Welcome back to another edition of my blog! This week, we will focus on George Frideric Handel, truly one of the greats, and not just because of his luscious locks. I mean come on, that must’ve taken hours. Handel was born in Germany in 1685, the same year as Bach, interestingly enough. As a […]
Month: September 2019
RCL Blog #4: Outline of Civic Artifact Speech
Isabelle Stepler Professor Taheri English 137H: Rhetoric and Civic Life I 25 September 2019 Outline for Civic Artifact Speech *Will use a visual aid during my speech Introduction Remember watching The Little Mermaid as a child? You stared in wonder as you thought, what on earth is that crazy woman doing with a fork […]
RCL Blog #3 – Elevator Pitch for the Fork
Remember watching the Little Mermaid as a child, thinking, What on earth is that crazy girl doing with a fork in her hair? Like the royals seated around Ariel, we are scandalized when someone misuses a fork. The fork has become an essential and proper utensil in our lives in a relatively short period of […]
Passion #1: Terminator and a Toccata… He’ll Be Bach
Hey guys! Welcome to my first real passion blog post! Even though most of you probably don’t know the difference between Schubert and Schumann (which probably hasn’t impacted your life very much) and may not really care, I’m going to try to educate you about some unknown tidbits of classical music that might just […]
RCL Blog Post #2
My chosen rhetorical artifact is the fork – simple, always present, even mundane. Instead of a single person creating the fork, it simply developed through the ages. The shape of the fork has been used for serving food since ancient times, but it was not used for everyday eating until the Middle Ages. Even then, […]
RCL Post #1 (September 9, 2019)
This week, I listened to an episode of This American Life podcast centered on topic of the Number-One Party School in the nation (according to Princeton Review) in 2009: Penn State. This podcast detailed four different perspectives from students, local business owners, police officers, and school administrators on life surrounding Penn State’s party culture. Throughout […]