DISCOURSE

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This essay is a review of the literature surrounding global warming in anticipation of a research question: How is our sense of reality informed via discourse?
Literary discourse is what the writer tells the reader or waht they want them to know.
A synopsis on essays by John Clifford, Michael Foucalt, Gee, and James A. Berlin on culture, discourse, and the ideology in writing.
Types of discourse.
A plea to resist the right wing extremist domination of our political discourse.
Intelligent discourse and reasoning are always the first causalities of hysteria.
Some decry the level of discourse in America, saying it has degenerated too far. I don't agree. I actually think it needs to escalate. The issues are too important, and the forces of ignorance are too strong.
I myself have studied different kinds of criticisms that may as well be applied when examining the symbolism of gay discourse.
Let's put some polity back in our politics. And let's choose to tone down our personal political discussions. And let's insist that our news agencies do the same.
If we do not learn to speak to each other in a civil and constructive manner we will all suffer the same fate. History teaches us this over and over again.
What can you really consider to be a fact . . .can such a thing even exist?
Isn't it time to relegate the Catholic Church to the same peripheral status we give to Flat-Earthers and right-wing militias and neo-Nazi skinheads.
Explains why smoking is bad and reviews the methods available today to quit smoking.
Written February 19, 2010, this is my latest-as you can see there is some inspiration from Charles Dickens, yet it is entirely my own.
This paper analyzes the effect of cultural assimilation on the main characters from A Passage to India, Nervous Conditions, and Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade.
A look at Twitter's impact on the realm of politics through democratic information sharing.
A philosophical essay arguing the case for the marriage of nature and nurture in human development.
Days of Being Wild by Wong Kai-Wai revolves round the protagonist named York. He is a charming drifter and was a mythical lover to a store attendant So Lai-Chun.
A poem about the expression of life
All of what follows is submitted by way of explanation - in a humble effort to get past the why's of what I've been writing previously at this website to the wherefores/therefores ... which, given their day in the sun, could well be the fun stuff.
A look at why Eveline didn't leave her family based on female roles
Over nearly two decades, Cindy Bernard's artwork has progressed and she has become one of the truly accomplished contempora
A synopsis of essays by Patricia Bizzell, Elizabeth A. Flynn, Bruffee, and David Bartholomae.
A brief discussion of how history is perceived as myth and how civilization has been described in 20th century America.
John Lake feels the Republicans are experiencing a "lack of objectivity" in their ongoing non-cooperation with the new administration
This is a paper examining research concerning ADHD and focuses on the medicalization of society.
There is today a growing interest in the teaching of composition writing. Current methodology has attempted to bring it into line with the various developments in the teaching of oral skills.
Super partisans are destroying political debate. It does not have to be, there are rational ways to dismiss the irrational among us.
Rene Descartes divulges some thoughts that were-and still are in some cases-avant garde ideas. Descartes tries to prove the existence of God, as well as shed some light on other philosophical principles; his explanations are elaborate, yet riddled with fallacies.
Philosophical and metaphysical analysis of the works of Gottfried Leibniz.
Education, politics, civil and not so civil discourse collide.
On the continuing discourse on race and racism in America and how language and words need to be held to a higher standard than tolerance and acceptance.
Adronicus and Boethius are examined as examples of the famous discourse on courage by Aristotle
Ann Coulter, who is hated by the Left almost as much as Rush Limbaugh, was on Bill O'Reilly recently to discuss the art of the personal in political discourse, which some people would call mudslinging.
A Discourse on the Procession of Woman as She Withdraws Her Mask of Innocence: A Revelation of the Truth of Those Women that Would Cuckold the Men that Adore the Seeming-ness of Them.
A comparative look at the differences between the view of Hans Kung, a proponent of religious discourse, and Reverend Becky Fisher, a Christian Right minister.
Listening, using a civil tone, and going beyond your comfort zone top the rules for effective political discourse.
A review of signs of the upcoming end times including Jesus' His Mt. Olivet discourse.
Samuel Johnson mentions that the discourse of the Spirit is way too long as oppose to the other speeches that seem to be declamations composed and repeated, placing emphasis on a moral question.