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  1. Sep 2020
    1. Only a participatory democracy involving our people in the structures of decision making at all levels of society can ensure that this is corrected.

      implying that in order to have stability and wealth, the oppresed must collaborate and stop being treated inferior

    2. created mass unemployment and led to spiralling inflation that has undermined the standards of living of the majority of our people, both black and white.

      apartheid affects everyone, and the world is missing out of so much economical advances due to a closed and incorrect mentality

    3. Our people need proper housing, not ghettos like Soweto. Workers need a living wage - and the right to join unions of their own choice and to participate in determining policies that affect their lives.

      Mandela shows the inhumanity that black people are living. He politly shows his claims that black people should be treated equally and live correctly, and not just all together in a four wall stucture

    4. It is the labour of black workers that has built the cities, roads and factories we see

      Mandela is implying that there is an amazing potential in darked skin people, but due to the apartheid and racism the world is missing out in advances

    5. where policemen are acting with restraint and fulfilling the real role of protecting all our people irrespective of their race.

      mentionces the mission of the police, making thereself ask; am I accomplishing this?

    6. We call on the police to abandon apartheid and to serve the interests of the people

      respectfully, Mandela expresses his anger agains the authority and tells them to stop

    7. I understand that implementing apartheid laws has made it extremely difficult for many honest policemen to fulfill their role as servants of the public

      the use of ''honest'' makes the public insuinate ''correct'', and that due to the racism going on they are doing things they do not want

    8. I am also concerned by the ongoing violence perpetrated by certain sections of the security forces against our peaceful marches and demonstrations.

      shows there is violence where there shouldn't be

    9. Let us build on the proud tradition of unity in action as embodied in the Xuma-Naicker-Dadoo Pact which was fully endorsed by our great hero Chief Lutuli .

      by uniting, it is able to end this injustice --> Mandela is mentioning previous leaders that have been able to end such inhumanity by unity

    10. I call on the leadership of the UDF, COSATU and Inkatha to take decisive steps to revive the peace initiative and end the scourge on our proud history.

      By mentioning the organizations above, Mandela puts them on the spot. Yet, he says that by taking iniciative they will be recognized by history as the winners

    11. Our victories must be celebrated in peace and joy.

      After the stuggle of racism and lack of rights; Mandela is implying that they will win this fight, but it must be celebrated by enjoying humanity and enjoying their rights. Their must not be any conflict from the audience part.

    12. Sadness to learn that you are still suffering under an inhuman system.

      repetition to emphasis what was mentioned and give reference to his feelings. ''inhumane system'' shows strong diction of dehumanization

    13. This is achieved by politically organising our people not through the use of violence against our people.

      violence is not the key to success, but according to Mandela it is getting together as a group

    14. As I said when I stood in the dock at the Rivonia Trial 27 years ago and as I said on the day of my release in Cape Town,

      Mandela sticks to what he says and uses past dates and moments to refer to them. Shows confidence and security in himself and knows what is happening and why it is happening

    15. I call on the government to build more schools, to train and e.mploy more teachers and to abandon its policy of forcing our children out of the school system by use of various measures such as the age restrictions and their refusal to admit those who fail their classes

      shows that Mandela is aware of the current situation and has a solution to the conflict

    16. We must continue our struggle for People's Education

      persuasion: as a whole it is our responsability to fight for peoples right of learning no matter their skin tone --> in other words

    17. all our people, students, parents, teachers, workers and all other organised sectors of our community

      assindeton; use of various commas to prove a point of how important education is

    18. Apartheid education is inferior and a crime against humanity.

      short and strong sentence with use of diction: crime against humanity --> shows all the hate there is for the black race and their inferiority is terrible. hummanity is also a gernality for the whole world, grouping everyone.

    19. black schools

      school where dark colored go// could have double connotation: black school for color skin and black school since there is nothing taught (there is black learning/null learning)

    20. I salute the anti-crime Campaigns conducted by our organisations.

      giving credit and showing respect to the ani-crime campaigns. This evokes a sense of trust since he has mentioned that this is not enough, but he is still recognizing them and thanking them for there help

    21. It is through the creation of democratic and accountable structures that we can achieve this.

      re-mentioning his point (mentioned in previous paragraph). Mandela shows a persuastion of what the solution should be to solve all the problems that revolve, and that is why there is a repetition of democtratic

  2. Aug 2020
    1. I salute the courage and the heroism

      diction in order to demonstrate and emphasis strong words and motivate the audience; making the audience feel good about themselves and winning the fight

    2. Our

      in order to demontraste that it a fight that they are fighting together, it uses our to evoke trustiness (ethos) and group Mandela with the rest

    3. Our alliance is built on the unshakable foundation of our united struggle for a non-racial democracy.

      antitesis, in order to evoke the sense that nothing will break the people and will always be united

    4. sacrificed all for the love of their country and their people.

      evoking trust through people, this tecnique allows Mandela to recognize others as important, making people belive that he does not seek for attention nor gives himselve any special recognition, making people feel more attracted to his speech

    5. our people to establish justice and freedom for all in our country.

      ethos as a way to establish trust; using our people, our country generates a sense of trust

    6. I

      first person to add importance to the topic and evoke a sense that as well as Mandela, the one reading the speech, is in the same boat with the people

    7. Comrades, friends and the people of Soweto at large

      evokes a sense of trust and friendship due to the generalizacion of comrades, friends refering to the people together

  3. May 2020
  4. Mar 2020
    1. Trump Uses Kids Sold Into Sex Slavery to Score Political Points

      central idea of the op-ed: judge trump and use arguments to convince that he does use kids into sex slavery to score political points

