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    Shakespeare’s drama‚ The Tragedy of Julius Caesar‚ is saturated with rhetorical strategies. Brutus‚ Cassius‚ and Antony use their words throughout different parts of the play to sway other people’s opinions. Cassius’s persuasion is so powerful it leads to the death of Julius Caesar. Brutus is left with the repercussions of the assassination and has to speak to the Romans. Brutus and Antony go back-to-back speaking to the Romans using rhetorical strategies to explain their diverse views on the event. These

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    The Civil War was a major war within the United States that started in 1861; it was fought between the Confederate States of America and the Union because the Confederacy still believed that slavery should exist. The war went on for four years and over six hundred and twenty thousand soldiers were killed (American Civil War ). One of the most important battles fought during this war was the battle of Gettysburg; it lasted three days and went down in history as one of the most deadly battles of the

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    to court Daisy‚ he ends up alone at the end of the novel without friends. Through the exhaustive use of a main rhetorical strategy throughout the novel‚ FitzGerald proves himself a “good writer” by having a lasting impression on the audience and showing he can intricate details to increase the reader’s understanding of the message he is trying to convey. FitzGerald’s prominent rhetorical strategy is symbolism throughout The Great Gatsby‚ making him a good writer as symbolism gives depth and adds

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    Mark Twain and His Masterpiece: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ________ A Research Paper Presented to Mr. Neil of Chula Vista High School ________ In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for English 10 Honors/Gate ________ By: Id #: 937228

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    revenge; they in fact are not even aware it exists. Twain additionally states that humans willingly created evil in the form of cursing‚ racism‚ sexism‚ homophobia‚ etc. “Indecency‚ vulgarity‚ obscenity--these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing; they are not ashamed.” Animals‚ being subjects of nature‚ naturalize each and every aptitude and sense they carry. Twain‚ in the contents of his essay‚ mentioned how‚ unlike

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    Cultural Criticism in Mark Twain’s Life on the Mississippi (1883) -Throughout “life on the Mississippi‚ Twain seeks to delay time‚ to make it pause long enough to make some sense of it‚ even as he realizes that detah will end all speculation. -He writes of his day as a pilot that “time drifted smoothly and prosperously on‚ and I supposed – and hoped – that I was going to follow the river the rest of my days‚ and die at the wheel when my mission was ended. But by and by the war came‚ commerce was suspended

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    Through the first paragraph‚ Thoreau declares that he wants to live a simple‚ yet purposeful life. The distinctions he makes in paragraph one are that he wants to live his life to the fullest with whatever it throws at him. The antithesis in paragraph one is in sentence one when he contrasts life and death to explain that he did not want to die to understand that he did not truly live. The word “dear” was meaning that life was precious‚ and “mean” was to explain how difficult or harsh it could be

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    Mark Twain and Stephen Gould both wrote articles in which they expressed their views on the true nature of man. Mark Twain wrote the lowest animal. In this piece he described mas as maniacs and savages who take whatever they want and only care about themselves. Stephen Gould wrote A Time Of Gifts which is all about how the good will always balance out the bad‚ and how we will always step up especially in times of need. I think that both authors make some good points‚ but I side more with Stephen

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    Rhetorical Analysis of Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare. He grew up in Stratford‚ England‚ and dedicated his life to work at the Globe‚ where he made many plays and stories. Shakespeare wanted couples to appreciate their love because love can be very dry and unwilling to sacrifice themselves for their spouse‚ so he wrote this wonderful story. Romeo and Juliet had a purpose and a reason for its existence in the literature world. The purpose of Romeo and Juliet is never to rush love‚ as shown by the character’s

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    AMERICAN LITERATURE – PUDD’NHEAD WILSON AND THOSE EXTRAORDINARY TWINS This story written by Mark Twain speaks about the Siamese twins farce‚ a touch of revenge and the search and the fingerprint plot have in common as an underlying theme of the identity problem. The Siamese twins are symbolic of this problem‚ two different personalities soldier with the same body‚ on the one hand is entinede that these siblings have a confusion of identities‚ and on the other to pursue and have the attempt to establish

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