Year: 2019

+ astronautlis, bangarang, cecil otter, chill dummy, dessa, doomtree, four fists, gravedigger, hip hop, joe strummr, lazerbeak, mike mictlan, no kings, p.o.s., paper tiger, rap, rhymesayers, sims

P.O.S. Top Five: Part II

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“Gravedigger” Chill, Dummy (2017) Like a lot of P.O.S.’s work, “Gravedigger” calls upon us as listeners to act and think about what we are actually doing with “this little flash” that we have on this earth. Are we spending time in club? Are we falling in line? Are we questioning the systems we exist within? What are we, ultimately, doing with our time. In … Read More P.O.S. Top Five: Part II

+ audition, craig finn, doomtree, drumroll, get down, hip hop, mike mictlan, never better, p.o.s., rap, rhymesayers, safety in speed, we don't even live here

P.O.S. Top Five

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I don’t remember, for sure, how I originally came across P.O.S. (Stefan Alexander). I think I first heard about him in 2006, around the time he released Audition. At that time, I read Alternative Press almost every month, and P.O.S. was in one of the “Artists to Look Out For Issues.” I picked up Audition, and its mixture of punk and hip hop struck … Read More P.O.S. Top Five

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+ aristotle, epideictic, major league baseball, NFL, pat tillman, pericles, rhetoric, ted williams

Epideictic Rhetoric, Athletes, and Veterans: A National Discourse: Part II

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Note: This is the second part of the paper I presented at the 2012 Rhetoric Society of America conference in Philadelphia. Looking at the obituaries for Ted Williams, in relation to other baseball players who lost parts of their careers to military service, we can see that the focus, as of 2002, rested on his military service as well as his baseball accomplishments. For … Read More Epideictic Rhetoric, Athletes, and Veterans: A National Discourse: Part II

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+ aristotle, chaim perelman, epideictic, george w bush, pat tillman, patriotism, pericles, september 11, ted williams

Epideictic Rhetoric, Athletes, and Veterans: A National Discourse: Part I

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Note: I presented this paper at the 2012 Rhetoric Society of America conference in Philadelphia. “The country lost a great American today.” This statement from the USA Today‘s obituary of Ted Williams, who died on July 5, 2002, almost one year after September 11 and the beginning of the “War on Terror,” serves as a reminder that sports plays an integral role rhetorically in … Read More Epideictic Rhetoric, Athletes, and Veterans: A National Discourse: Part I

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+ Adrian Alphona, Carol Danvers, comics, G. Willow Wilson, identity, Kamala Khan, marvel comics, Ms. Marvel

Kamala Khan or Ms. Marvel? Identity in “Ms. Marvel: No Normal”: Part III

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Today, I’m going to wrap up my discussion of identity in G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona’s Ms. Marvel: No Normal by looking at some panels from the issues #3 and #4 of the volume. Specifically, I want to look at the scene with Kamala in the girls’ locker room at her school and the scene when the police arrive at the Circle Q. … Read More Kamala Khan or Ms. Marvel? Identity in “Ms. Marvel: No Normal”: Part III

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