Rhetorics: the art of getting what you want

  We all have been in a situation a some point where we have to convince someone. Recently, I had to convince my sibling to go to a movie with the rest of the family. It was a matinee, and my sibling always sleeps the day away. In the end we went to see the movie and he slept till dinner. Rhetoric can be boiled down into some basic decisions, some of those being looks, media used, and word choice.

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  In class on Monday 8/24, We were tasked with choosing five words to describe our selves for a job,  date, and roommate. We then had to get into groups and sort the lists into those three categories. It wasn't the first time I had to do an activity like this. It was a clear word difference between how a person described themselves for a job, because they wanted to look desirable to an employer. Between the other two it was a bit harder to distinguish, if they didn't use words to describe themselves as better lovers. The difficulty probably comes from the fact that the writer wanted to appear desirable to a person they want to live with. In the end the situations in the activities were about making yourself look desirable to the intended audience.