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Dedication
Introduction: Raising the Barre
Alessandra Von Burg
1. Mask Up: The Evolving Rhetorical Significance of the Mask in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Anna Lawrence
2. The COVID Connection
Madison Borsellino
3. Timeliness in 2021
Kenton Bachmann
4. From Soap Ads to Military Speeches: Kairos at Work in Rhetoric
Rachel Singleton
5. The Professor as a Rhetor
Mannat Rakkar
6. P.I.E.
Kelly McCormick
7. No More Normal
Abby Krueger
8. Logic - Is It Logical?
Mica Giberti
9. Logic: Lucrative, Organic, Genius, Influential, Calculated
Isabella Grana
10. An Expansive Ethos
Sammy Clark
11. Ethos Makes the World Go Round
Caroline Bailey
12. Ethos: Understanding its True Meaning
Atorian Perry
13. The Culture of Ethos
Ja’Corey Johns
14. The Power of Ethos
Lily Harding-Delooze
15. The Persuasiveness of Pathos
Omar Hernandez
16. The Power of Pathos I
Alex Murphey
17. The Power of Pathos II
Amy Harding-Delooze
18. Pathos and Politics
Sandra Wang
19. Pathos is Relevant but Undetected in Today's Society
Alex Fitpatrick
20. Pathos on the Quad
Tiffany Wang
21. Find Your Purpose
Imogen Blackburn
22. Reality: The Paradox of Heroism and Villain
Matt Albren
23. Your Identity? Or Everyone Else's?
Georgia Evans
24. The Ability of Identity: An Ever-Changing Word
Braxton McNulty
25. Away with "She" and "Her": Gender, Rhetoric, and Ideology
Anna DeCarlucci
26. Feminism Cannot Be Defined
Lucy Rice
27. The Truth Behind Feminism
Anna Lummus
28. My House is Not Your Home: Briefly Examining Race-Based Rhetoric Through a History of American Revolutionary Movements
Kaylah Cook
29. To Work, Perchance to Live: A Story in Five Parts
Jordan Houston
30. Rhetoric, Race, and the War on Drugs
Blaise Gardineer
31. Ideology or Identity: Partisanship in the United States
Catherine Diemer
32. The Root of Political Polarization
Katherine Kaye
33. Why Rhetoric that Includes "Fake News" Matters to Everybody
Matt Wolpe
34. Cancel Cancel Culture
Alex Herne
35. The Bad-Bet of Tribalism: Human Neurology at War with Itself
Chase Woods
36. The Equalizer and Motivator, John Locke's "Tabula Rasa"
Jack Talton
37. Epideictic Rhetoric and Trumpian Ceremony
Rory Britt
38. Trump, Pathos, Exigence, on January 6th
Tayte Dupree
39. A Modern Day “Trumpian” Understanding of Kairos
40. Hermeneutics and the Power of Interpretation: An Introduction to the Hermeneutic Approach
Anthony D’Angelo
41. Humor is No Joke
Bailey Heartfield
42. Hyperbole: It is Huge
Brendan Tinsman
43. Similarities in Differences: Juxtaposition and the Power of Persuasion
Kelly Reichert
44. The "Stages" of Life
Will Ziff
45. Diving Further into Bitzer’s Rhetorical Situation
Cameron Hite
46. Adaptation
Grant Brown
47. The Rhetoric of Jazz
Emily LaFar
48. Confidence in Communication
Royce Francis
49. Confidence, Get Some
Drew Kendall
50. Music and Memory: Shaping Our Understanding of the World
Morgan Milhollen
51. The Subjectivity of Style
Eliza Jane Stamey
52. Scared Straight: The Effectiveness of Fear Appeals
Molly Olson
53. Drink the Kool Aid
Elizabeth Marr
54. Let Me Tell You a Story
Grace
55. With Love, Always and Forever
Anna Campana
56. Going Ghost
Kiya Norman
57. Chasing Gratitude
Dionne Highley
58. Let There Be Light
Megan Waterston
Conclusion: Reverance Facciamo Calzini (inaccurately translated as “Let’s Go”)
About the Authors
Rhetorical Terms/Concepts, and Main Arguments
Back Cover
Shelley Sizemore
To Teachers
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