In this paper, you have to respond for the following question:
Is the practice of rhetoric good for democracy or bad for it? and why?
The paper should be based on the following videos:
the essay has two parts:
-in the first part, you’ll explain your argument and reasoning behind it by reference to Plato’s Gorgias. Here as you explain wether and to what extent you agree or disagree with Socrates, you’ll define your key terms and make your major arguments. You may want to take a look on chapter 3 from the following book(Socrates against athens):
http://books.google.com/books?id=m6BWG2MSpFIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=socrates against athens&source=bl&ots=8dy9OIHTNQ&sig=VTAD44pSlJdH3QcEfg_Yn41CKqA&hl=en&ei=PbhKTLvJKYumsQOpkphJ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CBYQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false
-in the second part, you’ll support your arguments by applying the to a contemporary example. you’ll selection instance of current rhetorical discourse and show how it bears ot the arguments for/or against rhetorical that you made in the first part of the essay.So, I chose a video of Obama(I put the link on youtube above) and you need to make your argument based on it.
Finally, Be Certain to ground ALL of your claims- in both parts of the essay- in quotations from the relevant video(Obama’s speech,), and you shouldn’t use any outside source.(except chapter 3 from the book and the video)
