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  • President Clinton's health care rhetoric : the role of anecdotal evidence in promoting identification

    Creator:
    Dahl, Nicholas D.
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    The purpose of this study is to illuminate the presence and rhetorical effect of anecdotes in President Clinton's major health care address. It is the health care debate that shows most clearly how Clinton tries to direct a multi-level campaign that attempts to identify his interests (passage of the Health...
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    Masters Thesis
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    degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Speech Communication, Political Science, and

  • Guilt and Redemption in a National Eulogy: President Obama’s “Together We Thrive: Tucson and Arizona” Address as a Call for Mortification

    Creator:
    McLennan, Chelsea J.
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    On January 8th, 2011 tragedy struck in Tucson, Arizona. A gunman opened fire on Representative Gabrielle Giffords' "Congress on Your Corner" event, wounding thirteen and killing six ("Arizona Shooting"). Four days later, President Obama spoke to a grieving crowd at the University of Arizona's McKale Memorial Center. This study seeks...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Speech Communication, Speech Communication, and Political Science presented on May 24, 2012. Title

  • For the Purpose of Power: An Analysis of George W. Bush’s Warrantless Wiretapping Address

    Creator:
    Owens, Michael V.
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    The purpose of this study is to examine the rhetorical efforts of President George W. Bush in defending his administration's warrantless wiretapping program. Specifically, the study attempts to determine the president's underlying motives when he defended the National Security Agency in a December 2005 radio address by applying Kenneth Burke's...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Studies in Speech Communication, Speech Communication, and Political Science presented on June 7, 2007

  • Autobiography as image repair : an analysis of Sarah Palin's restoration strategies

    Creator:
    Canja, Elizabeth H.
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    The purpose of this study is to examine how autobiography functions as image restoration for a political candidate through the analysis of Sarah Palin's memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life. In particular, the study will identify and evaluate specific restoration strategies implemented by Palin in order to repair her image...
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    Masters Thesis
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    the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Speech Communication, Political Science

  • Quintilian's influence on Obadiah Walker

    Creator:
    O'Rourke, Kathryn Ann
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    The nature and extent of classical rhetoric's influence on subsequent ages has been the focus of much recent study. Scholars have been concerned with how classical authors, particularly Cicero and Quintilian, emerged in educational and rhetorical theories of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and later centuries. Despite this flurry of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Writers and Bishops Who Have had Their Education in the University of Oxford 4 vols. The Source of Science

  • The identification and division of Steve Jobs

    Creator:
    Anderson, Scott M. (Scott Matthew)
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    On April 1, 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak entered into a partnership agreement to found Apple Computer. In the decade that followed, Apple experienced remarkable growth and success, as Jobs catapulted Apple to the Fortune 500 list of top‐flight companies faster than any other company in history. Under direction...
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  • Pushing for natural childbirth : a rhetorical analysis of the alternative birth movement

    Creator:
    Coffey, Kimberly Ann
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    The purpose of this study is to examine how rhetoric functions in the Alternative Birth Movement (ABM). In particular, communication published by movement leaders will be examined to discover how rhetoric propels the movement from one stage to the next as well as how rhetoric facilitates the goals of the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Through the use of powerful rhetoric, however, the movement

  • Reverend Jesse Jackson's Rhetorical Strategy : A Case for the Functional Role of Narratio

    Creator:
    Bruno, Edward Louis
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    The purpose of this study is to investigate the rhetorical strategies used by Reverend Jesse L. Jackson from the 1970's to the 1990's. Specifically, this study examines Jackson's use of narrative to empower himself, his constituency, and his political ideologies without possessing a traditional political platform. Jackson raised political and...
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    . Specifically, this study examines Jackson's use of narrative to empower himself, his constituency, and his

  • RTFM NOOb: Criticizing Internet Based Instructional Documents as a Rhetorical Genre

    Creator:
    Carlson, Gordon S. III
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    The purpose of this thesis is to aid in qualitative improvements to technical support documents on the Internet. By using a generic criticism this analysis will make substantive suggestions towards the improvement of this type of document by engaging the rhetoric employed by their authors. It will discuss the history...
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    . 26 John Maddox, the editor of the science journal Nature complains that: As things are, too much

  • Mark Fuhrman's Murder In Brentwood : A Rhetorical Criticism of Apologia as Masculine Facework

    Creator:
    Kearney, Melva J.
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    Apologia is a rhetorical genre of self-defense. As such, apologetic discourse involves a response to an attack upon an individual's character or worth as a human being. Los Angeles Police Detective Mark Fuhrman encountered such a attack during the 0.J. Simpson murder trial. The purpose of this analysis is to...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Liebeskind, and Warren Schwartz. "Getting Out of Hot Water: Facework in Social Predicaments." Journal of