20 Matching Annotations
  1. Feb 2016
    1. If a car breaks the law, the driver would be responsible.

      The driver would be responsible, but does that mean we shouldn't have them? What about a self-driving taxi service? The company would be responsible but companies are already responsible in today's taxi world. There are many alternatives to just selling them to the public.

    2. *DMV attorney Brian Soublet said the agency appreciates the potential benefits for disabled people, but its focus has to be on the safety of the entire motoring public.**

      I don't really understand how self-driving cars would be more dangerous for public as a whole? There's no chance of the car drunk driving or falling asleep.

    1. In just three months, the sites went from dirt to hundreds of rows of solar panels generating enough energy to power 1,300 homes annually.

      What if instead of funding these renewable energy programs, we could find a way to reduce our carbon emissions with our fossil fuels. That way we wouldn't have to add entirely new infrastructure and we would be starting with something we already knew.

    2. New solar facilities provide innovative, local alternative energy source for benefit of PVREA members

      I realize that solar energy is much cleaner than fossil fuels, but today don't you think that solar energy isn't very feasible, due to the incredibly high cost.

  2. Jan 2016
    1. We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom.

      Cause and Effect

    2. Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.

      Description and metaphor

    3. other than write long letters, think long thoughts and pray long prayers

      Parallel Structure

    4. They will be the young high school and college students, the young ministers of the gospel and a host of their elders, courageously and nonviolently sitting in at lunch counters and willingly going to jail for conscience' sake.

      Classification

    5. As T. S. Eliot has said: "The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason."

      Allusion

    6. if you had seen its dogs sinking their teeth into unarmed, nonviolent Negroes. I doubt that you would so quickly commend the policemen if you were to observe their ugly and inhumane treatment of Negroes here in the city jail; if you were to watch them push and curse old Negro women and young Negro girls; if you were to see them slap and kick old Negro men and young boys; if you were to observe them, as they did on two occasions, refuse to give us food because we wanted to sing our grace together.

      Exemplification

    7. Before the pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence across the pages of history, we were here.

      Parallel Structure and Allusion

    8. They have carved a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment.

      Metaphor

    9. They have left their secure congregations and walked the streets of Albany, Georgia, with us. They have gone down the highways of the South on tortuous rides for freedom. Yes, they have gone to jail with us.

      Parallel Structure and Example

    10. church's silent--and often even vocal

      Opposites

    11. Small in number, they were big in commitment.

      Antithesis

    12. Christians for being "disturbers of the peace" and "outside agitators."'

      Classification and Allusion

    13. thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion

      Metaphor

    14. There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

      Antithesis

    15. "What kind of people worship here? Who is their God? Where were their voices when the lips of Governor Barnett dripped with words of interposition and nullification? Where were they

      Parallel Structure

    16. sweltering summer days and crisp autumn mornings

      description