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Rhetoric Agitation

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The article “Rhetoric, Agitation and Control, and Social Change” written by Bowers et al basically, talks about the rhetoric, agitation, control and social change. Rhetoric is used as an instrument to devolve message that has significance in producing an action. Rhetoric is seen as an instrument of persuasive it can be used either by speaking or writing. Two examples of rhetoric is a student getting an A from a teacher because her essay was good; to where a university announcing that student could no longer gather on campus. Agitation is fighting against a decision and showing your disappointment. There are two types of agitation, which are lateral and vertical. Vertical agitation is trying to change the system by following the rules. An example
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