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so stay.
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We're gonna be working out our persuasive writing skills.
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I In order to do that, we're going to learn
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from history when I have a look at some famous
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persuasive speeches from activists in America.
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Just a warning.
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Now we will be looking at topics around race, racism
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and slavery.
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So let's get started.
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What is persuasive writing?
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Well, persuasive writing intends to convince readers persuasive writing tries
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to get a reader to believe in an idea or
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an opinion or to get them to do some sort
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of action.
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In practice, a persuasive piece of work might be a
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travel review trying to persuade people to visit a certain
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country or hotel.
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It might be a book review trying to persuade people
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to go see if to go read a new book.
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It could be a pamphlet or relief flare or a
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political speech trying to get someone to do something, clutch
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money or vote for them.
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So what techniques do we have to look at when
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we're going to write persuasively the very simple techniques you
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can start with our your pronouns, your sentencing and punctuation
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issue a speech going to be short and snappy are
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you going to have lots of description in there to
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build pictures you can use the pronoun I, you Guineas.
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We they Then on punctuation, they're gonna be full stops
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everywhere. Is it gonna be lots of commerce?
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You're gonna have semi Coghlan's Coghlan's exclamation marks.
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Question marks on paper, all of these things matter because,
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remember, Punctuation tells the reader how it will be said
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aloud. One thing very unique, too persuasive writing is the
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forest. Now this is an acronym.
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The forest stands for direct address.
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Alliteration, Facts, opinion were topical question, emotive language statistics and
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triplets. If you remember that, if you remember to forest
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when you are going to do your own persuasive writing,
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then you'll create a really good basis for a persuasive
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piece. It's a really good way to remember some of
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the basic ingredients to create a very persuasive piece.
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I'll let you pause this now and have a look
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for yourself.
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Now we're gonna have a look just a bit more
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detail before we move on.
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You compose this screen now and have a look at
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what the effects on the reader are.
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It's very important.
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Consider effect because you might be asked to analyse a
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persuasive piece of writing and how a right it'll orator
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puts across their opinion.
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And then also, if we understand how we can analyze
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something, we can reflect those skills back on ourselves.
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If we understand what makes an engaging piece of work,
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we can make an engaging piece of work again.
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I'll just let you have a read of that pause
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whenever you like.
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You're gonna have a look at an example to start
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off our analysis of persuasive writing.
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This is a speech by Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
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And it's his famous I Have a Dream speech.
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So I have a dream that one day down in
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Alabama, with its vicious Racists, with its governor having his
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lips dripping with the words have been interposition and nullification.
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One day, right there in Alabama, little black boys and
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black girls will be able to join hands with little
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white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
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I have a dream today you can pause here and
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how we look after forest.
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So moving on to our analysis, what could we look
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up? Or we could look at the pro names King
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uses. I quite a lot.
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I helps us sympathize with him.
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We can empathize.
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We can get into his shoes to by using.
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I we put in the shoes of King, got some
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opinion. I have a way with what?
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I have a dream.
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Well, it's not directly, I think, or in my opinion,
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I have a dream is like I feel so.
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His dream is to have equality, true equality.
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He's three Mr See Little black boys and little black
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girls walk down the street with white boys and girls
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as if they were brother and sister.
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That's history literally so.
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He's talking about what he's hopes for the future.
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And I was calling Get a dream.
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It's quite persuasive, isn't it?
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It's It's very vivid and that we will have our
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own dream so we could sympathize with his own dream.
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We could empathize their sorrow.
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We could empathize with the fact he has a dream
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and also by making it dreamlike.
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There was this ambiguity around it, you know?
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Do dreams come true?
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It is a dream come true.
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Is it an attainable thing is it's something you have
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to work towards.
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We've got some a motive language haven't we were got
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vicious Racists and word dripping.
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So these choices of words, they're very vivid, aren't they?
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They're very emotive.
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So it helps us visualize what life might be like
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in the sudden say of Alabama for black people and
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how they've been treated by the governor at the time.
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We've also got We can also see a vivid image
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in the Children walking down the street as brother and
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sister. Now, while it might not be as emotive as
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the and the harsh like vibes dripping it just Crais
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a very vivid image.
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And I heads, doesn't it?
