From 2d9ff7825e7824cf90aae4bcceed27586fbf6ad2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Holden Rohrer Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 14:50:04 -0400 Subject: Finished AP English Language and Composition Exam 2020 --- jones-la/ap-exam.txt | 82 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 82 insertions(+) create mode 100644 jones-la/ap-exam.txt (limited to 'jones-la') diff --git a/jones-la/ap-exam.txt b/jones-la/ap-exam.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c3112cc --- /dev/null +++ b/jones-la/ap-exam.txt @@ -0,0 +1,82 @@ +WY5V8181 +HR + +// Notes were not included in the final submission. +// Religious tones +// gratitude +// continue work even though in good place +// vainglory = vanity and undue pride +// good stature of US =/= due to hard work, more like luck +// don't be boastful; be diplomatic +// humble +Subject: International Relations +Occasion: He is being elected. 1901 is before world wars, and US is thought + of as very successful on the world stage, mostly because it's + starting to colonize stuff (diplomacy) +Audience: "My fellow citizens." He wants public to support his diplomatic + approach to governance. +Purpose: Try to get America to be diplomatic on the world stage +Speaker: Roosevelt will assume this power ("big stick and speak softly") + +Rhetorical device: elaborate syntax with a considerate biblical tone, + +Roosevelt is delivering his inauguration speech to get the American +people to support and accomodate his preferred style of diplomacy and +international relations. Roosevelt's style consists of Big Stick +Diplomacy, where reasonable motivation is used in negotiations to +motivate compromise and agreement with the United States---the +negotiations themselves being friendly and theoretically occurring well +in advance of any legitimate crisis. Roosevelt appeals to the religious +(primarily Christian) belief system of his audience with elaborate +syntax and a considerate biblical tone which takes humanity as a whole. + +His introduction readily establishes this biblical and theistic tone by +talking about a personified ``Giver of Good.'' This is directly related +to Christian theology with a personal and benevolent God which appeals +to the audience's sense of personal gain from this bounty, and leads +into talk of humility and great gratitude that the Bible preaches. +Roosevelt uses words like ``vainglory'' and ``abiding'' to push this +idea that there is a specific personal power which has allowed the US to +get this far and that Roosevelt's style of local governance will follow +this: that the hard-working American to which this appeals (``vigor and +effort'' and ``virtue'') will thrive under a government which takes +these values as its own, and that Roosevelt's will be that government. + +Roosevelt takes these domestic theological values and extends them +further by reusing much of the biblical tone towards two points: +humanity as a whole deserves the kindness and involvement of the United +States government and that international diplomacy is the extent of such +an attitude. The specific words ``in our deeds...spirit of just and +generous,'' ``wrongdoing,'' and ``righteousness'' maintain the biblical +tone because religious oughtness is useful to convince his audience and +the idea that the US is backed by a great benevolent power established +in the last paragraph builds towards the belief that Roosevelt's int'l +affairs will act as fairly towards other nations, and the biblical tones +help to reduce the possible counterpoint of nationalistic isolationism +which is very popular at the time. + +After creating this framework of ideals based in Christian good faith, +Roosevelt returns to the idea of great growth in prosperity but with the +added caveats that continued prosperity will require continued sacrifice +and that prosperity is not singularly beneficial (``care and anxiety''). +The person who considers themselves a hard-working American is being +targeted by this speech and this section in particular. Industrial +development and a ``rise to greatness'' by the US are intended to tell +this person being targeted by the speech that, by virtue of thriving in +this ``complex and intense'' environment, that he or she has high +``energy, self-reliance, and individual initiative,'' which contributes +to the country at large. Because Roosevelt is such a proponent of +diplomacy at a time when isolationism is fashionable, he is trying to +link that ideology to fear and shirking from duty. Because he has +phrased this approach as a duty of the American citizen, Roosevelt +has developed the emotional argument that support of the government's +``unbending, unflinching purpose'' will work towards ``the welfare of +mankind,'' which is a biblical imperative. + +The emotional arguments which appeal directly to the ``hardworking +American patriot'' ideal's sense of righteousness and virtue push a +listener of this speech towards support of strong-handed government +endeavour and international connections of the American government. +Theistic tone and the connection of government action to a higher +calling make the listener believe that Roosevelt's government will +uphold his or her own beliefs and values. -- cgit