Rhetorical Analyses for the Four Readings Gettysburg Address Exigence: Dedication of the national soldier’s cemetery Audience: Citizens of the U.S.‚ the union soldiers‚ state governors and party officials. Constraint: How short the speech was‚ going of topic‚ and people who did not agree. Occasion: U.S. national cemetery at Gettysburg. Intended to change: The purpose was to talk about why people fought for our nation; who died in courage that in the end‚ there would be a nation. Emancipation
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The reason is‚ Dew gives a dark and factual view of how much racist fears and slavery propaganda in leading up to the secession of the South’s states by speeches and writings of the secessionist commissioners appointed by South Carolina‚ Alabama‚ Georgia‚ and Mississippi. This opened my mind as to why‚ how‚ and what caused the secession? I think what drove the secession is clear racism‚ and the critical belief of the commissioners had on slavery. They said Lincoln’s election was "nothing
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extermination‚ expulsion‚ secession‚ segregation‚ fusion‚ assimilation‚ and hegemony. Culture clash occurs when two different cultures meet and find their ways of life or cultures in opposition. The meeting may occur through migration‚ colonialism or annexation. Those affected by culture clash begin to define themselves in opposition to one another. An attitude of “us vs. them” often develops. The consequences of culture clash are extermination‚ expulsion‚ secession‚ segregation‚ fusion‚ assimilation
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President of the United States; but Abraham Lincoln won the election with 39.7 percent of the popular vote Lincoln was anti-secession and most states in the far south had banded together to secede. South Carolina had already seceded during James Buchanan’s term. However‚ Georgia‚ the second largest state east of the Mississippi‚ was deeply divided over the issue of secession. Because it had the best railroad system in the south and was centrally located‚ Georgia was pivotal in the idea of an independent
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THE SECOND SECESSION | Globalization may be described as the "second secession." Once more‚ business has escaped the household’s confinement‚ though this time the household left behind is the modern "imagined household‚" circumscribed and protected by the nation-state economic‚ military‚ cultural powers topped with political sovereignty. Once more‚ business has acquired an "extraterritorial territory‚" a space of its own‚ which it can roam‚ freely sweeping aside minor hurdles erected by weak locals
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The American Civil War lasted from the year 1860 to 1865 and was the bloodiest conflict in American history‚ yet in several ways helped to form the United States as it is today. As the events in the mid 19th century unfolded it was becoming more obvious of a great divide the country created on the basis of culture and industry that encouraged southern states out of the United States‚ and into forming The Confederate States of America. The Southern States of America Seceded from the union because
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South Carolina doctrine of state secession had no legal standing. The Union‚ under the Constitution‚ was an agreement among the states defining the rules under which they coexisted. Therefore; axioms that wanted to be altnerated needed consent of all members. Southern states might have claimed statutes about individual state secession was legal but the Northern states never consented. It therefore had no legal standing; there was no declaration about secession that all the states‚ or three-fourths
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manifest destiny was close to completion. Wars were fought; land was bought‚ until finally it was complete. After completion a couple of issues broke out. The issue of slavery along with Manifest Destiny together contributed to the Civil War and secession. Slavery was a really big issue due to the fact that a lot of people were for and against it. Just like a disagreement each side argued their opinion on it. In this case it was the North against the South. The North wanted to end slavery while
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Why were certain groups for secession? Would you like to live in the south where you are mainly an agricultural state? Where the Confederate comes into your house and took food and your children’s clothing. Where the people who ruled your country where into factories‚ and tax your goods? I think not‚ these are some of the few reasons the south wanted to secede. So now this can explain‚ why were certain groups were for secession? The people who were for secession were mainly the slave owners and
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He‚ along many others‚ was associated in the Vienna Secession‚ but soon after shifted his attitude towards a different ideology. His estrangement from the Vienna Secession occurs because of his fundamental differing beliefs on ornament than from those of the Secession. Many recall Adolf Loos as the first Modernist and this would not be possible if he had not disassociated from the Vienna Secession. His differing beliefs from those of the Secession can be understood through his essay Ornament and Crime
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