Oratory

Consciousness I am a white millennial in 2016 taking a college course on African American rhetoric and oratory, and this has been a time to learn about the importance of consciousness in every aspect of life. There’s a rap song on the radio, do you pay attention to how conscious the artist is and do you understand the lyrics? Walking into class I am not thinking about which artist has the best pace, to me it is about the consciousness of the words. It is about books such as Prophets of Hood and…

In the Pre-Civil War era, America was disembodied over the issue of slavery from the North and South. Inventions such as the cotton gin and the steel plow boomed the need for slave labor in the South, so much that their population in that area increased from ⅓ to ½ from the 1840s to the 1860s. The call for freedom for all African Americans loomed with slave rebellions and the abolition movement. However, Southerners and its slave owners vowed to keep their slaves, needing a workforce to labor on…

Adolf was different, he was extremely charismatic and could rally up a crowd like no one had ever witnessed before. He spoke with passion and his oratory skills were exceptional. With a mesmeric voice and great animation while he speaks using is tone of voice and hand gestures to most people, looked like a God. Ironically, in Hitler’s early years there wasn’t any clear signs that gave a hint to his…

Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton which tells the story of the fall of man as written in the first chapters of Genesis. Milton uses the poem to clarify what he thinks are part of the story in the first three chapters of Genesis. The Bible gives short accounts of the creation, the birth of man and woman, the temptation and the fall of man but Milton tells the story from his own perspective to add to the Biblical version. Satan is an…

When the term “fascist government” is mentioned it is associated with the fear of loosing the fundamental right to determine the system in which a persons lives under and who controls them. However when the term “cult” is mentioned it is associated with loosing the right of what to think. These institutions often employ the same types of tactics in order to control the people that follow them, whether it is willingly or unwillingly. This leads to the question, how did the tactics of control in…

Marcus Tullius Cicero was both an attorney and politician in the Roman Empire, eventually achieving such positions as a consulship and membership in the Roman Senate. During his lifetime, Cicero wrote many speeches and books, with most of them surviving antiquity. Much of his writing encompass the basics and rules of rhetoric, a type of speech. Rhetoric was and is a form of art wherein a speaker uses many different methods in order to both inform and persuade the reader or listener to his or her…

Hitler－having been subjected to an abusive relationship with his father, and later on losing both of his parents due to medical-related incidents－suffered greatly as a young man. This appalling past was the road to deicide. This deicide, or killing of God, was an open door for the Holocaust. Once Hitler was able to throw away his religion, he was open to immoral, and rather sinister ideas and influences. Hitler’s infamous Holocaust was intended from a relatively early point in time(Pre-WWI) and…

Before the ecclesiastical reformation, formally known as the Protestant Reformation, before the time of Martin Luther, individuals began to spark the fire of the Protestant Reformation. Namely, John Wycliffe and John Huss, also known as Jan Hus, were predominant pre-reformers of the Protestant Reformation. Through their lifestyle, writings, ideas, John Wycliffe and John Huss triggered the Protestant Reformation. These contributions of Wycliffe and Huss were controversial in their time. The…

she agreed to allow him to execute a simple abortion” (Larson 146). When she agreed, Holmes used chloroform to kill her and eventually her daughter. This brutal situation demonstrated the control Holmes could exert over his victims because of his oratory and appearance. While this impacted others, it also gave Holmes the satisfaction he needed. Although Holmes was seemingly ordinary, he secretly enjoyed seeing others in pain. To indulge in his sadistic tendencies, Holmes had the World’s Fair…

Since the beginning of Rome, they have had a history of significant leaders such as Julius Caesar, who had a minor early career in politics, and prominent late career that was also in politics, and a death and legacy that will be remembered forever. The history of Rome starts with a story from Roman mythology. Despite being forced to vow chastity, Rhea Silvia gave birth to twin sons, Romulus and Remus, which would impact the world forever. (“Romulus and Remus” 1) As a result of Rhea’s broken…