The Right Word: Roget And His Thesaurus

In Franklin Delano Roosevelts first inaugural speech in 1933, he was confronted with a huge test of the Great Depression. In his speech, what was most important to note was the main reason he spoke was to inform the people on what he going to do to bring back the nation back to its best shape. Giving the American people courage, and stirring new assurance as the new leader. Examining the ways he builds the pillars of public speaking. Throughout his speech he uses Ethos, Logos, and Pathos to get his point across, in establishing that he will be leading the country in a new and exciting way.

This damage could’ve from his home environment as they worked with gravel or a medical condition. Irving shows his voice by using all capital letters for his dialogue. Thus, from the very beginning Owen is an odd boy. As the novel progress Johnny brings us through milestones of his own life, also including the tragic death of his mother. Through all this Owen is

You Have Insulted Me essay by Evan Hang Kurt Vonnegut’s purpose for writing the letter, “You Have Insulted Me” is to convince the school board to change their decision through the use of rhetorical strategies, logos, pathos, and ethos. To begin, Vonnegut uses ethos to convince the school board. Vonnegut uses examples of ethos such as that he served in World War 2 and earned a purple heart to change the school board’s decision. “Every year I receive at least a dozen invitations to be the commencement speaker at colleges and high schools.” Vonnegut uses real-life, reliable information to show the school board that he is trusted by many people.

Have you ever read a story that, at first glance, looked simple, but as you read and reread it transformed into something worth contemplating over? David Macaulay’s Black and White challenges the reader to expand their mind and see the full picture. He asks readers in his Caldecott Medal Acceptance Speech to demystify their take on the entirety of the book. He encourages the reader to truly see the book in its entirety. To begin with, the four parts connect to make one story.

Brené Brown lecture, “The Power of Vulnerability”, uses years of research to explore and explain vulnerability existing. Brown is a research professor and wrote many books. Brown’s lecture starts with her talking about the long ride of research on the topic of vulnerability. Brown discovers and tells the audience that connection is the purpose in life. People want to connect but shame is the reason which then it becomes disconnection or painful vulnerability.

The character Peter plays a significant part throughout the novel. Peter’s goal is to rule the world and have power over it. Near the middle of the novel, Peter and Valentine, Ender’s brother and sister, create two characters on the web. They both work together writing articles on world conflict in order to express their opinions, and in result, they gain followers. In the end of the book, the reader learns that Peter finally gained power over the world through being Locke and writing the Locke proposal.

Jeff Lemire’s Trillium (2014) is set between two different time periods where William Pike embarks on a journey to find a lost temple in 1921. Whereas, Nika Temsmith is searching for a flower, called Trillium in order to cure a virus and save humanity in 3797. The medium that Trillium deploy is through images. Additionally, Trillium immensely impact the way I feel affectively, rhetorically, and epistemologically. By reading this comic book, the theme of loneliness is represented profoundly through the character of William and Nika as I felt a massive sympathy towards these characters.

Comparing Cather’s brilliantly scripted novel to her biography, one cannot stop to wonder if My Ántonia was actually a disguised (partial) autobiography of Willa Cather, a life full of passion, emotion, and memories. In the end of the novel, one of Jim Burden’s final visits to his home town to see Ántonia, he walks around town and finds himself on the road where he had met Ántonia as they arrived at their new destination. This road, “the road of Destiny; [that] had taken us to those early accidents of fortune which predetermined for us all that we can ever be (Cather, 372)”, shaped the course of Jim and Ántonia’s friendship as well as their lives. Just as the changing seasons and Nebraska landscape shaped the personalities of its inhabitants, it directly influenced Willa Cather’s perception of herself, her life, and her

“The tragic consequences of life can be overcome by the magical strength that resides in the human heart”, as said by Ultima. Antonio has this realization in chapter 22, when he realizes that Ultima has been trying to teach him all along. Antonio can experience the suffering of his friends and family and string of tragic deaths that he witnesses, and still persevere and thrive. Antonio’s questions and resolutions here are basically Anaya’s thesis for the novel. He must embrace all the aspects of his culture and childhood- Luna and Marez; Native American, Spanish, and English; Catholic and pagan; curanderismo and priesthood- and build his own identity out of them, accepting them all as valid in their contradictions.

This movement towards love via conflict is both what allows us to know the characters and what jolts the plot forward; and this character and plot development is accomplished through, as mentioned, Hawks ' deft use of editing and sound. In terms of character, we meet Grant 's David Huxley in a rut within his systematic life, involved professional and personal commitments that fail to genuinely enthuse him, or to pay dividends to him. We see him atop a scaffold in his workplace, the Stuyvesant Museum of Natural History, contemplating in a 'thinker-like ' pose, where to fit the Brontosaurus skeleton 's lat missing bone. It is as if his position, high from the ground, is his only form of escape form the demands placed on him. When he returns to

Richard Wagamese in his What We Share memoir talks a lot about being alike. Wagamese for most of the memoir talks about being alike and how native people aren’t sharing his philosophy with being alike. Wagamese brings up The Multiculturalism act and the Assimilationist documents to dig deep within his memoir. The main claim that Wagamese makes is that he made it out of the poverty and is having a good life even though he was born First Nation.

i. The author of the book The Big Thirst Charles Fishman Delivered his speech at 7 pm in the Icardo Center that is located at CSUB. He began his speech by reading some negative comments that some high school students made on twitter. This automatically captured the audiences attention. His audience was greatly considered through these simple comments because he seem much more relatable,with these opening comments he presented a sense of a welcoming environment.

Have you ever wondered how you would feel if you won the lottery?Have you ever wondered how you would react if a man roamed freely on a piece of land your grandparents fought for in court generations before you?Well in the story called The Interlopers it was about a feud between two families who had conflict over a piece of land that was legally owned by the Gradwitz generations before but the two heads of the family inherited the feud and was out for blood from their enemy and when they met there was a turn of events in which they became friends and wanted to show their new friend hospitality but end up drawing the wrong type of crowd when yelling for help and then end up getting ate by a pack of wolves. In the next story called The Lottery a small town draws paper out a black box every year to see who gets stoned but when a wife's husband wins the lottery she demands a re pick and ends up winning and getting stoned. In the text The Interlopers written by Munro Saki And the Lottery written by Shirley Jackson i will be explaining how the authors create tension and surprise,and manipulates the pace,and builds suspense by the way they structure the text. The authors create the effect of tension and surprise by the way they structure the text .

Though many changes have transpired in America since the days of slavery, adversity, absence of chances and issues such unfairness and prejudice, which proceeds to gradually develop and encounter by a few, regularly thwarts one from prevailing. The topics of injustice and racism were greatly discussed in all the three letters from James Baldwin, Dr. Martin Luther King and Ta-Nehisi Coates. I thought all three letters were very powerful pieces, as they were beautifully written, reflective and moving. “My Dungeon Shook” by James Baldwin is a captivating read, it entails the social struggles faced in the US by African Americans and white stereotypes of black identity.