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  • Look up the word Rhetorical , it will help you with accepting the different opinions from close to 7 billion other Humans that may not be as enlightened as you are and must be treated you compassion and pity for being so stupid.

    A Nation Slumbers As Our Liberties Are Threatened « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009

  • The answer to that 2-pronged question is: it's in Rhetorical Theory/Professional Writing -- which is a multisyllabic way of saying "English, only not, you know, Literature" and it is intended specifically to prime me and my unwitting kind for the rigors of contract slave labor that promises no reward, no tenure, and no professional recognition at all.

    an educational experience fenrah 2004

  • * for those of you who may be new to the page, my M.A. is in "Rhetorical Theory," which is just a fancy way of saying, "writing with your brain turned on."

    of course it's hard -- if it wasn't hard, everyone would do it 2004

  • From his work sprang a large number of so called Rhetorical Schools, much like our better private schools and academies, offering to those Ephebes who could afford to attend a very good preparation for participation in the public life of the period.

    The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Ellwood Patterson Cubberley 1904

  • Two More Of The 'Conversations About Banning Books Were "Rhetorical"' Books Are Named The More You Drive, The Less Intelligent You Are

    And We Shall March 2008

  • Two More Of The 'Conversations About Banning Books Were "Rhetorical"' Books Are Named I Have A Hardback Copy Of The Nelson Mandela Comic Book Bio - And You, Most Likely, Do Not The More You Drive, The Less Intelligent You Are

    And We Shall March 2008

  • « At Least One Of The Conversations About Banning Books Were "Rhetorical" Books Is Named Never, have I seen anything like it in my 17 and a half years living in Anchorage.

    And We Shall March 2008

  • There was a Certain Filacer (an Officer of the Common Pleas,) that in Oliver's Days was mightily concern'd upon the Subject of the Govern - ment, and Dilating in a kind of Rhetorical Climax upon the Iniquity of the Times: Well (fays he,) here's the beft Church upon the face of the Earth Deftroy'd; the Nobility and Gentry Trampled under Foot, and Begger'd; the Commonalty Enflav'd, the Laws Overturn'd -, the Confti - tution of Parliaments Diffolv'd $ a moft Pious, Gracious King Murdered:

    Fables of Æsop, and other eminent mythologists : with morals and reflexions. 1692

  • Rhetorical grenades aren't unusual in the final weeks of a heated campaign.

    Tough Talk as Romney Takes Aim at Gingrich Jonathan Weisman 2011

  • Several commenters have mentioned their dislike of posts like “In Which We Answer Rhetorical Questions …” and the sense of ridicule they draw from them.

    Today's Font Joke Is Also A Lesson 2010

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