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    430‚000 people died last year. They all had one thing in common; each one of them spent an estimated $ 3500 dollars a year on the cause of his or her death. Which is SMOKING. Weather you smoke or not smoking affects everyone in this room. You can be affected by either getting taxed for the medical bills or as simple as second hand smoke. Obviously‚ the number one reason to stop smoking is health‚ it is not just bad for you but it is also bad for the people around you. Like your spouse‚ friends

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    com/journalsPermissions.nav Identification as a Mechanism of Narrative Persuasion Communication Research 39(6) 802–823 © The Author(s) 2012 Reprints and permission: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/0093650211408594 http://crx.sagepub.com Anneke de Graaf1‚ Hans Hoeken2‚ José Sanders2‚ and Johannes W. J. Beentjes1 Abstract To provide a causal test of identification as a mechanism of narrative persuasion‚ this study uses the perspective from which a story is told to manipulate

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    Persuasion is the power to get your way or get people to go your way. In "Julius Caesar" the conspirators use many different techniques to get people to join their cause‚ which is to overthrow Caesar. They feel that they need large numbers in order to get their point across. I feel there reasons for murdering and overthrowing Caesar were based on both logic and emotion. It may not have been the right logic or emotions but it was what the conspirators believed in. Some of the reasons they said to

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    In the book‚ "Julius Caesar" persuasion is used to gain allies and power In the story‚ two of Caesar’s long time friends‚ Cassius and Brutus‚ turn against him. To gain strength Cassius and Brutus create a conspiracy about Caesar to influence others to remove him from power. Throughout the book‚ there are many examples of jealousy and allusion used by Cassius for his benefit and the death of Caesar. In the book‚ Julius Caesar was an influential and respected man. The community loved him for

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    in a way that is completely obsolete in the modern world of literature‚ and at the prospect of reading “Persuasion” - Jane Austen’s last completed novel – that is exactly what I had anticipated. However‚ upon reading “Persuasion” I realised‚ to a large extent‚ that these preconceived ideas of a long-winded‚ irksome novel were untrue. The novel was witty‚ frustrating and engaging. “Persuasion” deals with how a lack of communication within a relationship can lead to heart-ache for those in it‚ which

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    they have of one another regarding their respective roles in the marriage. Love assumes many different forms but is also variable. Therefore‚ the manner in which it evolves is significant in determining the outcome of a marriage. Both Jane Austen’s Persuasion and Shakespeare’s Othello explore how the emotions that a couple originally shared can be modified as time passes. This could be due to a number of contributive causes such as: personal differences within a marriage and social pressures as well

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    The art of persuasion have been the subject to change over the decades as people change and adapt to the events and situations that are happening around them. There are three ways of knowing that act as a tool and are at the base of persuasion: emotion‚ language and reason. These ways of knowing are used extensively around us‚ in commercials‚ political speeches or in a trial advocacy. Used as tools for persuasion‚ emotion hinders the pursuit for truth‚ while language and reason advance the the search

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    ------------------------------------------------- History of science and technology From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia For historical accounts of the development of science and technology‚ see history of science and history of technology. History of science | | Background[hide] * Theories/sociology  * Historiography * Pseudoscience | By era[hide] * In early cultures  * in Classical Antiquity * In the Middle Ages  * In the Renaissance * Scientific revolution  * Romanticism in science | By culture[hide]

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    Joseph Wong once said‚” Influence is the compass. Persuasion is the map.” In Act III‚ Brutus and Antony both used the technique of persuasion to win over the favor of the people in Rome. At the beginning of the act‚ the people of Rome had high respect for Brutus‚ as well as Antony. By the end of the act‚ the audience’s views were sculpted by the speeches of the two men. Both men swayed the audience‚ but Antony seemed to have gained the approval of the public. Consequently‚ the conspirators were

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    Thomas Paine‚ often called the "Godfather of America" was an eighteenth century writer who used propaganda and persuasion techniques to motivate Americans in the fight for freedom from Britain. In one of several editions of his pamphlets titled The Crisis‚ Paine used several propaganda and persuasion techniques including over generalization‚ either/or fallacy‚ bandwagon appeal‚ parallelism‚ analogy‚ repetition‚ anecdote‚ and loaded language. During the winter of 1776‚ American soldiers fighting in

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