Rhetorical question

For many teachers, the following scene may sound all too familiar: on the day a major assignment is due, students enter the classroom in a flurry, toting half unzipped backpacks and the invisible weight of the emotional, social, and personal baggage that all people, particularly teenagers, must balance along with life’s many other requirements—in this case, a dreaded non-fiction reading comprehension task. Some students immediately sit down and hurriedly press pencil to paper, capitalizing on…

Rubrics have been used for ages as a means of judgement based on certain rules. In our profession, we make judgement on a number of areas in a student’s life such as in their academics, behavior or social abilities. Often, classroom educators have shied away from giving definitive grades due to the issues associated with competition or self-esteem. However, it is important to remember as teachers we are positioned to help students understand the art and craft of their work (Laureate, 1999l).…

that is unrealistic; Not every means has to have an end. The capability of choice gives us value. If you do believe this, then can you separate a person’s offence or hurtful actions from the person they truly are? If not, why not? This is a hard question that I’m not sure on the answer to. I believe humans have worth, and I think you can separate a person’s actions from the person they truly are. Perhaps the actions at the time were not from the person they truly…

This extract opens with an imperative “let the darkness enter”, this immerses the reader into the narrative, without giving a setting or narrative voice. Since the voice of the protagonist is absent from the opening it brings into question who the imperative is addressing, and could suggests a possible disassociation of Berg (the protagonist) from himself, or the narrative. The use of adjectives “embalmed” “mummified” before clarifying what the object of these adjectives is, creates a foreboding…

children do not deserve a life without a parent to guide them through it. A lot of times I ask myself, Why? Why do things like this happen to good people, why don 't I ever see bad people suffering? A lot of times I turn to God and ask him this rhetorical question which I know will have no answer to. It 's hard not to blame someone when such tragedy occurs. Unfortunately, I admit that I do blame God sometimes for tragedies and, unfortunately, I have many stories to base my belief on, but here is…

around them, is to write and read different types of poetry. Starting from the streets of Athens with the philosophical and artistic minds of the Greeks, poetry quickly moved East, hastily engulfing the entire globe because of it’s ability to answer questions and power to put into words what the average man cannot explain. Today, as scholars and students study the evolution of literary advances, the Romantic period of poetry is accredited to some of the greatest expletory missions of self and…

As a child, I had no idea what my father went through to keep the cold out (11). The speaker feels the same way as he speaks normally to his father without realizing the magnitude of his sacrifice (10). The last two lines are a rhetorical question. The speaker is trying to say that being a child means you don’t see how one sided and plain-looking love can be. To the the speaker, his father was just getting up and making fire for the house, but the reader sees so much more. I, as a reader…

Yousef Alsarraf Self-Evaluation Describing, discussing, speech Strategies & behaviors used in the speech: • Starting the speech with relating the audience to the topic that the speech is discussing, as well as involving an emotional fictional story, making the audience even more aware of the problems that the topic can find a solution for was a way hoping to gain the audience’s attention and keep their mind focused with the speaker as well as making the topic important and relevant to them by…

During the Kassite Period, the Kassites who were foreigners ruled Babylon. This made people question social values and the theology of the Epic of Creation. They did not believe that foreigners should rule. Anthropomorphic ideas of humans and deities being equal transformed into transcendent deities where Marduk’s plan could not be understood by…

The teacher walked by each table and personally handed us the multicolored papers. I turned my head to keep my eyes locked with the teacher’s swift hands. As I peered, I saw many emotions running throughout the classroom. Common ones include anticipation, despair, and embarrassment. One thing was common: the hand of the teacher had power. Those hands had the power to make or break your day, and the power to change the emotion on your face. Coincidentally, my table group was the last one she…