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    difference with a powerful sense of unity‚ claiming “we have never been a collection of red states and blue states: We are‚ and always will be‚ the United States of America.” By using this technique‚ the audience is able to digest Obama’s following words because he is addressing those who desire a unified country‚ something everyone‚ no matter the age‚ status‚ or political party‚ wants. Also by doing this‚ he is showing how important unity is to him; equating his hopes with theirs‚ and allowing them

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    To be censored or to not be censored Should wartime images be censored for the general public? Typically‚ your first thought would be yes‚ they should be censored because not everyone can stomach that‚ but is that really the best thing for the general public? Sure basically all photos of war are graphic‚ unless staged‚ so does that mean if you censor the photos you are sugarcoating the truth? Allowing photographers to be present on the front line of war is risky for all of the involved parties.

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    People’s words and actions do not reveal their true intentions. In Hamlet‚ several characters were acting activities and saying certin words ‚ but inside of them they meant the opposite such as Claudius‚ Polonius‚ and Ophelia. In the beginning of the play‚ the audience was tricked into Claudius being the caring uncle that was giving Hamlet a long speech on how he should move on with his life “Tis sweet and commendable in your nature‚ Hamlet‚ To give these mourning duties to your father But‚ you must

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    Lauren Kubiak (1-19) Professor Hausman JRN 02205 Nov. 23‚ 2016 The History of Wartime Censorship “In Rome‚ as in the ancient Greek communities‚ the ideal of good governance included shaping the character of the people. Hence censorship was regarded as an honorable task” (Newth). Censorship has been a part of civilization dating back to the Greeks. The most notable circumstance at that time was the sentenced suicide of Socrates due to corrupting the youth with non-traditional divinities. From that

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    March2013 ENC1102 All Mighty Power of Words The all mighty question at hand is who has the power when it comes to human’s form of communication? Is it the person who says the word or the person receiving the words‚ who truly holds the power of interpretation? In my eyes it’s the way people choose to say the word and most of all it’s the words meaning that holds the all mighty dominance. Language is how our culture communicates with each other; it’s the words within our language that really impact

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    events that impacted Shanghai; and growing up in a non traditional family. Because of world events‚ I experienced three distinctly different phases of Shanghai during the ten years I lived there. There was a Pre-World War II Shanghai; a wartime Shanghai; and a post- World War II Shanghai. PRE WORLD

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    <b>The Drift Towards War</b><br>"Lead this people into war‚ and they ’ll forget there was ever such a thing as tolerance. To fight‚ you must be brutal and ruthless‚ and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fiber of national life‚ infecting the Congress‚ the courts‚ the policeman on the beat‚ the man in the street." <br><br>It is one of history ’s great ironies that Woodrow Wilson‚ who was re- elected as a peace candidate in 1916‚ led America into the first world war. With the

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    I have read many books about WWII but none of them have been like this one. While reading‚ the same word kept popping up in my head courageous and that is the fundamental of this story how one woman’s courageousness never succumbed no matter how atrocious her life became. Russel Lazega the author is her grandson he calls her Bubbie which is Jewish for grandmother yet her given name is Lea. This is a woman who was born with a great inner strength she fought off the Nazi’s and at 80 is still going

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    Martin Luther King (2015) used some very powerful words in‚ “I Have a Dream.” His word choice alone tells his listeners how serious this movement was. For instance‚ he rights that America gave them a bad check‚ which came back marked inefficient funds (King‚ M.L.). He was letting the people know that no longer will this be accepted. No person should be okay with a bad check so it’s time for them to stand up and stop accepting them. He compares their situation to quicksand‚ which is something

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    Wartime stories are often hard to tell in a narrative non-fiction piece due to the difficulties faced in said wartime conditions. Author Tim O’Brien attempts to address these issues in his novel The Things They Carried‚ which is a recollection of his war stories which are set in Vietnam. O’Brien’s method of circumventing the problems posed by relying on using imagination and invention to accurately display the truth‚ as he sees it. The concept of such can be seen in three chapters of the novel‚

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