Cummings makes a flippant comment when the speaker says “and so forth” which is to express in reality that the speaker somewhat does not really care about those songs and only uses them to create ethos and pathos in the heart of Americans. He then uses folksy diction “your name by gorry by jingo by gee by gosh by gum…” to demonstrate the attempt of politicians to make themselves seem like the common man to their audience. The deceitful strategy they plan is, instead of being big shot politician that people are likely to not trust they try to become more approachable. With this their audience will feel a false sense of protection and a limited sense of hope. The speaker becomes a chameleon, camouflaging his skin
A Cosmopolitan Controversy Patriotism is devotion, love and support to ones country. Cosmopolitanism is freedom from provincial or national ideas. People have different feelings and devotions surrounding these two ideas, making for a very interesting debate. Richard Rorty argues that, “Most of us, despite our feelings about government, identify with our countries.” In Rorty’s script he makes sure to highlight his point that Americans need Patriotism to accurately judge our communities and ourselves. Fixed the sentence structure of the last two sentences to make it easier to read and so that the reader won’t have to go bad and read it again to understand.
However, just because we are American does not mean our views on the type of freedom will meet eye-to-eye. Religion is something that everyone knows should be respected, but sometimes isn’t. It always made me wonder how the very thing that started America could be so forgotten. There are days when I struggle with people accepting my faith. I get so frustrated because I think, “This is America, the land of the free.
Margret Atwoods printed article “A Letter to America” begins a discussion into the changing America. The article is a before and after comparison criticizing current morals, heritage values, neglect and religious ideals of the present America. The author, Margret, focuses on her personal opinion and view of the country from the past and present; She states her dissatisfaction with current relations and occurrences and offers such advice for change. The author notes that minding one’s own business, standing up for beliefs, and separation of money and god as a key factor for betterment of the country and pulls such historic references such as King Arthur and King Midases to show a comparison and reference. Ms. Atwoods further expresses views about herself when it comes to her modestly and hesitation for writing the piece.
Hamid insinuates that like Erica, people of America are taking comfort in their past, thus giving themself over to a dangerous nostalgia that only they can detach themselves from. In addition to this Changez may symbolise the perspectives of Muslims and the resentment less developed countries have for America in relation to the aftermath of the 911 attacks. Conversely some aspects of America were unaffected by the attacks, this may be represented by the firm Underwood Samson depicting how the capitalist economic world of America. In response to the 911 attacks, Changez is a representation of how less developed countries may have been pleased with Americas demise, as someone has visibly brought [them] to their knees which made Changez ‘’smile’’. This may allude to their ‘’resentment’’ over Americas economic and political superiority as wealth and status for them was unattainable.
In the passage “Staying Put” by Scott Russell Sanders, Sanders is responding to Salman Rushdie to challenge Rushdie’s belief that migration is beneficial because migration takes away the idea of home by using figurative language, antithesis and parallelism. First, Sanders uses figurative language to show the exaggeration on the American Dream and Nationalism’s ideas. Sanders states, “virtues of shifting ground are familiar…to… this nation of restless movers.” This hyperbole accentuates the exaggeration of sanders on the American Dream and to say that the “restless movers” want the American Dream but want more. Sanders also used the metaphor “free of the shackles of nationalism.” This metaphor emphasizes that nationalism ties you down to ideas you might not agree with. He uses figurative language to show how migrants do not respect their land and are “people who root themselves in ideas rather than places.” By this he means that people, who migrate, only migrate for the ideas and stereotypes of a country and not its beauty.
But to analyze the whole paper, in some cases I think Dr. King didn’t go far enough about his theses. In the letter he disapproved the statement of white clergymen with an almost appeasing tone. Dr. King noted that he was addressing them in part because the criticism of clergymen was sincere and added that they were men of real good will. However, in the paragraphs that follow, King changes to a language that can depart no doubt about the firm commitment that he introduced to the battle against racial injustice. For this transition Dr. King made a fuzzy statement to persuade them with the ideas of the justice and equality.
He does this because he does not want the men to see him as a person on a lower standard or lower level than they are. He also does this to show respect because if Dr. King started out using extremely argumentative language then the men most likely would have burned his letter. After the title, he uses logos to show respect to the clergymen as he says “But since I feel that you are men of genuine goodwill and your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I would like to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms” (King, Par. 2). He shows respect to them because he is basically telling the clergymen they are reasonable men and have done nothing wrong.
The two men have very similar views on the subject of just laws and unjust laws, but each goes about dealing with the problem of injustice differently. "On The Duty of Civil Disobedience" is a writing by Thoreau where he expresses his belief that the less the government does to govern, the better it is. He preferred less involvement from the government, referring to the government as a machine. He felt it was only necessary because the American people needed to feel its presence and hear its din. He believed that his first obligation was not to the government, but to do what he felt was right.
"Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more."-Brutus. Brutus was a patriot because he was just doing what he thought was right. His friends told him it had to be done because Cesar was not a fit ruler, Brutus did it because he loved his homeland. He was trying to do good, Brutus was a patriot. Brutus thought Cearser would become a dictator and ultimately lead to the fall of Rome.