Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Fahnestock - style

Certain metaphors shape our way of thinking

Repetitions/ forms lead us to fill in conclusions

Writing is not "essentialist" - style is something students have control of.

Crescendo "I came, I saw, I conquered"

Same goes with images - ape to man -- we forget that this is just one conception - other discoveries break single train.  Suggest that we progress smoothly, that time has a direction, that it happens consistently, and that humans are the "end product"

Darwin - evolutionary argument - our emotions, the way we respond to joy etc. derives from animals.
beta and alpha dog- antimetabole ("up" and "down"

see categories of word choice -

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