AP Portfolio Entry #3 Alayna Baudry “Salvation” Hughes‚ Langston. "Salvation." [The Big Sea‚ 1940.] The McGraw-Hill Reader: Issues across the Disciplines. Ed. Gilbert H. Muller. 11th ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill‚ 2011. 642-643. Print. Question #18: What is the author’s purpose? Does s/he achieve this purpose? What three or four elements most significantly contribute to the success or failure of the passage? Hughes’ purpose in writing salvation was to display that the pressure of adults
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Rhetorical Analysis of “Defining the Anthropocene” Simon L. Lewis and Mark. A. Maslin explore the various reasoning’s behind the proposed epoch of the Anthropocene in “Defining the Anthropocene”. They study the factors that could contribute to the referral of the present as the Anthropocene epoch‚ such as the periods of time in history in which the “functioning of Earth as a system” (172)‚ has been affected due to human actions. Their goal is to “constrain the number of possible start dates [of
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as they allow each political party to voice their opinions‚ publish statements and therefore to convince people of their motives. Generally‚ both organisations used similar stylistic devices to attract the attention of the general public. The Leave campaign‚ as well as the Remain campaign‚ have used the popular literary device of “repetition” over and over again. To demonstrate‚ an analysis collected the three most frequently used words for each organisation: the Remain campaign mainly used “jobs”
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After completing both my Investigative Field Essay‚ and Annotated Bibliopgaphy + Lit Review‚ I definitely felt more confident when it came to researching for reliable and credible sources for my rhetorical analysis paper but I was still confronted with obstacles. Although I now acquired this skill‚ this assignment shifted my work into analyzing information in a different medium. For example‚ for this assignment we had to pick two artifacts‚ and one of them had to be in the form of a video or image
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their actions and went against biblical law to enhance their own lives. Deputy Danforth and Reverend Hale begin their oppositions towards one another when Reverend Hale experiences an epiphany of his actions‚ and Danforth remains condemning innocent people. In The Crucible‚ Arthur Miller uses rhetoric strategies
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relate to the characters and their feelings‚ making them laugh. The secondary audience can also relate as they might have had teachers like this and trips‚ making them laugh about it.
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Being the president of any nation is a tremendous honor‚ but when it comes to the United States being the president is an even bigger deal. Most of the people in the world are all well informed about the United States’ 45th president‚ Donald J. Trump‚ because of technology. (Political positions‚ 2017). The world now know who he is‚ better than what has been learned about the previous presidents. The world learned more about his past and learns more intimately about what type of a human being Donald
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The primary goal of the article is to promote the idea that denying one the ability to die peacefully‚ excluding those under the age of 18 and with mental illnesses‚ is unethical. The author firmly believes there should be laws in place to prevent people with terminal illnesses from having to suffer through the pain of an agonizing death with no option to end their life with assisted suicide. Throughout the article‚ Dr. Nitschke shares logical reasons‚ examples‚ and current events surrounding the
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D’voya L. Wilks Wilks 1 Carlos Pettigrew AP Language November 27‚ 2012 Amistad Assignment The speaker of the film “Amistad” is David Franzoni. Since this fact was not identified verbally during any part of the movie‚ and I was not able to view the credits‚ I went to the World Wide Web to find the author for the movie. The subject of the film “Amistad” would prove to be freedom and everyone’s right to the acquisition to such freedom despite opposition. This is proven throughout the
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Gaby Rodriguez makes use of rhetorical questions throughout her novel to put emphasis on the cliché ideas that people hold about teen moms. One question that Gaby poses to the reader is “Why do we insist on putting limitations on what people are capable of doing?” (Rodriguez & Glatzer 111). This rhetorical question is drawing attention to how Gaby’s classmates put restrictions on her because of her “pregnancy.” They metaphorically place a glass ceiling over Gaby’s head because they believe she is
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