Blog 12

I have a decent amount of understanding for rhetoric. It is the use of language with the purpose to persuade someone one way or another. I think the way we act and our body language can describe our position on the topic. If we are trying to persuade someone we most likely have a confident body position because you have to know a lot about your topic in order to effectively persuade someone. I hear rhetoric mostly on the television and mostly during elections. It is generally in a positive index. My subculture definitely uses rhetoric to influences potential new members to join the fraternity. I can include this in my mini-ethnography by explaining and showing examples of how we recruit.