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  • A study of the stylistic ramifications of Father Charles Edward Coughlin's sermons from 1930 to 1934

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    Acklin, Melissa Barrett
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    During the depression era, millions of Americans listened to the weekly radio addresses given by Father Charles Edward Coughlin. He devoted his career to speaking out against the evils of America and felt it his duty to warn Americans against the perpetrators of this evil. But after 1934, the tone...
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    A Study of the Stylistic Ramifications of Father Charles

  • Cartoon All Stars to the Rescue: from Public Service Announcement to Program- Length Commercial

    Creator:
    Seiber, Rich
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    Animation has long been a staple of children's television programming As public service announcements (PSA5) have become an important part of children's television programming, cartoon characters have started to appear in this form of nonprogram material. By standard definition, PSAs are usually a 15 to 60-second spot that promote education...
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    members of my committee, Dr. Anita Helle, Dr. William Earl and Professor Andrea Marks. Numerous friends

  • 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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    Petronio's examples of defensive strategies, and three strategies in William L. Benoit's (1995) typology of

  • The beat generation : a rhetoric of negation

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    Mackaman, Julie Irene
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    The Beat Generation was an American counter-culture movement in the 1950's. Comprised of nomadic writers, poets, actors, musicians, and artists, the Beat movement represented no systematic philosophy and its most distinguishing characteristic was its apolitical disengagement from society. The Beats offered no substantive alternatives to the existing social order, but...
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    facade. Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs formed the nucleus of a "charmed circle

  • 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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    Renaissance. Charles E. Little and William M. Smail, for instance, note the same Renaissance thinkers as

  • 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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    narratives possess in their attempts to gain audience adherence for votes, policies, and power. William F

  • 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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  • Theodore Dwight Weld's use of the judicial motif in American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses

    Creator:
    Trudeau, Justin Thomas
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    This thesis examines the rhetoric of Theodore Dwight Weld's American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses. Published anonymously in 1839, Weld's publication became the longest antislavery tract in American history. It left its mark on the abolitionist movement itself and future antislavery literary works most notably Uncle...
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    their own country. According to Jane and William Pease, "Both white and black lecturers buttressed

  • Playwriting and Authority : Collaborative Art and Feminine Production

    Creator:
    Brown, Colleen Karen
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    In that the concept of authority in terms of the creation of a literary work of art indicates a single creator or controller of a literary work, a delineated inscriber of the text who initiates the act of communication, writing for theatrical production can be described as a feminized art...
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