Rhetoric Countering War

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Rhetoric Countering War Throughout history, war has become the only solution to resolving conflicts between nations or groups. War is often something that is started off with tension, tension which is often caused or started due to conflicts or disagreements between different nations or different groups, and it is commonly characterized by violence, resistance, and mortality. A few examples in American history are the American-Indian Wars and the Revolutionary War. These various groups of people firmly believed that the only way they could advocate for what they were passionate in was to use violence to express it. However, in the first chapter of Everyone’s An Author, Wayne Booth takes another perspective into consideration and is quoted,

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