Stone: A Rhetorical Analysis Of Stone

In ‘The Necklace’, a women becomes bored with her own life and covets the life of the wealthy. When she is given the chance to socialize with other people, she feels like she doesn’t fit in. She borrowed a piece of jewelry from her wealthy friend. She chooses a beautiful diamond necklace. She ended up losing the expensive jewelry. The woman worked for 10 years before she found out that the ring was a fake.

Various controversies have arisen from the LGBT community since it stepped into the limelight during the Stonewall Riots of 1969, the events known as the beginning of the LGBT movement. One of these dilemmas is the faith identity of LGBT youth and how their sexuality might be handled as teenagers. Reparative therapies, also known as conversion therapies, have become popular ideas on how to fix teenagers’ sexual orientations. “My Take: Let’s Protect Religious Counselors Amid ‘Conversion Therapy’ Dance-Off”, authored by Gabe Lyons and published in the CNN Belief Blog, offers a subjective view on why religious freedom should be protected through conversion camps. “Five Christian Pastors in Illinois are Challenging a State Law Banning ‘Conversion

In this article, John Daniel Davidson explains that tearing down the statues is wrong. John Davidson asserts the audience that, “the reason for keeping them has nothing to do with honoring the cause of the Confederacy or the memory of slavery. Even though many of them were erected for that purpose in the decades spanning the 1870s to the 1930s, that should not be our purpose for keeping them now” (Davidson). He reminds us that the real reason on why they should be kept is not for praising slavery or confederacy, but for preserving history. Davidson then gives an example of how the statues should be viewed and acknowledged, he says suggestively, “Something as central to American history as the war between North and South should impose on us

A famous person once said “There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.” Which relates to the story, “The Marble Champ” by Gary Soto, because Lupe , the main character, practice hard and which lead her to win the marble champion. The claim that Lupe totally shows, is hard work leads to success.

Throughout the course of this novel, Ishmael Beah keeps the readers on the edge of their seat by incorporating interchanging tones. At the beginning of the novel, the tone can be depicted as naïve, for Beah was unaware to what was actually occurring with the rebels. Eventually, the tone shifts to being very cynical and dark when he depicts the fighting he has endured both physically and mentally. However, the most game changing tone is towards the end of the novel in chapters nineteen and twenty. His tone can be understood as independent or prevailing. It can be portrayed as independent because Beah learns how to survive on his own and to take care of himself. At the same time, it is perceived as prevailing and uplifting because Beah was able to demonstrate that there is hope. Later in the novel, Beah travels to

Social Psychology and examining empathy. Steadily watching the Sam Richards: A radical experiment in empathy where he explain his reasoning on empathy in the Middle East. He starts by doing an analogy; what if a hundred years ago China had been the most powerful nation in the world and they came to the United States in search of coal, and they found it, and, in fact, they found lots of it right here. And pretty soon, they began shipping that coal, ton by ton, rail car by rail car, boatload by boatload, back to China and elsewhere around the world. And they got fabulously wealthy in doing so. And they built beautiful cities all powered on that coal. And back here in the United States, we saw economic despair, deprivation. (Smith, 2010)

The agenda of this expert from the ‘The Jungle’ is to call to attention the false hopes immigrants are given in the form of the apparent American dream, Upton is able to justify this idea by using contrast which persuades the audience emotionally. “Ona, too, was falling into a habit of silence- Ona, who had once gone about singing like a bird,” (Sinclair). The contrast of the particular passage shows readers not only the physical, but also emotional drainage low class immigrant workers face. Through Sinclair’s diction, readers are able to recognize the setting of the story as the United States, this calls to mind the known motto of moving to America and living the “American Dream”. Phrases such as “was falling into silence” and “Ona who had

In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, he utilizes various literary devices to emphasize his many thematic topics. He demonstrates sin through the unholy nature of Abigail’s history with John Proctor with Abigail’s words, "I know how you clutched my back behind your house and sweated like a stallion whenever I came near!" (Miller 21). He reveals the wrongness of the situation, and shows the desperation Abigail has for John to return her feelings. due to his marital status and her age through his simile describing John’s actions and reactions near Abigail as animalistic and dirty. Miller’s similes also demonstrates the idea of good vs. evil through his description of the Devil’s effect on several girls. “...

On January 28 1968, the Challenger space shuttle exploded after one minute in flight on live television. The night of the tragedy President Reagan gave a speech, instead of his State of the Union address. In his speech, President Reagan's claim about the space program is credible. President Reagan believed that in spite of this tragedy, the space program must go on:" It's all part of the process of exploration and discovery" (430). President Reagan is justified for wanting to defend the space program, however, it is obvious that he is being a little untruthful. The President claimed that the is always open about the work they do: "We don't hide our space program. We don't keep secrets and cover things up. We do

John McPhee used similes throughout his essay “Under the Snow”. One of his similes was him describing how a researcher put the bear in a doughnut shape. It was to explain to the audience that the bear was wrapped around with room between her legs for the bear cubs to lay when they are in hibernation. He describes the movement of the bears and the bear cubs like clowns coming out of a compact car. The similes help the audience see how the moved and how they were placed after the researcher moved them.