Henry V 'once more unto the breach'

Find and Highlight where these techniques are used:

• repetition
• inclusive language
• alliteration
• metaphor

2. Answer the following Questions (use quotes where applicable):

• What characteristics does King Henry say are best for men in times of PEACE?

Modesty, Stillness and humility

• What should men be like in war?

They should become a Tiger

• What does Henry say about the English and their ancestors?

That their blood is fet from fathers of war-proof

• What does he mean when he says 'Be copy now to men of grosser blood.'?

That the people they are fighting have gross blood compared to the English blood

• What is Henry saying you have to become in order to be successful in war?

follow their spirit upon this charge and they will become successful in war

KING HARRY:
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility,
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger.
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favoured rage.
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect,
Let pry through the portage of the head
Like the brass cannon, let the brow o'erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit
To his full height. On, your noblest English,
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof,
Fathers that like so many Alexanders
Have in these parts from morn till even fought
And sheathed their swords for lack of argument.
Dishonour not your mothers; now attest
That those whom you called fathers did beget you.
Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
And teach them how to war. And you, good yeomen,
Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding- which I doubt not,
For there is none of you so mean and base
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot.
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'
By William Shakespeare.

Othello (Act I sc iii) - Iago

Summary: In this section of the play, the villain Iago is motivating Rodrigo to act upon his feelings for Desdemona and even though she is committed to Othello ('the Moor'). Iago wants to take down Othello without actually doing it himself.

Highlight where the following persuasive techniques are used:

repetition

alliteration

extended metaphor

Answer the following questions using quotes where applicable:

• What extended metaphor is used in this speech? Is this metaphor positive or negative towards women? Explain. The extended metaphor is used in the speech is the repeated stating to be "drowned" or "put money in thy purse" have negative connotations suggesting 

• How does the metaphor related to Rodrigo becoming more proactive in his pursuit of Desdemona? As the speech goes on emphasis is placed on the other man Othello describing him as being "an erring barbarian" and how he is not suitable for Desdemona.

• How does Iago characterise Othello ('the moor')? Lago characterizes Othello as being "an erring barbarian" giving him negative connotations through the use of describing him as being a "barbarian"

• How does Iago describe Rodrigo being passive? What will he do to himself if he doesn't act? Lago describes Rodrigo as to be drowning himself and destroying himself and others if he does not act upon his feelings "drown thyself! Drown cats and blind puppies"..

IAGO

It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of
the will. Come, be a man. Drown thyself! drown
cats and blind puppies. I have professed me thy
friend and I confess me knit to thy deserving with
cables of perdurable toughness; I could never
better stead thee than now. Put money in thy
purse; follow thou the wars; defeat thy favour with
an usurped beard; I say, put money in thy purse. It
cannot be that Desdemona should long continue her
love to the Moor,-- put money in thy purse,--nor he
his to her: it was a violent commencement, and thou
shalt see an answerable sequestration:--put but
money in thy purse. These Moors are changeable in
their wills: fill thy purse with money:--the food
that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be
to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida. She must
change for youth: when she is sated with his body,
she will find the error of her choice: she must
have change, she must: therefore put money in thy
purse. If thou wilt needs damn thyself, do it a
more delicate way than drowning. Make all the money
thou canst: if sanctimony and a frail vow betwixt
an erring barbarian and a supersubtle Venetian not
too hard for my wits and all the tribe of hell, thou
shalt enjoy her; therefore make money. A pox of
drowning thyself! it is clean out of the way: seek
thou rather to be hanged in compassing thy joy than
to be drowned and go without her.

The Merchant of Venice: Act IV sc i - Portia

Summary: In this scene Portia is pleading to Shylock for the life of Antonio. Antonio is responsible for the debt that Bassanio owes Shylock. Bassanio is Portia's partner and needed money to be with Portia. When Bassanio borrowed the money the punishment for failure to pay back the money on time was 'a pound of flesh' which would cause certain death. Bassanio didn't pay the debt back in time and now Shylock wants his 'pound of flesh' from Antonio. Portia is trying to get Shylock to change his mind and see the virtue of being merciful.


