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King George Federal Law
883 words"Federal Courts, the System that Shagged Me" Peter McWilliams, both an aids and cancer victim, is a self-published, best-selling author. In July 1998 he was arrested and charged with being the ringleader of a conspiracy to grow and distribute medical marijuana. As a condition of his pre-trial release, he cannot smoke marijuana even though proposition 215 states that he can for his illnesses. The magazine article, detailing his dilemma in High Times, (June 1999), uses clever rhetoric shrouded in ...
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Analysis Of Earl Spencers Eulogy
1,726 wordsThe three rhetorical theories that are portrayed strongly through out Earl Spencers Eulogy to Princess Diana are Vilification, Rhetorical Situation, and Metaphorical Devices. His devices are used to depict the media and family for the main cause of Princess Diana's death. This eulogy is so controversial because normally eulogies are positive tributes about ones life. The Vilification theory is usually unheard of in eulogies, and the way he presents such metaphors are certainly not becoming of th...
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Unjust Man Young Men
1,322 words... w on justice. But first Thrasymachus wants to be paid for his information. The young men, not wanting to be denied a good fight, agree to put up the money. Like Polemarchus before him, Thrasymachus thinks that the notion of justice can be summed up in a few words. He says "the just is nothing else but the advantage of the stronger. " As is the philosopher's fashion, Socrates inquires into the meaning of Thrasymachus' definition. Thus begins a lively discussion, again exemplifying the Socrati...
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Form Of Art Tiger Woods
1,093 wordsLike all forms of art, golf is able to be evaluated from a belletristic approach. Golf is a true art form in the fact that each individual has his or her own style. Although each person has their own style, there is a text book way in which everyone attempts to swing the club. Experts on the sport critique it and tell the audience what should of been done to make a perfect shot, however none thus far have critiqued it from a belletristic approach. I would like to critique golf using this approac...
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March On Washington Gays In The Military
1,837 wordsFor some veterans of the civil-rights era, it's a matter of stolen prestige. "It is a misappropriation for members of the gay leadership to identify the April 25 march on Washington with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. 's 1963 mobilization, " one such veteran, the Reverend Dennis G. Kuby, wrote in a letter to the editor that appeared in the Times on the day of the march. Four days later, testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee's hearings on the issues of gays in the military, Lieut...
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Scene Iii Lines Law Of The Gods
1,294 wordsAntigone, written by Sophocles, is written two dimensionally. The basic plot is about a young woman, Antigone, who is trying to bury her dead brother Creon. Her uncle the king, is preventing her from doing so. On a deeper level, using a familiar story, Sophocles sheds light on physics and nomos: the law of the gods against the law of man. In scene II, Haimon, son of Creon, is trying to reason with his stubborn father. Pleading rhetorically with his father to rethink his stubborn laws and trying ...
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Declaration Of Independence Fourth Of July
1,592 wordsIn the years leading to the U. S. Civil War, the controversy over slavery became not only a social issue, but also a political and legal one as well. Opponents and proponents of slavery each looked to the American constitution, as well as the prevailing culture of the time, for direction in dealing with this matter. One such person who based their landmark works on this was Frederick Douglas, an emancipated slave, who fought tirelessly for the abolishment of slavery. In 1852, Frederick Douglas w...
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Rhetoric In The Context Of Public Relations
1,321 words... gn was to uncover the humanitarian crisis happening by ethnic Albanian-Kosovar refugees fleeing from Serb/Yugoslav military / paramilitary forces. Then again, the slogan may stand as one typical rhetorical example and simplification to establish moral and ethical support. Such a simplification may be considered as a way of influencing the public opinion, to prove that a military solution was the only necessary mean to end the flow of refugees fleeing. Another simplification used by NATO, as ...
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Art Theory Leading Into The 18th Century
1,358 words... would be the outline and such that defines each individual element of the painting. This is the only definition that de Piles excepted because he felt that the other definition was too broad and all the elements that went into a painting couldnt go under one huge label. This left him with the second definition of design and when one takes the second definition of design it is impossible to see this as the defining element of a painting without the use of color. Design, to de Piles, was as in...
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5 Th Century Fifth Century
810 wordsThe political and social upheaval caused by the Persian Wars as well as continued strife between Athens and Sparta had at least one unintended consequence. In the 5 th century, a flood of new ideas poured into Athens. In general, these new ideas came as a result of an influx of Ionian thinkers into the Attic peninsula. Athens had become the intellectual and artistic center of the Greek world. Furthermore, by the mid- 5 th century, it had become more common for advanced thinkers to reject traditi...
