My noodle

Because the American people seem more interested in video technology than current events,  they spend their time learing information from the internet or through movies.

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Honestly, I don’t think I agree with her argument; I feel it is very well researched, but easily contradicted.  I see it like this: if Americans are getting dumber, then why, over the years, has it become harder and harder to get into a decent college?  It’s nearly impossible to get into Ivy Leagues, simply [...]

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In Sir Ulrich’s letter to win back the love of Jocelyn, he uses different types of rhetoric to persuade her to take him back.  He is dealing with a woman, and every man knows that if you want to get back on the good side of a woman, you have to pull out the sweetest, [...]

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            John F. Kennedy, a young and humble president, did an amazing job of forming sentences and using unusual and interesting words to illustrate his points.  He used not only ethos, pathos, and logos, but different types of diction and syntax as well.  He kept the paragraphs small, but his passion was large throughout [...]

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    I believe that annotation made Ascham’s text more accessible to twenty-first-century readers because it really breaks things down for you, taking notes on words you don’t know, pointing out imagery as well as very many things in detail that make it very understandable.

 see-appeal to sense
very long first sentence
trodden afore-gone that way before
 wayfaring men-men who [...]

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“We can Afford to Give Parents a Break” by Jody Heyman is a great story which uses many patterns of arrangement based mostly on facts, as well as counterarguments.  Starting of course with an introduction she adresses the issue at hand, being how the government treats mothers.  Shortly after she talked about her maternity leave, [...]

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In reading over A Modest Proposal, as well as School “Fine,” I came to realize that the two pieces were similar in the sense that both used strong satire or sarcasm. When a number of kids were asked how their day at school went, over 95 percent answered with a positive response such as “fine,” [...]

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