Hi my dear friend,
Definition of laud: praise (a person or their achievements) highly, especially in a public context.
welcome:an instance or manner of greeting someone.
I dont see how these could be similar but they are similar in greeting someone. Yet one is greeting someones achievements and the other greeting someone to a place ( home, food area etc.)
~Thank you
"If we wish to be free-if we mean to preserve", "if we mean not basely to abandon" AND "which we have been so long contending", "which we have been so long engaged", "which we have pledged".
Parallelism is the repetition of the same grammatical structure. There are two instances of parallel structure in this excerpt. The first is the "If we ___ to ___" structure. The second is the "which we have _______" structure. By filling the passage with this parallel structure is gives the sense of a list of reasons that all, compounding on top of one another, logically lead to the need to fight. The change from the parallel structures in the last line "we must fight!" makes this exclamation stand out and hold power.
<span>Since everyone was scared of communism, Hollywood started making blacklists of people who weren't allowed to participate in movie making because it was feared that they would use the movies as a medium for spreading their ideological beliefs. Many actors and directors had their career's ruined because of this.</span>
<span>In 2008, more than one million american students gave nearly 20 million service hours to their communities.
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