Summary Of Civil Disobedience By Niccolo Machiavelli

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One should gain knowledge and insight from extensive instruction accomplished through reading through great works of the past and analyzing their rhetorical techniques, or through following the teachings of masters of the subject. The author of this piece, for an example, went to great lengths to be well­versed in historical literature reading and analyzing works of art such as Niccolo Machiavelli's "The Qualities of the Prince" and Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience". Through these readings, she learned about various rhetorical techniques such as parallelism, persuasiveness, comparison, and compartmentalized reasoning. She also placed herself under the instruction of the highly­esteemed Dr. Boggs, who guided
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