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    Jacobs Sherman Indian High School Sherman Indian High School is an off-reservation boarding high school for Native Americans. It originally opened in 1892 as the Perris Indian School‚ in Perris‚ California. The school was relocated to Riverside‚ California‚ in 1903‚ under the name The Sherman Institute. The school was accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges in 1971‚ it became known as the Sherman Indian High School (www.wikipedia.org). Sherman Indian High School

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    The documentary entitled Blackfish directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite uses a few rhetorical approaches to reveal the disturbing hardship that orca whales experience in captivity. The film follows the shocking story of a killer whale named Tilikum and the three human deaths that he is responsible for. Cowperthwaite uses interviews with concerned former trainers and whale experts as a device to explore the difference between SeaWorld’s public image and its intense reality. Researchers find that the

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    nourished schools of rhetoric that followed him. Aristotle came with his unique classification of rhetoric; he put it into five parts as it is already explained above. He rejected Plato’s views that rhetoric does not lead to knowledge‚ he affirmed that rhetoric is crucial because it leads to understand justice and maintains people’s rights whenever law fails to keep justice. We have noticed that how Cicero had laid down a comprehensive analysis of the nature ant range of rhetoric. At his hands the

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    5.1 Rhetorical Analysis: Introduction Addresses the effectiveness of the text in delivering its message “Rhetoric” 1 The art of speaking or writing effectively: as a : the study of principles and rules of composition formulated by critics of ancient times b : the study of writing or speaking as a means of communication or persuasion 2 a : skill in the effective use of speech b : a type or mode of language or speech “Rhetoric.” Merriam-Webster. m-w.com. Encyclopaedia Britannica

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    “Back again it looks like I’m gonna be here all night. Looks like a long night.” I say to my dog Alexie. But it is going to be worse than that. I picked up the phone and ordered a pizza. “Yes I’ll like a meat lovers pizza with pineapple on it” I say. When the pizza came I took a bite and… “Hoooowwl.” howled Alexie. My dog she knew there was poison on it she could smell it a mile away but she was too timid to grawl. I was dieing‚ and it was not my time. But when Death came he gave me an offer instead

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    Rhetorical Analysis of “Gentrification” Writer Sherman Alexie‚ in his short story titled “Gentrification‚” tells the story of a white man that did an anonymous favor for his black neighbors‚ which subsequently turned out to be racist in multiple different ways. He relies on satirical elements and questioning the reader in order to convey his message that racism is not solely from white people and that despite this‚ white people are quite often unintentionally and internally racist (meaning that

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    Analysis of Aristotle’s Rhetoric Aristotle’s Book 1 makes known the meanings of rhetoric and provides a look into the various elements that rhetoric entails.  Aristotle starts out Book 1 by defining a few terms.  Rhetoric is described as “the counterpart of Dialectic‚” (Aristotle‚ 3).  These are both forms of argumentation‚ although rhetoric is persuasive‚ and dialectic the more logical. They have many similarities that can be seen from an emotional to a factual stance.  All men possess both‚ but

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    In the novel Reservation Blues‚ Sherman Alexie utilizes the characters dreams to illustrate the relationship between the Native Americans and the white people. These dreams show an ongoing struggle amongst the two societies‚ in addition to the deterioration of the Indian culture. These dreams are better described as nightmares because not a single one of the dreams are positive and bare anything respectable about the Native American society. Sherman Alexie attempts to disclose the humiliation and

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    Sherman Alexie’s‚ “The Absolute True Diary of A Part- Time Indian” is composed in first person narrative through the perspective of the fourteen-year-old protagonist‚ Arnold Spirit Junior. Throughout the narrative structure the writer mimics the style of a personal diary as if written by Junior himself‚ in which Alexie uses humor‚ irony and colloquial language in the form of both verbal text and visual imagery. This technique allows Alexie to keep the readers engaged throughout the novel while he

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    debated to this day. In the field of philosophy of emotion‚ his work‚ called Aristotelian analyses‚ forms part of the fundamental foundation on which the field is built. Aristotle defines and gives several examples of this analysis of emotions in the second book of his work Rhetoric; however‚ he does not cover every emotion in those examples. After explaining what constitutes the definition of an emotion in Aristotle’s theory this paper will apply the theory to two emotions that Aristotle did not cover

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