Brooke Collins 11-10-12 Block #1A Draft #1 Change for You‚ Not For Others Well-known Sci-fi writer‚ Ray Bradbury‚ in his novel‚ Fahrenheit 451‚ illustrates that relationships reflect who individuals are and who they want to be. Bradbury’s purpose is to promote the idea that a person should have the courage to listen to their own beliefs and thoughts of happiness rather than to blend in with society. He adopts a disoriented and poetic tone in order to appeal to similar feelings and experiences on
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Florence Nigena English 1101 Reynolds Caroline 04/19/2013 The Union Address Barack Obama is the 44th president of the United States. President Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4‚ 1961. In his 2012 “State of the Union Address‚” Obama announces a clearly defined for government to take conveys in repairing an economy that works for all Americans and to renew the engagement of many united politics that performed him to the White House in 2008. Many of the particular measured
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In response to Karl Taro Greenfeld’s article‚ Robert Pondiscio’s “Poor Students Need Homework” aims to convince readers of the need of homework for low-income children. Pondiscio effectively persuades his audience that while wealthy children may not necessarily need homework‚ kids who are born into poverty do in order to increase their lack of opportunities through the use of cause and effect based arguments‚ analogy‚ and generalization. Pondiscio begins his article by disagreeing with a quote
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“Cheating is taking work done by somebody else […] and saying it is yours.” (Colleen Wenke 532). Through the use of contrast‚ surveys‚ credibility‚ and emotions‚ Wenke is able to successfully make her claim that cheating will decline only when the need for a grade without the work diminishes and the desire for knowledge is resurrected in a student’s mind. Wenke ______. High school aged students are represented in the text by Wenke. Wenke’s target audience she is writing to the high school administration
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Rhetorical Analysis Paper From the beginning‚ the FLO TV personal television ad that first aired during the 2009 Super Bowl grabbed my attention by using Jim Nantz‚ the legendary sportscaster‚ to commentate on the entire commercial. Hitting on the rhetorical appeal of ethos‚ because even if I wasn’t looking at the TV at the time‚ as soon as I hear Jim Nantz voice‚ it makes me want to see what he’s talking about. Jim’s giving the play by play on the man in the commercial‚ Jason Glasby‚ giving
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Claudia Baiz ENGL 1311 MWF 12:30pm - 1:20pm Professor: Jonathan Nehls Rhetorical and Visual Analysis on “How Performance-enhancing Drugs Work” Throughout this essay‚ I strive to analyze the rhetorical and visual strategies used within Craig Freudenrich ’s article‚ "How Performance-enhancing Drugs Work‚" with the purpose of examining his explanation and description about performance-enhancing drugs and determining whether he succeeded or failed at it. This article bases itself around familiarizing
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optional would I still attend? After reading the essay “Against School‚” by John Taylor Gatto a series of questions began to arise in my head. Is school really that necessary? Is it really the only way for a person to be successful in life? According to John Taylor Gatto schools are nothing but merely “laboratories of experimentation on young minds‚ drill centers for the habits and attitudes that corporate society demands (38).” After reading Gatto’s essay I must say I agree. The educational school system
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Alison Heuchan 1003022301 KPE 161 Laboratory 1: Measurement of Muscular Force and Power TA: Victor Chan A) Hand Grip Dynamometer Analysis Table 1: Hand grip dynamometer results Trial 1 Trial 2 Trial 3 Peak Force (kg) Left Hand 30 kg 30 kg 26 kg 30 kg Right hand 32 kg 32 kg 30 kg 32 kg Discussion 1. In completing this test you did repeated trials. Why might scores on a test improve as you do repeated trials? One reason that test scores might improve as you do repeated trials is that there
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Rhetorical Analysis Essay President Obama’s 2009 Inaugural Address In January of 2009 President Barack Obama addressed his country for the first time as president of the United States of America. Not only did he address his nation but he left them with a sense of empowerment. With the use of rhetoric‚ Obama and his speech writers were able to greatly influence their audience. In the speech as a whole‚ Obama used anaphora with the word “our”. This was not only a good move from a political
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then‚ I say‚ break the law." "It is not a man’s duty‚ as a matter of course‚ to devote himself to the eradication of any‚ even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty‚ at least‚ to wash his hands of it‚ and‚ if he gives it no thought longer‚ not to give it practically his support." (On Duty of Civil Disobedience.) Thoreau explains that every citizen has the obligation to oppose all unjust occurrences and has his or her own individual responsibility
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