This thesis explores the trajectory that the developing technological fields of Ambient Intelligence and Persuasive Technologies introduce new intricate relationships beyond fundamental use and availability because they change our abilities to act. Since its classic articulation…
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This research project will analyze the congruity between Jerry Vines’ homiletical method and practice and his effective use of Aristotle’s three modes of persuasion. The analysis will reveal primary hallmarks of Jerry Vines’ preaching ministry. Twenty-three sermons from Vines’ m…
This paper focuses on the analysis of the language of persuasion used by the Mexican drug cartel and discusses how they use persuasion as an influence tool. The cartel on instances have used the language of persuasion to recruit and influence others. With the tactical knowledge …
This research systematically investigates the sleeper effect, a counterintuitive phenomenon in which attitudes toward a persuasive message increase in favourableness over time despite the presence of discounting information. The sleeper effect has rarely been researched since cr…
Why have so few states acquired nuclear weapons? Understanding why states that could have “gone nuclear,” but chose not to, could yield policy insights to help us persuade today's potential proliferators. While the number of studies on the topic has increased, most analyses exam…
Within a discourse analysis framework, this research investigates persuasion in political discourse in the last speech of the former Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, delivered one day before he left the country in the middle of the Tunisian Revolution that sparked the…
In Persuasion , Jane Austen uses Frederick Wentworth, a fundamentally unique Austen hero, to revise the eighteenth century theories of mind she has relied on in her earlier novels. Specifically, her depiction of his memory both recalls and undermines Enlightenment traditions. In…
This study investigated persuasive strategies used in ancient Egypt and ancient China. In an effort to attain a better understanding of the utilization of persuasive tools from these two ancient societies, this study was completed by examining Ptahhotep's Maxims from Egypt and L…
The principal claim defended in this thesis is that for Aristotle arousing the emotions of others can amount to giving them proper grounds for conviction, and hence a skill in doing so is properly part of an expertise in rhetoric. We set out Aristotle’s view of rhetoric as exerc…
This thesis argues that Lucretius employs five coherent groups of imagery in his De Rerum Natura to explain the fundamental laws and processes of his materialist philosophy. These groups, embedded in human experience, guide Lucretius' reader through the difficult, and at times u…
The thesis explores the trend in recent years by HCI designers to create an interface which is increasingly more anthropomorphic in nature, due to advances in computer graphics and interface technologies. The thesis has researched the effects of one such manifestation of this an…
The present study explores and compares persuasion in American and Arabic (Saudi) editorials from a speech act perspective. It sheds light on cultural similarities and differences between American and Arabic (Saudi) cultures in terms of persuasive written discourse. The data cam…
Using the literature on persuasion and deterrence, this study assesses the effectiveness of U.S. economic and diplomatic efforts to prevent genocide in Sudan.