Oranges "Oranges" begins with Gary Soto narrating one of his life experiences in this poem. He remembers a particular experience of walking side by side with a girl. There are two characters a twelve year old boy and his date. When the poem begins‚ the narrator is alone‚ and on his way to go pick up the girl. It was winter time and he only had two oranges with him‚ which his purpose was to share them with his date. The beginning of the poem is not very positive‚ though‚ but rather negative. In
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Moreover‚ Soto uses onomatopoeia in his biographical narrative in order to show his audience that he was given many opportunities to realise that he’s making a great error in judgement but‚ by the time he realised it the deed was done. To elaborate‚ before Soto went to the German Market‚ he had been listening to the howling of the plumbing underneath his house but‚ he had completely forgot about it and because of that fact he ended up committing a sin. This is shown when in the text it states‚“Forgetting
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Shady Brook Elementary School. He began to shoot students and staff. After killing 15 students and two teachers in the first classroom‚ he entered the classroom of 27 year old Victoria Soto. Soto‚ knowing that their life was in danger‚ had already hidden her sixteen students in a closet. When the gunman burst in‚ Soto lied and told him that her students were in the gymnasium. As a result‚ she lost her life to protect the lives of her kids. Vicki is the named that she was called by the many people who
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This speech is an excellent example of a persuasive speech‚ as a result‚ the topic was engaging and it contained the three elements of the rhetorical triangle. The overall structure of the speech is organized well. The speaker’s introduction was strong‚ stating the organization she was representing‚ establishing a level of logos. Also with the use of anaphora of repeating‚ "I am here to speak" and later in her speech‚ "you don’t know" helped shown importance. She hooked the audience in the body of
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THE THREE ELEMENTS OF A PERSUASIVE ARGUMENT: ETHOS‚ LOGOS‚ AND PATHOS Aristotle (384-322 b.c.e.) studied with the great philosopher Plato and tutored young Alexander the Great. He wrote more than 400 books‚ including the Rhetoric‚ which is used to this day as a foundational work in the study of argumentation. Aristotle said that rhetoric (argumentation) involves using all the available means of persuasion and he defined the means of persuasion as ethos (personal credibility)
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one’s life. In Gary Soto’s autobiographical narrative‚ he steals a pie from a German market‚ and then feels guilty about the whole incident. Gary Soto recreates the experience of his guilty six year-old self with the use of religious imagery and language‚ the description of his paranoia that everyone knows‚ and the use of the fact that he attempts to escape his guilt‚ but is haunted and unable to escape it. Soto uses religious imagery to relive the time when he stole the pie. Gary Soto “[knows] enough
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A. Identify and briefly explain three functions of religion (9 marks) Marxism believes it acts as the ‘opium for the exploited working class people’. Religion would cushion the pain of oppression and exploitation in unequal societies such as in a capitalist society. It legitimized and maintained the power of the ruling class – helps to maintain the status quo by preventing the less powerful from changing things. Feminists see religion as a conservative force because it acts as an ideology that legitimates
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Identify and briefly explain three reasons why the New Christian Right might have failed to achieve its aims (9marks) The New Christian Right is a politically and morally conservative‚ protestant fundamentalist movement. The aims are extremely ambitious as they wish to make abortion‚ homosexuality and divorce illegal. They want to turn back to a time before liberalisation of American culture and society began. The New Christian Right may have failed to achieve its aims because the group lacked wide
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Personality Theories NAME PSY210 DATE INSTRUCTOR Personality Theories The three personality theories that I have chosen are the Psychodynamic Theory‚ the Humanistic Theory‚ and the Sociocultural Theory. The three theories all deal with a form of love as being a part of a healthy personality. The Humanistic Theory and Sociocultural Theory are comparable in that both deal with an understanding of the self‚ the concepts we have of self‚ and developing part of that concept from how
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Class: CK1A/TP1A Tutor: Deirdre Donnelly Technique: Collection of Work Assignment Name: Personal & Business Documents Weighting: 15% Hand out Date: 11th October 2013 Submission Date: 8th November 2013 You are required to produce three pieces of work‚ as follows: 1. A hand-written personal letter or personal piece 2. A typed letter of application and Curriculum Vitae 3. A typed Notice and Agenda Further details on the specific guidelines for each piece of work and how it will
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