Question 38
his audience to value themselves and the people who have helped to shape who they are.
Read the speech carefully. Then, In a well-written essay, analyze one or more rhetorical choices Rogers
makes (contrast, figurative language, anecdote, etc.) to accomplish his purpose.
Be sure to:
⚫ Focus on HOW Rogers achieves his purpose through his rhetorical choices; your Introduction and
conclusion
can be brief.
. Include evidence from the passage in your response.
1 Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that
jewel. A facet of that jewel. And in
the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal. We are
intimately related. May
we never even pretend that we are not.
2 Have you heard my favorite story that came from the Seattle Special Olympics? Well, for the 100-yard
dash, there were nine contestants, all of them
so-called physically or mentally disabled. All nine of them
assembled at the starting line, and at the
sound of the gun, they took off. But not long afterward, one
little boy stumbled and fell, and hurt his knee and
began to cry. The other eight children heard him crying.
They slowed down, turned around, and ran back to him. Every one
of them ran back to him. One little girl
with Down Syndrome bent down and kissed the boy
, and said, "This'll make it better." The little boy got
up, and he and the rest of the runners linked their arms together, and joyfully walked to the finish line.
They all finished the race at the same time. And when they did, everyone
in that rtodi
clapped and whistlod
Write you
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Rogers
