Read the poem, “Suicide Note” and complete annotations focusing on Speaker/Persona, Subject/Message, Organization, Audience, and other rhetorical strategies---You May Want To Focus on Syntax, Diction, and Tone! Use your annotations to help you write a Rhetorical Analysis Claim Statement and Defend in a paragraph or more.
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Research a social justice issue or decision and analyze it with the following ethical considerations:
• dignity, value, and worth of life • respect for rights of others (including freedom and well-being) • implications (e.g., who benefits, who suffers; common good vs. self-interest) • points of view • intent (e.g., to improve the situation) • priorities (whose needs are met before others’) • fairness. In terms of issues to analyze, you may choose a current or historical court decision, a law, or cases you've heard about in the news. You can focus on social justice and injustice based on the following characteristics: • age • marital or family status • mental or physical ability • political belief • race and ethnicity • religion and faith • sex • sexual orientation • socioeconomic status. Click this LINK to access the article. Once you have read the article, complete analysis focusing on persona/speaker, subject/message, audience, occasion, and organization then answer the question: How does the author use organization to help the reader understand there purpose? Once you complete your post, respond to one of your classmate's post. Either defend (agree), refute (disagree), or qualify(agree, but under different circumstances or for different reasons) their claim.
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