{"content":{"sharePage":{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":false},"comments":[{"id":"65985476","dateCreated":"1391536805","smartDate":"Feb 4, 2014","userCreated":{"username":"stoner1","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/stoner1","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1202793136\/stoner1-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/coms168.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/65985476"},"dateDigested":1532129056,"commentId":"487178814_1","orphaned":false,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"comment","title":"Comment: Right--you've made a significant insi...","description":"Right--you've made a significant insight. Well put, too.","rangeActions":[{"name":"Comment added","rangeText":"I believe I did not teach anyone that read my paper about how the message studied worked as rhetoric. The main reason is that I believe that I focused too much of my emphasis on the context of the speech, and it carried over into the analysis portion of my paper. However, I believe my paper did provide a necessary historical account of time period and circumstances regarding the Sen. Obama\u2019s speech.","dateCreated":"1391536805","user":{"username":"stoner1","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/stoner1","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1202793136\/stoner1-lg.jpg"},"diffUrl":"\/page\/diff\/Tanaka%2CKyle+Matthew\/487284144?mode=code"}],"replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"65985488","dateCreated":"1391536869","smartDate":"Feb 4, 2014","userCreated":{"username":"stoner1","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/stoner1","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1202793136\/stoner1-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/coms168.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/65985488"},"dateDigested":1532129056,"commentId":"487284144_1","orphaned":false,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"comment","title":"Comment: Good use of the readings to make do y...","description":"Good use of the readings to make do your analysis.  Exactly what was needed.","rangeActions":[{"name":"Comment added","rangeText":"A speech is an agency of its time, one whose surviving record provides a repository of themes and their elaborations from which we may gain insight into the life of an era as well as into the mind of the man. (p. 453-454)<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">As I pointed out in my paper, one of the prevailing themes of Sen. Obama\u2019s speech is the focus and emphasis he places on unifying our nation. Given the context section of the paper, it is clear that Sen. Obama faced a stiff hurdle in terms of his race and his ties to the controversial Reverend Jeremiah Wright. I believe this helps illustrate Wrage\u2019s point of being able to gain a glimpse into an era. The fact that our country was on the cusp of setting a historical precedent in electing our first African American president, this helps define the speech rhetoric.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">In addition, Wrage also uses an excerpt by Roy Basler, to show how a speech can be seen as rhetoric and have an impact on our society. Basler (1946) examined President Abraham Lincoln\u2019s Gettysburg Address, and notes its significance in that Lincoln was able to \u201ccommemorate the past and to prophesy the future\u201d (as cited in Wrage, 1947, p. 455). This can be seen in Sen. Obama\u2019s speech when he talks about our founding fathers and how far our nation has come since their time. However, similar to Lincoln he looks toward the future when he says, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Calibri;\">The document they produced was eventually signed but ultimately unfinished\u201d (Obama 2008). More parallels can be gleamed through Sen. Obama\u2019s speech as well. So as Wrage argues, so will I in that I believe that Sen. Obama\u2019s speech is an example of rhetoric.<\/span>","dateCreated":"1391536870","user":{"username":"stoner1","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/stoner1","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1202793136\/stoner1-lg.jpg"},"diffUrl":"\/page\/diff\/Tanaka%2CKyle+Matthew\/487284336?mode=code"}],"replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]}]},"http":{"code":200,"status":"OK"},"redirectUrl":null,"javascript":null,"notices":{"warning":[],"error":[],"info":[],"success":[]}}