Tag: persuasion
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February 25, 2008 05:44 PM EST --
I'm doing a persuasive speech in english class on weather or not wikipedia should be considered a valid source of information, and i thought it would be helpful to gather some real opinions. also, . . .
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April 10, 2009 03:36 AM EDT --
I just met a persuasion expert by the name of Michael Lee, and he has quite a unique story to tell.
For years, he suffered from extreme shyness. He couldn't even look at girls straight in the . . .
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April 10, 2009 03:54 AM EDT --
There's only one sure way to get anything you want in life... and that is with the cooperation of other people.
Without the cooperation of others, you'd never get a job, go out on a date, . . .
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April 09, 2009 09:22 AM EDT --
Let me tell you a story.
There once was a man who was a failure in everything he did. He managed to get a decent job though, but his co-workers continued to belittle and mock him because . . .
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September 19, 2006 01:44 PM EDT --
I saw the film Thank You for Smoking recently, and let the moral quandaries it depicted sit and ripen nicely. Finally they fermented to perfection during a lecture on universal morality . . .
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July 09, 2006 07:54 PM EDT --
"Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either."
- Gore Vidal, US writer
Never at a loss for words . . .
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May 27, 2007 10:02 AM EDT --
Book Review ~ Frederick Wentworth, Captain: None But You by Susan Kaye
Title: Frederick Wentworth, Captain: None But You Book 1
Author: Susan Kaye
Publisher: Wytherngate Press
ISBN: 9780972852944 . . .
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October 12, 2008 04:40 PM EDT --
Discussions about the November election are becoming more heated. Even with members of my own family, it is hard to have calm conversations about the positions of each candidate.
Personally, . . .
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January 20, 2008 01:14 AM EST --
I missed last week's Persuasion , and am looking forward to Northanger Abbey tomorrow- it is one of my favorites, and one that doesn't have a GREAT movie version.
How are they . . .
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July 05, 2008 05:42 AM EDT --
'You never heard such words before?~
'You don't hear such words time and again,
how exceptionally pretty you're?~
Am I the only . . .
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March 24, 2009 07:44 AM EDT --
In my research for persuasion, I stumbled across this great, great training video in persuasion by Dave Lakhani.
Now it's quite lengthy, 110 minutes, so sit back and enjoy or if you don't . . .
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April 06, 2007 03:58 PM EDT --
It has been awhile since I’ve been able to raise my pen…uh hmm…stroke my computer keys…to the topic of dear Jane Austen. To my Jane Austen Colloquium members I do . . .
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March 30, 2008 12:09 PM EDT --
In one of my recent articles I've mentioned the use of flashbacks as a useful tool, which I used in turning a short story into a novel. I haven't got much experience myself, and I'm not . . .
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October 27, 2009 10:26 PM EDT --
Alas, there have been a plethora of Austen ‘spin-off’’ novels written in recent years that it really should be its own genre by now. Some of them are great and other’s not so . . .
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November 16, 2009 05:52 PM EST --
Power of Persuasion - Conversional Hypnosis
Conversational hypnosis is a skill in which a trance is induced to a subject with the use of language and persuasion. The goal is to accomplish an intimate . . .
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May 13, 2007 08:59 AM EDT --
Let's play a little fun experiment. Get a friend to stand next to you and without warning, begin pushing against her. What do you expect her reaction to be? Of course! To maintain . . .
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June 27, 2007 10:27 PM EDT --
Ok - I took the test. Here are my results.
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Neo-Pagan (100%)
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Liberal Quakers (94%)
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Theravada Buddhism (93%)
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Unitarian Universalism . . .
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May 18, 2006 08:20 AM EDT --
As Joseph Conrad wrote to H.G. Wells in 1901: "What is all this about Jane Austen? What is there in her? What is it all about?"
What is behind all the interest and excitement attached . . .
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May 25, 2006 09:06 AM EDT --
I thought it might be fun to start compiling our favorite Jane quotes, whether they be from her letters or her books. Here are a few of my favorites on the topic of her observations, definitions, and witticisms. . . .
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April 21, 2008 07:13 PM EDT --
Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.
- Jose Marti, Cuban freedom fighter and hero (1853-1895)
When you read the quotation you might be tempted to think that it was . . .
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