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  • 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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    : ________________________________________________________________________ Mark P. Moore The purpose of this study is to examine how autobiography functions as image

  • 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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  • 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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    Role of Anecdotal Evidence in Promoting Identification Abstract Approved: Mark P. Moore The purpose

  • The Deathscape of St. Paul: Historic Cemeteries as Cultural Landscapes

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    Boulware, Brooke L.
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    A cultural landscape analysis of two historic cemeteries in St. Paul, Oregon demonstrates that the residents of this early community were unknowingly using grave markers to express their worldview and the identities that they felt were most important. Because of the historical and cultural development of this community as the...
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    of St. Paul: Historic Cemeteries as Cultural Landscapes Abstract approved: David R

  • Climate Changers: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Reducing Personal Carbon Emissions

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    Johnson, Carly A.
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    In an era of human-induced climate change, there is increasing interest in encouraging people to reduce their carbon dioxide (carbon) emissions by adopting low-carbon behaviors, or behaviors that reduce a person’s use of fossil fuels. I designed the Campus Carbon Challenge as a research and outreach project to gain a...
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    Moore In an era of human-induced climate change, there is increasing interest in encouraging

  • Sarah Grimke's Rhetoric for Empowerment : Her Life and Letters

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    Hamilton, Susan E. Maier
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    In twentieth century America, women continue the age-old struggle for recognition as whole, intelligent individuals, not just an "other," less hearty, less deserving or less capable being than man. Sarah Grimke spoke of the inequalities over 150 years ago during the abolitionist movement when she compiled her major arguments into...
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  • The Victory in Vietnam Committee's Manichean Rhetoric : An Analysis of the Campaign to Recall Idaho Senator Frank Church

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    Andrews, Cheri L.
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    The purpose of this study is to illuminate the role, the function, and the ironic outcome of the Victory in Vietnam Committee's campaign pamphlet to recall Senator Frank Church of Idaho in 1967. The VVC's political strategy was to build credibility with the media through the recall pamphlet. The analysis...
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    : Mark Moore The purpose of this study is to illuminate the role, the function, and the ironic outcome

  • Al Gore Jr. and the Rhetoric of Self-Disclosure

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    Palmer, Scott Aaron
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    Senator Al Gore Jr. was elected Vice-President of the United States on November 3, 1992. During many of his public speeches, Gore utilized a speaking style that differed radically from the style he used in other political campaigns of his life. This style, which will be called the "rhetoric of...
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    Moore Senator Al Gore Jr. was elected Vice-President of the United States on Novemeber 3, 1992. During

  • 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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    . Moore The nature and extent of classical rhetoric's influence on subsequent ages has been the focus of

  • 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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    As Masculine Facework. Abstract approved: Mark P. Moore Apologia is a rhetorical genre of self