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    God-filled, hopeful speeches to pleas to the nation. Washington gives a humble address, and makes many references to God to the nation assuring them that if they have faith in God, they will have faith in him, he makes it obvious to the people he’s not pleading to them for help. FDR on the other hand establishes his ethos immediately by gaining the trust of the nation, and also pleads to the people to lure them in on the subject of unemployment. Both presidents use biblical allusions to appeal to the people

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    In the short story, "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan, a Chinese mother and daughter are at odds with each other. The mother pushes her daughter to become a prodigy, while the daughter (like most children with immigrant parents) seeks to find herself in a world that demands her Americanization. This is the theme of the story, conflicting values. In a society that values individuality, the daughter sought to be an individual, while her mother demanded she do what was suggested. This is a conflict within

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    Special Pleading: Everything must have a source or creator. Example- If Jesus is God’s son, then who created God? God has no creator he is eternal. Contradictory Premises: Something you say that goes against what you said earlier. Example- If God can do anything, he can make a stone that he can’t list. Undistributed Middle Term: A specific type of error that’s in deductive reasoning (The minor premise and the major premise of a syllogism might or might not overlap) Example- We are mammals, mammals

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    because he knows that it is not possible for a person to live for thousands of years. After telling his mistress that if time was endless he would use all of it to adore her he converts the pleading into an expression of how time is not endless and how their time will eventually run out. Then at the end of his pleading he asks to live in the moment and make me best of what time they have left by sleeping together. Now, let us dig deeper into the poem by uncovering the tone of the poem, better yet the

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    “Identity” and “community” are two factors that contribute to our humanity. Factors that prevent us from becoming savage, self-centered individuals, but factors that can can be dismissed though grim conditions. In the non-fictional memoir Night by Eliezer Wiesel, Wiesel shares of the inhuman conditions during the Holocaust in a variety of concentration camps, including at Auschwitz. He describes the struggles for survival, experiencing first hand how atrocities and cruel treatment transforms others

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    as I do nothing but scream. "Crucio!" He says, only this time he shouts it somehow over my wails of pain. The second wave is worse than the first and I throw my head back to try to catch a glimpse of the monster, catching his eyes in mine before pleading he lets me go. The man only smiles wider than before. There is no telling how long I feel this pain. It is only a blur between the moment he begins it and the second he ends it. As his wand finally falls to his side I slump in the chair ecstatic

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    Themes are universal and can be shared within multiple items, text, motivation, etc. In the historical novel, Bull Run, by Paul Fleischman, the Union song, “When This Cruel War Is Over,” by Charles Carroll Sawyer, and the Confederate Song, “God Save The South,” by Earnest Halpin and Charles W.A. Ellerbrock all share a common theme. War can inflict many different emotions when thinking about war or being directly involved in a war. It doesn’t matter if the emotions or shared within a society or only

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    Part Two: Answer ONE of the following: 1. Discuss: A. the work of lawyers: litigating- “litigators” or “trial lawyers,” represent plaintiffs and defendants in civil cases and manage all phases of thelitigation process from investigation, pleadings and discovery to pre-trial, trial, settlement and appeal representing/lobbying- lobbyists able to marshal detailed information and arguments about difficult text in a bill offer an invaluable service to Congress. Lobbyists fill the gap by offering

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    The first being the repeated, “stress is in love with me” in line sixteen. Next the author gives stress the ability to be “teasing and pleading” in line nineteen. Since stress can not talk or move around to tease the narrator, this is a personification. Another example of personification follows in the line twenty, “asking and begging”. This is similar to the personification in line nineteen

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    his heir Alexis and the outbreak of revolution. While Perrie argues that “it was… key figues who persuaded him… to respond to the Revolutionary events”, Figes states that “For twenty-two years he had ignored the lessons of history, as well as the pleading of countless advisors.” Nicholas’ abdication of his own accord rather

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