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Norman Podhoretz's "Is America Exceptional?" rhetorical analysis and critique

Norman Podhoretz attempts to answer the controversial question, "Is America Exceptional?" In a persuasive speech delivered on October of 2012. The speech has some core strengths that make it generally effective.

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Obama's 2008 South Carolina speech and Aristotelian rhetoric

Obama's speech is a good example of Aristotle's rhetoric in practice. The object of Obama's speech is to win the presidential nomination. His speech is persuasive. He is appealing to the populace of South Carolina (and to that end, he praises them and calls them "the good people of South Carolina").

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Solomon-Godeau and Williams on photography's ethics and African-American identity

Photography is an ethically complex art: unlike a painting which purports to be the work of an individual artist and reaffirm his or her 'true self,' a photograph at least superficially suggests that it has encapsulated 'the real.' The impression of reality conveyed by photography is so persuasive…

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Racism and self-perception in Staples and Jones essays

"Black Men and Public Space" by Brent Staples and "Not White, Just Right" by Rachel Jones are both examples of well-constructed prose in short essay format, designed to be creative but argumentative and factual at the same time.

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Charismatic leadership: impression management and the risks of abuse

What is Charismatic Leadership? A leader is deemed to be charismatic, if he or she is charming and highly persuasive. For one to be an effective charismatic leader, he or she must not only be highly persuasive, but also committed to the vision towards which, he is leading the organization.

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Nursing interventions for postoperative symptom management in ambulatory surgical patients

The problem statement is easy to locate and is clearly stated. In addition, the problem statement does build a cogent and persuasive argument for the new study in the need for obtaining research data about nursing interventions.

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Communication skills in servant leadership practice

A servant leader needs to be a skilled communicator, one who is able to inspire followership through mutual respect and persuasive power.

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Johann Hari's argument on stolen attention and technology manipulation

Your Attention Was Stolen\\\\\\\"Your attention didn\\\\\\\'t collapse. It was stolen\\\\\\\" is an article written by Johann Hari, published in The Guardian, where Hari discusses the concept of the attention economy and how technology companies are using persuasive techniques to capture and hold…

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Applying Brockeriede's "Arguers as Lovers" to customer rhetoric in small business

Arguers as Lovers" and My Own Rhetorical Stance Toward Customers While Building a Small Business In his article "Arguers as Lovers," Wayne Brockeriede suggests that the argumentative stances of rapists, seducers, and lovers are different from one another.

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Characteristics and examples of effective expository essay titles

An essay that requires one to do a bit of research, make a claim and back that claim up with data is an expository essay. Whether it is a how-to essay, a descriptive essay, a cause and effect essay, or an argumentative essay, the writing will involve laying out the facts for the reader.

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