Rhetoric in Contemporary Culture

Trump Rhetoric   http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/us/politics/95000-words-many-of-them-ominous-from-donald-trumps-tongue.html?_r=0   http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/plot-america-donald-trumps-rhetoric   https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mr-trumps-politics-of-incitement/2015/08/21/c33d0f2e-483d-11e5-8ab4-c73967a143d3_story.html   media / air time https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/12/07/donald-trump-has-gotten-more-nightly-network-news-coverage-than-the-entire-democratic-field-combined/ http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/Decoder/2015/1214/Should-Bernie-Sanders-get-as-much-media-coverage-as-Donald-Trump   Colbert on Palin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LPR7DktumA Palin rhetoric http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2016/01/20/the_enchanting_rhetoric_of_sarah_palin_s_trump_endorsement.html from 2008 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/style/features/2008/rhetoric/gallery.html

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It was also interesting to learn how words are added to the English language. Of the methods, the words made by error was the most surprising method. Bryon depicts that many words ‘owe their existence to mishearings”(71) following several examples such as “Buttonhole was once buttonhold. Sweetheart was origianally Sweetard” (71). Many of which were unexpected. Out of… Continue reading comments on Bryson, from The Mother Tongue

Links and Further Reading:

  inequality article/study/graph: http://billmoyers.com/2015/01/05/top-10-charts-2014/ http://www.businessinsider.com/income-and-wealth-inequality-charts-2015-4?op=1 DPS letter from teacher on FB: https://www.facebook.com/notes/save-michigans-public-schools/an-open-letter-to-dps-parents-from-dps-teacher-sarah-jardine/981627368585500 http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2016/01/12/sick-outs-prompt-more-closures-detroit-schools/78647624/ corporate higher ed, inequality in admin pay: college tuition/instructor inequality http://linkis.com/huffingtonpost.com/4Hwm0 http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/student_protests_link_up_unions/ http://fordhamram.com/2015/11/11/fordham-students-rally-with-adjuncts-for-fight-for-15/ Flint Water Crisis: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/michigans-snyder-facing-nations-most-serious-scandal http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/watch/toxic-water-tragedy-points-directly-to-snyder-597037635687 climate change new geological era graph: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/oct/16/-sp-scientists-gather-talks-rename-human-age-anthropocene-holocene http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/have-humans-really-created-new-geologic-age-180952865/?no-ist