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    Respond to the following prompt: "There are 3 Rhetorical Devices (logos‚ ethos‚ pathos). Provide a quote from each of the two speeches that best represent the use of each of the rhetorical devices. Keep response to a minimum of 1000 words.” In the 1960’s‚ civil rights were becoming a very present and evident concern to the people of America once again. Issues were being brought up to leaders that could and had the authority to actually help out and do something about these said issues. John F

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    representation of ideas that captivates audiences.’ In compelling speeches it is not only the content‚ but the appropriate use of rhetoric techniques and structure which reveal and emphasise key ideas and captivate the audience. This has been shown in Margaret Atwood’s speech‚ Spotty-Handed Villainesses (1994) as well as Aung San Suu Kyi’s speech‚ the Keynote Address at the Beijing Conference on Women (1995). These two speeches focus on the role of women in society and effectively discuss it in

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    Every time you go through school you have new teachers. They all have different ways of trying to get to know you. But one thing they all have in common‚ they start by calling roll and sometimes saying someone’s name wrong. Then after that they ask you a ton of question‚ like who is your favorite person. I said “Martin luther king jr.” because without him the world would have never changed. This brings me back to my third grade class. Where I really started learning history and seeing how important

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    Greatness is what comes from change. And leadership comes from those who seek to help and lead. Good Morning‚ staff‚ teachers and fellow grade 9s. I am here today as Emily‚ the candidate running for Grade 9 Representative. But most times I am just Emily the student who is just another classmate‚ friend or stranger. We have arrived at a time where we need to find a person to represent the Grade 9 students of Pierre Elliott Trudeau High School. This could be a time of change. This could be a time

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    Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) was a Baptist minister and social activist who played a key role in the American civil rights movement from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968. He was inspired by advocates of nonviolence such as Mahatma Gandhi. His name was originally Michael‚ not Martin. At the age of 12‚ he seems to have tried to commit suicide. It was May of 1941 when his grandmother passed away after a heart attack. Martin Luther King‚ Jr.’s birthday was first observed as a national

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    Speech-Related Activity: 1-minute Speeches Aims: Practice quick analytical thinking‚ expression of opinions Level: This works best with more advanced students‚ and in smaller groups. Materials: Pre-made topic slips‚ a clock or watch for keeping time. Roles: Each speech requires a speaker and a timekeeper. Procedure: The student to perform the speech randomly selects a faced-down strip of paper containing a topic. The student has a short period of time (3 – 5 seconds)

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    Critical Discourse Analysis of Obama’s Political Discourse Juraj Horváth Abstract This paper examines the persuasive strategies of President Obama’s public speaking as well as the covert ideology of the same‚ enshrined in his inaugural address. Our analysis is grounded in Norman Fairclough’s assumptions in critical discourse analysis‚ claiming that "ideologies reside in texts" that "it is not possible to ’read off’ ideologies from texts" and that "texts are open to diverse interpretations"

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    Analysis of Political Campaign Ads and Speeches. AB English Thesis. College of Arts in Sciences‚ University of Southern Mindanao‚ Kabacan‚ Cotabato. Adviser: RICELI C. MENDOZA‚ PhD The study aimed to analyze the different political campaign ads and speeches of the candidates running for a certain office and employed the Critical Discourse Analysis framework. Specifically‚ it sought to analyze the linguistic features of political campaign ads and speeches‚ determine the issue on social services

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    During the beginning of the Revolution many documents‚ speeches and drawings were created in an attempt to unify the colonists and fight the British tyranny. Of these documents‚ there were three that played an important role in the Revolution. These three documents used similar writing methods to persuade colonists into one common goal; rallying against Great Britain. All three of these documents were persuasive speeches‚ written to unify the colonists. None of the documents were actually written

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    post one of my essays for the free membership thingy...)) Right off the bat you can see some of the similarities between Obama and Regean’s speeches. The first of these similarities is how they address their colleagues in the beginning. In the body of their speech they both talk about freedom for all and peace. Another common theme of both of the speeches are how they are not tied down to a particular party‚ the birthrights of Americans‚ and the benefits of entrepreneurship. The differences start

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