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This essay offers an explanation for the United States' continued resistance to universal health care as grounded in two taboos: taxation and rationing. Even we were willing to pay more in taxes to directly subsidize the cost of medical care for those in need, rather than our current system of...
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performance at least partially depends on consumer and investor confidence, this paper aims to examine the rhetoric of the global … economic crisis. By systematically comparing the rhetoric employed by key opinion leaders in the United States and Europe … confidence in both cases. The author assumes that public rhetoric has played an important role in shaping the development of the …
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This paper develops a hypothesis of the economist, Albert Hirschman in 'The Rhetoric of Reaction, Perversity, Futility …, Jeopardy' (Harvard, 1991) regarding the history of the independence of Colombia. The Rhetoric of Independence extended the …
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The art of rhetoric may be defined as changing other people’s minds (opinions, beliefs) without providing them new … information. One technique heavily used by rhetoric employs analogies. Using analogies, one may draw the listener’s attention to …
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We analyze conditions under which a candidate's campaign rhetoric may affect the beliefs of the voters over what policy …
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