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Showing 1 to 20 of 161 for “"Rhetorical Strategies"”.
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Rhetorical strategies in the Fourth Gospel
… attempts to answer is, what are the persuasive rhetorical strategies that the FG employs to accomplish this goal? The scope of this study is limited to identifying two specific strategies and investigating how these strategies function to create a persuasive discourse. The principal methodology …
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Pressing the Seed: Thoreau's Rhetorical Strategies
… that pace is achieved and how it relates to our rhetorical expectations as readers. To analyze the shifting tones in Thoreau's writing, especially his more literary nature writing, I have singled out four common stances that he takes toward his material, depending on whether he emphasizes the …
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The Rhetorical Strategies of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
This dissertation explores the rhetorical components of the famous novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. Cervantes’ novel continues to be celebrated around the world four hundred years later. His two main protagonists epitomize opposite virtues, but their love for one another, and the promise …
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Change of Condition: Women's Rhetorical Strategies on Marriage, 1710-1756
This dissertation examines ways in which women constructed and criticized matrimony both before and after their own marriages. Social historians have argued for the rise of companionacy in the eighteenth century without paying attention to women's accounts of the fears and uncertainties surrounding …
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RHETORICAL STRATEGIES AND POLITICAL GIFT GIVING IN THE ORINOCO DELTA
… It deals with the discursive and material strategies used to construct political reality at the moment of the emergence of one of the so-called new South American left wing populist governments (Hugo Chavez presidency since 1998). These historical circumstances present an opportunity to …
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Rhetorical strategies of foreign executives in revitalizing Japanese global enterprise
… executives who may not have adopted those strategies. Their "foreignness" is one factor, but cultural values in Japan, including seniority and hierarchic human relationships, are also critical. I also argue that Ghosn and Stringer have their own rhetorical strategies that are different from …
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Rhetorical strategies in the English and Indonesian persuasive essays of Indonesian University students
The aim of this study was to investigate rhetorical strategies in the English and Indonesian persuasive essays of Indonesian university students. Comparisons of rhetorical strategies were carried out across university majors, across languages, and across university-year cohorts. The correlation …
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The creation of the Khalsa : a study into the rhetorical strategies of collective identity transformation
… historical and social pressures provided the rhetorical exigence for the creation of the Khalsa. Guru Gobind isolated and used the guilt of the Sikhs people, the guilt of being passive observers in the face of external pressures, the guilt of living in caste-organized society, the guilt of …
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The cycle and the spiral: rhetorical strategies in Malory's "Morte Darthur"
The cyclical and spiral structures which are typical of medieval romance inform Sir Thomas Malory's Morte D'Arthur. Despite the fact that his prose narrative includes native elements of realism and directness, Malory utilizes the cycle and the spiral as methods of arrangement. These patterns …
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Sex-talk: Uncovering the rhetorical strategies of abstinence and comprehensive sex education campaigns in the United States
A rhetorical analysis of abstinence and comprehensive sex education campaigns utilizing William R. Brown's model, the Rhetoric of Social Intervention (RSI). RSI is applied to the Abstinence Clearinghouse (for abstinence) and the Advocates for Youth: Rights, Respect, Responsibility (for …
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Not Appropriate for Children: A Look At the Composition Practices and Rhetorical Strategies of Single Moms in Academia
… and identities build support systems and draw on rhetorical strategies derived from their embodied knowledge to survive and navigate in academia. Single mother experiences are underrepresented in scholarship about parenting in higher education. This absence is evidenced in policies, systems, and …
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Searching for a pragmatic aesthetic: the rhetorical strategies of gansta rappers -- myths, rituals, and dramas of an outlaw music
… by the music via use of the dramatistic rhetorical elements: rituals, myths, and social dramas. Using Burkean methods of identification and exploring Llie elements of hierarchy, this essay analyzes the rap lyrics of four of Billboard's top selling artists: Ice Cube, whom Dyson calls, …
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Because We Have the Power to Choose: A Critical Analysis of the Rhetorical Strategies Used in Merck's Gardasil Campaign
… More specifically, this paper studies the rhetorical appeals Merck uses and explores the ethical strengths and limitations of the advertisements. The study explores how the Gardasil campaign blends elements of an informative Campaign with an advertising campaign, and the implications of …
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Because We Have the Power to Choose: A Critical Analysis of the Rhetorical Strategies Used in Merck's Gardasil Campaign
… More specifically, this paper studies the rhetorical appeals Merck uses and explores the ethical strengths and limitations of the advertisements. The study explores how the Gardasil campaign blends elements of an informative Campaign with an advertising campaign, and the implications of …
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