Eras Book Reporting Form AP English Language and Composition Name: Hadley Cabitto Date: October 26, 2015 Period: 5 Book Title: The Wordy Shipmates Genre: Non-Fiction Original Publication Date: October 7, 2008 Your Edition’s Publication Date: 2008 Author: Sarah Vowell Number of Pages: 250 Brief Summary and Arrangement of the Book: The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell is a telling of the Puritans during the 17th and 18th centuries. She uses witty one liners and immense sarcasm to explain the division between groups of Puritans. She also uses examples from important documents and events to illustrate the contrast in the groups reactions.
In the documentary component Head Games, previous WWE wrestler and Harvard football player Christopher Nowinski says that playing his dearest games was the "closest thing to being a warrior without going to war. " The main purpose of this documentary is to talk about chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) it is known as concussion. Concussion is an injury to the brain that is caused by something hitting the head very hard. The techniques used in this documentary are voice over, music and sound effects, interviews, reenactments, montage, and also actuality. Voice over is used in this documentary to either support a fact said or to explain in details or more easily to understand for the viewer.
The analysis I made was based on Douglas McGray’s article “Lost in America”. You did a great job starting your introduction in a creative way using a question as attention-grabber. It is an effective strategy to grab the reader’s attention. You briefly summarized the article’s main points; it provides readers a brief explanation of what will be further analyzed. You also established a very solid thesis statement with a purpose, audience and rhetorical device being analyzed.
Prolific for its apocalyptic portrayal President Abraham Lincoln’s Election, the speech delivered by Senator Robert Toombs to the state legislature in Georgia reveals anxieties of Southerners about the longevity of their lifestyle. Utilizing passionate rhetoric, The South Must Strike while There Is Yet Time displays how the future of the Union remains gloomy and unpredictable. Addressing the fellow legislators with vigorous pathos, the speech details how the security of Southern values remains paramount to the decision of secession. Moreover, Toombs features the question of slavery and its expansion heavily in his speech, deeming it the quality most necessary to preserve to preserve the Southern way of life. As Lincoln has been perceived by Southerners to support radical
Samuel Sherwood and Jonathan Boucher were both ministers tasked with preaching in this climate of resistance. Sherwood delivered his sermon titled, Scriptural Instructions to Civil Rulers in 1774. Simultaneously Samuel Boucher imparted biblical analysis in, On the Character of Absalom. Both Sherwood and Boucher offer a glimpse into the political climate following the passage of the Intolerable Acts. Both men identified what they believed the present danger to colonists and their efforts of resistance.
In the article by The Onion, the author satirizes how Americans are extremely gullible and will practically buy any item of product that marketers make sound like it is beneficial to their life, health, etc. Throughout the article the author mocks the insoles with the use of his diction. The authors of the article try to persuade the reader to buy the item they are marketing. The author uses lots of ethos throughout the article to try to make the reader become more interested in the product. His strong use of diction helps him try to make the reader become more interested in the product, the author uses words like “restimulates” and “restoring” to describe how the product helps you and is better that all the other different items.
In the novel, Our America by LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman makes us connect to today’s society and ourselves. Our American novel illustrates two strong young men facing struggles and surviving tragedies. Throughout the novel, we come across pictures that evokes their stories sufferings and deaths. My feelings and reactions towards my chapter and the whole book are indignant and crestfallen. While reading chapter three I realized that I could not relate to LeAlan and Lloyd situations at school in some parts.
This journal, “Of Plymouth Plantation”, which was from Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vol. 1, written by William Bradford between 1630 and 1651, and edited by Samuel Eliot Morison in 1953, describes the story of the pilgrims who sailed from Southampton, England, on the Mayflower and settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620. Those pilgrims were English Christians in the 16th and 17th centuries and religious separatists who saw no hope of reforming the Church of England from within; therefore, they hoped to separate from the Church of England and form independent local churches in another place. In order to , those pilgrims overcame many obstacles. The author had used the power of rhetoric, especially in the use of the three rhetorical
Through the caricature of Undine Spragg, Edith Wharton attacks the American greed and hypocrisy. Undine undoubtedly is greedy and uses any means to attain her goal which is unanimously agreed in general. Though she is confident of her powers she has to encounter certain things that neither beauty, nor influence nor could money ever buy for her. The quick and smooth divorce that Moffatt gets her is a sharp attack on the judicial system. The height of sarcasm is understood at this juncture, where soon after a few minutes of divorce, they are married in the presence of the judge who issued her divorce.
After World War 2 the social climate in the United States changed in many ways. Two different things were happening at that time. The United States was scared of an invasion by the Soviet Union. Precautions such as Bomb shelters and Duck and Cover Drills were practiced in schools and work places. Even though the United States lived in fear, the economy of the country was becoming stronger.
In 1776, on July 4th, the 13 English colonies officially declared their freedom from England. However, as the years progressed, slavery became incorporated into everyday American life. In 1852, Frederick Douglass, a former slave, was called upon to deliver a speech to celebrate America’s independence; however, he censured Americans for saying they were a “country of the free”. In the speech, Hypocrisy of American Slavery, Frederick Douglass declares that Americans should not be celebrating their freedom when there are slaves living in the country. He uses emotional appeal, ethical appeal, and rhetorical questions to convince his audience that Americans are wrong celebrating freedom on the 4th of July when slavery exists in their country.
During the colonial period many settlers came to the New World to escape persecution for their Puritan beliefs. Writers such as William Bradford, John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, and Mary Rowlandson all shared their experiences and religious devotion throughout their literature that ultimately inspired and influenced settlers to follow. This essay will discuss the similarities in Anne Bradstreet and Mary Rowlandson’s work as they both describe their experiences as signs from God. Anne Bradstreet came to the New World as a devoted Puritan as she repeatedly talked about it in her poetry. In her poems she discusses many tragedies that happened in her life such as; the burning of her house and the death of her two grandchildren all of which she thinks were signs from God.
The arrival of the first Europeans in the Americas is dramatically captured through the many writers who attempted to communicate what they saw, experienced and felt. What is more, the very purposes of their treacherous travel and colonization are clearly seen in their writings; whether it is poetry, history or sermons. Of the many literary pieces available today, William Bradford and John Winthrop’s writings, even though vary because the first is a historical account and the second is a sermon, stand out as presenting a clear trust in God, the rules that would govern them and the reason they have arrived in the Americas. First of all, William Bradford provides an in-depth look into the first moment when the Puritans arrived in the Americas. In fact, he chronicles the hardships they face on their way to Plymouth, yet he includes God’s provision every step of the way.
In his short story, “The Minister’s Black Veil,” Nathaniel Hawthorne uses irony, symbolism, and stereotypical Puritan beliefs and behavior to expose humanity’s hypocrisy in an effort to create change. Irony is an extremely important literary element that Hawthorne uses in “The Minister’s Black Veil.” Throughout the story, many different examples of irony are evident. First off, the
Sandy Hook/Gettysburg Rhetorical Analysis Essay On December 14, 2012 President Obama addressed the nation in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Critics compared this speech to Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address speech giving to Americans in the war on November 19, 1863. The purpose of both speeches was to allow a form of comfort to the american people and to give the country a sense of togetherness or hope in some form. Both speeches were given in tragic times but the presidents were different in the way they addressed the people.
