Rhyme and rhythm are two techniques that are being used. (Edit) also repetition.
" war is a time out of balance. When it is truly over, we must work to restore peace and harmony once again"
"As long as we can remember them, our families will always be with us."
"Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty."
"But being Catholic did not mean we would forget the Holy People and our Navajo Way"
"Remember, grandchildren, like so many other Navajos, I had grown up hearing only criticism and hard words from the <em>bilagaanaas</em> about our people. We Navajos were stupid. We were lazy. We could not be taught anything. We could never be as good as any white man. To hear what was now being said truly made the sun shine in my heart"
"Yet all the laws of the United States, those laws that we now have to live by, they are in English"
Hope this helps;)
C. Support - 1. Contains examples and explanations that relate to the main ideas
b. Organization - 2. Uses paragraphs and has a beginning, middle and end
d. Convention - 4. Uses proper grammar, spelling and punctuation
a. Focus - 3. Addresses the assigned topic
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Sentence 1 is the topic sentence. other sentences are based on 1 to support sentence 1, elaborating the topic sentence.