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    In Common Sense, Paine uses powerful language to evoke an emotional response from his readers. In the beginning of his piece, he utilizes powerful language that does not include personal connections, to simply get the reader thinking. He refrains from using personal examples in the beginning, because he would come off as a radical. Instead he works to evoke just a more logic based emotional response. The

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    up on a level, and I could see the tall grasses wave.”pg. 14 This quote tells readers how even small things such as the soft blow of the wind can cause many things to happen, such as the humming of the wind and the grass’s movements.It also symbolizes how the world is at peace right now. The tone of this quote is in a describing manner by the details they provide in this quote. These all contribute to helping the reader understand the scene in Jim’s point of view. “Perhaps we feel like that when we

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    Saturn”, and how either allows the reader to evoke similar emotions. Sebald has made it seem as though image and text consisted of a tight bond that would otherwise fail if separated. For example, particular photographs within “The Rings of Saturn” are barely legible, creating a sense that something is missing and the reader’s job is to find it. His purpose here gives the impression that one is to diminish their confidence in visual representation. Sebald wants his readers to question image without textual

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    and flashbacks to highlight the drastic difference of his current life and his life prior to the death of his master. The flashbacks throughout the poem are exceptionally vivid and provide the reader with a clear idea of the joyful life the ‘lone-dweller’ had in the past. Following these flashbacks, the reader is often introduced promptly into a cold barren landscape which highlights the drastic shift that has occurred recently for the ‘lone-dweller’. Near the end of the poem the theme of regret is

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    graphic history written by Getz and Clarke invites readers to discover the story of a young African woman named Abina and her trail against her slaver. Using a mixture of comic style illustrations, transcripts from the trial, a section on the historical context, and a reading guide, the reader is engaged in a multitude of ways to understand the story through multiple lenses. Tied together, all of these sections provide a thorough and exciting way for readers to stand in the shoes of a young woman while

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    your benefits but also the reader 's benefits too. There are ways to show you how to appeal to and know your type of audience. Before you can make your paper appealing to the audience, you have to know who your audience is and why the audience can be important to your paper. “Knowing your audience helps you make decisions about what information you should include, how you should arrange that information, and what kind of supporting details will be necessary for the reader to understand what you

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    entirely unsentimental read. His language of war becomes an advocate for soldiers who meet death face to face finding war is not an adventure. It is this message about death that Remarque succeeds in his poetic fashion expressing his ideas engaging the reader into the crux of his message about the evil of and written in his own language. Others wrote of the same war and soon the war to end all

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    together. Chappy, the main narrator of Homes’s novel tells the reader his violent past. He is a criminal, a rapist, and clearly mentally deranged. Chappy describes remarkably vile acts. Scenes of him having sex with a young girl, of sexual relations with his own mother, and of a nineteen-year-old correspondent eating the scab off a boy’s leg are some of the most disturbing things seen in the novel. Yet, what is most scarring to the reader is the inability to distinguish the difference between Chappy’s

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    positively influence the education of our students. It talks about how this change must begin in elementary school and challenges facing teachers that should start integrating these skills into their current teaching plans. The author also provides the readers with example projects that directly relate to a couple of these skills. One of these examples is using chocolate chip cookies to represent coal mines to show students that not all coal minds produce the same amount of material and that such material

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    the middle class is over extending themselves, education and health care all while appealing to all three rhetorical elements. Krugman’s article has an overall effective and persuasive argument because of the topics he covers and his appeal to the reader with pathos, logos and ethos. ​ “Why should we care about high and rising inequality?” (561). Krugman starts his article with a thought provoking question that most Americans want an answer to. He grabs the reader’s attention from the get go. Following

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