Find and highlight these techniques in the speech:
metaphor
alliteration
repetition

Answer the following questions using quotes where applicable:
How does Portia describe mercy? It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven

How important and powerful is it? it is the mightiest
What can one achieve through mercy? Mercy seasons justice
How is religion part of this speech? (You need to do some thinking on this one.) it talks about jews and how mercy seasons justice


PORTIA
VERSE VS PROSE
POETRY            CLASS (LOWER)

[The quality of mercy is not strain'd,]                     =EASY
[It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven]         (SIMILIE)
[Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest;]           MERCY = GOD
[It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:]    PARALLEL STRUCTURE 
'[Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes]          
[The throned monarch better than his crown;]
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,          TEMPARY
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway;                     LREPEATED 
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,It is an attribute to God himself;              THEME
And earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew,                        METAPHOR        SYBOLISM
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
That, in the course of justice, none of us 
Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much
To mitigate the justice of thy plea;                                                        METAPHOR
Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice
Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there.

Fashion Week Speech

Good morning ladies and gentleman.

The fashion festival should not be taking place. All of you would have heard about the floods in Queensland and just recently the cyclone Yasi that hit north Queensland and let us not forget New Zealand who got shaken up by the earthquake in Christchurch not only once but twice in six months. 

The festival should not be taking place because of the devastating disasters in both Queensland and in New Zealand. these festivals are expensive in many ways for the venue, the stage, lighting, seats, clothes. instead of this money being wasted on all their unnecessary things at this time of harsh devastation it should be getting donated to Queensland and New Zealand in the areas that need it the most and it will help people to help rebuild there houses, offices and there cities. 

I release we have been helping out in many ways by donating money, calling loved ones, some people even going over to New Zealand to help and the army is helping as well. but this will help even more. So show that Aussie spirit and help out in any way you can and dont waste your time for the fashion week.

Draft 2

Donate Your Organs

Everyone knows that one day you will die but most people do not know when. Imagine if you did know you were going to die and all you need was a single kidney but you were put onto a waiting list with 105 000 other people around the world. There also over 2000 people already on the Australian organ donation waiting list as we speak. But all that could all change if just one person had donated organs that could save your life. So in this speech I am going to convince you that donating your organs is excellent thing to do.

Since 1965 over 30 000 people have been saved and are now living healthy lives because of organ donations and it has also dramatically improved survival rates of humans.

Don't you want to save lives? And it’s as simple as just signing a letter and you can save up to 8 people from death or help up to 70 live a more healthy and happy life from you donation.

18 people die per day while waiting for an organ that would suit their body, if everyone donated their organs there would be no waiting list and many thousands of lives would be saved every year.

Now I am going to tell you a story about a 2 and a half year old boy named tom who died in a car accident by a drunk driver in 2003. After the accident the mother was asked if she would allow her sons organs to be donated and she accepted, Because of her actions there are now two young boys’ alive and living healthy lives. Wouldn’t you be happy if you were tom, and you were in that car accident, knowing that you had saved two other boys life?

Another amazing example of how donation can help other people lives dramatically is in 2008 when 1096 people donated their corneas and as a result 1096 people later that year had restored vision

The reason why you should sign to donate your organs when you are young is because only one per cent of deaths occur under the circumstances that allow you to be a donor. The person is also considered to be a good donor if they have a good medical history and their age is also considered, because their organs may not have fully developed.

If you are on the waiting list it does not work like first come, first served, the organs are chosen by blood type, size and tissue match which can be a very long and nervous wait for patients who have a rare blood type. That’s why some people can be on the waiting list for up to 10 years.

Another reason why people do not donate their organs is because they think that it will cost too much, but in fact it doesn't cost anything at all to donate your organ’s which is why I also think that advertising organ donation is a necessary part of increasing organ donation numbers.

As a conclusion I think that it would be a very wise of you to think about what I have said today and to think about donating your organs to save other people’s lives.

Speech Reflection

The reason why I chose to do my speech on organ donation was because I think that not enough people are aware about the facts about on organ donation and how it can help other people’s lives dramatically. In my speech I wanted to make my audience aware about some of the facts about organ donation, how simple it is to do and how it can save the lives of other.  I think that I have done quite well on informing my audience about those three things in my speech and I hope that my audience is now more aware about organ donation.

