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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This book chronicles the emergence of Shintoism and the transplantation of Buddhism into the Japanese soil by narrating the exploits of the Deities who create the country and the feats of medieval warriors who change forever the fabric of the Japanese society. The Deities IZANAGI and IZANAMI are appointed by their superiors of Heaven‚ the incumbents of the creation of a new world and should procreate to start a new dynasty on Earth. During the procreation phase‚ Izanami dies by giving birth to the
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Jane Eyre Summary Chapter 1: Novel begins with first person narration from the main character Jane Eyre who is a child in the scene. The scene is set at Gateshed‚ the home of the wealthy Reed Family who Jane (being orphaned) lives with. The scene is set on a bleak November afternoon creating an unhappy and depressing atmosphere. The audience feels pathos for Jane Eyre when we discover her aunt has forbidden her from playing with her cousins and is then conspired against and bullied particularly
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While making documentaries for discovery channel‚ Thomas Friedman got an idea to go to call centres across the world and document young people on America’s standing. He says that Globalization took over when he was sleeping and that he couldn’t explain it. Tom travels to Bangalore and meets Nandan Nilekani who casually mentions that the world’s economic playing field was being levelled. This propelled him to write a book on globalization and outsourcing called “The world is flat”. The Flatteners
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The giver Jonas is a ordinaire kid in a utopia world. As a kid he was different not wanting to say anything because different is bad he let it pass. As he got older he started to realize things that no other human was. Color as he watched it go and then leave he then realized he was different. The ceremony of 12 was coming up for Jonas the ceremony of 12 is the change in adulthood. As the newborns were brought into their families it went to the ceremony of release to elsewhere. As it got closer
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The novel The Polio Years in Texas: Battling a Terrifying Unknown by Heather Green Wooten focuses on the rising epidemic of paralytic poliomyelitis‚ also known as polio. In response to the polio outbreak‚ Texas researchers thankfully made life-changing discoveries in virology‚ rehabilitative therapies‚ and in the modern intensive care unit. Wooten used substantial research and interviews that she conducted over a five-year time lapse with several Texan survivors of polio‚ as well as their families
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Socrates: Socrates was born in Athens about 470 BC and lived until 399 BC‚ he was a classical Greek Athenian philosopher and is credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy. An accurate picture of the man‚ his life‚ and viewpoints are problematic because he did not write any philosophical texts‚ everything we know is based on writings by his students and contemporaries… this is what is known as the Socratic problem. Socrates was later tried and put to death for “corrupting the youth
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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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The caseworker at the foster care tells Bud and his friend‚ Bugs at breakfast that they found new foster homes for them. When the boys groan the caseworker tells them‚ although the nation is in depression‚ they are lucky to have foster families. Bud gets mistreated by his new foster brother named Todd. Todd shoves a pencil up in Bud’s nose‚ and claims that he got the pencil further in his nose than any other child before. As a reason‚ Bud runs away or as he says he is "on the lam." Bud wants
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Section 1 Summary (Chapters 1-8) In Part One of Gone Girl‚ titled “Boy Loses Girl‚” the chapters alternate between the perspectives of Nick Dunne‚ the main character‚ and Amy Elliott‚ Nick’s wife. Nick’s chapters focus on present day‚ while Amy’s chapters are her diary entries from the past‚ integrated into the story to give insight on her overall personality and her feelings towards their marriage and relationship. Nick’s present day starts with Nick waking up in their rented house in Carthage
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