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Surfing The Kali Yuga: Tracking The Alt-Right On Twitter, Jaida Hodge-Adams
Surfing The Kali Yuga: Tracking The Alt-Right On Twitter, Jaida Hodge-Adams
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The alt-right is a hyper-extreme, decentralized network of far-right pundits and their doggish supporters that exists almost entirely online. Consumed by conspiracy and identity, the myths of bigoted ideologies like racism, antisemitism, and transphobia are taken for granted, and their ideology calls for violent ends by violent means. In the physical world, members of the alt-right often keep their rhetoric to themselves; Online, however, they find solace in a vast, international network of websites and forums that together form one giant echo chamber into which they can dump their darkest thoughts. Though any individual member of the alt-right may operate …
A Rhetorical Analysis Of Messages To America By Osama Bin Laden, Meredith Taylor
A Rhetorical Analysis Of Messages To America By Osama Bin Laden, Meredith Taylor
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze bin Laden’s argumentation and rhetorical techniques in three speeches addressed to the American population. Persuasive techniques that were used will be described as well as the historical context surrounding the timing of each speech’s release. These speeches will be examined using Campbell and Burkholder’s “Three Stages of Rhetorical Criticism” as outlined in the second edition of Critiques of Contemporary Rhetoric.