Facebook has long been a way for people to connect and interact with each other. It has been, for years now, a way for them to build their own self-identification. It allows people to share, like, and talk about anything that interests them; there are countless pages for seemingly every interest that a person could …
Month: June 2016
What is Rhetoric?
"'But the more strident our journalists, politicians, and alas! even many of our churchmen become, the more convinced we are that books should be written for tolerance and contemplation...' I feel like this quote does a great deal of encompassing the one aspect of Burke's writing that I actually grasped onto: the idea that rhetoric is not just …
Sugar: The Embodiment of “Contact Zone”
In terms of “contact zones”, the film series “Sugar” has one very distinctive mixture of cultures. On one side, you see people who are doing good, or making their way through life with only the “normal” everyday problems. These are working people who maintain jobs and pay their bills just like any other Average Joe. …
Rhetoric in Science: Response to “How Smart Can We Get?”
While watching the video “How Smart Can We Get?” I was surprised by the ways in which the ideas behind certain scientific discoveries were presented in terms of rhetoric. The most intriguing to me was the discussion of the synthetic E. coli strain. I say this because genetic manipulation is often a hot topic for …
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Devi Ramirez 