In “Literature as Equipment for Living” Kenneth Burke presents his perspective on the role and function of proverbs and literature. Both, he says, single out “a pattern of experience that is sufficiently representative of our social structure, that recurs sufficiently often... for people to need a word for it and to adopt an attitude towards it”. Be sure to analyze this point. After doing so, your task will be to discuss a text that has provided you with such equipment for living— that is, a book that sizes up a particular situation, adopts a specific attitude towards it, and gives advice for dealing with it. Be sure to summarize as necessary and to provide specific details on the situation, attitude, and lesson.

Read the sentence from susan b. anthony's "on women's right to vote." hence, every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several states is today null and void, precisely as is every one against negroes. in this sentence, the author's tone is best described as

The story line remains the same. the kids live in what was then one of the remaining beachfront slums, down the coast from the expensive malibu area. the beach was ruled by surfers, but in the afternoon, when the waves died down, some of the surfers, or their younger brothers, fooled around on skateboards. one day, skip engblom, the shop owner, comes up with a key breakthrough, polyurethane wheels: "they grip." with the additional traction, the z-boys try skating the sides of the big, open drainage canal that runs through the area. then comes a brainstorm: because of a drought, the area's swimming pools were drained. the kids started "borrowing" pools when the owners weren't home, to skate the curved sides.” where did “the lords of dogtown” originally practice their tricks? a. the beach c. an open drainage canal b. empty pools d. none of these

What phrase from "speech after being convicted of voting" most engages the audience's sense of pathos, or their emotions?