Discourse

President Barack Obama was in Iowa on a bus tour stop and chastised the modern media for creating political rancor and controversy. He harkened back to the good old days when everyone listened to Walter Cronkite.

Our leaders keep calling for civil debate, but it never shows up. Here's why.

Americans should not be concerned with the aggressive tone of political rhetoric. They should be far more worried about the lack of actual substance within.

The institution created for the sake of encouraging civil debate refuses to denounce incivility and vitriol.

This paper uses a transcript of a youtube video to explore how language reveals identity. The transcript and video link appear at the end. Due to format limitations, speech overlap and line numbers are not shown.

Without examination of underlying principles, appeals for civil discourse are incomplete. Three central principles are examined that are key to productive political dialogue.

Arizona University has announced a planned civility center, which is supposed to fight the lack of civility in public discourse that allegedly led to the Loughner shootings.

This article explains ways to improve our thinking about contentious issues.

Moving toward civil political discourse in the US will make the nation better. Bombastic speech is on its way out.

Bill Maher, the undisputed king of uncivil political discourse now that MSNBC has given Keith Olbermann the Royal order of the Boot, has a unique perspective on the Tucson shooting and the subjects of civil discourse and gun control.

President Obama called on the nation to live up to the best hopes and dreams of Christina-Taylor Green as he memorialized her and other victims of the January 8 shooting. He also announced to a overjoyed crowd that "Gabi opened her eyes."

This paper attempts to read the novel Beloved by Toni Morrison as an example of ecriture feminine as theorized by Helene Cixous and other French feminists.

This article is a brief sketch of Jurgen Habermas's theories of communicative action and discourse ethics explaining his discursive model of democracy.

Helpful questions that students can ask to interpret difficult texts.

Discussion of his days with Jesuit scholars, as a traveling tourist, and his worldly experiences.

Crispin Wright offers a pluralist conception of truth in Truth and Objectivity, where the idea is that various discourses have different truth predicates. Wright espouses what he calls a "minimalist" conception of truth.

Conspiracies that have Manifested Throughout the Black Community and how they can be bettered

Literary discourse is what the writer tells the reader or waht they want them to know.

If we do not learn to speak to each other in a civil and constructive manner we will all suffer the same fate. History teaches us this over and over again.

A plea to resist the right wing extremist domination of our political discourse.

An examination of how Jennifer Lopez signifies and defines many of the ways Americans have defined Latinas.

This essay is a review of the literature surrounding global warming in anticipation of a research question: How is our sense of reality informed via discourse?

Problem statement: the promos of marketized higher education by the British Council in Bangladesh have become a phenomenon that has succeeded in manufacturing the consent of a massive proportion of our educated youth.

Types of discourse.

Formed in 1976, the Clamshell Alliance formed to fight nuclear energy and nuclear weapons. This national grassroots movement helped to educate communities about the dangers of nuclear energy and challenged the governmental propaganda and the lobbyists they represented.

The idea of narrative in uncanny fiction is very complex. It is the nature of the genre to leave the reader perplexed and unsettled by the events that it unfolds.

Recognizing and using features of natural spoken English

Rene Descartes divulges some thoughts that were-and still are in some cases-avant garde ideas. Descartes tries to prove the existence of God, as well as shed some light on other philosophical principles; his explanations are elaborate, yet riddled with fallacies.

A look into Neil Postman and how his views tie into political discourse and new media as well as the changes ahead.

There is a clear dichotomy of social roles dividing whites and blacks (always somewhat arbitrary categories), and the post facto legitimization of these roles on both sides via Biblical exegesis.

Intelligent discourse and reasoning are always the first causalities of hysteria.

A poem about the expression of life

Philosophical and metaphysical analysis of the works of Gottfried Leibniz.

Super partisans are destroying political debate. It does not have to be, there are rational ways to dismiss the irrational among us.

A comprehensive outlook on how Englan's culture and foibles can be interpreted from the vantage point of the present days.

I myself have studied different kinds of criticisms that may as well be applied when examining the symbolism of gay discourse.

"Class is fundamentally elitist," says Debord. The subject is contextualised into a Batailleist `powerful communication' that includes truth as a totality.