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War In Iraq Fight Terrorism
1,941 words... For as long as people share the same territory, their interests will always be coming into conflict. We can only strive to reduce the negative aspects of discontent among people. For example, the economic stability is being accomplished in China, where citizens cannot expect to get paid more than 10 dollars a day, unless they are high ranking party officials. Because of this stability, every Chinese has only one dream to leave his country for good, no matter where. In their turn, Chinese nat...
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Group Of People Senior Citizens
1,751 wordsStereotypes Introduction When one is given an assignment to write a rhetoric and stereotype essay on the four groups of people namely, the Politicians, the Tattooed persons, the Feminists and the Senior Citizens, it would give the opportunity to the writer to have the most rhetoric view points naturally of the Politicians because in general when compared to the other three groups these are the most double faced characters wherever they exist in the world. Especially in our modern times, politici...
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Alexander Pope And His Part 2
2,407 words... the petty (the single hair) and the grand (Mans Imperial Race) makes the reader realize that the former is very real but the second premise is debatable. The poems form clearly categorizes it as a mock-epic which closely resembles the classical epic, having the same central concerns, but the approach is satirical and humorous rather than earnest. It is without a doubt an indication of how lightly the treatment is yet the same light treatment makes the impact is more pronounced, valid and com...
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Young Person Human Person
1,235 wordsNow I have to discuss the problem of young graduator from marketing college. He got to know that the company he got a job in is unacceptable to work in cause made immoral advertising. But he is unable to quit the job at once cause will remain without money. Lets see how philosophy can help young person to solve the problem studying Plato's Gorgias. Gorgias is about the struggle to overcome the attraction of worldly success and to concentrate on true morality. Plato tries to prove that only moral...
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Jonathan Swift Gulliver Travels
1,689 wordsJonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" Jonathan Swift was without a shadow of doubt a great pacifist, satirist, and moralist. Mainly through pamphlets, he criticized imperialism and war with ferocity. Gulliver's Travels, first published in 1726, can be seen as Swifts ultimate pacifist pamphlet, summing up his views concerning moral and sociopolitical justice. Although Gulliver's Travels is cherished as a childrens book it has triggered an ardent debate among philosophers, political scientists and...
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John F Kennedy Rhetorical Devices
427 wordsClassical Rhetoric and its Influence The influence that classical rhetoric has had on very famous modern-day speeches can be accredited to Cicero, the greatest Roman orator of all time. The same rhetorical devices and the elements of style that Cicero incorporated in his compelling oration against Catiline are still utilized today. One such powerful speech that included Cicero s style and rhetoric was John F. Kennedy s inaugural address. Cicero s In Catiline, is full of rhetorical devices. One s...
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Plato And Aristotle Existence Of God
2,153 wordsAncient Greece has made an everlasting effect on society and culture throughout time. Between its great thinkers and intellectuals, Ancient Greece has created a basis of knowledge that has been modified and altered over the course of history. People have learned a great deal from these superb intellectuals. Philosophers and intellectuals alike, respect the ideals and principles of Greek thinkers, especially those of Plato and Aristotle. Their reasoning has had significant impact on several diffe...
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Civil Liberties Union American Civil Liberties
2,215 wordsProfessional ysis of Published Works Professional columnists have often enjoyed the luxury of an additional writer to verify their work. This person is usually an editor or proofreader. Each day, millions of pages of text are scrutinized for accuracy by the public. Many times, people have read through an article and found an error in syntax or spelling. It almost appears to be a rewarding experience for the reader to discover an error in professional works. I have noticed that writers sacrifice ...
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Order To Understand Seek Revenge
2,054 wordsWHEN PIGS FLY! ! ! Throughout the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, participants of the pilgrimage tell stories to entertain one another. These stories, while amusing, tend to have an underlying message, one being the Franklin s Tale. The Franklin s Tale is the most moral tale that has been read. It is not told to make the other pilgrims laugh, rather to explain an extremely important lesson. Throughout life, people say many things that are meant to be taken with a grain of salt and not lite...
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Child Sexual Abuse Social Problems
1,719 wordsThe definition of a social problem varies greatly depending on whether an objectivist approach or a constructionist approach is taken. This is because sociologists that adopt these unique perspectives will differ in how they view the nature of a social problem. The objectivist definition of a social problem is perhaps more common sense because it suggests that the essence of social problems lies in objective social conditions and that some conditions are problems. [ 1 ] This definition focuses a...
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