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Her kan du få hints til at skrive analytical essay om uddraget fra Will Jawandos memoir My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist’s Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole.

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Opgaveformulering
Hint om retorisk situation
Hint om how the writer uses his personal experience
Hint om style of writing in lines 111-124
Hint om rhetorical devices
Hint om forms of appeal
Hint om intention
Hint om discussion
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Opgaveformulering

Write an analytical essay (900-1200 words) in which you analyse the excerpt from Will Jawando’s memoir “My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist’s Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole” and discuss the role sports can play in preventing violence.

Part of your essay must focus on how the writer uses his personal experience. In addition your essay must include an analysis of the style of writing in lines 111-124.

Your essay must include references to:

the excerpt from Will Jawando’s memoir
the video: “Picking up hobbies, not guns, message behind West Side community basketball game”

Hint om retorisk situation

Teksten er et uddrag fra et memoir, hvilket vil sige, at der er tale om personlige erindringer. Afsenderen er Will Jawando, en amerikansk advokat, politiker og aktivist. Jawando har en hvid mor og sort far, og vi ser en klar reference til etnicitet allerede i titlen på memoiret ("My Seven Black Fathers"), hvilket giver et varsel om, at hans blandede etnicitet kommer ...