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    susceptible to being linked to Parkinson’s disease. Even though there are incidents where Clinton’s actions question whether she has the disease or not, there is no proof yet that she has the disease. This topic will go into detail about Dr. Noel’s theory and whether or not Clinton is capable of withholding the presidential position. The reasoning for this analysis of Dr. Noel’s video on Clinton’s potential disease is to analyze the structure of his the claims made on Clinton with his use of word choice

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    Transformational and transactional coaching styles affect program philosophy so coaches must learn the difference between the two. A transactional coach exhibits selfish behavior and will put their needs above others. Due to this selfish behavior, the transactional coach will follow a course that will give him the most benefit without regard to his players. For example, winning benefits the coach by feeding his ego, so the coach may use players just to win more games. After playing for several

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    Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy, is a lawyer from the rural south that advocates for mostly children on death row. He spends most of his time in low income communities with next to no hope. His TED talk was based on his experiences in these communities, his career, and his knowledge regarding minorities while addressing his predominately financially stable, White audience. Trying to persuade an audience that is not effected by what you are trying to speak against is hard, however, Bryan Stevenson

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    Implementation The implementation phase of the project includes Lewin’s second stage, Moving. Yonder-Wise (2015) states that the arranged and strategic interventions and strategies are implemented to support the execution of the change ( p. 308). This second segment is compared to Lippitt, Watson, and Westley steps four, five, and six. These phases include selecting the change objective, deciding the appropriate roles for the change agent, as well as preserving the change (Mitchell, 2013)

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    Gorgias’ Encomium of Helen is a beautiful, short, though enigmatic, speech that demonstrates sophist, Gorgias’ mastery of the art of rhetoric. In this speech, Gorgias attempts to accomplish two important tasks. One, by presenting a reasoned argument to his audiences, Gorgias tries to lift the blame off of Helen for causing the Trojan War. Two, by demonstrating his mastery of the art of rhetoric, Gorgias attempts to attract future consumers of his teaching of the art of rhetoric. This might also be

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    Documentary reflection The assignment task for Term two was for a small group of people (three), to create a documentary and then each person to write a reflection. Before starting this documentary, we studied the history and development of documentaries. We then looked more into how different documentaries, Spellbound (objective) and Bowling for Columbine (subjective), how each separate style was created and made and how each different style affected people. We ran into conflict when we were choosing

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    GEICO’s advertisement located in Men’s Health November 2016 issue targets car owners through the use of several tactics such as segmented targeting, hooking the audience, and appealing to the audience while prying for consumers to make the simple choice; to chose GEICO over their competitors. GEICO is the second largest and one of the fastest growing private auto-insuring companies in the United States (GEICO, 2016). The target audience is reached through the imagery of a stack of cookies to correlate

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    Activity analysis Introduction As occupational therapy practitioners we are trained to help clients look critically at everyday routines and examine how their affected state of health impacts their ability to carry out what is important to them. However, occupational therapist goes beyond simply helping the patient recognize the problem. They prepare the client with skills necessary through various resources to fill the void in their abilities so that they can live their life with the highest level

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    Different times and places called for certain ways of writing. The distinction between these literary compositions can be as small as the difference in punctuation, or as big as the tone and word choice. An intriguing example of these kinds of discrepancies can be found in three different types of my writing being altered to fit my persuasive appeals, the audience for which I’m writing for, and… These examples include my Literary Narrative, a social studies DBQ, and one of my YouTube comments. When

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    “Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion” by Robert B. Cialdini In today’s society, we are bombarded by salesmen, telemarketers, and representatives. In the book, the author is trying to emphasize the art of persuasion. What is persuasion? Wikipedia will describe persuasion as “the action or fact of persuading someone or of being persuaded to do or believe something”(Wikipedia). Dr. Cialdini performed an observational research to study how customers are influenced by persuasion. By working as a

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