Silas Hansen writes in the third person (“he”), but he is clearly writing about himself. Speaking in the third person can suggest distance from the subject (as opposed to using the more personal “I”). Yet deliberately repeating “he” reinforces the male identity described in the essay. How would you perceive Hansen and the story he tells had he written in the first person? Support your response by pointing to ---and analyzing---specific passages from the essay and by focusing on the effects of specific words and phrases.

Read the passage below and answer the question that follows. ‘you make me feel uncivilized, daisy,’ i confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret. ‘can’t you talk about crops or something? ’ i meant nothing in particular by this remark but it was taken up in an unexpected way. ‘civilization’s going to pieces,’ broke out tom violently. ‘i’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. have you read ‘the rise of the coloured empires’ by this man goddard? ’ ‘why, no,’ i answered, rather surprised by his tone. ‘well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. the idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. it’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.’ in this passage, tom’s ideas about race relations come off as uncivilized. what literary device is fitzgerald using here? irony personification metaphor simile

In the revolution 2.0 note the wording of the protest guidelines.what word choices create a tone of reason and control? how might this tone affect the readers

Read the sentence from last lecture by randy pausch. all right, so what we’re not talking about today, we are not talking about cancer, because i spent a lot of time talking about that and i’m really not interested. pausch tells his audience this because he wants them to know that