Orator

never have any authentic power as a consequence. The Heptameron was written by the Queen of Navarre, Marguerite d’Angoulême, and it is a likely conclusion that she portrayed these men in critique of their normalized toxic behaviors. Simontault (the orator and unrequited lover of Novel III) argues, “that women know neither love nor regret”(46). His sexist remark highlights the disconnect between reality and the societal perception. Although the women were not perfect in these stories, the cruelty…

Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and political leader. One Sunday they burst in on the gathering, armed with clubs and stones, to disperse the congregation permanently. The plantation was between Hillsboro and Cordova; his birthplace was likely his grandmother's shack east of Tappers Corner, and west of Tuckahoe Creek. After escaping from slavery in Maryland,…

Benito Mussolini, nicknamed Il Duce was best known as the fascist dictator of Italy after the First World War. Being the prime minister, Mussolini expected to bring his country into excellence and, majeure. However, as history unfolded, it became clear that he had quite a different perception and perspective on how to achieve national greatness , and in his eyes it began with total obedience and devotion to the nation’s leader-himself. Mussolini had many ideologies, and wasn’t afraid to use…

In a letter to her son, Abigail Adams uses appeals to pathos, allusions, and diction to help her son because she wants him to be a good person and do well in life. Abigail Adams uses a lot of pathos to get her point across. One way she uses it is by reminding him of all the advantages her has over other people. In the third paragraph she says, “As you are favored with superior advantages under the instructive eye of a tender parent, your improvement should bear some proportion to your…

“Such devotion and confidence are rare even among women. There are many who would have searched a year, some who would have waited five years, a few who might have hoped ten years; but for twenty-five years this woman has retained her affection for and her faith in a man she has not seen or heard of in all that time.” This quote from The Wife of His Youth tells the story of a woman by the name of Liza Jane, whose endless love and loyalty for her husband led her on a twenty-five year search. Liza…

Christianity was formed out of two main arguments, the logos’ relation with God and the logos’ relation with the human Jesus. It was of agreement that Jesus the Christ was on earth and that he was the logos, i.e. “Word of God” or “Son of God”. Two orators in particular drew the proverbial line in the sand between homoousios and homoiousios, of the same and of similar substance as the Father. This division was later coined the Arian Controversy after Arius failed to convince the Council of Nicaea…

Lauren Miller Prof. Porter Rhetoric 103A 12 Dec. 2017 More Than “Just Rhetoric”: Today, the term “rhetoric” often carries the connotations of bombast and deceitfulness, but rhetoric, as theorized by many ancient orators, offered a challenge, calling he who practiced the art to higher ethical, moral, and civic responsibilities. Having the freedom and ability to speak was not a license to bend the rules and constructs of society but rather a power to advocate within them. Though a rhetorician can…

Sojourner Truth (c. 1797 - 1883) Run through plagiarism check In 1851, a middle-aged woman of almost six feet, with a deep speaking voice and an unerring eye for a catchy phrase, got to her feet in the midst of the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. “ I could work as much and eat as much as a man—when I could get it—and bear the lash as well!” Sojourner Truth declared to the audience. “And ain't I a woman? I have borne 13 children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried…

showing the will, the people the mob would see him as a hero for reading it as they grieve his death. After reading the two speeches, do you agree with Antony’s statement, “I am no orator as Brutus is,/But (as you know me all) a plain blunt man”? After reading the two speeches I disagree with Antony stating he is “no orator as Brutus is, but a plain blunt man”(III.ii.220). I disagree with Antony portraying himself as a plain blunt man because the way he speaks to the crowd of Rome reveals his…

example of such art propaganda is the Portrait of Augustus as general, from Primaporta, Italy, early-first-century CE copy of bronze original of ca. 20 B.C.E. Marble, 6’8’’ high. Musei Vaticani, Rome. At first glance, this portrait shows Augustus as an orator and a general, but this sculpture also displays his power and ideology. It shows Augustus as a great military victor and a faithful supporter of Roman religion. Augustus…