Ideology is an interesting subject that is sometimes hard to wrap your mind around when you are first trying to deal with the topic, but once you have started to delve into it and research it, it begins to make more sense. It is kind of like a video game in that sense; when you […]
Lights, Camera, Rhetoric!
I have traveled far and wide, looking for the perfect subject to capture in my masterpiece. What might that be, you ask? The simple answer is a blockbuster film that I plan on creating. My magnum opus is a story about the images that affect our everyday lives, but as they are so commonplace, they […]
Kairos Vs. Zoe Quinn: Round 1, Fight!
Everybody wants to be famous, right? You’ve had your dreams of being known worldwide, maybe because of your singing career, that one book series or game that you published, or maybe even for being an overnight Twitter sensation. You want the fans and recognition, the money and most of all, a life in the lap […]
“Missing” from Sum
Twitter Brainstormer: Ty Crawford Composer/Publisher: Henry North Researcher/Editor: Courey Snelling In Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, David Eagleman steps out of his neuroscience comfort zone and crafts forty stories on what it will be like once you are dead and reawaken in the afterlife. While this is all just speculation of course, the stories […]
Artful Rhetoric
Rhetoric is a brilliant form of art. Some may be questioning how this may be, and I will argue that it is art in the same manner as poetry, as music and even as spoken word. It is a verbal art and also a linguistic one. It takes a skilled rhetorician to use the power […]
The Word on Rhetoric
What is rhetoric? In most current circles, it is seen as a tool used for trickery and deceit; it is what people use to get what they want in a negative sense. In Chapter 10 of Ancient Rhetorics, rhetoric is defined by Aristotle “as the power of finding the available arguments suited to a given situation.” […]
