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English Department of Rutgers University

In five pages this paper discusses the history of the English Department of Rutgers University which dates back to the 1760s and c...

Justice in Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince and Plato's The Republic

he considered to be the most significant reason society is its own opposing force. According to Hobbes, subjects of the omnipoten...

3 Thought Levels in Plato's Republic and Dante's Inferno

In five pages this paper discusses the connection between man's sins and the soul in this analysis of three levels of thought repr...

Book 4 of Plato's Republic, 'Justice of the City'

what it is that you "can do," and then doing that for the good of the group - in this case the city. The unification of the virtu...

David Koresh's Branch Davidians and Persuasive Techniques

In ten pages this cult's history and its techniques of persuasion are analyzed. Ten sources are cited in the bibliography....

False Thinking According to Plato's Theatetus

Knowledge is true judgment. Socrates and Theatetus are talking about the nature of knowledge. Theatetus suggests that mathematic...

Tactics of Persuasive Marketing

In five pages this paper examines business marketing in a consideration of various persuasive tactics. Seven sources are cited in...

Rhetoric and Educational Schools

In nine pages this paper discusses Isocratean, Aristotelian, and Platonic perspectives in an overview of classical rhetoric. Five...

Application of Plato's Metaphysical Tradition

In ten pages this paper applies the metaphysical tradition to an analysis of Existentialism and Basic Writings by Friedrich Nietzs...

The Dear Hunter Film's Vietnam War Rhetoric and Reality

In five pages this paper examines the rhetoric and reality of the Vietnam War within the contexts of the book Hollywood's Vietnam ...

Poverty and Children

the Institute on Race and Poverty (2000), an area of "concentrated poverty" occurs when forty percent or more of the population of...

Rhetoric Theory and the Contributions of Stephen Toulmin's Principles

In six pages this paper examines how rhetoric theory and its development were influenced by Stephen Toulmin's principles. Six sou...

Allegory in 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

In five pages the ways in which allegory is used by the author in this short story are discussed. Two sources are cited in the bi...

Social Structure Discourse of The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

In six pages this paper examines The Time Machine as a form of social discourse in its futuristic commentary and functioning as an...

The Use of Allegory and Symbolism in the Epic Poem Beowulf

Goldsmith, who sees Beowulf as being addressed to the "powerful" and designed to "warn them of the dangers attendant upon power" (...

Questions Regarding Plato's Dialogues Symposium and Phaedo

thought and action. There are times, however, when vice distracts these efforts and renders man vulnerable to a less ethical exis...

Notion of Love or Precis in Plato's Arguments Presented in Phaedrus and Symposium

who, even for women, is feminine perforce" (Hoff, 1997, p. 215). Indeed, Platos Symposium exemplifies the need for virtue w...

Religious Autobiographies The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, The Confessions of Augustine and the Uses of Rhetoric

In four pages this paper examines the philosophical rhetoric associated with these 2 religious autobiographies. Five sources are ...

Racism's Rhetoric

raised in a prejudicial environment and while they think they are sophisticated and do not have a prejudiced bone in their bodies,...

'The Hypocrisy of Slavery' by Frederick Douglass

In five pages Douglass's speech and his use of political rhetoric are examined within the context of the 1852 time period in which...

Inferno by Dante Alighieri, Magic and Technology Conceptual Intersections

In five pages the ways in which magic and technology concepts intersect throughout the allegory along with their connections and d...

'The Pearl' by the Gawain Poet

In 5 pages this 14th century allegory is analyzed in terms of its protagonist's faith and pearl imagery. There is 1 source cited ...

Rhetoric and Its Social Discourse

OF RHETORIC OF A NEWS ISSUE One most recent case of rhetoric misuse was with the media bashing of Richard Jewell, the secur...

A Friend's Persuasive Nationalism Letter

country is also positive. It is important to look at nationalism, and not with disdain as nationalism is good. People should take...

Comparing Plato's Crito with Ibsen's Torvald

Tovald must deal with those of his subordinates. Despite his law background, he is employed as a bank manager and has a number of...

Analysis of Rhetoric

as well as the group that she will focus on in the rest of her essay, single mothers. This is a lengthy section in her arguments s...

Meno and Plato's Arguments

they have experienced the fact that the truth simply is and is not an "issue" or understanding that can be discovered. "Meno" As ...

Use of Allegory in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

events during his and previous eras in history" (Tolisano, 2002; tolisano.htm). In better understanding how Chaucer did use all...

Visual Rhetoric Tutorial

a too or a guide, mainly a "how to" in supporting a thesis statement or point of view on a particular concept or idea. The student...

John Barth's Use of Allegory in 'Giles Goat Boy'

There is, as is the case with any novel, a clear power of theme behind this comical tale of ones journey as a goat. Many have argu...