EN386 Studies in Rhetoric

Mexican immigration differs from past immigration and most other contemporary immigration due to a combination of six factors: contiguity, scale, illegality, regional concentration, persistence, and historical presence

, the cultivation of individualism must be tempered by one’s solidarity with the social network and by developing skills of negotiating in ever-widening circles of interconnectivity. This cross-cultural, interdisciplinary study shows that the struggle to balance individual rights with responsibilities is the heart of a universal social contract of “one for all and all for one” at every level, from the local to the global, from the personal to the political.

The negative connotation that we have with the word “sophist” today began in ancient Greece. For the ancient Greeks, a “sophist” was a man who manipulated the truth for financial gain.

While ancient Romans incorporated many of the rhetorical elements established by the Greeks, they diverged from the Grecian tradition in many ways. For example, orators and writers in ancient Rome depended more on stylistic flourishes, riveting stories, and compelling metaphors and less on logical reasoning than their ancient Greek counterparts.

inventio (invention): The process of developing and refining your arguments. dispositio (arrangement): The process of arranging and organizing your arguments for maximum impact. elocutio (style): The process of determining how you present your arguments using figures of speech and other rhetorical techniques. memoria (memory): The process of learning and memorizing your speech so you can deliver it without the use of notes. Memory-work not only consisted of memorizing the words of a specific speech, but also storing up famous quotes, literary references, and other facts that could be used in impromptu speeches. actio (delivery): The process of practicing how you deliver your speech using gestures, pronunciation, and tone of voice.

Last summer, a conservative radio host told a Tea Party rally, "If ballots don’t work, bullets will." She was later hired as chief of staff for newly elected Congressman Allen West, though controversy soon forced her resignation.

ichard Poplawski, who killed three police officers in April 2009 in a paranoid fit about Obama's anti-gun designs

among conservatives, there's a frantic effort to deny that there's any political context to this attempted assassination.

Plato is (perhaps paradoxically) known for the poetic and rhetoric qualities of his own writings