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    speaks about how the role of indifference impacted the 20th century‚ including World War 2 and  the Holocaust. To support his claim‚ Wiesel uses anecdotes to connect personally to the reader.  Wiesel also successfully uses questions to move his argument forward. Wiesel also uses imagery  to emotionally appeal to the audience.    Throughout the speech‚ Wiesel uses anecdotes to personally connect to the audience and to hook  the audience. To open his speech‚ Wiesel said‚ “Fifty­four years ago to the day‚ a young Jewish 

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    Journal 5 Estras Essay Estra uses all of the features listed in the book. The debate over team name has long been a controversial issue and he shows his position against it many times. Estra also uses plausible reason and support to back up his statement against the use of certain team names. Estra also know what objections people have and he does a nice job of refuting them clearly. The sentence Estra uses to support his examples is “while politically powerful ones who bite back are left alone

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    Living with Strangers Every community has unwritten rules that only fellow citizens understand. These rules have inspired the American novelist and essayist Siri Hustvedt to write the essay “Living with Strangers” in The New York Times in 2002. The essay is about the cultural differences she had to deal with when she moved from Minnesota - where people are accused of being a snob if they don’t greet everyone they meet - to New York - where people live rather isolated lives and greeting strangers

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    of Cinderella with four anecdotes sharing how others can go from poverty to riches or gritty reality to fantasy. Sexton changes her happily ever after ending by satirizing the message the story gives. By doing so‚ Sexton would like the reader to know the difference between a fairy tale and reality. Anne Sexton deconstructs the ending of her retold fairy tale by using sarcasm to change the reader’s expectations of the story and myth. Setting up the poem with little anecdotes of unexpected reality‚

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    to deliver the message was the powerful diction choice‚ anecdotes‚ and rhetorical appeals. Her choice of diction gives a very powerful negative attitude towards maliara. An example of this is found in paragraph six when Kobusingye says “generating vicious” and also “sometimes erupting in violence.” By using harsh and cold to the soul words it helps create a hateful feeling towards malaria helping her argument. Secondly‚ her use of anecdotes defines how she dealt with malaria and knows the awful things

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    incomparable and like no other. Obama is known to use three main manipulative devices in his speeches. His effective use of Anaphora‚ Anecdotes‚ mixed in with his own personal style. The effective use of these devices captivated his audience and could possibly make him one of the best public speakers in political history. Barack is best known for his use of anecdotes‚ he always finds a way to connect the point

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    In her letter to her father-in-law‚ Eliza Stacey expresses her need and very subtly persuades him into helping her financially‚ as he had done before. In her time of need‚ Eliza uses ethos‚ pathos‚ and anecdotes to acquire the sympathy of her father-in-law. Eliza’s relationship to Edward Stacey and his son is used to establish a sort of credibility in just the first line. Addressing him by “My dear Father-in-law” rather than by name is a clever and subtle use of ethos on Eliza’s part because establishing

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    Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land‚ A Photographic Journey"‚ Jimmy Carter tries to sway his audience to leave the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in its "pure‚ untrammeled state" for its beauty and history. Carter uses sensory imagery‚ a personal anecdote‚ and appeals to emotion to dissuade the audience from developing the Refuge for industry. In the first paragraph‚ Carter sets the scene of the Refuge. He uses sensory diction like vast‚ wild‚ windswept‚ and towering to establish a picture

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    Many have dubbed this generation of young adults as the “me” generation‚ a self-centered and egotistical group fixated only on their own successes and failures. I concede that this may be fitting; however‚ I also believe that this arrogance can be attributed to the popular belief that independence leads to success and‚ subsequently‚ that success leads to self fulfillment. This natural‚ almost automatic lifestyle‚ in which millennials disregard others and place themselves as the center of the universe

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    officer serving the British Empire. I found the writing interesting because of Orwell’s use of rhetorical strategies that slowly build up to the conclusion of the story‚ along with the peak of the action. The story ends in a detailed description of an anecdote Orwell thought of while shooting the elephant that was terrorizing the town he was positioned in. Throughout the writing‚ we can find different rhetorical strategies that indicate Orwell’s very careful choice of different images to get his message

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