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    Hip-hop star Christopher Wallace best known as Biggie Smalls or Notorious B.I.G was involved in an East Coast conflict with the rapper Tupac. Months after Tupac’s death‚ Biggie was about to release his second album just before he was gunned down and shot by what is now said to be Tupac’s gang. He was shot while leaving a party in Las Angeles en route to his hotel. Once the album got released‚ its popularity bumped it all the way to number one on the charts. This helped make Biggie Smalls one of

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    all children in the welfare system‚ especially foster children" (Vacca‚ 2007). There isn’t a sole reason as to why foster children have a challenging time in school like Dr. Vacca so eloquently said; there are a multitude of factors that contribute to this prevalent challenge for foster children. Dr. Vacca believes that the following reasons foster children have a hard time in school because more often than not foster children go through many foster homes which make them instable. This instability

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    RHETORIC THEN AND NOW Great Books Discussions 1st Year: Semester 2 March 11‚ 2014 Gorgias‚ written by Plato at about 380 B.C.‚ is a Socratic dialogue focusing mainly on the aspects of rhetoric‚ and how it is used. Socrates‚ the main speaker‚ is having discourse in Callicles’ home in Athens‚ Greece. Callicles was an Athenian political philosopher back in those ancient times. The main character of the discourse was Gorgias‚ who was a Sophist‚ which meant that he was a teacher of philosophy

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    David- Michelangelo vs. Bernini The Baroque period of the 17th century had both incorporated and rejected the ideals of the antecedent High Renaissance art. Like High Renaissance art‚ Baroque art focused on making idealized and natural artwork. However‚ Baroque art introduced a way of involving the viewer into the artwork that was new and differed from High Renaissance art‚ which instead kept the viewer at a distance. The composition and diagonal movement in the space are two of the features of

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    What is Rhetoric? If you ask a college age adult that question the chances are that they will not know the definition of the word. Some of them might recognize it in as one of their freshmen classes but most do not know. The internet and social media has taught us to believe that rhetoric is for “old people” and nobody uses it any more. How then is a single video of police violence‚ taken from a specific perspective‚ used to influence the entire world and incite them into rage? If Rhetoric is such

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    later reality television star and now US presidential candidate. We’ve all heard it before. But what really stands out to make The real estate mogul different from the presidents in history? Throughout his campaign he has produced a straightforward rhetoric often viewed as offensive and laid a platform where minorities may feel threatened. He has appealed vastly to the Common Man by making promises to bring back jobs shipped off to other countries and to cut business regulations. He’s promised to build

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    A Rhetoric Analysis of: “The Obligation to Endure” By Rachel Carson Abstract The following involves the second chapter of Carson’s book‚ Silent Spring that was written in 1962. In this chapter Carson argues persuasively the adverse impacts of pesticides upon the environment and the risks on human health and the environment associated with these “genetic invaders” (Carson‚ 1962). Many of the extremely diverse people from Carson’s audience targeted were under the impression that chemicals like DDT

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    Socratic dialogue named Gorgias. In this dialogue‚ Plato discusses virtue originated upon rhetoric‚ which relates closely to his theoretical scheme of defining the suitable existence of humans. Plato does an impeccable job mapping out rhetorical situations to construct this piece as a well thought out rhetorical figure. While focusing on the first sections of Gorgias‚ Gorgias himself tells Socrates that rhetoric relates “to the greatest…and the best of human things‚” however‚ Socrates does not seem

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    Allison Hoover Chapter 5 notes I. Formal Components of Narrative Rhetoric II. In narrative rhetoric a story is told to make a point. In some cases the entire work of rhetoric is a story and the main point is implied. In other instances‚ the rhetor may use a number of small stories to make a point. In still other instances‚ the rhetor may refer to‚ but not tell in any detail‚ a widely known story. This type of narrative is somewhat similar to enthymematic argument and is used most often in

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    Analysis of the Rhetoric Device of Allusion in Hamlet Allusion: An allusion is a figure of speech whereby the author refers to a subject matter such as a place‚ event‚ or literary work by way of a passing reference. It is up to the reader to make a connection to the subject being mentioned. Example: “I did enact Julius Caesar; I was killed i’ the Capitol; Brutus killed me.” (III.ii.98-99) Function: Hamlet speaks with Polonius right before the commencement of the play that will portray

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