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Personalization and persuasion in Fallows and Turkle's expository essays

Throwing like a Girl" by James Fallows and Sherry Turkle's essay "How Computers Change the Way We Think" Personalization is the key to any effective expository essay.

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866 words

Anonymity sets and mix zones for location privacy in pervasive computing

Lab workers wore bats (small mobile devices with radio transceivers and ultrasonic transmitters) to provide position information to location-aware applications and colleagues in the lab. * The strong correlation between entry and exit motion is not modeled in anonymity sets.

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542 words

Robert Cialdini's "Influence": psychological principles of persuasion

Robert Cialdini, a psychology professor at Arizona State University, applies his technical background to the task of explaining in everyday terms a subject that impacts all of us: persuasion, and the psychological principles that make it work.

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Essay Undergraduate 653 words

Pope Urban II's Call to Crusade: Rhetoric and Persuasion

Analyzes Robert the Monk's account of Pope Urban II's 1095 Clermont speech, examining how religious rhetoric persuaded European Christians to join the Crusades.

History

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516 words

Fowles' fifteen basic appeals in advertising and emotional persuasion

Advertising above all else must make an emotional appeal. It plays on people's desires, and promises them that the advertised product or service will help to fulfill those desires.

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667 words

Philosophy's use of arguments and logic as tools for persuasion

Philosophy has advanced greatly throughout time and philosophers today have access to a wide range of tools that they can use with the purpose of expressing philosophical thought.

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999 words

Thomas Paine's Common Sense and American revolutionary persuasion

Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson both have produced an immaculate piece of writing work in the form of "Common Sense" and the draft of "The Declaration of Independence" respectively in the year 1776.

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Essay Undergraduate 707 words

The English Class System in Austen, Scandal, and Blanning

Explores how Jane Austen's Persuasion, the film Scandal, and Blanning's Oxford History of Modern Europe portray Britain's class system across different eras.

Literature

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Reflection Paper Undergraduate 810 words

Communication Skills Reflection: Informative Speaking & Rhetoric

A reflection on key communication course concepts—informative speaking, rhetoric, and persuasion—and their real-world applications in community and clinical settings.

Communications

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Case Study Undergraduate 821 words

Selling Executives on Project Management: A Case Study

Analysis of organizational resistance to project management adoption and evidence-based strategies for gaining executive buy-in and support.

Business

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