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Read the introduction of a speech given by a school counselor.Good morning and welcome back! The leaves are changing colors, backpacks are bulging with books and folders, and classrooms are a hive of activity. For you seniors, this is your final year at Kingston High, and I suspect that many of you are contemplating your future. I have heard the hallways buzzing with the familiar phrases of fall, such as "application process,” "personal statement,” even "resume submission.” Today I will shed some light on these mysterious phrases, and I will share specific deadlines and requirements you need to know.
Read the excerpt from "A Genetics of Justice” by Julia Alvarez.My mother must have been intrigued. She knew nothing of the horrid crimes of the dictatorship, for her parents were afraid to say anything—even to their own children—against the regime. So, as a young girl, my mother must have thought of El Jefe as a kind of movie star. She must have wanted to meet the great man.
Read the excerpt from Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address.Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease.
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Read the excerpts from Roosevelt’s "Four Freedoms" speech and Lincoln’s "Gettysburg Address.”Roosevelt:Since the beginning of our American history, we have been engaged in change—in a perpetual peaceful revolution—a revolution which goes on steadily, quietly adjusting itself to changing conditions—without the concentration camp or the quick-lime in the ditch. The world order which we seek is the cooperation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.This nation has placed its destiny in the hands and heads and hearts of its millions of free men and women; and its faith in freedom under the guidance of God. Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them.Lincoln:It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion – that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Read the sentence.Will you pick up the dog's toys in the yard, please?What is the mood of this sentence?
Read the excerpt from The Crisis, Number I. “’Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. My own line of reasoning is to myself as straight and clear as a ray of light.”In this excerpt, Paine uses figurative language to
Read the excerpt from "A Genetics of Justice” by Julia Alvarez.When the novel came out, I decided to go ahead and risk her anger. I inscribed a copy to both Mami and Papi with a note: "Thank you for having instilled in me through your sufferings a desire for freedom and justice." I mailed the package and—what I seldom do except in those moments when I need all the help I can get—I made the sign of the cross as I exited the post office. Days later, my mother called me up to tell me she had just finished the novel. "You put me back in those days. It was like I was reliving it all," she said sobbing. "I don't care what happens to us! I'm so proud of you for writing this book."I stood in my kitchen in Vermont, stunned, relishing her praise and listening to her cry. It was one of the few times since l had learned to talk that I did not try to answer my mother back. If there is such a thing as genetic justice that courses through the generations and finally manifests itself full-blown in a family moment, there it was.
When revising an essay, how can a writer best connect ideas more clearly?
Read the excerpt from Ronald Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" speech.Where four decades ago there was rubble, today in West Berlin there is the greatest industrial output of any city in Germany—busy office blocks, fine homes and apartments, proud avenues, and the spreading lawns of park land. Where a city's culture seemed to have been destroyed, today there are two great universities, orchestras and an opera, countless theaters, and museums. Where there was want, today there's abundance.
Throughout "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," Edwards uses imagery in an attempt to make readers feel
What is a claim in an argument?
Read Leo Kanowitz's quotation at the end of "For the ERA.""Rules of law that treat of the sexes per se inevitably produce far-reaching effects upon social, psychological and economic aspects of male-female relations beyond the limited confines of legislative chambers and courtrooms. As long as organized legal systems, at once the most respected and most feared of social institutions, continue to differentiate sharply, in treatment or in words, between men and women on the basis of irrelevant and artificially created distinctions, the likelihood of men and women coming to regard one another primarily as fellow human beings and only secondarily as representatives of another sex will continue to be remote. When men and women are prevented from recognizing one another’s essential humanity by sexual prejudices, nourished by legal as well as social institutions, society as a whole remains less than it could otherwise become.”
Which statement describes the parts of an argument?
Read the excerpt from act 3, scene 3 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Banquo and his son, Fleance, have been overtaken by the murderers Macbeth has sent after them.Banquo. O, treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!Thou mayst revenge. O slave!
Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 3, of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Angus. We are sentTo give thee from our royal master thanks;Only to herald thee into his sight,Not pay thee. Ross. And, for an earnest of a greater honour,He bade me, from him, call thee Thane of Cawdor:In which addition, hail, most worthy thane!For it is thine.Banquo. What! can the devil speak true? Macbeth. The Thane of Cawdor lives: why do you dress meIn borrow’d robes?
Which sentence contains a metaphor?
Which sentence from Reagan’s "Tear Down This Wall” speech is the best example of hyperbole?
Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 2 of The Tragedy of Macbeth.Sergeant. Doubtful it stood;As two spent swimmers, that do cling togetherAnd choke their art. The merciless Macdonwald—Worthy to be a rebel, for to thatThe multiplying villanies of natureDo swarm upon him—from the western islesOf kerns and gallowglasses is supplied;And fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling,Show’d like a rebel’s whore: but all’s too weak;For brave Macbeth,—well he deserves that name,—Disdaining fortune, with his brandish’d steel,Which smok’d with bloody execution,Like valour’s minion carv’d out his passageTill he fac’d the slave;Which ne’er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,Till he unseam’d him from the nave to the chaps,And fix’d his head upon our battlements.
Read the two excerpts from Roosevelt’s "Four Freedoms" speech.I have called for personal sacrifice. I am assured of the willingness of almost all Americans to respond to that call.***This nation has placed its destiny in the hands and heads and hearts of its millions of free men and women; and its faith in freedom under the guidance of God. Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can be no end save victory.
Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 2 of The Tragedy of Macbeth.Duncan. What bloody man is that? He can report,As seemeth by his plight, of the revoltThe newest state. Malcolm. This is the sergeantWho, like a good and hardy soldier fought’Gainst my captivity. Hail, brave friend!Say to the king the knowledge of the broilAs thou didst leave it.
Which statements are examples of ethics rather than laws? Select two options.Journalists must claim their right to freedom of speech.Journalists must double-check all sources used in an article.Journalists cannot knowingly make false statements about people.Journalists must research and report the news without bias.Journalists cannot write an article in order to incite violence.
Read the short speech made by a hopeful candidate for class president.The class of 2018 needs a president who will get every student involved in our activities. Last year’s class carnival was attended by only fifteen percent of our freshman class! If we continue at this rate, our prom will be the worst-attended event in school history. As a student athlete, environmental club leader, and honor society member, I am a candidate who represents a wide range of classmates. If you are frustrated because your ideas fall on deaf ears, then I encourage you to vote for me and allow me the opportunity to speak for you.
Read the excerpt from "For the ERA." [Eliminating sex discrimination] will involve so many changes in our state and federal laws that, without the authority and impetus of this proposed amendment, it will perhaps take another 194 years. We cannot be parties to continuing a delay. The time is clearly now to put this House on record for the fullest expression of that equality of opportunity which our founding fathers professed.
Read the excerpt from act 5, scene 8 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Then, review the photo, which shows this scene being acted out in a 1946 production of the play. Macbeth is on the left, and Macduff is on the right.Macbeth. Accursed be that tongue that tells me so,For it hath cow’d my better part of man!And be these juggling fiends no more believed,That palter with us in a double sense;That keep the word of promise to our ear,And break it to our hope. I’ll not fight with thee.Macduff. Then yield thee, coward,And live to be the show and gaze o’ the time:We’ll have thee, as our rarer monsters are,Painted on a pole, and underwrit,‘Here may you see the tyrant.’Macbeth. I will not yield,To kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s feet,And to be baited with the rabble’s curse.Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane,And thou opposed, being of no woman born,Yet I will try the last. Before my bodyI throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff,And damn’d be him that first cries, ‘Hold, enough!’Photo by Angus McBean (c) RSC
Read the sentence.Gregor watched, assessing how Sasha reacted to his news.Which statement best explains how the underlined clause conveys meaning?
