Dear America Diary Entry Analysis

Ann Marie Low’s diary opens in 1927 when she is a teenager living with her family on a stock farm in southeastern North Dakota. Low’s diary tells the story of her family's struggle to maintain a way of life, keeping their farm, and educate their children. She discusses her family and friends, descendants of homesteaders, through the next ten years, a time when entire communities lost their homes to mortgages and to government recovery programs. Low’s faces economic hardship, unfortunate family circumstances, and the restrictions that society had placed on women. Low's diary is about life in during the Dust Bowl, and Great Depression.

Life standed on the sea is very grueling and risky. Only a few are able to face the

East across the turquoise sea hides a world draped in opportunity. A world where the broken could potentially be felt whole. The fulfilment of all ones greatest dreams covered in aspiration and allure, and where the undiscovered land is rich in soil and desire. Through the wretched waves and harsh storms, the curiosity of what could potentially lie ahead is the only thing that kept these men going. Wondering if the launching of Roanoke will be everything they hoped for. But once arrived, Conflict with already native groups, along with unpreparedness, and the lack of authority lead to failure of this, once thought, perfect colony.

Throughout the time in class, we have discussed a variety of different topics relating to the culture of American politics. While Susan Jacoby, through her book The Age of American Unreason, highlights quite a few important ideas about the lack of intellectual thought in American politics, due to the time lapse between the publication of the book and our class, some ideas are not as thoroughly explained as they relate to the current American political atmosphere. Two presidential terms have passed since the release of the book leading to a distinct break from the current political climate. While the fundamental reasoning that Jacoby presents is accurate, the rise of polarization between liberalism and conservativism have created a culture that prompts anti-intellectual thought even more so than eight years ago when Jacoby first wrote The Age of American Unreason.

Two Diaries, Donald Vining’s A Gay Diary Vol. Two and Martin Duberman’s Gay in the Fifties look into the everyday life of gay males in the post-World War II Era. While World War II increased freedom for men to sexually explore within the male community, post-World War II extended the freedom of exploration but also created a subsequent backlash against homosexual practices. Vining and Duberman’s diaries document an extension of gay freedoms in the post-World War II period. Although Vining and Duberman give contrasting accounts of their lives as gay males in the postwar period, common themes could be drawn in the form of friendships, sexual activity, relationships, and backlash by heteronormative society.

Having correct information will mean all entries are up to date and it will avoid any double-bookings or clashes.

Immediately following 9/11 and America’s invasion of Iraq, a Canadian writer, Margaret Atwood, wrote Letter to America and submitted it to The Nation. Atwood’s letter stresses her concerns about where America’s economy and politics are going, as well as how it is affecting Canadians. The beginning of her letter addresses the great things America is known for, such as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck comic books, Huckleberry Finn, and great music. Atwood then begins to criticize our economy and talk about the wrong things America is doing. Throughout the letter, she uses many exaggerations, critical comments, and personal opinions. While I partially agree with Margaret Atwood’s letter, her argument is ineffective due to the examples she uses

Criticising others takes a great deal of courage, especially when this criticism could reflect upon one’s own work. However, in the introduction of her speech to the Women’s National Press Club, Clare Booth Luce utilizes changes in tone, humor, while appealing to ethos, and pathos to prepare her audience for the impending criticism.

In our poem “Dear America, the Land of the Free” and other writings and speeches, rhetoric helps to powerfully convey a message to an audience. The more powerful the argument is, the more likely the audience is to spread the message to others and attempt to make changes in support of the message. The most effective literature and speeches are strewn with various rhetorical devices, as these devices cause the message to become clearer and more powerful. We see authors using rhetorical techniques to convey a message in each text we discussed in class. For example, “The Declaration of Independence” uses logos and parallelism to convince the King of Great Britain and the American people of the King’s wrongdoings and the necessity of American independence. The author, Thomas Jefferson

As a gentry of England, you bear a unique responsibility. You can set the tone that the new world is not just for intrepid adventurers, antagonistic law breakers, debtors wishing to start anew, and second sons looking for a way to support a family. When a knowledgeable, resourceful, and classy man like yourself sets sail, it will be paving the way for a whole new class in the new world. As you know, your money is the most important things to me. Unfortunately, your money to me is contingent upon your satisfactory with my job, so I plan to do it well. I believe you’d be happiest and safest in Massachusetts Bay colony because of the health, family, and economic opportunities.

I am directly responsible for the terrible state of the current election, and I apologize. It's my fault because I allowed my ambition, at times blind ambition, to influence my decisions. I am sorry about the emails, and I'm truly sorry that my action or inaction contributed in any way to the loss of life in Benghazi. My poor decision to speak behind closed doors to Wall Street bankers left many of you suspicious of my motives - rightly so. It's something I regret. Allowing the Clinton Foundation to accept donations form foreign entities looking for access to our government was wrong. I am sorry for every time I allowed political calculation to color my decisions.

Although Margaret Atwood successfully addresses the problems in America, her choice of words decreases the effectiveness of her letter. The opening of Margaret Atwood’s “Letter to America” was filled with exceptional comparisons that caught the attention of the reader. They lead the reader to be persuaded by the writer’s influential thoughts. However, as this letter developed, harsh words and sharper comparisons were made. The style of writing Atwood moved to later on in the letter lead me to think differently about the ideas she was trying to portray.

Based on your existing knowledge of American Indian–colonial relations in North America, write an argument to use as the basis of your research.

When we had landed at that island which I have a few seconds ago said was called Juana, I continued along its coast towards the west for some separation; I discovered it so expansive and without discernible end, that I trusted it to be not an island, but rather the mainland nation of Cathay; seeing, in any case, no towns or urban areas arranged on the ocean coast, however just a few towns and inconsiderate ranches, with whose tenants I was not able chat, in light of the fact that when they saw us they took off. I continued more distant, believing that I would find some city or vast homes. Finally, seeing that we

The lighthouse appears deserted. The men discuss rowing toward land swimming through the surf once the boat finally capsizes in the rougher water that is closer to shore. The crew knows that, over time, they will grow weaker and things will get worse, not better. They exchange with each other “addresses and admonitions”, in case all of them do not live through this whole ordeal