SPEECHES - 2001 The value of great speeches is that they continue to speak to us. How do they do this? In your answer‚ refer to at least TWO speeches. It is certainly true that the value of great speeches is that they continue to speak to us. They are admired by responders over many years and have an ability to speak to us‚ hence stimulating many different responses as time goes by. This value is present in speeches such as “Among us you can dwell no longer” delivered by Cicero in 63 BC in
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commission‚ rigor‚ summon‚ undertaking‚ preliminary‚ ordeal‚ grievous‚ confer‚ conceive‚ buoyancy‚ etc. And many of these words origin from Latin or French: commission‚ rigor‚ confer (Latin); summon‚ preliminary‚ grievous‚ conceive (French/Old French). The use of these formal words makes the speech sound solemn and powerful. The language is full of intensifiers‚ including superlatives (greatest‚ best‚ most‚ fastest)‚ comparatives‚ and exaggeration. These are all examples of how Churchill intensifies
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Duncan Gans Hillary Reisig Honor LA 11 September 24‚ 201 Power of Rhetoric in Minecraft Thesis The video game cover for Minecraft successfully targets an audience of concerned mothers by using appeals of innocence and simplicity for the purpose of easing their doubts and fears of videogames‚ while at the same time‚ subtly engaging teenagers looking for an alternate and unconstrained escape from reality. Appeals Innocence is a prominent appeal present in the videogame cover for Minecraft
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would not normally consider a good choice. The main thing I learned from the game is to get a good education so that I can get a higher paying job and not be faced with these tough decisions. II. Reading and Understanding the Book: 1. The author uses the term “wage slave” to refer to workers that take any job available to them‚ for whatever wage is offered‚ because they have no other choice. 2. In the beginning of the book‚ Ehrenreich sets three rules which include: she will always have a
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Ehrenreich’s book explains and describes the condition of the working poor in the United States. To write this book the author who is a well-known journalist at the New York Times decides to experience being a low-wage worker for a few months. She gives up her middle class life to become and live as a working poor. This was not to be a social experiment that was to recreate a poverty social scenario‚ but it was ‚ in fact‚ to see if she could maintain a lifestyle working low wage paying
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Dictionary (OED)‚ the word rhetoric is defined by being the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing. In The Rhetoric by Aristotle‚ the use of the word rhetoric explained throughout the whole text with details and point of views which interact with human beings. Aristotle explains how the art of persuasion is striving to enter out lives and how people are shaped into just seeing one perspective of a speech topic. Right from Aristotle’s Rhetoric‚ Aristotle claims “Rhetoric is the counterpart of
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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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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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Rhetoric is everywhere in our daily lives; our home‚ our work‚ even our presidential elections. At the beginning of Thank You for Arguing‚ Heinrich lets his son believe he has won an argument‚ but the author himself is the real winner of the conversation and the prize is a tube of toothpaste. Scenarios like this take place hundreds of times a day‚ most of the time unknowingly. Rhetoric is a social necessity in this every-man-for-themselves world. Bush used an example of rhetoric called code grooming
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April 2012 Speeches and Rhetoric: A Political Perspective What exactly is rhetoric? How do we see it used in politics today? Rhetoric‚ as defined by Aristotle‚ is “an ability‚ in each particular case‚ to see the available means of persuasion.” (Griffin‚ p. 276). It is almost certain that we each use some form of rhetoric from day to day‚ sprinkled throughout casual conversations as we attempt to persuade each other of some not-so-important beliefs or ideas. Rhetoric‚ however‚ is also perpetually
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