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SW: "Explaining My Depression to my Mother"

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SW: "Explaining My Depression to my Mother"

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*use headphones* Watch the following spoken word and comment below THREE PERSUASIVE STRATEGIES about this spoken word that were effective. Think beyond just the words that are being said.

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Sabrina Benaim - Explaining My Depression to My Mother

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Short Story: "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. 

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Short Story: "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. 

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Read the following narrative and comment below what the focus statement behind this piece could be. Provide three pieces of text evidence that backs up your predicted focus statement.

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This story was first published in 1894 as The Dream of an Hour before being republished under this title in 1895. We encourage students and teachers to use our The Story of An Hour Study Guide and Feminist Literature Study Guide.

Carl Halsoe, Waiting by the Window, 1863

Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death.

It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences; veiled hints that revealed in half concealing. Her husband's friend Richards was there, too, near her. It was he who had been in the newspaper office when intelligence of the railroad disaster was received, with Brently Mallard's name leading the list of "killed." He had only taken the time to assure himself of its truth by a second telegram, and had hastened to forestall any less careful, less tender friend in bearing the sad message.

She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her.

There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair. Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul.

She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which someone was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves.

There were patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds that had met and piled one above the other in the west facing her window.

She sat with her head thrown back upon the cushion of the chair, quite motionless, except when a sob came up into her throat and shook her, as a child who has cried itself to sleep continues to sob in its dreams.

She was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain strength. But now there was a dull stare in her eyes, whose gaze was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It was not a glance of reflection, but rather indicated a suspension of intelligent thought.

There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name. But she felt it, creeping out of the sky, reaching toward her through the sounds, the scents, the color that filled the air.

Now her bosom rose and fell tumultuously. She was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will--as powerless as her two white slender hands would have been. When she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She said it over and over under the breath: "free, free, free!" The vacant stare and the look of terror that had followed it went from her eyes. They stayed keen and bright. Her pulses beat fast, and the coursing blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her body.

She did not stop to ask if it were or were not a monstrous joy that held her. A clear and exalted perception enabled her to dismiss the suggestion as trivial. She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead. But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely. And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome.

There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature. A kind intention or a cruel intention made the act seem no less a crime as she looked upon it in that brief moment of illumination.

And yet she had loved him--sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being!

"Free! Body and soul free!" she kept whispering.

Josephine was kneeling before the closed door with her lips to the keyhole, imploring for admission. "Louise, open the door! I beg; open the door--you will make yourself ill. What are you doing, Louise? For heaven's sake open the door."

"Go away. I am not making myself ill." No; she was drinking in a very elixir of life through that open window.

Her fancy was running riot along those days ahead of her. Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long.

She arose at length and opened the door to her sister's importunities. There was a feverish triumph in her eyes, and she carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of Victory. She clasped her sister's waist, and together they descended the stairs. Richards stood waiting for them at the bottom.

Someone was opening the front door with a latchkey. It was Brently Mallard who entered, a little travel-stained, composedly carrying his grip-sack and umbrella. He had been far from the scene of the accident, and did not even know there had been one. He stood amazed at Josephine's piercing cry; at Richards' quick motion to screen him from the view of his wife.

When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease--of the joy that kills.

Earlier, I pointed out that this story was first published in 1894 as The Dream of an Hour before being republished in 1895 as The Story of an Hour. Having read the story, why do you suppose Kate Chopin chose to change that one word? Given societal norms and expecations about women and marriage in 1895, do you see how simply changing a single word in the title may have been an answer to the controversy and criticism that the story received at that time?

The Story of an Hour is one of the stories featured in our collection of Short Stories for High School I and Short Short Stories to read when you have five minutes to indulge yourself reading a great story.

Add The Story of An Hour to your library.

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The Story of An Hour, a Short Story by Kate Chopin.

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Article: "The Argument Against Headphones"

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Article: "The Argument Against Headphones"

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Read the following article and identify two things that made the author's argument strong, and two things that made it weak, citing text evidence to prove your point.

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Not only do they isolate you, but they may also be making you deaf.

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Open Letter: "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King Jr. 

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Open Letter: "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King Jr. 

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Reading the section from the letter given to you. As a whole class, decide what two appeals King uses most effectively in this passage. Then, each group must identify two additional rhetorical devices in the paragraph and LIST THEM BELOW this column.

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*use headphones* This song has two sides being presented. Give two rhetoric devices that each side uses, and explain who you think was more effective in their argument and why.

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Awareness Campaign Video: "Know the Signs of Human Trafficking"

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Awareness Campaign Video: "Know the Signs of Human Trafficking"

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*use headphones* Watch the video below. Comment TWO APPEALS that this video utilized in order to get their message across. Explain how each appeal is used, whether or not you thought they were effective, and why.

