Aristotle’s views on women.

Examining notions of racial identity in Steve Martin’s 1979 comedy The Jerk.

Examining the religious rhetoric in the justification for war throughout American history and the roll of music in affirming/negating this notion.

Ideas for advancement of business or society are essential and need to be generated regularly. These ideas, however, also need to be tested by debate. This is where discussion, rhetoric, argument and even polemics can take an acorn and nurture it into a great oak.

Whether you’re selling, persuading a relative, courting a girl, or simply convincing a school buddy to give you his lunch, you have to know and understand what motivates the human mind.

With the development of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), people should be aware that language is now more powerful even than a nuclear weapon. Whatever you say reflect how you will position yourself and your opponents. Strong statements by world politicians, for example, can be negotiated in such a way to win the support of others. This is hearer/reader positioning.

Rhetorical Strategies Essay: Satire in Wilson’s arguments of People-First versus Environmentalist.

Mama would have never put up with the finger pointing and blaming that are rampant in our current political problems. As children we knew blaming only got you in more trouble, why don’t our leaders?

A look at the only (as far as I know of) study on the actual effects of violent rhetoric.

A gunman kills a bunch of people. Is politics to blame? A teen commits suicide. Is music to blame? Another killer shoots his family. Is television to blame? No, they are not. But they still have had an influence. It’s time we set aside the bull and had a real discussion about this in the U.S.