Everyday we are bombarded with advertisements in magazines and newspapers, on television, and absolutely everywhere on the internet. Most of the time we find these advertisements very tempting and hard to ignore. The question here is, why are we easily swayed by them? How do they manage to yank our chains until we fall into…
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Proper disclosure: this post is about cricket, but my book is not. My book is about the literature of the ancient Romans, and more specifically about what that literature has to say about the magistrates of the Roman republic, the people who held elected public office, led the armies, and generally ran the show. None
Rhetoric: the Power of Identification Caesar Augustus after the turmoil of the fall of the Republic and the establishment of the Empire found many Roman citizens and subjects spread throughout the Empire had become remote from original Roman ideals and values of the Republic. They no longer held the same level of identification. Augustus,
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The expression "medieval rhetoric" refers to the study and practice of rhetoric from approximately 400 to 1400 CE.
The Rhetoric of Mao Zedong, Xing Lu, A thorough examination of the Chinese leader's speeches and writings that reshaped a nation's cultureMao Zedong fundamentally transformed China from a Confucian society characterized by hierarchy and harmony into a socialist state guided by communist ideologies of class struggle and radicalization. It was a transformation made possible largely by Mao's rhetorical ability to attract, persuade, and mobilize millions of Chinese people. Xing Lu's book, Rhetoric of Mao Zedong, analyzes Mao's speeches and writings over a span of sixty years, tracing the sources and evolution of Mao's discourse, analyzing his skills as a rhetor and mythmaker, and assessing his symbolic power and continuing presence in contemporary China. Lu observes that Mao's rhetorical legacy has been commoditized, culturally consumed, and politically appropriated since his death.Applying both Western rhetorical theories and Chinese rhetorical concepts to reach a more nuanced and sophisticated understanding of his rhetorical legacy, Lu shows how Mao employed a host of rhetorical appeals and strategies drawn from Chinese tradition and how he interpreted the discourse of Marxism-Leninism to serve foundational themes of his message. She traces the historical contexts in which these themes, his philosophical orientations, and his political views were formed and how they transformed China and Chinese people. Lu also examines how certain ideas are promoted, modified, and appropriated in Mao's rhetoric. Mao's appropriation of Marxist theory of class struggle, his campaigns of transforming common people into new communist advocates, his promotion of Chinese nationalism, and his stand on China's foreign policy all contributed to and were responsible for reshaping Chinese thought patterns, culture, and communication behaviors. , Book2look: The state of the art online marketing tool for publishers and self-publishers: Make the point of discovery the point of sale. The unique look inside solution for your retail partners, authors and influencers. A book discovery tool for books in all Social Networks.
Scalping, the removal of the scalp from the head often for use as a trophy, is usually regarded as a uniquely sanguineous Indian practice confined to America’s distant colonial past. However, little remembered today is the important role the practice played during the Revolutionary War. While traditionally seen by colonials as a symbol of Indian […]
A short history of classical rhetoric
Classical rhetoric refers to the practice and teaching of rhetoric in ancient Greece and Rome from the fifth century B.C. to the early Middle Ages.
I recently found an excellent illustration of the Trivium developed by Mr. Sahs, of the Regent School in Austin, Texas. The Trivium is made up of three essential elements: Grammar, Dialectic, and Rhetoric. (To learn more about the Trivium, I invite …
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In Mexican culture, images of calaveras (skulls) function as signifiers of the honored dead, celebrated in La Dia de los Muertes (the Day of...
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was a scholar, a Baptist pastor and a father who became famous during the 1950's and 1960's as a leader in the non-violent U.S
Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama, Robert E. Terrill, Robert E. Terrill argues that, to invent a robust manner of addressing one another as citizens, Americans must learn to draw on the delicate indignities of racial exclusion that have stained citizenship since its inception. In Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama, Terrill demonstrates how President Barack Obama's public address models such a discourse.Terrill contends that Obama's most effective oratory invites his audiences to experience a form of "double-consciousness," famously described by W. E. B. Du Bois as a feeling of "two-ness" resulting from the African American experience of "always looking at one's self through the eyes of others." It is described as an effect of cruel alienation that can also bring a gift of "second-sight" in the form of perspectives on practices of citizenship not available to those in positions of privilege. When addressing fellow citizens, Obama is asking each to share in the "peculiar sensation" that Du Bois described. The racial history of U.S. citizenship is a resource for inventing contemporary ways of speaking about race.Through close analyses of selected speeches from Obama's 2008 campaign and first presidential term, this book argues that Obama does not present double-consciousness merely as a point of view but as an idiom with which we might speak to one another. Of course, as Du Bois's work reminds us, double-consciousness results from imposition and encumbrance, so that Obama's oratory presents a mode of address that emphasizes the burdens of citizenship together with the benefits, the price as well as the promise. , Book2look: The state of the art online marketing tool for publishers and self-publishers: Make the point of discovery the point of sale. The unique look inside solution for your retail partners, authors and influencers. A book discovery tool for books in all Social Networks.
Want to help your students critically analyze and evaluate speeches and/or commercials? Ready to teach what makes a speech "sound good", or why some arguments flop?This dense flipbook of nine mini-lessons will elicit stronger analytical skills from your writers to get visible growth, AND they get a ...
