REFLECTION JOURNAL Name: Tenea Felton 7/12/12 Modules 1 & 2 Module 1: Driving is Your Responsibility: Please answer the following questions in complete sentences using proper spelling and grammar: Complete the K-W-L information below. K- What you Know List two things you know about driving. 1. You must always drive safely‚ because not only your life is at state. 2. Driving is a privilege that you have to earn. W—What you Want to know List two things you want to know
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In Dick Gregory’s Not Poor‚ Just Broke the use of rhetorical strategies are established to further entice the reader. Within the short excerpt‚ Gregory gives sensory details and real life experiences that convey emotion and express feelings which in turn interest the reader. Gregory’s use of rhetorical strategies makes it easy to place one’s self in his childhood shoes‚ and therefore connects to the sentiments of the audience. When analyzing this piece it is evident that through tone‚ authorial bias
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Analysis of by Shirley Jackson "The Lottery" Jackson’s visions about man and civilization are shown in her short story “The Lottery”. Numerous of her readers have found this story shocking and troubling. She creates a story filled with symbolisms‚ ugly reality‚ ridicule‚ and characters which reflect on the horror of the cruel tradition’s and that the townspeople are afraid of change. The three most important literary elements used to help form this story are plot‚ characterization‚ and theme. The
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When Bill Bryson went on a trip to Luxembourg he was surprised by the difference in culture. Everything was different for him‚ far more than he had imagined it would be. From the food‚ to the language‚ to the types of clothes people wore. He wrote this section to inform the people back home about how different Europe was from New York and‚ possibly‚ to gloat about his world travels. In the first paragraph Bryson uses the rhetorical technique of hyperbole while describing his backpack. He says
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4 sentences: There was once a mischievous green frog who lived with his mother. He would always do the opposite of what his mom said. She got sick and was going to die‚ so she told him to bury her in the opposite place that she actually wanted to get buried. Her death inspired her son to do right by his mom so he ended up burying her at the river and she floated away‚ leaving him in misery and regret. 3 sentences: I think the theme is to be good to your elders. Now a days kids don’t care about being
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“They don’t even know it’s Christmas” sung and performed by the members of band aid in 1984’s is about third world countries suffering from famine and continually dying‚ and the people in those counties not even knowing or caring that it is Christmas and that the greatest gift to them is life. During the song the singers used and sung lyrics such as “And there won’t be any snow in Africa‚ the greatest gift they’ll get this year is life” and “Where nothing ever grows‚ no rain or river flows”. These
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In the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson established his position as one of the many persons who wanted to dissolve their bonds with Britain in order to looked for their Independence; they could found a new country based in their ideals in which every person could express one’s point of view‚ so everyone would be equal in the eyes of the new government. His ideas of independency are incorporate in every paragraph of the Declaration‚ for visualize what are his thoughts and feelings about
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1. When I shop for clothes I take notice of the window display of the store. 1 2 3 4 5 Strongly Disagree Strongly Agree 2. I sometime buy an item of clothing or an outfit which I see in a window display. 1 2 3 4 5 Strongly Disagree Strongly Agree 3. An interesting window display makes me enter a store. 1 2 3 4 5 Strongly Disagree Strongly Agree 4. I tend to buy when I see a new design or style on display. 1 2 3 4 5 Strongly Disagree Strongly Agree
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The Declaration of Independence Rhetorical Analysis Christian Johnson / P6 PART I The Declaration of Independence is considered by many to be the finest piece of political prose ever written. It can be seen as a document in five parts: the introduction‚ the preamble‚ the denunciation of George III‚ the denunciation of the British people‚ and the conclusion. We are going to closely examine the first three as a way to understand how Jefferson’s rhetorical strategies serves the political
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The narrator in the poem Ulalume expresses the nightmarish terrors of obsession particularly in the second stanza‚ which utilises an epic simile in order to reveal the narrators feelings in the past and present. Physical images are used such as “my heart was volcanic‚” to express feelings and emotions that cannot be described using words‚ reinforcing the idea that this stanza is an epic simile. Furthermore like classical poetry it makes references to Greek mythology as evident with “psyche‚” which
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