Monday, August 3, 2015

Chapter Twenty-five

Run an Agreeable Country

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  1. It's crazy how Americans used to rely so much on rhetoric and how they had so much respect for ancient rhetoricians. I think it would be cool if school did teach more rhetoric. I thought it was interesting he mentioned this AP class as a classes finally teaching rhetoric.

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    1. Yeahh! That was pretty cool how he acknowledged ap classes and how he compared it to ancient history

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    2. Yea there have been alot of history references that I would have never guessed! And yes that would be cool!

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    3. Ya I totally agree the school shold teach more rhetorical things.

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    4. I agree that example about ap classes teaching rhetorical things was interesting.

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  2. This chapter really summed everything up well! Im super excited to use these things durikg the school year and go even more in depth on these issues! :)

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    1. It did sum up everything! I am excited too :D

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    2. I agree it did a good job of summing things up, and it will be interesting to learn more.

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    3. Yes this book made a lot of sense wen u read the whole thing! Chapter 24 and 25 made the most sense to me!

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  3. Wow there are alot of rhetoricians in our history! I'm excited to put all these tools into our arguments and use them in class! This should be a good year in AP language!

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    1. Yes this will be a good year!

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    2. There are a lot of rhetoricians in our history. It's crazy how we never knew that before.

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    3. I agree, I had no idea that there were so many rhetoricans in our history. It soo neat!!

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  4. The best part tht I liked out of this chapter was in the begining, rhetoric could help lead us out of out political mess! I thought it was sooo funny!!

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  5. Now I know why America looks kinda bad now because of all the rhetoric things we do...But hey, if it works good for us.

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    1. Capitalism has been viewed by experts many times as a broken system. I doubt rhetoric makes it any less greedy. yafeel?

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  6. Rhetoric is conceived by disagreement. If he thinks this concept he gets off on constantly will fix the broken system that is capitalism then he needs to review how a country functions. How about we work on agreement instead of arguing constantly about the things that aren't needed we may get somewhere. Sorry Jay but you may have to review some things.

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    1. Actually, capitalism could and would work if the wealth was distributed fairly between upper, middle, and lower class, but since a lot of politicians these days seem to believe in trickle-down economics, where the rich get bigger paychecks and less taxes so that money will go to businesses and essentially "trickle down" into the working middle class and lower class. When in reality, It doesn't work. And the reason this doesn't work is because the majority of the rich population don't spend their money. They just invest it all and get even richer. So, because society is relying on this "trickle-down" system, the majority of the wealth goes to the rich, and the working middle-class and poor lose money. This was totally off-topic, but my political side really wanted to come out and say hi.

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    2. Capitalism looks good on paper, but people are too greedy and selfish at this point that it would be nearly impossible to implement it.

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  7. Rhetoric is conceived by disagreement. If he thinks this concept he gets off on constantly will fix the broken system that is capitalism then he needs to review how a country functions. How about we work on agreement instead of arguing constantly about the things that aren't needed we may get somewhere. Sorry Jay but you may have to review some things.

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    1. OOPS I POSTED THIS TWICE SORRY FAM

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  8. I enjoy politics so this was a pretty interesting chapter to read and write about, even though I'm pretty sure nobody cares about the ridiculously long comments I leave, but sometimes I just want to explain whats on my mind ya know? I've got a feeling that some of the things used in this book will come back to us and in the end be useful.

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    1. I think the long comments are fine, because you are able to get your point across. And I agree, I think that while this book was a little drawn out, it will be helpful during class.

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  9. This and the last chapter helped sum up everything I've learned throughout this book. I;m just hoping that I will remember it all. I also look forward to using these tools in class! :)

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  10. I think it's crazy how something that was so important can become so much less important. I guess that kind of sounds dumb, and there are a lot of things that that has happened to, but you don't really think about how much things like that change. Even though I probably won't try to master rhetoric at any point in my life, I'm glad there are still people trying to preserve it.

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