Rhetoric is one of the oldest disciplines in human education. Its origin took place in ancient Greece. Rhetoric, which is also called oratory, is the art of the living spoken word. Rhetoric is a discipline dedicated to teach the students with the necessary abilities to make a speech in public, and it promotes the use of correct language. The main goal of rhetoric is to persuade others through the speech. Plato believed that rhetoric lead people far from the truth because they were persuade to believe in what the speaker said even though Plato believed that good communication was important. On the other hand, Gorgias did not give rhetoric great importance because for this philosopher nothing was real and in case that there was something real, it could not be comprehend by men, and even if it was understood, it could not be transmitted to others. I think that Gorgias himself was a man hard to comprehend. There was a sophist whose perception of rhetoric was similar to the one is maintained today. The sophist's name was Isocrates, who was a Gorgias'student. Isocrates believed that rhetoric was a great tool that allow men to behave in a more civilized and democratic way. Aristotle made also great contributions to rhetoric because he distinguished between formal and informal reasoning, and he also divided in three different categories the way that speakers can persuade others which include logos (logic), pathos (emotions), and ethos (credibility of the speaker). When the Romans conquer Greece, they assumed several of the Greek practices in different areas including education, and Rhetoric was not an exception. In Roman education, Rhetoric was taught by a rhetor on higher school levels usually after secondary school. The persuading speech that Roman students had to practice was called declamation. The speech had two possible themes: abstract (quaestionae) and those related to people and real situations (causae). A most elaborated variant of declamation was controversia, which was performed in public to entertain the audience including parents, Roman literate society, and sometimes the Roman emperor himself. In Rome, Rhetoricians were more worried about the style and form of the speech rather than its content, which gave this discipline a hypocrite character. Marcus Tullius Cicero is considered by many as the greatest Roman rhetorician because he made some noticeable contributions. Another respected Roman rhetorician was Quintilian, who blended the best of Greek and Roman practices in the discipline.
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About Me
- Manuel
- I was born on December 22nd, 1986 in Sancti Spiritus, a small city in the center of Cuba. My mother was Luisa Legon and my father Orlando Herrera. I coursed my first studies in Carlos de la Torre Elementary School beginning in September 1991. Then, in 1997, I continue my studies in Ernesto Valdes Munoz Middle School. By the time I graduated there, in 2000, I had taken the required tests to go to a vocational high school called IPVCE Eusebio Olivera where only talented students were allowed to go. I began course studies in this vocational school and then finished them in 2003 when I transferred to the University Marta Abreu de Las Villas located in Santa Clara province to study English Literature. I was in the University for a year only because I traveled to the United States and stablished my residency here. I started to work in a Seven Eleven in 2007 and I am still an employee there. I began my studies at Miami Dade College in 2007 starting by an English course for foreign speakers. In the fall of 2009, I started to work toward my degree on Graphic Design, but now in the spring of 2010, I changed my major for Anthropology. I am currently a student at Miami Dade College.
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