educated‚ clean‚ and powerful

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    Blake Taylor P100207428 Seeing & Knowing the Visual Arts I chose to use a piece of art named “New Tricks”‚ done by Angela Starosta. It is an architectural art that she uses to make a space for animal rescue‚ rehabilitation‚ and adopting animals. I chose to use this one in particular because I liked her architect and her thoughts on how she wants the building to work with humans and animals with rehabilitation‚ animal rescue‚ and an adoption center. She used three dimensional pictures‚ animated video

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    status of the nation. The term civil religion was first coined by Robert N. Bellah‚ who believed that the American politics follows rituals and ideals that are similar to that of a private religion. During Obama’s first inaugural address in 2009‚ he was able to use civil religion rhetoric in an effective manner that did not allow confusion between religious nationalism or radical secularism to unify Americans despite religious differences in a time of economic crisis. Obama was able to be placed

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    the beginning of successive clauses or verses. Antithesis The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases. Aphorism (1) A tersely phrased statement of a truth or opinion. (2) A brief statement of a principle. Apostrophe A rhetorical term for breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing. Appeal to Authority A fallacy in which a rhetor seeks to persuade not by giving evidence but by appealing to the respect people have for the famous. Appeal to Ignorance

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