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I am a thirty-two year old Canadian residing in Toronto, Ontario. I have never been published nor been paid for writing...yet, so I guess that makes me an innocent amateur, or a fool - "Nobody but a fool ever wrote, except for money." said Dr. Johnson. I write in my spare time, when the mood strikes.

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being allowed to edit this section

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how to completely miss great opportunities

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"How to Successfully Edit and Update Your Bio on Helium" by Samuel Beckett, illustrations by Robert Bateman

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was working on a dairy farm

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was when I tripped on a sidewalk crack but recovered my footing before anyone noticed

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hasn't arrived yet

Arts & Humanities > Classical Lit & Mythology The art of rhetoric in Ancient Greece and Rome

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The art of rhetoric and oratory was a seminal component of governance and leadership in the Classical World. It was a supreme skill, a meticulously crafted talent, and a well-honed ability used to present and persuade in equal measure. The polity of ancient Greece and Rome held rhetoric to be almost conclusive in itself, regardless of the message, a McLuhanesque development long before our time. It may also have been a time in which words spoke louder than actions, or at least instigated and controlled actions to a much greater degree. Some written speeches of Roman politician and master o...

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