Damien Memorial School

For eons, civilizations have taken great pride in establishing memorials as a way of commemorating a significant historical event or legendary leader. To commemorate our proud heritage, memorials have long since been created to immortalize heroes, events, and those beloved to the creator. As a result, consideration needs to be taken in creating deep feelings of attachment and reverence, avoiding feelings of indifference, preserving honor, and averting the portrayal of hypocrisy, in order to…

people. These memorials take years to build and cost an arm and a leg to design and construct (Roadside America). For something that takes as much time, dedication, and cash as a monument does, certain things need to be taken seriously into consideration. When building a monument, people should pay close attention to the strategic placement and specific design of the memorial. If these are not given careful consideration a monument will not be successful. At the beginning of a memorials…

A broadly known speech that makes evident the power of rhetoric is “I Have A Dream” by Martin Luther King Junior, which was delivered at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963. This civil rights leader proclaimed his views about human equality for all African Americans to have equals opportunities in the United States. His speech is known as one of the largest civil rights demonstrations in history. His symbolism, powerful persuasion, tone and diction helped to create an impact on his public…

don’t even think about it. I know I never really thought about it until reading into how it’s done and what affects our decision. During Memorial Day weekend, I used System 2 decision making. This is a more conscious and logical method than system 1. When I went shopping to get new shoes, my sister told me that Payless had a “buy one get one half off” sale for memorial day weekend. I knew that Payless already had decent prices for shoes and that fact enhanced my decision to go looking for shoes…

What do we commemorate? Date/Time: 2nd November Learning area(s): History, English, Civics and Citizenship Year: 3 Learning objectives - Understand what a commemoration is and that it is connected to real life events that occurred in the past - Australians commemorate some important events - Compare and contrast information about remembrance Curriculum links History (ACARA, 2014a) • Days and weeks are celebrated or commemorated in Australia (Including Remembrance Day) and the importance of…

The three elements to compare and contrast “The Gettysburg Address,” and I Have a Dream Speech” is with the purpose, structure, and rhetorical devices of the speeches. The purpose of the speeches are similar and both different. “Now we are engaged in a great civil war.” “But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. He is saying that even after slavery was over the colored is still not free. “We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote.” The purpose…

Rhetoric permeates our lives through everyday television, messages, advertisements, politics as well as speeches whether we realize it or not. A well-known speech, The Gettysburg Address, fuses many distinctive types of rhetoric such as diction, syntax, rhetorical devices along with the rhetorical triangle into a brief yet compelling speech with a lasting impact on the nation. The speech barely took one minute to deliver with only two hundred and sixty seven words, however Lincoln’s rhetoric…

Abraham Lincoln’s Jeremiad Abraham Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address in the Spring of 1865. With Lincoln’s use of biblical references and his overall providential interpretation, the second inaugural address was less presidential and more theological. The address did not reflect the typical format of a presidential speech, but rather the structure of the jeremiad. The jeremiad is a form of sermon that became popular among the Puritans in New England in the latter half of the…

vigorously employed literary devices. Lincoln grew up in the country, with nothing more than a second-grade education to carry him through, having to make his own way in life; Kennedy grew up as the son of a rich stockbroker and politician private schools before attending Harvard and traveling the world, and yet, they both became two of the best presidents this country has seen. Through the use of rhetorical devices, such as antithesis, restatement, parallelism, similes and metaphors, in Lincoln…

The speech ‘I Have a Dream’ is by Martin Luther King Jr. He gave this speech on August 28th 1963 just outside of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. Martin Luther King Jr, gave this speech to make the american people realize the color of the skin should not matter because everyone in this country is human and the color should not be a motive to judge them but the character of the person should. Meaning the character of the person should matter more than just the color of the skin. This…