    2. “The president’s sensationalization of sex trafficking is a spit in the face to myself and many survivors, as his narrative does not fit ours. It is his own.”

      ends with a surviver quotes in which Blount says that the president has disrespected the victims and that he only uses this issue as a selfish prupose, but does not do anything ir order to help

    3. “This is an issue that doesn’t need overdramatizing,” said Lloyd, who was nearly killed by her pimp. “It’s bad enough. You don’t need to make it worse.”

      ethos and pathos, story from surviver that causes empathy in the reader. Trump actions are critizied by victim

    4. survivors are irritated that Trump cites trafficking as a reason to build his border wall.

      trafficking is an issue to stop and face it, not to ignore it by building a wall, yet this sentence shows trumps mentality and pov of this issue

    5. It’s useful for a president to speak up about trafficking, to keep the issue on the agenda. But Trump sensationalizes in lurid terms:

      what a president SHOULD do vs what trump does

    6. In Cambodia, I once saw terrified young girls being sold for their virginity; in Pakistan, I saw a brothel owner determined to kill a girl who had escaped.

      pathos

    7. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine last year offered an important road map to cut American child poverty by half — a step that would reduce trafficking — but the administration has ignored it.

      facts that contribute to the title

    8. only 500 T visas, down from 748 in 2016, and wait times are now three or four times longer.

      comparing trump and obamas administation. By using data, it shows how Trump has diminished the amount of T visas in contrast to the previous presidency.

    9. The Human Trafficking Legal Center reports only 146 federal trafficking indictments in 2019, down from 204 in the last year of the Obama administration.

      comparing Trump and Obrama's administation about human trafficking

    10. The Human Trafficking Legal Center reports only 146 federal trafficking indictments in 2019, down from 204 in the last year of the Obama administration.

      logos

    11. Over the last three years we have watched with horror as the administration has dismantled protections for trafficking survivors,” said Martina Vandenberg, the president of the Human Trafficking Legal Center in Washington, who stayed away.

      important figure of the cabinet and powerful figure opinion to impose a more negative view on the president about human trafficking

    12. Yet it’s increasingly clear that this is less about protecting children and more about exalting Trump, whose administration is actually prosecuting fewer traffickers and making it harder for some trafficking survivors to get help. As a result, major antitrafficking organizations boycotted the White House session.

      Author claims Trump is actually is not actually focusing in the problem (just talking about it) and is rather worried on his political image

    13. Ivanka Trump embracing Bella Hounakey, a survivor of human trafficking, at an event with President Trump last month about trafficking.

      in the image Trump face is serious and ''disgusted''..?

    14. Few people on earth are so exploited as children trafficked into the sex trade. And now they are being exploited again, by President Trump.

      op-ed starts with a point of view against Trump and directly attacking and affirming that children are being exploited by the president

    15. Trump Uses Kids Sold Into Sex Slavery to Score Political Points

      author hate for trump is seen starting from the title since he is affirming a way that the former US presidents score political points

    1. no one needs to pay

      some infected people (that do not know) will avoid having the test due to the price, so it is better if it is free since it will avoid a grand majority of people of being infected

    2. Ensure that as many people as possible have access to medical care.

      its not about the money people have and who can afford it, but how to avoid people getting infected no matter their economic status

    3. 100 million infections of the new coronavirus in the United States, of which 5 or 10 percent might require hospitalization and 1 percent might need a ventilator.

      logos

    4. by late April we could have millions of Americans infected, and the danger is that people with other ailments die for want of care in the chaos.

      logos

    5. The aim is for people to NOT go to a doctor’s office or E.R. unless necessary.

      according to science is to stay at home since it is higly contagious

    6. We are much better off if 100 million Americans contract the coronavirus over 18 months rather than over 18 weeks

      there is more time to cure everybody, and it is not such a big problem if it is more elastic timewise

    7. by a pandemic that is both more contagious than the seasonal flu and apparently many times more lethal

      extreamly contagious and dangerous -- in three months it is now a world wide issue in which extreame measures such as quarentine and ''toque de queda'' in Peru have been made

    8. President Trump squandered two precious months trying to downplay the new coronavirus while attempting to talk up the stock market.

      business before the health of the people. ideology agains trump

    1. preparations while relying on science and evidence rather than on muddled political leaders trying to talk up markets or score political points.

      scientists know the facts and data, political leaders don't. Just like Trump who does not ''belive'' in scientfic facts.

    2. told me that a vaccine might take at least six to eight months to develop and test

      too much time. In 3 months the corona virus is world wide, people are dying.

    3. The White House and Congress should immediately establish a system to ensure that patients need not pay for coronavirus testing and treatment.

      3 thousand dollars is more than what someone gains in a month in a America! by applying this goverment intervention, corona virus cases will go down since they will take care of the sick people, and they will not come close to the others.

    4. At a time when we need wise, scientifically informed leadership, we find ourselves with a president with little credibility and an antagonistic relationship with scientists.

      Trump has focused on immigrants coming into the US, and has not payed attention to pandemics. The president must work with facts and take the correct measures, yet he doesn't.

    5. For decades public health experts have called for preparations for another “big one” — yet adequate preparations were never made.

      no one does anything until it happens. 50 million people dying because of a flu is incredible. That is why it is necessary to stay home

    6. People were already avoiding each other, turning their heads away if they had to talk, isolating themselves

      Just like now with the Corona Virus, people do not salute with a kiss or handshake anymore