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A Rhetorical Analysis Of All Apologies From Eula Biss

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In the essay All Apologies from Eula Biss, she talks about how our apologies are being said without sincerity and sometime how one generation will apologies in the place of another. As a result, after apologizing we have the tendency to think that at the end it was are fault. In her essay she uses her personal experiences to correlate to her main purpose- apologizing for slavery. One example that she uses was the time when she hit her sister in the stomach then quickly apologies for her action. As the occurrence of each insult, each scratch and each slap, her sister reminded her that “sorry doesn’t cut it.” Another examples that Biss uses were Reagan’s signing legislation apologizing for the Internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. It goes taking about how Reagan resisted the apology because he felt that during that struggle it was not our judgement to apologize but to see it as a mistake and to let it go. …show more content…

For instance, women apologize as often to their friends as to stranger. Biss wrote about a time when she went to a doctor clinic and how the doctor had to touch her in her reproductive area and apologizes constantly before and after every movement that her proceeded onto her body, This is an illustration of apologizes for the things that they did not do rather try to maintain our innocence. Another event that Biss also uses is about the character Ed Daily. Ed Daily, someone that was not a part of the Seventh Cavalry Regiment, he would attend a peace ceremony and apologize to the

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