Impossible Perfection Rhetorical Analysis

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Dylan Nicol
Prompt 4 Impossible Perfection Emerson wrote, “Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow”. Emerson is correct in saying this because doing the same thing will create the same results, there is always room for improvement and one needs to try new things to succeed. To start off, if one continues to do the same thing, he will never see anything except the same results. If a designer creates a product that fails to work, he needs to change something to achieve success. If he doesn’t change the product and creates an exact replica, the product will continue to fail. The designer has to continue through failure in order to succeed. If the product designer continues

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