Some examples of persuasive techniques that I used was using rhetorical question in the third paragraph e.g. “Don't you want to save lives? And it’s as simple as…” Another technique that I have used in this speech was using facts about organ donation “Since 1965 over 30 000 people have been saved”,  “save up to 8 people from death or help up to 70 live a more healthy and happy life from you donation. 18 people die per day while waiting for an organ that would suit their body”.

In my speech I am going to deliver my speech using a very loud voice to capture the attention of my classmates and I have also used a lot of high modality in my speech so hopefully that will also help me capture the attention of my audience as well. And in the intro I talk about some of the facts like “105 000 people on the organ donation waiting list around the world.” Hopefully that will also help me capture the attention of my audience and make people feel like they should also donate their organs to people in need when they pass away. Those are the ways I hope to capture the attention of my audience during my speech.

Reviewing Angus Engelen's speech

1) Angus Engelen
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• Yes the introduction got my attention because he made me think about life and how it is so short and can end at any time
• NO draft at school
• NO draft at school
• NO draft at school 

Draft for speech (cannot complete because of using one hand +CAS)

Everyone knows that one day you will die but most people do not know when. Imagine if you did know you were going to die and all you need was a single kidney but you were put onto a waiting list with 105 000 other people around the world. But that could all change if just one person had donated organs that could save you life. I believe that it should be made the law to donate your organs after you pass away.

Don't you want to save lives? and its as simple as just signing a letter and you can save up to 8 people from your donation

18 people die per day while waiting for an organ that would suit their body, if everyone donated their organs there would be no waiting list and many thousands of lives would be saved every year.

HW: Two Import Facts about abortion

Number of abortion per year
WORLDWIDE
Number of abortions per year: Approximately 42 Million
Number of abortions per day: Approximately 115,000
Where abortions occur:
83% of all abortions are obtained in developing countries and 17% occur in developed countries.
I think this is important because it shows just how many abortions occur every day and every year worldwide.
Who's having abortions (age)?52% of women obtaining abortions in the U.S. are younger than 25: Women aged 20-24 obtain 32% of all abortions; Teenagers obtain 20% and girls under 15 account for 1.2%.
I think this is important because it shows that 52% of women who have abortion are younger that 25 
Why women have abortions1% of all abortions occur because of rape or incest; 6% of abortions occur because of potential health problems regarding either the mother or child, and 93% of all abortions occur for social reasons (i.e. the child is unwanted or inconvenient)
This is important because it shows that 93% of abortions are unwanted or inconvenient and that i think that most of these babies could still be alive and many couple could be very happy




all this info was obtained from http://www.abortionno.org/Resources/fastfacts.html
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Speech assignment

The topic that i have chosen to do for my assignment is "Abortion should be stopped" i have chosen this topic because i believe that abortion is murder and i think it is totally wrong to kill a baby while it is alive but not born yet. One of my points is that if that baby was even one minute old and someone came in and killed it they would go to jail but for murder so what makes it okay to kill a baby before it is born and even if they didn't want the baby eg teen pregnancy, there are thousands of older couples that are unable to have kids and would happy to have the teen baby.
imagine if you were aborted and weren't here right now because you were unexpended or unwanted. Wouldn't you much rather have a parent that had adopted you not be here right now.

Note: USE LOGIC as well as Ethos

(Late because of collar bone) MLK I have a dream

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.

We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we mustnot be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.

We cannot walk alone.

And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.

We cannot turn back.

There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?"We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: "For Whites Only." We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."¹

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. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back toMississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back toLouisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."²

This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.

With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning:

My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.

Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride,

From every mountainside, let freedom ring!

And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.

And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.

Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.

But not only that:

Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:

                Free at last! Free at last!

                Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

 
<sup>1. Summarize the thesis of the speech in one sentence. The thesis of this speech is to display the injustices of segregation. That everyone should be equal, bring black and white people together.
2. Mode of Persuasion? (it is ok to have more than one) Give examples to support your answer/answers. He uses lots of repetition eg But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, and  Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.
3. Major techniques (highlight all examplesRepetition and metaphors is the main techniques used in this speech.
4. What is the historical context of this speech? Black People are still not completely free and they still don't have as much rights as white people or as widely respected
5. Do you feel that this is an effective speech? (answer in a paragraph) Yes because he engages the black and white which is amazing because back then the black people weren't allowed to have a say in anything. Also he uses repetition to send home a message the message that he wants them to under stand what he is talking about.</sup>