Rhetorical Analysis Of Telling It From The Mountain

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Throughout my life, I love history, from reading books to watching documentary’s on historical events. During my time I’ve listened to the fireside chats and thought they were well done and poignant. But that was it, my knowledge about rhetoric was as simple as I described it at the start of English 102, “To me is was just two people fencing with words, trying to dominate the other, proving who is right and wrong.” But after reading Erin Ryan’s article in Spot Light in First-Year writing, “Telling it from the Mountain: A Rhetorical Analysis of Fannie Lou Hamer’s Speech before the Democratic National Convention”, and the analysis of how technology (televised and radio) can enhance rhetoric to the point of influencing a nation, peaked my interest