Anthony Glass is merchant from Natchez, Mississippi (Baird and Goble 54). The book written by Baird and Goble, “Oklahoma a history,” has a map showing this explorers routes on page 49. Glass’s journey only takes part of a small portion of this map. However, he doesn’t fall short of making an impact in history with his traveling. In the year of 1808 and 1809, Anthony Glass led a group of merchants to the Red River region (O’Dell).
If you were to change something about the education system in the U.S, what would you change? How would you critique the quality of education? Education historian Diane Ravitch answers these questions in her excerpt that was published in 2014, “The Essentials of a Good Education.” In her text Ravitch argues that the education system is flawed and that the vision of a good education is unfair and unequal. Ravitch supports her claim by providing examples of the negative effects of the educational system and using historical context.
Florence Kelley was a social worker who fought for child labor laws and she successfully improved conditions for working women. She delivered a speech for the National American Woman Suffrage Association and she used different strategies to convey and persuade the Association that child labor should end. Throughout her speech, she mainly focuses on a little girl’s experience with child labor. Not only does that connect her purpose more with her audience because they are focused mainly on WOMEN suffrage, but even if that group of people wasn’t her audience they would still connect with the little girl because of her innocence and purity.
Bird by Bird is a novel reflecting on Anne Lamott’s writing technique. She reflects on her writing to help other writers with their own processes. She uses her childhood as the pretext for what made her want to become a writer. Lamott talks about how her dad getting brain cancer, aloud her to write her first book to be published and how she felt after it was published and reviewed. She describes her thoughts on the writing process and her techniques she uses.
Florence Kelley is a reformer who fights for child labor laws and better working conditions for women. At the National Assembly Women Suffrage Association in Philadelphia on July 22,1905, Kelly recites a speech talking about the issues of child labor laws. When talking to her audience, she uses rhetorical strategies such as repetition of the many negative aspects of child labor through specific examples, criticism of states regarding their policies, and emotional appeal. By using a combination of factual evidence and emotional appeal, Kelley hopes to get her point across by convincing her audience of the problems with child labor.
The article, “Read, Kids, Read,” by Frank Bruni claims that reading is something everyone should do because it does things to your brain and helps raise your intelligence which are things that technology cannot do. This article relates to Mildred and Montag in Fahrenheit 451 and the fact that Mildred is obsessed with technology, meanwhile Montag is trying to figure out the meaning of books and trying to figure out how to read one. Bruni states that “...reading does things - to the brain, heart and spirit - that movies, television, video games and the rest cannot.” Mildred is so attached to technology and the televisions which she considers her “family”, that she is constantly traumatized by the tv shows and takes a lot sleeping
Child labor is the use of children in industry or business, especially when illegal or considered inhumane. Child labor has been an ongoing problem for many years all around the world. Many people have taken a stand to fight against the devastating problem of child labor. Florence Kelley was a successful fighter, as she fought for child labor laws and improved conditions for working women. To deliver a message over a strong topic such as child labor, a sense of strength, intelligence, and passion is needed, and Kelley truly had it throughout her message connecting with her audience.
Young people in the 21st Century need to reevaluate their ethics; David McCullough is helping them understand that by explaining that they need to be honest with themselves and their reality. His scathing criticism of them and their culture, philosophies, and ideologies, is justified and insightful; teens in the United States allows special to become a meaningless term, prefers to win instead of achieving, and cares too much about superficial accomplishments instead of internal growth. McCullough makes a point throughout his speech to say that being special is not just given to you; teenagers are not special by default. In the speech, while he is explaining why young people should look forward to more than just being special or different, in
According to Lemony Snicket, “[You should] never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them” and writer Stephen King presumably would agree. In On Writing, pages one forty-seven through one fifty, King uses diction, critical and ardent tones and figurative language, to highlight the significance of reading and how it benefits a writer. King utilizes diction to persuade aspiring writers to read regularly. He writes, “I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of opportunities to dip in.” (147) “Waiting rooms were made for books—of course!
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In the beginning of the novel, the Fox came in as merely a slave. However over time he became very useful because the king recognized his wisdom. He was a great teacher to Orual and Psyche and taught them reading, writing, and philosophy. Whenever the Fox told the girls a story or a poem he would end it with saying, “All folly, child”(Lewis 8). The fox does not believe in gods or supernatural beings.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a novel that expresses many themes and ideas in precise detail. A psychoanalyst named Sigmund Freud expressed the idea of a three-part human psyche. These parts are summarized into seeking pleasure at any cost, condemning oneself to fit into society and the adoption of morals and feelings. Robert Louis Stevenson, although the publication of his book occurred years before Freud's idea developed, conveys these three parts of human psyche in his novel. Exposed in Dr. Jekyll’s narrative is his obsession to separate the good and evil within people in order to make them wholly one or the other.
Madeleise Ortiz 3/01/2018 English 241 Trever Karens Short Essay#1: Illustrator Study Theodor Geisel Theodor Seuss Geisel was born on March 2, 1904 in Springfield Massachusetts. Theodore is also known as Dr. Seuss, if you want to pronounce the name the way his family did, you would say Zoice, not Soose. His name is german name, and it was his mother’s maiden name: Henrietta Seuss’s parents came from Bavaria a federal state in Germany (part of modern-day Germany) during the nineteenth century. As a magazine cartoonist, he began signing his work under the mock-scholarly title of “Dr. Theophrastus Seuss” in 1927. He shortened Dr. Theophrastus Seuss to “Dr. Seuss”.
In this essay, "Why Literature Matters", author Dana Gioia sets up an argument about literature. Which she uses various ways to persuade her audience be in favor of her proposal; by showing statistic evidence, facts, and historical evidence, as well as some ironies, diction, and the appeals to reader's emotion. First of all, Gioia begins with strong appeals to reader's logos by clearly laying out the statistic source. For example, "According to the 2002 survey of Public Participation in the Arts, the reading population of the Americans is declining. " In turn, is an attempt to point out the thesis statement and make the readers to think out about this topic wile reading through her essay.
The United States is made up of some of the most diverse and interesting cultures in the world. Jamila Lyiscott proves this by showing her different dialects and how they are all equally important. Lyiscott believes that the way she speaks towards her parents, towards her friends, and towards her colleagues are all one in the same. Throughout the entirety of her speech, Lyiscott changes up her vocal patterns and dialects so that the audience can understand first hand what each of these dialects are. When she talks about her father, Lyiscott uses her native tongue, when she talks to her fellow neighbors and close friends she switches it up to a more urbanized dialect, and when she is in school she masks the other two dialects with a professional sounding language.
