June 8‚ 2005 Tips for picking a topic: Don’t pick a topic that is too big of broad. You have a limited amount of time for each speech so you need to pick a topic that can be completed or covered in the allotted time. Don’t pick a topic that is too technical or obscure. Places to find topics: Newspaper o School Newspaper Television Magazines o Discover magazine o Scientific American o National geographic o Martha Stewart Living o Newsweek o Time The general purpose is always
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racism is manifested through the clerk’s ignorant question ‘Did your father ever attempt to learn English?’ Ironically‚ it is the clerk who is demeaned in this vivid memory; the incorporation of direct speech enhances the clerk’s arrogance through his hostile attitude. However the growing tension between father and son is apparent in the comment ‘His Polish friends always shook hands too violently’
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prepares the reader for the speaker’s concluding response. The organization of the poem helps the reader to understand the importance of the event and prepares them for the speaker’s concluding response. The diction shows the reader that the event that is taking place is very important to the reader because of the vivid detail used by the author. The figurative language used in the poem helps to heighten the imagery and to emphasize the importance of the event‚ which prepares the reader for the speaker’s
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Sarah is portrayed very clearly‚ the reader is given a great visual and emotional explanation. The reader is able to clearly understand that Sarah is not doing well but she is still a blonde pretty middle-aged women. Also‚ the reader receives a short but clear explanation of the twins‚ “My dad even gave them a nickname: The Ice Twins. Because they were born on the coldest‚ frostiest day of the year‚ with ice-blue eyes and snowy-blonde hair”(15). This allows the reader to fully visualize the physical appearance
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response from the reader to help them think critically of the work. This type of criticism allows the reader to relate to a literary work. As Muller and Williams explain‚ “…critics hold that we construct meanings from what we read based upon our own individual experiences‚ our cultural background‚ and the “community” within which we operate.” A reader is able to relate to “The Road Not Taken” because Frost includes a very real and relevant message; life is about choices. The reader‚ when first reading
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and positive effects on a reader. To exemplify the power of metaphor‚ Cynthia Ozick wrote The Shawl‚ a touching story of holocaust survivor Rosa Lublin‚ showing how the broken woman copes with having her life taken from her after the tragedies she endured. These catastrophes include the death of her infant daughter‚ Magda‚ and most distinctly the loss of her happiness and will to live. Cynthia Ozick’s use of metaphor in The Shawl was very efficacious‚ providing the reader with a connection to the
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should think carefully about install the CCTV before any evidence shows it makes appreciable different to public safety. The writer employs a serious and authoritative tone (such as ‘…lead people taking risks that put them in harm’s way…’) which makes readers fear about CCTV. The author argues with three arguments. Firstly‚ no evidence show the CCTV is the answer to solve the problem of random attacks. Secondly‚ CCTV cameras are expensive and useless. Thirdly‚ the CCTV cameras have the ability to invade
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the reader entire experience? There are three different point of views‚ fist‚ second‚ and third. First person is told from one characters point of view‚ which limits the facts and gives the reader just the one character opinion of the story. Second person treats the reader as the main character in a story. Third person is all knowing‚ it can jump from character to character and give information that only the reader knows about. Does varying amongst these three point of views change the reader opinion
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The Outsider by H.P. Lovecraft is a horror story. Although some readers may not fancy a horror story‚ the first line of this story brings in many a reader‚ “Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness” (Lovecraft 3570. This first line brings a reader into the story. After reading the first line the reader not only wants to know that was so bad about this childhood but if it relates to their own. H.P. Lovecraft did not have the best childhood‚ both his parents died
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Room’ is the use of personification; "made the shadows cower and quiver". The shadow embeds fear into the reader‚ as they wonder if the shadow is alive‚ which creates tension as the reader wonders what will happen next. Furthermore‚ the fact that the phrase makes it seem that the shadows are scared of something‚ and the reader would normally associate shadows with blackness and fear‚ makes the reader feel uneasy and heightens tension. It is almost as if fear is afraid of fear itself. The setting of the
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