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This study investigates the metaphors embedded in President Barack Obama's speech in Cairo, delivered on June 4, 2009. Mr. Obama delivered his speech at a time when the dissonance between the Muslim world and the West expanded. The rhetor's motive was to arrest the increasingly …

New technologies accompany each war. The submarine dove during The Civil War, tanks rolled through World War I, the atom bomb was dropped in World War II and Agent Orange was diffused in Vietnam. Media often refer to today's conflicts in Afghanistan and Pakistan as "Obama's Dron…

Many scholars have called the utility of the generic method of rhetorical criticism into question. Adopting a situational approach to generic rhetorical criticism increases the value of the method considerably. By analyzing situational constituents (scene, purpose, agent, act, a…