Chapter 1: Using Rhetoric in our everyday lives. Chapter 2: Changing the mood‚ mind‚ or willingness to act. Chapter 3: Three issues with rhetoric Chapter 4: Character‚ Logic‚ and emotion Chapter 5: Decorum Chapter 6: Converting character into a tool for persuasion. Chapter 7: Tactics of Practical Wisdom. Chapter 8: Using selflessness for personal gain. Summary: Rhetoric is the art of influence‚ and therefore
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1888PressRelease - This new book from Mark Parker examines the current state of character‚ ethics and morals in our society. Integrity is a new book from Mark Parker that casts a critical eye on the current state of character‚ ethics and morals. His premise is that these qualities are in decline among governmental‚ political‚ business‚ athletic‚ religious‚ educational and other leaders‚ and their lack of integrity is having a profoundly negative effect on our nation and society. Parker begins
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state trooper and go around the country as a spokesperson on the intervention and prevention of abuse. He wanted to share his story more personally than just being Victim #1 and to explain how it affected his life in all aspects. He gives examples of broken relationships‚ panic attacks‚ contemplating suicide and the inability to trust. Aaron wanted to show that there are faults in our criminal justice systems but that shouldn’t hinder victims from coming forward. It did take roughly three years after
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Chapter 1 Handicapped by History Brief Summary As the first chapter in this long analytical book‚ chapter one serves as the foundation for the rest of the novel‚ with a basic premise that “history textbooks make fool out of the students.” It shows how portrayal of historical figures and events in the best light for the reputation of United States leads to biased and distorted historical education. Author’s Viewpoint Loewen uses two examples—Helen Keller and Woodrow Wilson—in order to illustrate
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Father Factor in Drug and Alcohol Abuse Even after controlling for community context‚ there is significantly more drug use among children who do not live with their mother and father. Source: Hoffmann‚ John P. “The Community Context of Family Structure and Adolescent Drug Use.” Journal of Marriage and Family 64 (May 2002): 314-330. In a study of 6‚500 children from the ADDHEALTH database‚ father closeness was negatively correlated with the number of a child’s friends who smoke‚ drink‚ and smoke
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2015 Confucius Lives Next Door Review The book “Confucius Lives Next Door” is written by T.R. Reid based on his experience while he was living in Tokyo. "Confucius Lives Next Door‚" is an interesting book that held my attention throughout that gives you Reid’s first-hand insight into the differences between the East (mainly Japan) and the West societies. Reid goes in depth about Asian values‚ talks about harmony within the social environment‚ family and much more. “Confucius Lives Next Door” tells
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Black Lives Matter is a chapter based movement‚ meant to affirm the importance of black life. It hosts protests and voices against anti-black crimes committed against black people. “Black Lives Matter is a unique contribution that goes beyond extrajudicial killings of Black people by police and vigilantes.” as said by the Black Lives Matter website. The “extrajudicial killings” referring to the deaths of Black Americans caused by the police and independent persons. Black Lives Matter also stands
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test subject who has had the operation. At least that is until Tally volunteers. She writes a letter saying that she is a willing test subject‚ then she turns herself in. The author who created this dystopian world is Scott Westerfeld. He currently lives in Texas and is fifty four years old. He has written a total of eighteen novels. Uglies is his most famous novel. The main theme is Uglies is appearance. This theme is important in Uglies and in real
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The title of the book introduces one of the main characters‚ Digory‚ who is the nephew of Mr. Andrew Ketterly‚ a minor magician. The story begins in London during the summer of 1900 where two children‚ Digory Kirke and Polly Plummer who live in a row of connected houses‚ meet while playing in their gardens and decide to travel through the passages in the attic to get into a vacant house and explore it. In place of discovering an abandoned house‚ the children find themselves to have appeared into
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Chapter 1 Summary Bryon and Mark start this chapter in a pool hall where they are planning to make some money hustling pool. They are only sixteen years old‚ so it is illegal for them to be in a pool hall with a bar in it but they are usually successful at hustling because they look so innocent. After checking for an undercover cop and not finding one‚ Bryon asks Charlie‚ the bartender for a CCoke. Charlie reminded him that he and Mark already owed for three dollars worth of CokeCokes and refused
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