Mark Ronson

Mark Antony’s Appeal to the Roman People: A Deceitful Discussion Aristotle, an ancient Greek philosopher, once said that “Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.” In Act III Scene II of the tragic play Julius Caesar, written by William Shakespeare, Mark Antony uses much rhetoric and persuasion in order to convince the Plebeians to rebel against Brutus. This speech followed shortly after Caesar's assassination by the conspirators…

Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer are two very adventurous boys. Huck and Tom are similar, but there are many more differences between them. Tom is one who thinks things should be done a certain way, a traditional way. However, Huck feels like things can be done in a practical way. Tom is the idealist while Huck is the pragmatist. This is seen countless times as Huck and Tom try and free Jim. Tom runs on his own agenda. Tom knows all along that Jim is a free slave, but doesn’t tell Huck because that…

Mark Twain criticizes the south for what he believes has a flawed social structure. He criticizes romanticism throughout the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Romanticism is a movement that emphasizes inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of an individual. Twain uses the characters to show different instances of romanticism. Tom Sawyer, a friend of Huckleberry Finn, is seen as a romantist. Tom Sawyer likes to find ways to make his adventures more difficult than it has to be.…

In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, the two characters, Brutus, and Antony, have to go against each other. They each attempt win over the angry plebeians with their speeches at Caesars funeral. Brutus tries to justify the killing of Caesar while Antony disapproves of the killing of Caesar. Antony and Brutus where both wonderful speakers but only one speech won over the people in the end, which was Antony’s speech. Brutus’s speech starts off with a greeting. “Romans, countrymen, and lovers! Hear me…

This is about a boy and a slave in the bastion of racial tolerance known as pre civil war Missouri. It all started in the town of St. Petersburg, Missouri where Huckleberry Finn is in the custody of Miss Watson and the Widow Douglas, who was attempting to turn him into an upstanding Christian with good grooming habits. That is, until his drunk and abusive father, Pap, returns for the six hundred dollars Huckleberry had given to Judge Thatcher. It did not go quite so well, so Pap takes…

The play, Julius Caesar, was written by William Shakespeare as a form of enjoyment and an educational literary work, but its uses have since gone far beyond this. Many aspects of the characters, such as their actions and motives, have been used to spark debates and defined sides of arguments since its creation of the play itself. No character has been disputed more, of course, than the infamous Brutus, whose actions led to the assassination of both Caesar and himself. One major conflict, in…

Adventure of Huckleberry Finn The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was banned in the year of 1885, March 18th in a Concord library. The book was banned one month after being published. The book was stated as “Trash only suitable for the slums”. The public library in concord also said the book was “immortal in its tone”. The Brooklyn public library banned the book with the statement “Huck not only itched but scratched,” and that he said “sweat” when he should have said “Perspiration”. One of the…

Do you hate bad words? As I read the book, “Huckleberry Finn’, there were curse words everywhere. It caused a major problem for many students and many schools across the states. Find put out which version you prefer. The three main differences are the use of the “N’ word, Pap dies, and how Huck acts. According to ""Huckleberry Finn" and the N-word Debate" after one hundred and twenty-five years, the N-word is still making news over the states. In the book the word is usesd over fifty times. The…

The great Dictator of Rome from October 49 BC to 15 March 44 BC had committed suicide, in other terms “suicide by cop”. Why did Julius Caesar commit suicide? Caesar had many reasons to end his life while he was in power and he did so in a very clever and sneaky way. Julius Caesar was very ambitious and he wanted all control with no sharing (PBS). Caesars health was also getting worse (PBS). Because Caesars health was getting bad and he wanted total control he would have feared that people…

Two Speeches One Fate Two main characters, Brutus and Antony, deliver moving speeches to the general public that changed favor within the people. Brutus intended to convince the people that Caesar was inevitably going to turn into a tyrant. Antony focused on demonstrating that Caesar was a friend and that Brutus' actions can never be justified. Brutus used the rhetorical device ethos more specifically his credibility to persuade his audience. While Antony used the rhetorical device…