Read Ahmad's argument in favor of changing the minimum driving age from 16 to 15.Every year, millions of teenagers look forward to the freedom of earning their driver's license. It has been proven over time that teenagers are fully responsible by the time they are 15, and making teens wait until they are 16 to obtain a driver's license is wrong. Many teenagers play sports, work jobs, and have an active social life when they are 15. It would be beneficial to the functioning of society if these people were able to independently drive themselves around. Parents agree, too. Most people believe that the streets would be safer if the minimum driving age were reduced to 15.
Read the excerpt from President Reagan’s Address at Moscow State University.Even as we explore the most advanced reaches of science, we're returning to the age-old wisdom of our culture, a wisdom contained in the book of Genesis in the Bible . . .
Read the sentence.The drought-ridden ground gratefully drank in the rain.
Read the excerpt from President Ronald Reagan’s Address at Moscow State University.But I hope you know I go on about these things not simply to extol the virtues of my own country but to speak to the true greatness of the heart and soul of your land. Who, after all, needs to tell the land of Dostoyevsky about the quest for truth, the home of Kandinsky and Scriabin about imagination, the rich and noble culture of the Uzbek man of letters Alisher Navoi about beauty and heart? The great culture of your diverse land speaks with a glowing passion to all humanity.
Read the excerpt from act 4, scene 3 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Malcolm is explaining to Macduff what makes him grieve and what he believes in.Malcolm. What I believe I’ll wail,What know believe, and what I can redress,As I shall find the time to friend, I will.
Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 2 of The Tragedy of Macbeth.Duncan. What bloody man is that? He can report,As seemeth by his plight, of the revoltThe newest state. Malcolm. This is the sergeantWho, like a good and hardy soldier fought’Gainst my captivity. Hail, brave friend!Say to the king the knowledge of the broilAs thou didst leave it. Sergeant. Doubtful it stood;As two spent swimmers, that do cling togetherAnd choke their art. The merciless Macdonwald—Worthy to be a rebel, for to thatThe multiplying villanies of natureDo swarm upon him—from the western islesOf kerns and gallowglasses is supplied;And fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling,Show’d like a rebel’s whore: but all’s too weak;For brave Macbeth,—well he deserves that name,—Disdaining fortune, with his brandish’d steel,Which smok’d with bloody execution,Like valour’s minion carv’d out his passageTill he fac’d the slave;Which ne’er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,Till he unseam’d him from the nave to the chaps,And fix’d his head upon our battlements.
What is irony?
What is a central idea of a speech?
Read the excerpt from "A Latina Judge's Voice" by Hon. Sonia Sotomayor.First, as Professor Martha Minnow has noted, there can never be a universal definition of wise. Second, I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.
Read the sentence.Because the high winds are blowing, the fire may spread rapidly, and we have been ordered to evacuate.What type of sentence is this?
What is blocking?
Which sentence contains an example of meiosis?
Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 2 of The Tragedy of Macbeth.Duncan. Dismay’d not thisOur captains, Macbeth and Banquo?Sergeant. Yes;As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion.If I say sooth, I must report they wereAs cannons overcharg’d with double cracks;So theyDoubly redoubled strokes upon the foe:Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds,Or memorize another Golgotha,I cannot tell—But I am faint, my gashes cry for help.
Read the sentence from "For the ERA." Public schools and universities could not be limited to one sex and could not apply different admission standards to men and women. Read Corey's paraphrase. No public educational institution, whether a public school or a university, could, in any of their admissions criteria or practices, discriminate against a person on the basis of their sex.
Read the excerpt from "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”There are seventy-two crimes in the State of Virginia which, if committed by a black man (no matter how ignorant he be), subject him to the punishment of death; while only two of the same crimes will subject a white man to the like punishment.What problem is Douglass referring to in this excerpt?
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