For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world for imposing taxes on us without our consent for depriving us in many cases of the benefits of trails by jury how is parallelism used here to strengthen the argument

In these lines, the author uses parallelism in order to strengthen the argument. The author lists all the complaints he has against the British government, and all the actions that he believes have been unfair and unjustified. In order to demonstrate this belief, he lists the items using the same structure in each one, which contributes to making the passage more rhythmic, more structure and more accessible, all of which make the passage more persuasive.

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themes and meanings

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”

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