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Anti-Marijuana Rhetoric Final Essay

Kyle Montero English 5001 Dr. DeVries 20 May, 2010 Anti-Marijuana Rhetoric of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics: Cultivating an Understanding of the American Marijuana Debate The year is 2010 and the state of California is in an economic crisis.  In…

Week 12: The Impact of Science

After reading this week’s articles, I found myself to be  relieved and self-assured.  All the hours spent hunched over my computer, fingers twisted, eyes shot, in the dark of my room, transcribing the “web of meaning” in my head onto…

Discussion Questions for Post-colonial Theory

Hello My Fellow Classmates and Scholarly Friends! For this weeks readings, the focus was centered upon the ideologies of two enormously influential, much debated literary theorists, known mutually for their significant contributions to Postcolonialism.  Although difficult to define, as most…

Project Proposal

“The sprawled body of a young girl lay crushed on the sidewalk the other day after a plunge from the fifth story of a Chicago apartment house.  Everyone called it suicide, but actually it was murder.  The killer was a…

Rebel’s Dilemma

In “Rebel’s Dilemma”, bell hooks writes, “To a grave extent the academy has always been so similar to the dysfunctional patriarchal family hierarchy that hemmed me in as a child that I feel that I can never be truly healthy—well…

The Right Way to Teach Write

The readings of this week highlight the difficulty of teaching writing within a culturally diverse world and the problems students face transitioning from their secondary education to the university.  In Foster and Russell’s text “Rearticulating Articulation”, the authors create a…

Kyle Montero Mid-term: A2 & B2

A2: Explain the classical and Enlightenment definitions of rhetoric and propose a contemporary definition.  Account for differences between the three. To begin, it is important to examine the development of rhetoric as an art, which was initially questioned by Plato…

Defining Rhetoric: A Vain Attempt

To begin, I would like to criticize Kenneth Burke’s complex statements for my simple mind.  Although reading Anne’s post provided clarity regarding his text and idea of  “alienation” resulting from languages’ (signifier) inability to fully express meaning (signified), I believe Burke is entirely too…

Week 6: Everything in Moderation

The two excerpts from Xing Lu’s text “Rhetoric in Ancient China” featured attempts to open Western eyes to the Rhetoric of Ancient China through a comparison with Classical Greek Rhetoric.  Although only provided part 1 and 2, the reading centered…