Modern Rhetoric

Hey everyone, just wanted to jump on the blog and say hi! Hope everyone is having an incredible start to summer vacation, I am. See you do...

Obviously, from a number of my previous posts, I think that one of the biggest problems with rhetoric is the fact that we are too readily ea...

I love it when food and school combine! I brought the cookies in because I thought it was a good illustration of how I view rhetoric. Rhet...

If I could change one thing about rhetoric, and this is a large concept that is difficult to define, I would change the subtle deceit that s...

Echoing some other posts, just wanted to put in my 2 cents about how much I enjoyed the course (despite the fact that I wasn't an active...

wow, it really is the end of the semester!!!! yippee, I guess. I was looking over some of the responses to the final question. I like severa...

Well, I guess it is... I wanted to do something as a little treat on the last day of our class... kinda like when you were in elementary sch...

Honestly, if there were one thing I could change about how rhetoric happens it would definitely be to incorporate mandatory and extensive di...

So I heard that Arabia was miles and miles away In da land o' da sand west o' Californ-i-a Where its night over there while over her...

Before I did Rent on Broadway. Before I won two Oscars in the same night. Before I performed Shakespeare at The Globe. Before I went to Lond...

I've been thinking about this quite a bit today, and when I read the other posts, I found that I wasn't alone in my opinion. I agre...

Before, taking Modern Rhetoric I did not truly understand it and the effect it has on our daily lives. Since taking the class I have notice...

If you could make one change as to how rhetoric happens-- this could be large, like getting rid of all censorship of television shows or sma...

For my final blog, I would like to say that I believe that the one thing I would change about how rhetoric happens would be to change how pe...

Well, not quite. But if I could make one change as to how rhetoric happens I would do away with the rhetoric of body image. The media today...

Well, I am graduating in two weeks, so I went to my last class EVER last night. I was much more sad than I had previously anticipated that I...

Hey gang, A couple of friends of mine made this spoof of a Clemson University infomerical... some of you may have seen this. Please watch i...

The funny thing about rhetoric is that most of the time we don't know it's "happening," even though our lives literally re...

This might be the last one so everyone have fun...don't stress (it's not worth it)...and above all go down town when you are done! T...

Richard, Good job, Wertham and comics was not a topic I would have expectedWertham’sWertham’sWertham’sWertham’s Wertham’s, you made it work ...

First, Great idea for the final...(did that come across like sucking up?) Rap...Great...Tru Food... Thanks for the sweats! My Chicken was la...

If I could make one change as to how rhetoric happens it would have to be getting rid of the trashy internet sites. This would be a s...

Didn’t get a chance to write on Tuesday. This week has been CRAZY—as I’m sure it has been for all of you—and I’ll be glad when it finally c...

Richard gave a very informative presentation on Tues. I haven't read comics since "Archie" in like Elementary school and maybe...

I brought Fried Rice as my rhetorical food because when I was younger I had a teacher who used Chinesse Food to explain communism. She said...

Shameless self-promotion: I'm playing at Uptown Sushi tonight. I've been playing there about every other week for the last semeste...

Hello all, Sorry for the delay. Your final blog posting should address this question: If you could make one change as to how rhetoric happen...

I grew up reading comics that adhered to the rules of the comics code, and so perhaps it is for that reason that I never heard any real qual...

I'm somewhat embarrassed to say, although I don't know why, that I just started my own blog. I don't know what it will turn out...

Don't you hate it when you get to class and realize that the seventy page paper you've been working on all semester didn't actua...

Richard did a wonderful job with his presentation. I am not much of a comic reader myself but he did a good job of expressing the passion t...

Okay, so today in class was the first time that I actually seen a comic. I always knew that they existed... I just kinda thought they were ...

......beacause I don't know what I haven't done. I counted 20 posts, so I'm just going to sort of wander...... - The Bill Hicks...

This is my favorite Bill hicks quote, its the one I mentioned about news stories talking about drugs, it's about half way through: http:...

Richards presentation on comics was very interesting considering that I have never been much of a comic reader... I prefer violent video gam...

C.A.- you are the bomb. Alden

Just kidding... I just wanted to see if anyone would click on that just to see what madness would drive me to say that Habermas is my hero.....

I loved Jillian's presentation on Bill Hicks. I admit that I had never heard of him before this presentation for which I say shame on m...

CA, I just wanted to say that I really enjoyed your speech in class yesterday. Thank you for sharing that with me and the class. I felt like...

Growing up, I was never into comic books and my older brother wasn't really either, so I was never exposed to the kinds of comics we saw...

Though I don’t usually read comic books, I used to indulge in some Archie J When I think of comics I think of the nice little Garfield, Sn...

My mind was opened today after seeing Richard's presentation on rhetoric in opposition to comics. It is amazing to me that the very thin...

Hey y'all, I'm really sorry I had to miss class today. I didn't think I would, but I have five papers due today, literally, and...

Hello, I will be giving my speech that I wrote for the Trustee's Medal Competition. The topic is on women who have roared from Clemson ...

Back to the American dream for a moment. I think this is such an important topic for a rhetoric class--but, I've started reading a book...

What is cursing, and why do we have such a big problem with it? What separates a curse word from any other word? And isn't it true tha...