Rhetoric Essay on Barack Obama’s Inaugural Speech A president’s inauguration address can indicate his vision for his next term‚ rally the country‚ and make his play for the history books. President Obama’s speech had no soaring JFK moments and even extracting significant lines to discuss was rather difficult. The speech was unified by a “journey” metaphor and by repeating “We‚ the people.” The president brought God into the climate change debate‚ upheld the role of government as a collective
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Samantha Rhoads Literature Humanities Essay One‚ Wordcount: 2029 4 October 2014 The Role of Feminine Rhetoric Aeschylus’s The Oresteia explores the nuances of persuasive rhetoric. One of the most verbally powerful characters of the play‚ Clytaemestra‚ maintains her command solely through her effective use of persuasion. At the point in Greek history when The Oresteia takes place‚ war is in an interlude and the remaining warriors of the Trojan War carry out with their nostoi‚ or homecomings. Since
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According to the introduction of Rhetorics for Community Action: Public Writing and Writing Policies‚ we can understand the meaning of service and community by the help of stories and explanations. The narrator’s personal experiences indicates that a person can change thousands of people’s views. Also‚ the story about the DC’s Meridian Hill Park helped me to be aware of the power of the community. Before attending this course‚ I realized that we have to do community service which was fine for me
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The Rhetoric of “Yes We Can” Darío Villanueva outlines the history and significance of the rhetorical tradition and highlights the striking persistence of the power of the word in American politics. Even in our high-tech age‚ a three-word tagline -"Yes We Can"- carries devastating clout. The Greek sophists -the original masters of rhetoric‚ notorious for their appetite for influence rather than truth- would be both impressed by the abiding power of their art‚ and dismayed that‚ in the Gutenberg
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he and Plato had slight mixed view about‚ which was Rhetoric. Plato’s and Aristotle’s views on rhetoric are similar but have slight differences. The theories of Plato and Aristotle are so similar‚ that there are hardly any distinguishing between the two‚ other than Plato’s vies view on rhetoric are more moral or philosophical based‚ while Aristotle’s views on the subject were more based on science and logical thinking. Plato’s views on rhetoric focuses on the values and morals‚ conveying the truth
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“Blue Jeans” by Fred Davis talks about denim jeans‚ their creation about 700 years ago‚ and how since then this item of apparel has served as a form of expression. Jeans were and still are made from sturdy indigo- dyed cotton cloth. Before the 60’s one did not see blue jeans on everyone‚ in the 30’s and 40’s painters and artist were the main consumers‚ and in the 50’s the denim trend spread to hoodlums and motorcyclist. Not until the 60’s did jeans become universally worn‚ crossing all genders‚ ages
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Pomp: a superb display of something. The fireworks were very pomp. Slipshod: something or someone that is careless and/or dirty. The woman was dressed slipshod‚ which is very unusual. Circumlocutions: a way of speaking‚ in a roundabout way. She wouldn’t give me a direct answer she just kept speaking in a circumlocution. 1. Which of the following best describes the rhetorical function of the second sentence in the passage? (a) It makes an appeal to authority. (b) It restates the thesis
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Victoria Cantu Professor Moore English 1301-033 16 July 2012 Should Marijuana Be Legalized? In her essay “Here ’s why I ’m against legalizing marijuana‚” Loolwa Khazzoom addresses the debate about legalizing marijuana in the United States. Around 2003‚ Khazzoom visited Amsterdam‚ where marijuana was legal. In an attempt to avoid marijuana‚ she searched for an internet café free from smoke‚ and failed. She resorted to the downstairs area of a café where the designated smoking section was upstairs
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Being a competent intercultural communicator is being able to utilize the six dialectic of intercultural communication during communication practices. Dialectic refers to a method of logic based on the principle of idea generating its opposite‚ leading to a reconciliation of the opposites (Martin and Nakayama 77). These dialectics include cultural-individual‚ personal-contextual‚ differences-similarities‚ static-dynamic‚ history/past-present/future‚ and privilege disadvantage dialectics. Using these
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The Direct and Indirect Impact of Rhetoric Emory Lott 12/05/96 English 1001 In the world that we live in‚ rhetoric always affects and is a part of everything that happens. Rhetoric‚ in its broadest sense‚ is communication‚ and how people relate to each other. The movie The Color Purple is about relationships. Therefore rhetoric plays a very important role in this movie. Throughout The Color Purple the impact of rhetoric can be seen in two groups of people‚ the communicator
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