The Plight

who endured sexual assaults while incarcerated were officially rediscovered as victims by Congress when the Prison Rape Elimination Act was passed. Given the fact that I work directly with juvenile delinquents, I find myself siding more with the plight of our youth involved in the juvenile systems who may have been or are currently subjected to sexual assaults by fellow peers or staff.…

In the evaluation there were a few rhetorical devices that were used. Here are a few that were utilized. First is Diction which was skillfully used in this chapter. "Guilt doesn't go anywhere far enough; the appropriate emotion is shame - shame at our own dependency, in this case, on the underpaid labor of others (221)". This obviously appeals to emotions of guilt and shame in readers. Makes them feel sorry for the working poor. The use of words touches the hearts of readers Logos is an appeal…

In William Golding's Lord of the Flies, a group of young boys whose plane is shot down on an island form their own government and civilized way of life while they await rescue. However, devising their own society proves to be difficult without adults to guide them. The boys refer to adults often as they try to survive on the island, and pathos is especially evident when the absence of “grownups” is noted. Golding elicits pathos when mentioning adults to suggest that the boys are not…

responsibility and had to put initiative in remembering to change my number with businesses that I prefer not to call a “stranger” with my personal details. Sometimes just knowing the name of the company is enough to give details as to what one’s plight might…

In Gish Jen’s book, Mona in the promised land is the story of a Chinese-American family that lives and an upper-class suburb of New York. The story follows Mona an eighth-grade second-generation Chinese American who is struggling to find her self in a new community where she’s only seen as Asian. As I read this novel Mona appeared to me to be just the typical teenager someone is trying to find themselves in fit into their peer group. I think we see Mona struggle in crystal-clear detail from the…

Shakespeare’s magnum opus, Hamlet, is a tale of betrayal, insanity, and murder. But it is also one of the fragility of the human mind and soul and the effects that loss can have on someone. This plight is exemplified by the character Ophelia. Her ignorance and innocence turns out to be her tragic flaw when her father is murdered. She does not know how to cope with loss and goes insane, which leads to her eventually drowning herself. She is not properly prepared for the real world and that is…

The prophets in the Old Testament were people who profoundly understood the relationship between God and His people through the Covenant. They were touched with the Holy Spirit (Num 11:29, Num 27:18) so that they could provide counseling and guidance to God’s people in the Old Testament, until the pouring out of the Holy Spirit after the cross (Joel 2:28) when each of us is a prophet. In other words, each of us has within us, the ability to understand what is expected of us, and how to “get…

“We’re going to DIE!!!” I screech at my mother as we sit on a grimy roadside curb, cars rushing out and into tunnels, ignoring our drastic plight. I strain my ears and faintly hear the squawking of colorful macaws and fatigued children. The parking lot behind us is itself the Amazon Rainforest. No; it is the Sahara: hot, monotonous, dry, and stretching forever. With all the sweat and bodily fluids caked into my hair, I can barely lift my head to look pleadingly at my mother, again, my eyes…

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is an agency included under the Department of the Treasury. It is one of the most proficient tax administrators in the world. The function of this bureau is to collect the appropriate sum of tax revenue, as legislated by Congress, at the least amount of cost. In fiscal year 2015, the IRS collected nearly 3.3 trillion dollars in taxes. For every one hundred dollars collected, the IRS spent only 35 cents. The mission of the IRS is to provide American taxpayers…

and makes one of his brothers smile, and Nori will need three more dates to stop blushing every time he sees Bilbo, and will never be able to look at spoons the same way again. It’s also Bilbo who discovers Dwalin and Nori basically suffer the same plight in form of a best friend with a crush on someone they believe out of their league, and makes them join forces to finally free the whole town from the epic pinning. Some will claim the sappy romance that replaces the pinning is worse, but it’s…