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    Everyone is born with emotions. Everyone can feel happy, sad, loved, and even fear. Although each person is born with these emotions some are more tolerant to certain emotions than others. And that can affect how people are motivated. One emotional appeal that people have tried tapping into and manipulating for centuries is the appeal to fear in order to use as the best motivational force. Fear is the best motivational force and these forces can be found in the non-fictional article “Scared…

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    Jonathan Edwards Rhetoric

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    some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked” (Edwards 122). In this quote Edwards focuses on the how God hates us more than we could ever hate the loathsome insect, thus justifying sentencing us to a life in eternal damnation. As he goes on, he describes the unpredictable aspect of God’s wrath. He illustrates this in the quote, “O sinner! Consider the fearful danger you are in: it is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath,…

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    dignity of human nature and man’s capacity to win salvation for his soul through reason and divine revelation, Calvin and Luther preached the utter degradation of fallen human nature and the total incapacity of mortals to save themselves from the damnation that they so thoroughly deserve” (5). Marlowe was very much aware of the turmoil this was causing, but he is neither preaching for or against predestination in his play. Instead, he is manipulating the entire theater populace, who is already…

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    The Fear of Death Necrophobia is the fear of dying, which 68% of the U.S. population have this phobia. (National Institute) There are many reasons people deeply fear death, when we die, we disappear. Most religious view have people fearing that when we die, we will be punished for our sins. (Margaret Paul) “It is never too soon to befriend this mysterious, unpredictable life experience that we will all undergo.” (Erin Coriell) Many types of literature have been influenced with the idea of…

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    Whilst having aided the growth of society, technological advances have also helped to negatively debase its moral development. Agent Orange was a chemical meant to accelerate the growth rate of soybeans. In the future this technological advance in high quantity became a herbicide and a defoliant, the opposite of its original purpose. During the Vietnam war, 77 million liters of it were used by the U.S. Military as a weapon against the Vietnamese. Over four hundred thousand Vietnamese people…

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    the second ring of hell, which is arguably the first true self causing sin, lust. His interaction with the damned soul was Francesca Da Rimini, whom emotionally compels Dante with her story of her affair, which lead to her death and ultimately her damnation. He speaks of her in gentle terms such as “those two swept together so lightly on the wind and still so sad.” (Inferno, Canto V,) It is ironic that in a place as dark as hell Dante can view some of the damned as light. As a result of the…

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    The term “gothic” was not only employed to characterize a kind of music, it was also used to categorize a writing that involved dark and gloomy elements. Known as Gothic Fiction or Gothic horror, this literary genre is really old. In fact, the Gothic fiction started in 1764, with Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto. The genre reached its success’ pinnacle during the 19th century, with writers such as Mary Shelley (Frankenstein) or Edgar Allan Poe (The Raven). In the 20th century, the Gothic…

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    they never did extraordinary deeds for good or sick, their characters are difficult to observe. Dante the Writer considers them to have never genuinely been alive, and subsequently now they can never incredible. Limbo is the main place inside Damnation that contrapasso doesn't have any significant bearing. All things considered, the main "sin"…

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    Speech is an art. A good speaker is that person, who can convey his message to the audience. Sometime only words cannot be enough to convey a message so a speaker should have such tone, which can influence the audiences. Audience do not get inspired by the speaker unless until, one do not have a charismatic personality or one is not a skilled speaker. A speaker can use differ tools and technique to make his/her speech has effective one. Aristotle gave three principle of rhetoric writing and…

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    Who Was at Fault for the Bloodshed in The play Macbeth by William Shakespeare is filled with . With supernatural forces and social pressure, Macbeth, who was previously kind and honorable, becomes a vicious man who is willing to assassinate the ones he holds dearest. These two main forces that lead to the bloodshed in Macbeth are the Weïrd Sisters and Lady Macbeth. This chain of events begins with Macbeth’s first encounter with the Sisters after the battle against the Norwegians, as a…

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