... speak to the audience on a common ground. It promotes the audience to actively participate in the speech's arguments, potentially leading them to agree to the claim if they understand the metaphor. For instance, King says that "If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam". Here King warns that America's character, the reputation and image that constitutes ... poisoned death of America's spirit as being the nation's involvement in Vietnam. Whether or not this claim holds any truth, those who comprehend the metaphor are moved in such a way (pathos) th...

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... . From now on, Byrnes was to be firm in dealing with the Soviets, and that if concessions were to be made, they were to come exclusively from the Soviet side.39 Byrnes and the President no longer saw eye to eye, and Byrnes resigned in April of 1946.40 He was succeeded by General George Marshall, who pursued negotiations with the ... ...

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... army no longer matters. The recurring references to them, as them, further accents the lack of character present and amplifies the ongoing negative perception throughout the poem. Dawe uses the metaphor 'the steaming chow mein' to describe and imitate various aspects of the Vietnamese jungle. From a bird's eye perspective, in this case looking down from a plane carrying the corpses, a person would ... ...

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... can occur when two different languages are spoken and there is no attempt by the parent to bridge the communication gap. A child can feel that a parent "doesn't speak my language," a metaphor for "you don't understand my ambitions or the pressures I face."(19) These difficulties such as misunderstanding and hardship of expression lead to severance of conversation with their children. Children are ... ...

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... vile, depraved and sadistic, like the Japanese of Hollywood World War II films. The Deer Hunter's most renowned sequence, the infamous game of Russian Roulette (which was principally used as a metaphor for war: an atrocious game of chance) was entirely fictitious, there is no reported account of the Viet Cong ever subjecting American soldiers to this barbaric method of torture. Not ... ...

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