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PSA: LEARN the signs of HUMAN TRAFFICKING

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Watch the following clip from the movie "We Are Marshall".  List THREE APPEALS that the coach uses in his speech, with text evidence. Why would he choose those specific appeals for his audience?

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We Are Marshall (3/5) Movie CLIP - We Cannot Lose (2006) HD

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amplification- repeats "when" when he describes the situations at which he felt segregation
personification- "ominous clouds of inferiority"

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Hyperbole- He says twenty million Negro brothers. This is an exaggeration because they is most likely not 20 million Negroes in that area. This was effective because it emphasized it.
Alliteration- He says "find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering." This affected the statement because the alliteration it made the sentence stand out.

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Personification- "They have carved a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment"
Epizeuxis - "We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "Illegal." It was "Illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany."

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Martin Luther King uses the 🤬 party as an example of how the police in the south were rude to all African american people.  "We should never forget the thing that Adolf Hitler did in Germany and all of that was legal." some rhetorical devices in the paragraph metaphors and simile because they all describe the passage how they are being mistreated like others in the past and a simile because King explains how the police and whites would mistreat African american people.

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Allusion: "We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal"
Metaphor: "It rings in the ear of every negro with piercing familiarity"

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MLK uses most effectively Epizeuxis, which means to repeat one word for emphasis.  He uses this the most when he is talking about segregation and slavery.

He also used enumeratio which means to make a point with details.

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Amplification-"For years now i have heard the word "wait"!It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This"wait" has almost always meant "Never". He repeats the word Wait in parenthesis over and over again including later in the next paragraph.
Metaphor- " Who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation"

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Enumeratio - "Hence segregation is not only politically, economically, and sociologically unsound, it is morally wrong and sinful."
Metaphor - "Let us hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear drenched communities."

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1.) Sabrina Benaim never stopped talking, almost as it was all one sentence and just a constant flow. Similar to depression that never takes a break and will always be there.
2.) She also displayed a great amount of emotions through her facial expressions and tears which helped show the realness of what she was talking about.
3.) He repetition was used as a cry for help. Throughout the poem she repeatedly called for her mother in hopes that she would answer but they were never answered.

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1. she keeps addressing her mom making an emotional appeal as if she's a little girl.
2. She repeats her statement of her depression makes it unforgettable.
3. She compares her anxiety to her being held hostage. Creating a Metaphor.

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Appeal to emotion- "were buried here, six teammates six sons of marshell."
Appeal to trust- "and if you do that, if you do that we cannot lose."
Appeal to reason- "more experienced on paper they're just better and they know it to."

He wants to get the team emotionally ready for the game while bringing them into what happened. He next wants the team to trust him in order to beat their next challenge.
Lastly he brings in statistically that the other team is better but then says how they need to trust him In order to win.

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this video is about how she went through the depression and what it felt like. With her facial expressions of sadness,fear and being scared of life. She even states "I'm not afraid to die". This is powerful because it shows how she fears everything except death because depression builds up. It also happens because her life has been tough since then.

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1. She used a lot of emotion when she was speaking by speaking very loud and changing tones.
2. She used facial expresions and gestures to to express the speech
3. She was constantly speaking and did not pause the entire time, therefore keeping the audience's attention.

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1. He used appeal of emotion to make you feel sympathetic and scared it might happen to you.
2. He appealed to normality showing it can happen to anyone making it

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The man in this video explains human trafficking and controlling people in a certain way.  He states how they might have cuts or unexplained bruises and could be in a relationship with someone extremely older than the other person or partner.   The appeals are used in order to support the movement if you see something say something.  He supports the message that it only takes a few seconds to save a life.

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Two things that made the authors argument strong are the use of Appeal to reason and Appeal to normality. The appeal to reason is "One in five teenagers in America cant hear rustles or whispers" This quote brings in reason behind their motive. Next the appeal to normality is he says "John C. Koss invented a set of headphones" then says "middle class men" Showing how everyone uses the headphones and a every day guy created them.
Two things that made the essay weak was the lack of more recent information. They say "The Walkman appeared in 1979" They then continue to talk about the Walkman and don't necessarily bring up much current information. The lack of appeal to authority is also weak for this essay. He says "Keir Keightly, a professor of media" but they never brought in his insights on headphones. If they did have a doctor truly say against headphones then it would be more persuasive.

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At first, freedom seems like a terrible thing to Mrs. Mallard, who's restricted in lots of ways: through her marriage, by her bad heart, and even inside her home, which she doesn't leave.  Once it arrives, though, it fills her with an overpowering joy.
1.)  " When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease--of the joy that kills,".
2.) "And yet she had loved him--sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being! "
3.)  "She was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain strength. But now there was a dull stare in her eyes, whose gaze was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. "

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1.) He used the appeal of emotion, because he made people feel something when he was talking. This was effective, because it hit people in the heart.
2.) He uses appeal to normality by comparing a normal life to someone that might be included in human trafficking

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1. She used a lot of expressions and didn't stop talking until she was done.
2. She also kept changing her tone of voice and showed a lot of emotion about depression.

