Monday, November 9, 2009

The Declaration of Independence

1. Why do they repeat it?
Ans: Because the "He" they are talking about is the same person, that is the the king of the great Britain.
2. Why do they make it personal?
Ans: they make it personal because he is the main character of the event.

3. How does the D.I. anticipate its audiences resistance to change?
Ans: By saying We are all together in this, meaning they have to come together and do it



4. How does the D.I. use parallelism? How does it impact the effectiveness of the piece?
Ans; They use parallelism by using the word "He" several times to explain what the king of the great Britain is doing.

parallelism: when a writer uses similar grammatical forms or sentence patterns to express ideas of equal importance.


5.What to you is the most convincing example stated in the D.I.? Why
Ans: the most convincing thing is the statement that mentioned that all people are created by their creator and giving the same right, that is liberty , happiness and other things. and why i think is convincing is because that is exactly what God created, no difference, whether black or white , rich or poor we have the same right.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Coming of Age in Mississippi

Was a story written by Anne Moody counting on graduating from college in the spring of 1963 during the period which the Negro people are been threaten, during her stay in the campus she join the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. And they happened to hold a convention in Jackson and Anne is among the spokesmen because she is associated with Mr John Salter. they went to Jackson with Memphi and Pearlena where they sat on the white counter and they were mistreated by the high school studentby some violent event and the police were outside just watching and did not do anything about it.

Gettysburg

Is talking about the civil war and president Lincoln speech about The war and the need for the country to become one. 51000 people died in 3 days, and encouraging the people not to let their fellows who died to be in vain.

The Narrative of The Life of Fredrick Douglass

Is a story of an American slave who went to live with Mr. Covey. He use to live with his master and later on to Mr Covey but Mr. Covey is a very wicked man who one day whip Fredrick, and beat him when he was sick. and he ran to tell Mr Thomas that he can't stay with Mr Covey anymore, but Mr Thomas insisted on his way He met Sandy who gave him some root to prevent him from Mr Covey's whip and it worked for him which bring about his fight and Mr Covey which gave him freedom even though he is a slave. Style in writing include
Objectives: Mr Covey gave us enough to eat but scarce time to eat.
Figurative Language: Glorious resurrection from the tomb of slavery to the heaven of freedom.
Subjective: I was called to go and rub, curry and feed the horses, I obeyed and was glad to obey.
Tone: Mr Covey said "Take hold of him, take hold of him"
Use of Dialogue: conversation between Mr Thomas and Fredrick.

A Murder, A Mystery, and A Marriage

Is a story about John Gray, a poor a farmer who lived in a village called Deer League, with about a population of 600 to 700 habitats. Gray has a daughter, called Mary, he wants her to get married to a rich man called Hugh Gregory, for that is his only chance of becoming rich, Sarah(Sali) also wants it that way, but Mary's Uncle David doesn't like Hugh, because he tried to cheat Hugh father in a farmland and Hugh stop it and from then he doesn't like him
One day Rev. John Huley came to Mr. Gray's house and told him that his brother David wants Mary to marry the man he likes and this will settle the issue between them so, gray agree with that, that she is going to marry George Wayne( count Herbert dee Fountonblow) At the end it was that Hue is in jail for the murder of David Gray. Mary is going to get married the same day that Hugh is to be hanged. Last chapter Mark Twain show his anger over what happened between him and Jules Verne.