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1. Rhetoric - Figures of Speech You learned about rhetoric and figures of speech back in English class, but now you may be a little rusty distinguishing between a metaphor and a simile (two figures of speech). The purpose of this lens is to list common figures of speech, explain wh...
2. Anti Obama TShirts and Bumper Stickers The best anti-Obama gear on the web.... Is he an Obamunist? Is an Obama Nation...an Abomination? Impeach him? Just Hype? Barack O'Blah-Blah? NoBama? Speak your mind about "that-one" with these creative & fun anti-Obama t-shirts & bumper sticker. ....
3. Grammar and Parts of Speech - How Language Works! This lens is based on lessons I taught when I was an English grammar and composition teacher and when I was teaching grammar and composition to homeschooling students. (And also from experience from my studies of linguistics and foreign languages and...
4. Famous Greek Quotes Most people can’t point where Greece is on the map; some even believe that Greece is a thing of the past and now perhaps some other nation occupies the space that once was Greece. Though nothing of that is true, most of the people seam to know...
5. Principles of Persuasion If you think you can persuade someone making use of a few so-called "techniques of persuasion," you should think again. People don't get persuaded that easily. As a matter of fact, if a person doesn't persuade himself, no persuasion will actually tak...
6. Hands On Shakespeare Look at the Elizabethan gentleman in the portrait here. Listen to what he is saying.   How can you do that?   See how his right hand is held? It is a gesture called conscienter affirmo.   According to John Bulwer this gesture means: &...
7. Managerial Communication The purpose of this program is to provide managers with a basic toolset to communicate effectively at different levels of the organization and with different stakeholders of the firm. All of us can improve our communication skills by taking the simpl...
8. Soft Tyranny I first ran into the attempted Google Bomb on the web site Irregular Times, where I saw that the same person had left two comments on separate articles, under different names, but both linking to the same Obama White House page. The idea was to get a...
9. How to Arrive, Survive, and Thrive at the Right College for You What's college for? Why shoud I go? Where should I go? What do I do when I get there? These are the questions students and their parents have asked me for forty years. This page is about what I have learned answering them -- and answering think tanks...
10. Classical Education at Home So what is classical education exactly? That is somewhat dependent on whom you ask, because there is tremendous variety among those who call themselves classical educators. However, all that variety can be categorized into two general schools of thou...
11. Rhetoric Rhetoric is often described as the discipline of communicating through words. From the ancient rhetoricians to the modern day, rhetoric is part of the fabric of life. Rhetoric also has a negative connotation, when someone describes another's communic...
12. Classical Thinking Classical Education is the way people used to be educated. The method is broken up into three stages; The Grammar Stage (generally from Kindergarten thru 4th Grade), The Logic Stage (generally 5th thru 8th Grade) and then lastly, The Rhetoric Stage (...