Silvia Torres Address to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women – Rhetorical Analysis Outline: I. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered a speech at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in which she took the opportunity to note that in the 15 years since the Fourth Worlds Conference on Women held in Beijing a lot of progress had been made by women worldwide to help provide all women with more opportunities. Nonetheless‚ just because advancement
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English W131 October 17‚ 2012 Cancer Research – A Super Fraud? Is cancer research a super fraud? Is the money being raised by the several cancer organizations being used for good‚ or bad? Does the research the government puts forth really cover what needs to be researched‚ or are they missing something? These are all questions that Mr. Robert Ryan believes he has the answers to. Whether one trusts him or not is one’s own decision. Having only a bachelor degree could make this author hard to take
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A witch-hunt is what occurs when mass hysteria breaks out among a group of people. It is a search to find the source of their fears‚ which in most cases‚ are purely in their minds. These people who conduct these witch-hunts are often searching for something that does not exist. A witch-hunt is conducted to project one’s own sin on another person‚ or group of people. To conduct a witch-hunt is to deny all morality. The case of the Amanda Knox Trial is perhaps one of the best examples of a witch-hunt
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the book‚ Maniac Magee‚ Amanda was one of the main characters and she was best friends with Manic. The author‚ Jerry Spinelli‚ uses descriptive detail‚ dialogue‚ thoughts‚ and actions to develop Amanda’s personality. Amanda is a mature young lady and is a good friend. “Amanda was happy to give up her room to Maniac.” This was when Jeffrey (Manic) came home and slept in Amanda’s bedroom. Amanda was happy to give up her bedroom to her soon to be best friend. Before this amanda had given one of he treasured
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language she spoke. It wasn’t proper English that everyone else spoke. She used improper grammar‚ and was many times teased because of that fact. This has greatly affected her in the future. Even one of the professors at Brooklyn College has made her life miserable when Madera has attended his class‚ because of the fact that she did not speak proper English. Despite this fact Madera had a successful career because she is a great writer and that helped her become better at speaking as well. We should
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perspective of the criminal and rarely do we find ourselves rooting for a deranged‚ psychopath. Patricia Highsmith’s novel‚ The Talented Mr. Ripley‚ is a story where we do see these rare qualities in effect. The eerily charming Tom Ripley‚ like most of us‚ is finding it difficult to be comfortable in his own skin and desperately craves a new‚ more enticing identity. What makes Tom different than us in struggling with this normal insecurity‚ is how he goes about making himself a new identity and that is
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Story Hello. I’ve decided to tell you about my never ending story. In 7th grade i would go with friends on web cam meet and talk to new people. then got called stunning‚beautiful‚perfect‚etc. then wanted me to flash.... so i did 1 year later. i got a message on facebook. from him don’t know how he knew me. it said.. if you don’t put on a show for me i will send your nudes. he knew my address‚school‚relatives‚friends‚family names‚ Christmas break... knock at my door at 4am. it was the police. my
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uses statistical data and refers to experts such as a Princeton criminologist and a former Supreme Court justice in order to further convince his audience. He makes an appeal to emotion by mentioning rape cases within prisons. Through effective rhetorical strategy‚ Jacoby argues that imprisonment contains too many flaws to be used in the American criminal justice system‚ and suggests flogging as an alternative. Jacoby uses ethos within his essay by displaying a conservative yet credible persona
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Luke Ripley from “A Father’s Story” by Andre Dubus and the sitter from “Winter Night” by Kay Boyle both deeply love their daughter and were motivated to make choices based on that love whether wrong or right. Luke’s decisions in “A Father’s Story” where completely controlled not by‚ “a stable owner or a catholic or any other Luke Ripley I had lived with for a long time‚ but a father of a girl” (Epperson ??). He decided to deny his faith and what he knew was right to protect his daughter from going
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Frederick Douglass’ speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July” he compels his audience to make a stand against slavery. This newfound motivation to abolish slavery established within the audience members is derived from his strong use of rhetorical devices such as pathos‚ and tone. Although we cannot audibly hear his tone‚ Douglass’ tone is most clearly seen in his speech through his choice in diction. At first he is humble and patriotic which is precisely what his audience expects from him
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