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Because if we look at brother and sister on the
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connotations of brother and sister, we could see as a
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dream of unconditional love between people as if you got
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unconditional love between brothers and sisters on.
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Then it's the car sentence.
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Just quickly.
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We've got longer in short sentences.
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I have a dream, the long description they're helping to
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create this vivid image in our heads and then the
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short sentences.
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I have a dream today.
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What is the difference between those sentences?
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What is the impact of going long and descriptive, too
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short statement moving on to our next example, we're gonna
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have a look at this piece by John A.
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Truth. If she was an anti slavery activist during the
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18th century, a piece begins.
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That man over there says that women need to be
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helped into carriages on lifted over ditches and to have
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the best place everywhere.
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Nobody helps me into carriages or over mud puddles or
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gives me any best place on Ain't I a woman?
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Look at May look at my arm so you can
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stop here and look at the forest.
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What we're gonna analyze here, cause and then continue once
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you find a thing.
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So let's look at the pro names.
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Truth uses I.
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It's very personal.
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Again we put into her shoes were helped to empathize
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with her.
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I There's a bit of a director of rest there.
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We've got that man, that man over there, It could
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literally be that man over there, or it could just
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be a generalization for a specific group of man.
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But it makes us helps us to visualize, especially if
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she was standing before us giving this speech of who
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she's talking about.
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That man over there.
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We've got rhetorical question.
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An ain't I a woman.
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So we've been given just to jump ahead a list.
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We could talk about the listing, but we've been given
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a list, and now she's questioning on a I a
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woman after she's revealed how she's being treated now.
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This at the time would have made people think about
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the treatment of her was a black woman and how
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she was treated differently to white women.
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Today we could use it for exactly the same reason.
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To question our only inherent prejudice is how we perceive
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how we treat others.
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So she's being terrific, treated differently.
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And now she's asking that the audience.
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And am I not a woman with this off inferred
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question of, should I not be treated the same?
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So then we've got our fact.
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There were going to say it's a factor, an antidote
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that the man over there says women needs to be
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helped lifted into carriages and lifted over did choose and
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the best of everything anywhere.
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If this is a fact that it helps add credibility
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to work, she knows the man an anecdote it could
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have as an anecdote, though it could help emphasize her
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argument, but about how she's treated differently by what we
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can assume might be a white man at this point.
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So we can look at the emphasis there on her
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different treatment because I'm a motive language.
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Nobody ever.
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So it's not, she's saying, hardly ever.
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Or sometimes people help May it's nobody ever so.
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The juices that words really highlights to her how she's
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consistently treated differently due to her gender and her gender
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and race.
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So as a black woman she is treated differently from
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men and from white women.
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And then we've got our triplets, which again not only
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use it catches the audiences attention, but it creates a
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list. It's building together all of the evidence of how
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she is treated differently.
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So rather than just giving us one example, it's the
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consistent, consistent experiences that she has.
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Is there anything that we've missed?
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Have a look through again?
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So here's your own task.
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Here's a quick revision task for you to win today,
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so this is another piece of work from an anti
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slavery activist.
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His speech says, what to the American slave is your
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fourth of July?
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I answer a day that reveals to him more than
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or other days of the gross injustice and cruelty to
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which he is a constant victim.
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To him, your celebration is a sham, your boasted liberty
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and holy license, your national greatness.
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Swelling vanity.
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Your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless.
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Your shots of liberty and equality hollow ma Your prayers
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and hymns, your sermons and Thanksgivings with all your religious
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parade in solemnity are to him it bombast, fraud, deception,
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impiety and hypocrisy a thin veil to cover crimes which
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would disgrace a nation of savages.
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So again, pause.
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Consider what we could talk about here from are prone,
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owns punctuation, sentence, land on the forest.
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Your task, then, is to identify what elements of the
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forests of bean used here.
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That's alongside commenting on sentence length on pro names.
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So what elements of the forest can you say, give
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you examples with it?
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So I'd like to say, if there is a literal
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ation, the example of a literal ation, and what's the
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effect? What is the effect of that particular technique in
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this piece of work?
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How would it make the listener feel?
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So that is your vision task.
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It's a good luck with that.
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Everyone, please get in touch with me.
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We'd like some more help on how to use the
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forest on.
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Remember, Seneca is a really good resource for you to
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go over the forest techniques.