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    "The Commencement Speech You’ll Never Hear" Reading Journal” In the essay written by Jacob Neusner‚ “The Commencement Speech You’ll Never Hear" it talks about the way that schools do prepare students‚ which the writer mentioned it as something that is not useful. Furthermore‚ in the essay‚ the writer mentioned that Many schools and colleges nowadays do prepare students for the unreal world and does not make people ready for the real life. Moreover‚ he said that in the college if a person faced a

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    Context: Thomas C. Foster addresses to the audience that the actual act of sharing a meal means so much more than what it seems to represent. He goes into different stories in literature when there’s a meal going on or a get-together if you will. Without even having a conversation‚ through the descriptive phrases used by distinct authors‚ one can utterly unfold what the author is trying to discreetly tell. It’s one of those tools that in order for the reader to comprehend what’s being indirectly

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    Wallace Stevens(October 2‚ 1879 – August 2‚ 1955) Career and Life * Stevens was born in Reading‚ Pennsylvania on October 2‚ 1879‚ and died at the age of seventy-six in Hartford‚ Connecticut on August 2‚ 1955.He attended Harvard as a special student from 1897 to 1900 but did not graduate; he graduated from New York law school in 1903 and was admitted to the New York bar in 1904. * The same year he met Elsie Kachel‚ a young woman from Reading‚ whom he married in 1909. They had one daughter

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    William Wallace

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    William Wallace Analyse the different ways in which the life‚ career and death of William Wallace has been presented over time. Support your response with source that you have studied in class. William Wallace is portrayed in many different ways‚ as both a good and bad man. There isn’t much historical evidence about William Wallace‚ so people just make up most of the information about him as you could tell such a great story. Some people believed that William Wallace was a heroic man‚ so wrote

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    Wallace On Water

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    In writing this parable‚ Wallace intended to remark on young people losing touch with the world around them. The older fish and the young fish are obviously representative of older and younger generations of people‚ respectively. Water surrounds fish and is quite necessary for them to survive -- basically‚ it is their life -- and the younger fish’s ignorance about this essential thing serves to represent the author’s view that younger people have grown removed from their surroundings and from essential

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    The speech from Cyber Smile foundation‚ creates awareness to teenagers between the age of 11- 16 that words can be used as weapons against others if not chosen carefully. The speech was proposed at St John the Baptist school during a morning assembly for their weekly topic of "treat thy neighbour ad you would like to be treated’. The speech had the intentions of changing the attitudes of the teenagers to prevent cases of bullying in wh`ich many of those around their age group are victim of. The

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    Wallace and de Botton David Foster Wallace informs a graduating class that in order to succeed‚ they need to learn how to think. Wallace gives examples of selfish thinking; he asserts‚ “We rarely think about this sort of natural‚ basic self-centeredness because it’s so socially repulsive. But it’s pretty much the same for all of us” (Wallace 201). Wallace argues the fact that people have a tendency to not think about being in someone else’s shoes. His speech states the importance of awareness thinking

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    William Wallace was born in January of the year 1272. He was the second of three sons. Wallace was born in the town of Elerslie‚ which was in Scotland. His Father Sir Malcolm Wallace held the title of knight but had no political power. Wallace’s Father was involved in a rebellion called Turnberry Band when William was 14 years old and was sent to live with his uncle Argile. His Uncle taught William Latin and French and how to be a swordsman. When William’s father returned from the revolt at Turnberry

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    During the speech "Charles Foster Kane Campaigns for Governor‚" I detected bias‚ fallacies‚ and a variety of rhetorical devices. From the beginning the speaker reveals a particular bias against the current Governor‚ Jim Gettys‚ by deliberately labeling his rule as ’evil domination’. This phrase indicates apparent bias by the Campaigner‚ who is in the same way biased about‚ but in favor of Kane‚ portraying him as a supporter of the common man. The campaigner bases his argument on his or her own personal

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    This Rhetorical analysis essay was very difficult for me to get started but once I did I made many changes before I came into class with my first draft. I started by making a web trying to get my ideas onto paper so that it would eventually make it easier to organize into a paper. I have a hard time with organization so I thought pulling quotes and basic ideas I wanted to bring up in this essay would make it flow a little better. I started out by using the Faigly book to and looking at the layout

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