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

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

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

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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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Pushing for natural childbirth : a rhetorical analysis of the alternative birth movement

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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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The identification and division of Steve Jobs

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

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

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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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Quintilian's influence on Obadiah Walker

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

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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
Oregon's Death with Dignity Act : A Rhetorical Criticism of Narrative within Public Policy

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Townsend, Timothy F.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of narratives within public policy, surrounding the issue of doctor-assisted suicide. Specifically, this study attempts to examine the way(s) in which narratives both shape and influence public policy; pertaining to Measure 16, Oregon's Death with Dignity Act. Narrative communication involving...

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Alternative medicine -- United States1
Apple Computer, Inc.1
Assisted suicide -- Law and legislation -- Oregon1
Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946-1
Clinton, Bill, 1946- -- Anecdotes1
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