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Rhetorical Analysis by: Jonathan Robinson The death of honesty – William Damon This paper will basically explain how and where the writer “William Damon” uses rhetorical features in his article to attract the readers. Writers inevitably use rhetorical idioms in their article and positive spirit to keep the readers concentration active, and conscious. This Essay will help the reader analyze arguments in the reading by using the elements of a rhetorical situation, these elements include the:…

“You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot further with a smile and a gun.”-Al Capone. The 1920’s was a time of crime and rebellion introduced to America through the work of Al Capone and his mafia, the prohibition movement, and the creation of Speakeasies. Al Capone was born on January 17 1899 in New York to his parents who moved to New York from Italy. He grew up in the slums near the Navy Yard, surrounded by bars and sailors who sought vice. “The family was a regular, law abiding…

crime swept across the nation. In the 1920’s and 30’s the Volstead Act encouraged illegal alcohol distribution that became a very lucrative business. This sharp rise in crime formed organized gangs that became more and more violent. President Herbert Hoover decided at that time to crack down on crime and this led to the creation of larger, higher capacity federal prisons. Alcatraz prison was one of the products of this decision, and is possibly the most famous prison in American history.…

The Veterans Health Administration is “the largest integrated provider of health care in the United States – public or private- operating one hundred fifty-two hospitals and over one thousand four hundred outpatient clinics across the United States.” (Moore) The system services nine million veterans despite the publicized scandals starting in 2013. The VHA medical centers provides services including hospital based services, surgery, critical care, mental health, orthopedics, pharmacy, radiology…

to pay back loans. People across the nation became worried and rushed to banks to withdraw as much money as they could, causing even more banks to close, losing millions of dollars in savings. At the time, the large majority of banks were small institutions relying on their own resources. Since the panic caused people to withdraw as much money as they could, banks that no longer had enough money on reserve went under. Within two years, over 3,000 banks were forced to close. Without banks to lend…

The Great Depression is often considered to be the “defining moment” in the twentieth-century history of the United States. Its most lasting effect was a transformation of the role of the federal government in the economy. The long contraction and painfully slow recovery led many in the American population to accept and even call for a vastly expanded role for government, though most businesses resented the growing federal control of their activities. The federal government took over…

The Civil Rights Movement began in the 60s as a backlash against racially unfair treatment and attack on the oppressive forces that caused this treatment. Through sit-ins, marches and many other form of peaceful protest the Civil rights moment was able to grow and prosper. The Civil Rights movement evolved the most between the March on Washington in 1963 and protest against the Rodney King verdict in 1992 as a result of the creation and growth of the Black Panther Party, a group that attacked…

Jay Archibald ELA 9 Mrs. Macey 21 December 2016 Jay Archibald: standardized tests Do you think there should be standardized tests taken in school? School officials are debating if there should still be standardized tests in the educational process across America. For years now, America has made a computer based test that students take in school on the subjects they are learning. They have used these tests to show achievements and our progress in education for the students and the teachers. We…

The United States is one of the few developed countries who do not have universal health care, leaving nearly 33 million people without any health insurance. People who oppose the right to health care for everybody may argue that it is taking and extracting from another person and that it is an individual’s responsibility to get health insurance. Everybody should have the right to health care because it is a human right that could improve public health and lower the cost of care in the United…

Raising Minimum-Wage Will Hurt the Middle-Class When people have problems pertaining to someone or something needing something in order to resolve the issue they usually fix the problem by creating a plan to give it to them; and it usually works. For example: if a baby is crying, they will stop once they are fed; couples who are divorcing reconcile their major disagreements once both sides get what they want; parents will stop nagging a child once they clean their room. In respect of this,…