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eflective Encounters: Illustrating Comparative RhetoricComparative rhetoric, according to George Kennedy, is “the cross-cultural study of rhetorical traditions as they exist or hav. existed in different societies around the world” (1). A young but promising enterprise, comparative rhetoric aims to reach and cultivate what may be called a ...
4 GEORGE Α. KENNEDY in language. It is présent also in physical actions, facial expres-sions, gestures, and signs generally. The axiom that rhetoric is a form of energy leads to the first of several thèses about rhetoric: Thesis I. Rhetoric is prior to speech. By "prior" I mean that rhetoric, as energy, has to exist in the
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Nov 4, 2024 · Based on photos in The White House: An Historic Guide's 26th edition, we can glean bits and pieces, though: like the fact that, per the Washington Post, the Queens' Bedroom (a guest suite for important visitors) got paler walls and “a gilded bed with elaborate hangings [that] replac[ed] the four-poster carved wood bed thought to have belonged to Andrew Jackson.”
Atwill, Janet M. Rev. of On Rhetoric: A Theory of Civic Discourse by Aristotle and George A. Kennedy. CCC 44.1 (1993): 93-95. Daniell, Beth. Rev. of Rhetoric and Irony: Western Literacy and Western Lies by C. Jan Swearingen. CCC 44.1 (1993): 95-99. Calderonello, Alice. Rev. of Composition and Resistance by C. Mark Hurlbert and Michael Blitz.
2 days ago · George W. Bush - Presidency: Bush was the first Republican president to enjoy a majority in both houses of Congress since Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1950s. Taking advantage of his party’s strength, Bush proposed a $1.6 trillion tax-cut bill in February 2001. A compromise measure worth $1.35 billion was passed by Congress in June, despite Democratic objections that it unfairly benefited the ...
George Washington's choice of an opaque "Bristol Blue" glass was as utilitarian as it was elegant, for its masked the bowls' often dirty contents. (MVLA) Presidential guests were served by enslaved waiters wearing livery in the red and white Washington family colors that melded with the “Crimson Sattin” curtains of the Philadelphia state dining room, where Thursday dinners were held.
