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Drlyne pitt -rhetoric
review for final
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Communication
Undergraduate 1
04/18/2012

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Components of Apology
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Acknowledge the offense, Acknowledge it's inappropriate, Acknowledge responsibility, Express Regret or remorse, Say I'm sorry, Say you won't do it again.
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Effects of an apology
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Victim has: power over forgiveness, Assurance it is not his fault, Assurance the relationship is safe.
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Non-apology Apology- Conditional/ backhanded
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Sorry if i offended you, I apologize to anyone who I may have let down. Sorry if you misunderstood / that you're so sensitive
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Goal of apology as a speech act
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Re-establish credibility
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Components of

Miller Test

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Whether "the average person, applying contemporary community standards", would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest, Whether the work depicts/describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by applicable state law, Whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.
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Thurgood Marshall
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Argued against separate but equal
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Patrick Henry
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Give me liberty or give me death
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In tuskegee experiment and Stolen Generation

(Apology?)

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Apologies were given by political figures
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Scopes
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Teacher put on trial for teaching evolution
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Lamark
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Inheritance of acuired traits
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Social Darwinism developer
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Herbert Spencer
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One's discourse has cultural dominance
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Hegemony
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Remedial Activities (3)
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Justifications, Apologies, Excuses
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Who wrote In Search of the People?
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Michael Calvin Mcgee
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Miller Test
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Determines legal obscenity
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What Euphemisms do to death
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Shroud it
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Presumption of innocence, Justic is blind
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Terms popular in the rhetoric of law
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Letter vs spirit of the law
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The question of whether one is supposed to precisely what the law says or go with the purpose behind it.
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√Kenneth Burke characterizes the list of the different purposes in the constitution's preamble as ¢♥
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Logically invalid
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The 9th ammendment mentions
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Rights retained by the peopl
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Roe v wade says life begins when
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The court says that it is not qualified to answer this
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A justice's view of "stare decisis" has political significance becausse...
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It provides a clue as to whether s/he thinks decisions like Roe v Wade should be overturned
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