In the 20th century women and children faced many injustices across the United States. Many supporters of the women’s suffrage were also advocates of child labor restrictions. Florence Kelley‚ an ambitious reformer and social worker‚ delivered a speech to the Notional American Women Suffrage Association in Philadelphia on July 22‚ 1905 in order to galvanize others to make changes in woman’s rights and child labor laws. Kelley purposefully appeals to emotions of her audience with the use of imagery
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English III AP - AP( English Language and Composition Course Overview The English III AP (or AP( English Language and Composition) course objectives are to help students become “skilled readers of prose written in a variety of periods‚ disciplines‚ and rhetorical contexts” and to help students become “skilled writers who compose for a variety of purposes” (The College Board‚ AP( English Course Description‚ May 2007‚ May 2008‚ p. 6). Students are expected to read critically‚ think analytically
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Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning Summary Although the collective knowledge in the field of Pedagogy on how readers‚ "actually carry out this interpretive process with college-level expository text is rather limited" (Haas and Flower 167). The study in discussion would like to help the understanding of this constructive‚ rhetorical view of reading. Throughout the article‚ Haas and Flower emphasize how students “are good readers in the traditional sense… yet‚ they
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Demystifying Economics Chapter One: Introduction to Economics Important Terms: 1. The study of how individuals and society choose to use limited resources in an effort to satisfy unlimited wants. -Economics 2. Economies found primarily in the rural‚ non-industrial areas of the world‚ in which the basic economic questions are answered directly by the people involved. -Traditional Economies 3. The problem of limited resources and unlimited wants. -Scarcity 4. The next
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“On your mark‚ set‚ go!”‚ the coach shouts. At this instance‚ Sam and James sprint out on the track. Seconds later‚ they both reach the end with Sam cutting off James with 2 seconds. It is only a month away from the regional 100m dash competition‚ and the coach is not satisfied with James and so is not James himself. James knows Sam is the only obstacle between the first place and he knows Sam is far beyond his reach to defeat. It is his chance to pursue his dream career and he is not giving this
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--UNIT ONE & TWO: EXPLORATION AND CONQUEST--- MAJOR EXPLORERS Balboa 1511: goes to Panama and is the first explorer to see the Pacific and the Americas Ponce de Leon (Spain) 1513: getting older seeks Fountain of Youth -- goes to Florida to prevent aging Magellan wants to circumnavigate the world gets killed in the Philippines but one of his boats successfully makes it given full credit -- Spain gains worldly agriculture Cortes major Spanish figure followers were
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Paradox A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense‚ but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity. The first scene of Macbeth‚ for example‚ closes with the witches’ cryptic remark “Fair is foul‚ and foul is fair….” Parallelism Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related word‚ phrases‚ or clauses. The basic principle of grammar and rhetoric demands that equivalent things be set forth in coordinate grammatical structures: nouns
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message of the speech is perhaps the most enduring aspect of the speech‚ the rhetorical strategies Martin Luther King used were instrumental in captivating the attention of millions people then‚ and now. The purpose of “I have a dream” was to awaken awareness about the importance of equality and to transcend his vision through the use of pathos‚ ethos and biblical imagery‚ among other elements; these are the strategies that enabled him to compose a dialogue that is essentially as motivating as a
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Winners never cheat and cheaters never win Winners never cheat and cheaters never win. Americans have grown up with this statement. It is as American as baseball or apple pie. It appears that over the years‚ winning has become everything and athletes will do whatever it takes to win. In order to achieve this goal‚ more and more professional athletes are turning to the use of performance enhancing drugs. "A performance enhancing drug is any substance that is taken for the sole purpose of enhancing
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