Executive Order 9066: The President Authorizes Japanese Relocation: Symbols, Motifs, and Rhetorical Devices
Executive Order 9066: The President Authorizes Japanese Relocation: Symbols, Motifs, and Rhetorical Devices
Repetition
Rinse and RepeatIf we've said it once, we've said it a thousand times (or, at least, it feels like that): E.O. 9066 contains a fair bit of repetition, which is just impressive considering how teens...
External References
You gotta hand it to FDR: he really knew how to pack a document full of information in the most tiresome way possible. E.O. 9066 is super dense, but why? What makes it so dense? One reason has to d...
Euphemism
Oh, euphemisms. Our favorite way to make something unpleasant—"he died"—sound like a real-estate investment ("he bought the farm"), a clumsy mistake ("he kicked the bucket"), or a frog imperson...