order to comfort, reassure, and install hope within the lives of the American people. Bush, conscious of his audience, used Aristotle’s Three Ways to Persuade, to aide him in his goal to influence the nation on several levels. The use of logos, ethos and pathos, enabled him to convey a sense of security and confidence throughout America and the rest of the world. ARISTOTLE’S MODES OF PERSUASION Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle was born in 384 B.C., Stagira, Greece. When he…
In Programming The Post-Human: Computer science redefines “life,” Ellen Ullman uses captivating, argumentative, and reflective language in order to convey the complications of making an intellectual, sentient machine and explores the unanswered, unconventional questions about humans themselves to computer enthusiasts and thinkers. Her use of questions to captivate and engage readers is noteworthy. Likewise, observations, comparisons, contrasts, and analogies support to make her argument. Careful…
1) My favorite scholarly definition of communication is, "any act by which one person gives to or receives from another person information about that person's needs, desires, perceptions, knowledge, or affective states. Communication may be intentional or unintentional, may involve conventional or unconventional signals, may take linguistic or nonlinguistic forms, and may occur through spoken or other modes,” by Julia Scherba de Valenzuela. 2) Communication is the interaction between two or…
Alasdair MacIntyre published the first edition of his book, After Virtue, in 1981. Since then, two further editions have been published. Within all three editions of his book, MacIntyre claims that we should give grave deliberation to Aristotle’s theory of the virtues. He does so by examining the antiquity of virtue ethics and attempts to create a classification of them for contemporary times. Nonetheless, MacIntyre’s disagreement was that modern ethics place far too much importance on reason…
Herding sheep has been an art for thousands years and over time a person can train one of his dogs to do this. In the Tragedy of Julius Caesar written by William Shakespeare has used this art and used the people as a herd of sheep, being swayed one side to another. The play takes place in Ancient Rome when Julius Caesar came to power by murdering one of his adversaries Pompey. During this time the people were in rejoice that Julius had killed Pompey, but some were in discouraged about the fact…
1968: Music As Rhetoric In Social Movements In 1968 social movements sparked rhetorical discourses which occurred in many nations and on hundreds of colleges and in communities across the United States. These rhetorical discourses ultimately changed the direction of human events. Sometimes these points of ideological protests shared views on specific issues, especially demonstrations against the Vietnam War, but each conflict was also its own local conflict. There is no evidence that any…
Gardner (1983) suggests the existence of eight relatively autonomous, but interdependent, intelligences rather than just one single construct of intelligence. In Gardner's (1983) point of view, intelligence is a combination of different abilities; he defines intelligence as “the ability to solve problems or fashion products that are of consequence in a particular cultural setting or community” (Gardner 1993, p.15). Accordingly, he classified human intelligence into linguistic,…