3.  As she was talking about depression in the beginning she showed little emotion but toward the end, she was showing a lot of emotion.

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emotion- "were buried here, six teammates six sons of marshell."
trust- "and if
you do that, if you do that we cannot lose."
reason- "more
experienced on paper they're just better and they know it to."

He wants to
get the teams emotional status ready.

He wants the team to trust him to help tem overcome their challenge
Last he brings in
that the other team is better but then if they trust in him they can win

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Appeal to normality:  to try and make the predator think that this was ok.
Appeal to authority: The people that created the ad put a way for any possible victims to be able to contact help.

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Strengths:
1) The author uses fear tactics, warning the reader of the potential danger of earbuds.
"One in ﬁve teenagers in America can’t hear rustles or whispers, according to a study published in August in The Journal of the American Medical Association ."
2) The author shows a deep understanding of her topic.
"According to some accounts, modern headphones were the brainchild of Nathaniel Baldwin, a tinkerer from Utah who grew frustrated when he couldn’t hear Mormon sermons over the noise of the crowds at the vast Salt Lake Tabernacle ."

Weaknesses:
1) The author essentially commands the reader, which will result in retaliation from said readers.
"Make it a New Year’s resolution, then, to use headphones less."
2) The overall message of the article is the danger of earbuds, yet the author goes off on a tangent to discuss the history of the earbud, taking away the impact of the article.
"Headphones were invented more than a century ago."

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emotion- "we are buried here, six teamates, six tons of marshell trust."
reason- "more experenced on paper,  they're just better and they know how to do it." The coach wants to get the team to be ready for the game.
trust-"and if you do that, if you do that we cannot lose."

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" "Free! Body and soul free!" she kept whispering."
" But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely. And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome. "
" When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease--of the joy that kills."

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Strong: The author warns the audience about possible dangers due to the ear buds. This gives fear to the audience, because they do not want to experience these things. Also the author sounds very experienced on the topic and seems pretty wise in what he is talking about.
Weak: The authors lack of the use of appeal to authority. This makes the argument weak, because he does not make the connection to the people. Also, the lack of recent information makes it very weak because it seems that the information is less accurate.

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strong - One in ﬁve teenagers in America can’t hear rustles or whispers, according to a study published in August in The Journal of the American Medical Association.
weak -  Under these circumstances, headphones are extremely useful — and necessary for sound professionals, like intelligence and radio workers — but it’s a strange fact of our times that this rarefied experience of sound has become so common and widespread.
weak -  The Medium column on Jan. 9, about headphones, referred incorrectly to their origin.
strong -  When an audio current passes through the device’s voice coil, it creates an alternating magnetic field that moves a stiff, light diaphragm.

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Seabury is arguing against bloodshed and he uses appeal to authority by saying "free thoughts on the proceedings of the Continental Congress." and "I pray the king shows you his mercy." He then uses Epizeuxis by repeating "For shame" throughout the essay. Hamilton uses Epizeuxis as well, by sayinh "For the revolution!" throughout the song. He then uses appeal to reason by saying "Chaos and Bloodshed" then "Already haunt us" This shows his side that they are already in war. Seabury argus the better side because he uses reason, authority and other rhetorical devices better than Hamilton does.

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1. He uses appeal of emotion because he is trying to get people to do the right thing and try to make people feel the same about this video.
2. He uses appeal of trust because he is trying to get people to do the right thing and do positive things/stay positive.

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The coach uses appeal to emotion in his speech he stays very serious throughout the speech and describes what is possible. He makes the players believe in themselves.
The coach also uses appeal to reason. The coach tells them what he has seen from them and what they are capable of doing based off of what he has seen.
The coach also uses appeal to trust . The coach uses what he has seen and the players trust him with what he has seen. He was there watching them.

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She copes through her husbands death from crying and this helps her cope and get through it as it is for compassion for him as his death was hard and she dreads this moment for this

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1. she addresses her mom making an appeal to emotional as if she's a child
2. She repeats that she has depression and makes it unforgettable for whoever hears it.
3. She compares her anxiety to her being held hostage. by doing this she is creating a Metaphor.

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Appeal to Emotion -
"They don't know your heart."
This quote appeals to their emotion by strengthening them. The coach is telling his players that their strength comes not from statistics and papers, but their drive.
Appeal to Trust -
"I do."
After telling his players that their opponents do not know their truest strengths, the coach assures his players that he knows, as he has trained them and raised them up.