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After slamming the GOP tax cuts and doubling down on calling bonuses to hard-working Americans "crumbs," a patriot stunned Nancy Pelosi with just six words. During a town hall event Tuesday in Phoenix, Arizona, a heckler asked the House Minority Leader, "How much are you worth, Nancy?" The remark was in response to Pelosi rambling about how the GOP tax cuts allowing Americans to keep more of their hard-earned money was pathetic and unpatriotic. “These are kitchen table issues for America’s families,” Pelosi said. “Most people are not in deadening poverty, but some are. Most people have to struggle to make ends meet.” That's when the attendee asked Pelosi to reveal how much she is worth, an effort to expose her wealthy status and how she…

Pratchett - Thinking, Impulses, Actions, and Consequences In the book Jingo written by Terry Pratchett, Pratchett uses characters to provide insight on issues in society, more specially how Kennedy’s assassination relates to issues in society. The main commentary that Jingo makes is an insight on problem solving. The majority of the time solving problems people jump to conclusions and have naive opinions. This can lead to reckless and negligent fighting. Often times people have hindsight of…

accomplished by the use of other devices. Firstly, in lines 9-13 he uses simile to compare the soldiers to lions, as well as oxymoron “happy dead” which the reader can recognize as absurd and therefore realize that the author disagrees with the speaker. Furthermore the line 12 shows his criticism of men thoughtlessly going to death for their country and the line 13 is a rhetoric question that makes the reader ask who the voices of liberty actually are. Secondly, there are different allusions…

infamous white feather campaign was part of a government- orchestrated effort to mobilize women to recruit male soldiers’ (Blucks, 90). As it was a completely volunteer based army, it was necessary to have very powerful recruitment campaigns in order to have enough soldiers. The White Feather Brigade was started by Admiral Fitzgerald on August 30, 1914, when he gave out white feathers to 30 women, giving instructions to hand them out to men who had cowardly not enlisted in the army. The idea of…

poem “next to god of course america I” soldiers think they are fighting and later on be respected but the author writes otherwise, also in the story “The Deer at Providencia” Annie Dillard writes about a woman see a deer suffer, and later on in the story, compares it to a man who burned his face twice. E.E Cummings shows irony through the warriors and Annie Dillard shows irony through the Deer and Alan, and they both show irony in their situations with god. In Cummings poem, the warriors…

was missed, however, that has all been straightened out and we also discussed other things such as daily activity sheets and some new things that we will learn which is doing things with residents that are more one on one for residents that have more serious health issues and doing activities with them such as reading to them for one example. The second activity was working with high school kids that came in to work with residents as part of their class at school, the students brought…

passionate opinions on the war, while George seems to be uncomfortable and shies away from a true response. However, as the conversation progresses, the readers are given insight into George’s true feelings towards war and his opposition to fighting. They quarrel back and forth about why their own opinion is the right one. This moment can be paralleled to the author’s marital troubles that influenced the writing in a quote provided by John B. Humma: “Everything literary here [in New York] is…

Cummings slyly alludes to sex through this poem and in that way addresses the topic of wayward love that he has experienced. In his poem next to god of course america i, Cummings speaks specifically of his criticism for war. The poem sarcastically declares love for America but then goes on the question the patriotism of the nation. The tone of the poem is sarcastic, quoting parts of the national anthem and throwing in patriotic references wherever possible. "’next to of course god america i…

The speaker in the passage says “we should worry,” (Cummings 5) but his warning is lost in the flood of his political platitudes. The speaker also uses contradictions that lead to senseless babbling in when he says “every language even deafanddumb.” (Cummings 6) He then proceeds to talk about the people he is speaking to and say they are just common people who wont know what he is saying and they will be easily persuaded. The speaker says that men in war got their names thought fighting. He…

Through the uses of imagery and idioms, it is indicated that Early Americans valued taking initiative when there are conflicts. There was once an obnoxious river called the Whistling River that oftenly tormented loggers who worked nearby, and it would break apart whole rafts of logs. One day Paul Bunyan, a giant, was sitting on a hill by a river combing his beard when, “But that ornery river jest reared up again and spat five thousand and nineteen gallons of muddy water onto his beard, adding a…