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Using the political agendas of the two women
as a point of departure, the student took her argument farther with a series
of rhetorical questions that emphasized the role of the American audience
in the spectacle of the pregnant rhetorician.
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Sometime in the
near future, America will go into its own labor, and the product is very
uncertain. Will we be more cognizant of our government’s foreign
policy? Will we have greater compassion and understanding for the
“other”? Will we insist on equity and fairness over finding the best
price for oil? Or will we continue to paint the world into two opposing
camps, the good and the evil? Will we continue to naively believe
that we can’t do anything about the position our government takes?
Will we continue to make allies of the harshest and most tyrannical regimes
AGAINST their people who want democracy? Perhaps the September 11th
attacks have put to us an important question that we have elected two very
different pregnant rhetoricians to answer: Where exactly do our priorities
lie? And whether you agree with the politics or policies of either
Beamer or Pearl, this is a question you must answer on your own, perhaps
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This central relationship between images of fertility and images of
genocide, Terrell argues, generates great rhetorical power but also the
potentially cataclysmic ideology of an apocalyptic (or messianic) conflict.
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