Month: April 2020

In the beginning of the semester I set out to accomplish a few goals. My first goal was that I would take as much from the course as possible. I feel that I have accomplished this goal and am satisfied with the things that this class has taught me. Learning about different methods of persuasion […]

Currently I’m back in my hometown and living with my parents. Before I moved back in with them, I barely watched the news. To be honest, I had only heard information on the coronavirus from my friends and from recent emails from Baylor. Similarly, I didn’t know much about the upcoming election and didn’t really […]

When I was young I wasn’t much of a reader. Today, I remain pretty much the same besides mandatory readings for classes and every time and again some headline catches my eye on Facebook. That being said, I never read Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings. I did, however watch the movies. They were […]

In Burke’s rhetorical analysis “Rhetoric of Hitlers Battle” he dives into Hitler’s book “Mein Kampf”. In his reading of this book, Burke highlights seven different ways in which Hitler uses particular language in order to persuade his readers of his political and social agenda. Though this rhetorical analysis was published in 1939, 2 years before […]