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Showing 1 to 20 of 252 for “"Persuade"”.
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Tell Me About Your Experience: How Consumer Narratives Persuade
My dissertation explores how people are persuaded by narratives. The first essay is a review of the literature over the past decade where I develop and then apply an overarching framework to synthesize the empirical work that examine antecedents and consequences of narrative persuasion as well as …
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"Still persuade us to rejoice" : witness, place, and gratitude in W.H. Auden and Derek Walcott's poetry.
My dissertation considers W.H. Auden and Derek Walcott's stereoscopic poetic witness. It focuses on movement, place, and gratitude in the Atlantic world, as both authors recurrently travel beyond national boundaries. Both poets use a stereoscopic vision, a nuanced imaginative rendering of the …
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A comparative analysis of selected pastors' personality profiles and their conflict management styles
… are (D)ominance in personality tend to have a Persuade conflict management style. Pastors who are (I)nfluencing in personality tend to exhibit a Collaborate conflict management style. Pastors who are (S)teadiness in their personality tend toward a Collaborate style of conflict management. …
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The drawing books of Henry Peacham and Jan de Bisschop and the place of drawing in the education of a Renaissance gentleman
… They worked in hostile environments and tried to persuade their countrymen of the validity of the classical tradition in art.
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AIDS in the African-American community: celebrities as an ineffective communication strategy
… strategy.</p> <p>Celebrities are used to persuade people to buy shoes, cars, toothpaste, etc., but can they persuade people to change risky behavior: protecting themselves and others from the spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases?</p> <p>Research conducted for this …
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A rhetorical analysis of first inaugural addresses of Samora Machel, Robert Mugabe, Sam Nujoma and Nelson Mandela
… namely invention, arrangement and style to persuade the audience. The study is the first of its kind in the countries mentioned above and in the region to undertake a rhetorical analysis of four inaugural addresses ever delivered in liberated countries in Southern Africa. The study adopted a …
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"Think About the Women!": The New Anti-Abortion Discourse in English Canada
… talks to Canadians and how it attempts to persuade them of anti-abortion views.
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An exploration of aristotelian proofs in commencement ceremony speeches at the University of Namibia, 2004-2018: The case of Professor Lazarus Hangula
… speaking is an art, and in order to convince or persuade an audience, one needs to master the skills for this art of oratory. This ability is often enhanced by employing a variety of communication strategies, among them Aristotle’s proofs of persuasion (Aristotle, 1976, & Yenawine, 1997). This …
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The influence of layout and design on purchasing behavior: examining print advertisements for sneakers
… that is beneficial to better serve and persuade audiences to achieve successful product promotion.
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To teach, move, meditate, and oppose : Lucy Hutchinson's rhetoric in Order and Disorder.
… as a framework. The poem's final cause is to persuade Dissenting readers to trust and praise divine Providence and to pursue virtue; its formal cause is a type of plain style that relies upon tropes and sparingly employs schemes; and its material cause is the biblical story that the poem …
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If Your Love Were A Grain Of Sand Mine Would Be A Universe Of Beaches
… optimism. I make these images to communicate and persuade as a serious contender while at the same time retaining my own optimism and sanity by promising to never take myself too seriously.</p>
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Irene Greenwood: A voice for peace
… In spite of efforts by organised peace groups to persuade governments of the social, political and environmental consequences of violence and warfare, ours is still a violent and war-torn world. Feminism has made significant contributions to peace and justice and Greenwood’s social activism …
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The viewer as conscript : dynamic struggles for ideological supremacy in the South African Border War film, 1971-1988
… is on the ways in which films were used to persuade the white public to accept the legitimacy of the Border War. The period under examination is one during which the Apartheid government moved South African society ever closer to what has been termed a 'garrison state'. Rather than following …
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An analysis of linguistic features of male cosmetics advertisements from FHM (For Him) and GQ (Gentlemen's Quarterly) magazines
… to mention just a few, to attract men and persuade them to buy the products being advertised. This qualitative study examines how linguistic and non-linguistic elements were employed in English cosmetic advertisements geared towards men. Another aspect the study analysed is how the AIDA …
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A linguistic analysis of discursive strategies in the Harambee Prosperity Plan (HPP) policy document
… ways in which the devices were employed to persuade readers. It employed the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) approach and the Systemic Functional Linguistic theory to analyse the linguistic devices. Various linguistic devices are employed in the policy document, however, the researcher …
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Explaining and predicting suggested relationships between human social capital, citizen political trust, and citizen political engagement
… engagement; voting, talking to others to persuade them to vote for or against a party or candidate, and attending a political rally in support of a particular candidate. Each dependent variable was measured separately against the independent variables in a hierarchical regression analysis. …
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Building voices : a comparative analysis of neighborhood involvement in affecting large-scale development in three Boston neighborhoods
… its advisory power to successfully convince and persuade the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) and developer. Furthermore, the level of institutional support that a neighborhood group garners can fluctuate according to the degree of neighborhood unity conveyed. Lastly, recommendations are …
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PEPE’S POWER: INTERNET MEMES, CONSTITUTIVE RHETORIC, AND POLITICAL COMMUNITIES
… and distribute meaning online. Internet memes persuade politically-motivated individuals to join and stay together using common memetic logics. Using Limor Shifman’s definition of an internet meme, Ryan Milner’s framework of memetic logics, and Laurie Gries’ new materialist research strategies, …
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Contesting Lineage: #ADOS and the Online Reparations Discourse
… lineage discourse that used nativist appeals to persuade black Americans of their distinction from members of the African diaspora that and this discourse has been successful in influencing proposed reparations policies.
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Cosmos incognito : Vera Rubin shines light on dark matter
… notably the irrefutable evidence she gathered to persuade the astronomical community that galaxies spin at a faster speed than Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation allows. As a result of this finding, astronomers conceded that the universe must be filled with more material than they can see. …
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