Read EXCERPT FROM “CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE” on common lit to answer this question. How was Thoreau's use of rhetoric particularly effective? Using textual evidence from your organizer, explain how the content he included contributes to the power, persuasiveness or beauty of the text.

How were computers in the 1950s and 1960s different from computers of today? they were much smaller. they were much faster. they cost less money they were bigger and slower.

Which lines from the speech best supports this topic sentence? and as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. we cannot turn back. there are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "when will you be satisfied? " and they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. we cannot walk alone. we refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. and so we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. and so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of new hampshire. let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of new york. let freedom ring from the heightening alleghenies of pennsylvania.

In the excerpt from the emancipation proclamation, which phrase or sentence supports the claim that president lincoln did not want the slaves to take up arms against their former masters?