Rhetoric or Rhetoric
What rhetorical device is being used below?
Many of the mascots were first employed during the early 20th century, a time when Indians were being oppressed under policies of Americanization. Children were forced into boarding schools. Spiritual leaders could be jailed for continuing to practice native religions.
What is Pathos?
Define Refine.
Author's will often refine their work.
What is improve (something) by making small changes?
What does it mean to infer?
What is to make an educated guess?
What rhetorical device is used below?
Gover made an effort to get a range of expertise on the panel but significantly, he says he was unable to find anyone willing to defend the continued use of the mascots. That doesn’t mean those people don’t exist, says Gover.
What is Ethos?
What does it mean to be objective?
What is factual? Measurable? What is being able to hear everyone's point of view?
Define Adhere.
Every establishment has a protocol that one must adhere to. Whether you do or not is up to you.
What is to believe in or follow the practices of?
Which Rhetorical Device is used below?
"I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering.
What is Pathos?
Define Benign
“We need to bring out the history, and that’s the point of the seminar, is that it’s not a benign sort of undertaking,”
What is to not cause harm or damage?
The definition of Rhetoric
What is persuasive speech?
What Rhetorical Device is being used below?
What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute, occupied by more than 12,000,000 happy people, and filled with all the blessings of liberty, civilization and religion?
What is a Rhetorical Question?
Define Incongruous
Gover says he understands now that the use of Indian names and imagery for mascots is more than just incongruous.
What is not in agreement or harmony with the surroundings?
What is the meaning of the word "motif" as it is used in the text?
Though many have been retired, including Oklahoma’s Little Red in 1972, notable examples — baseball’s Cleveland Indians and Atlanta Braves, and football’s Washington Redskins — continue, perhaps not as mascots, but in naming conventions and the use of Indian motifs in logos.
What is an image, symbol or decorative pattern?
What Rhetorical Device is used below?
By opening the whole territory between Tennessee on the north and Louisiana on the south to the settlement of the whites it will incalculably strengthen the southwestern frontier and render the adjacent States strong enough to repel future invasions without remote aid. It will relieve the whole State of Mississippi and the western part of Alabama of Indian occupancy, and enable those States to advance rapidly in population, wealth, and power.
What is Logos?
Define The word Sovereignty.
A push for Native American equality and tribal sovereignty emerged during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
What is the right to self-governance without control from foreign political entities?
What is money?