100 what do the speech and the author's chosen strategies reveal about the culture that produced it? (referring to the “city upon a hill” speech made by john f. kennedy on january 9, 1961)

“City upon a Hill” was part of the sermon called “A Model of Christian Charity” was written in 1630s by John Winthrop. He know the first group of Puritan emigrants in New England would be watched by the world. JFK was a Christian and a New Englander. So he quoted Winthrop as we were not destined to be a shining example, only that we were destined to be an example, shining or not.

the rhetorical devices that he used in "common sense" are syntax for his sentence structure and pathos for his emotion against the british unfairly treating the "americans" and logos of what documents that what happened to the pilgrims when they had the mayflower compact and how that the british were wanting to have one religion but the compact said for any religion to be accepted.

the civil rights act was passed on april 9, 1866 by a republican dominated congress. it was passed over president johnson's veto, in an effort to push back against discrimination of african americans.