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The Things They Carried Discussion Topics
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Rocker 1 Sammi Rocker AP Language and Composition Mrs. Haas 24 April 2013 The Things They Carried: 4. 3. 2. 1. Analysis Discussion Ideas: There are many paradoxes of war so we can discuss how O?Brien brings them to light: ?I was a coward. I went to war? (page 61); ?The truths are contradictory. It can be argued, for instance, that war is grotesque. But in truth war is also beauty? (page 80). Repetition in the story represents the narrator?s inability to move on from the trauma of the war. How jokes are important to the mental health of a soldier through its relief of tension, despite their usually twisted natures. A debate on whether the tangible or intangible ?weights? are heavier for the soldiers to bear. Passage Analysis:
The Western Experience 9th Edition Ch. 12 Notes
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Chapter 12 Outline The Founding of Humanism Scholasticism had little to offer Europe?s small lay population, however demand was strong for practical and useful training, and Scholasticism offered no moral guidance. Minor branch, rhetoric, was concerned with art of good speaking and writing. Began to turn to Latin Classics, supported by the countless Classical monuments Rhetoricians began to argue that education should be reformed to give more attention to classics and lead people into moral lives. Created humanism. Came to mean Classical scholarship, wanted to master the classics. Sought to enrich than to undermine traditional religious attitudes. Petrarch Sought to emulate Virgil by writing a Latin epic poem, got him the title of ?poet laureate? and crowned in Rome in 1341.
LIterary devices and meanings
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1. Simile: A simile' is a figure of speech that directly compares two different things, usually by employing the words "like" or "as". 2. Metaphor: a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in ?A mighty fortress is our God.? 3. Repetition: The act or process or an instance of repeating or being repeated. 4. Alliteration: Repetition of a particular sound in the first syllables of a series of words or phrases as in "Come?dragging the Lazy languid Line along". 5. Assonance: Repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences as in "Do you like blue?".
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The Era of the ?Common Man? The Jacksonian Period lived up to its characteristics of being the era of the ?common man.? Andrew Jackson allowed the common man an equal chance achieving success through his economic development, political development, and reform movements. During the era of the ?common man? the common man was the the middle class white male. President Andrew Jackson was the first American to come from humble beginnings and to become the President, this personified the idea of the self-made man. Andrew Jackson also personified the common man because he had been born to a family not of means. Both of Jackson?s parents died when he was young and he fended for himself then worked his way into the military then later became the first president not born from wealth.?
RA of Serving In Florida
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Serving in Florida is an essay written by Barbara Ehrenreich that is a first-hand experience by the author in the world of working minimum wage jobs. The author tried to balance two low paying jobs in order to make ends meet. Ehrenreich mainly uses pathos, or the emotional appeal, in her essay to persuade young adults to go to college and strive for high paying jobs and uses ethos, the ethical appeal as the secondary rhetorical appeal in her essay to convince her readers that she is indeed a credible author.
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AP UNITED STATES HISTORY SELECTED TOPICS PROJECT PURPOSE: This assignment is to allow students an opportunity to explore aspects of AP United States History of personal interest that may not otherwise be part of the general focus of the course. The project will require the student to become an ?expert? on a specific event and/or issue in America?s history through research and analysis. He/she will demonstrate their mastery through a presentation and seminar discussion. ASSIGNED TASK: Research & Analysis ? You must write a thesis statement relative to your topic, support your thesis with at least 7-10 facts/examples, along with an analysis of those facts, and formulate a final conclusion based upon your research. [You are required to submit your thesis statement
List of Rhetorical Devices
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Rhetorical Devices Forms of Repetition 1.?Anaphora is the repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences, commonly in conjunction with climax and with parallelism: To think on death it is a misery,/ To think on life it is a vanity;/ To think on the world verily it is,/ To think that here man hath no perfect bliss. --Peacham 2.?Epistrophe (also called antistrophe) forms the counterpart to anaphora, because the repetition of the same word or words comes at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences: Where affections bear rule, there reason is subdued, honesty is subdued, good will is subdued, and all things else that withstand evil, for ever are subdued. --Wilson
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