Greek and Geek

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My WalMart Receipt is Rhetoric

Both Public Literacy and the video we watched in class confirmed what I'd always thought about rhetoric: Rhetoric is a word people throw around to sound like they know what they're talking about, but they actually have no idea what they're talking about. They make it sound like it's so political when almost anything can be rhetoric. Rhetoric is communicating and almost everything communicates something to someone. Even things we don't think about

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Derrida

Let me start with three things. First: This is most definitely my first time on Tumblr. Second: It never once occurred to me to use Tumblr for academic purposes and Three: I did NOT finish the essay I am supposed to be talking about right now. I couldn't even comprehend the parts that were intended to be simple because I doubted which definitions of "basic" words were being used. Perhaps if I had attended Friday's class, I'd have a better understand but Derrida has made me doubt my understanding of the English language.