Cole Elliott ERH-321 4 October 2017 Help Received: None   The Merchant of Venice Short Response Paper   Part 1 The concepts of marriage and love in early modern England were not necessarily linked. Because marriage was seen as a method to begin “consider[ing] the economics of setting up a household together” (Kaplan, 311), love […]

Just beyond the dock sits a barely visible metal post resembling that of a former street sign. It is hard to conceptualize that this place I love so dearly was conceived from a natural catastrophe long before I entered the world. The sun sets out in front of me. After a long day of enjoying […]

Cole Elliott COL Miller ERH-321 20 September 2017 Help Received: None     Part 1   John Ponet’s Treatise provided William Shakespeare’s English society with a perspective of ruling as a responsibility. It countered the inherited monarchy with a set of particular guidelines and rules as to what a person of power owed to his/her […]

Part 1 Education is a concept that is timeless. However, the various forms of educating someone have changed in some cases dramatically over time. The way we educate is entirely contingent upon the cultural values and norms of the time. Renaissance England was a time of shifting culture. In the example of Prince Hal, it […]

Cole Elliott Garriott 4 December 2015 Help Received: Peer Review Editing Final Reflective Research Paper Rhetoric’s 2500 year history has included a number of changes, shifts, and complex debates that has transformed it into what it is today. What was once considered a useless, pointless exercise has grown to become a very common method of […]

Cole Elliott Garriott 4 December 2015 Final Reflective Research Paper Rhetoric’s 2500 year history has included a number of changes, shifts, and complex debates that has transformed it into what it is today. What was once considered a useless, pointless exercise has grown to become a very common method of oral communication in the 21st […]

At the beginning of this course I saw rhetoric as a form of persuasion through the use of a “rhetorical arsenal” in pathos, logos, and ethos. While this is true of rhetoric, I have come to understand some other concepts and theories that have expanded my definition if I were to rewrite it. The biggest […]

Why would Rhetoric gain prominence at the beginning of the Renaissance? – Rhetoric in the renaissance was valued differently than it was in the medieval and Greek/Roman time periods. The world had evolved in many ways and rhetoric–now more established–was used as more of a tool to gain skills to societal and real-world success. Unlike […]

Proposed Topic: Rhetoric’s development in the legal system – I would like to write my paper on researching rhetoric’s development in the legal system, and particularly emphasizing this through the lens of gender equality and economic class. If rhetoric belongs in the court of law does it shy away from discrimination of any kind (gender, socioeconomic, […]

Themes: -Rhetoric moving forward always a connection to the past (Greek, Romans, Christianity) -There seems to generally be a division between the wealthy elite (aristocracy) and the commoners in all forms of rhetoric -Rhetoric’s importance and logical sense is debated in each culture -The younger, more progressive rhetoricians and rhetors challenge the older, more conservative rhetoricians […]