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    When looking at Quintilian's system of rhetorical education, we see that he had his own ideas of what made a good orator, or as he described a citizen-orator. To be a great orator, Quintilian believed you first had to be a good citizen. This goes along the lines of thinking that there is some part of becoming a citizen-orator that can not be taught. Something that is inherent within the individual, quite possibly they are born with it. To witness a citizen-orator in modern time, we look no further than the commencement speech given by Steve Jobs to the Stanford graduating class of 2005.     His speech was very methodical and broken into parts similar to Quintilian's system. Steve told stories of his own to make things personal with his audience. He spoke of trials and tribulations that he made it through whether dropping out of college, getting fired, or getting diagnosed with cancer. In the end, he was able to "connect the dots" looking back to see how all the e...

     The three rhetorical settings that Aristotle taught were deliberative oratory in the legislature to debate laws, epideictic oratory at venues such as funerals or military honors, and forensic oratory such as arguments of innocence or guilt in a courtroom.       Deliberative oratory was often given in a fashion to weigh evidence for and against a plan or policy to determine what is in the best interest of the polis.     Epideictic oratory addressed virtue and vice dealing with the topics of praise and blame. It was the presentation of the virtue of an idea, a practice, or an action in order to get the audience to think, to reflect, or to embrace a new idea.     Forensic oratory is purposed to decide questions of justice, innocence or guilt, the severity of a crime, and the severity of a punishment. It focuses on what has already happened in the past rather than what may happen in the future.     I believe deliberative ...

         In the world today, we are plagued with making decisions on a daily basis of what is right and what is wrong. I want to explore the ethical and social responsibility amongst the masses and what I believe would be most ideal to benefit everyone. First, let us define the two. Social responsibility is viewed as an individual having the civic duty to decide and act in ways that are a benefit to society as a whole. To me, it pretty much means, don't be selfish; or using more positive framing, be selfless. Now, ethical responsibility is seen as the duty to follow a morally correct path. To me, this can vary all around the world based on your experiences and what you consider to be morally correct.      In my opinion, you can not have one of these without the other. I believe they go hand in hand. For individuals or companies to be socially responsible they have to be able to act on their ethical responsibility to do so, and vice versa. This is ...