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[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

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I think it's time to work on elocution. In order to have a little fun with it, and because we are such a small class, we will be reading Fox in Socks alloud until it rolls off the tongue like a State of the Union address. Open your books...


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Continuing our discussion of the week, we've addressed sex and violence, but now I want to focus on the more subtle means of persuasion...things a cynical person may call "manipulation." You've all read, or at least opened, your book, so who'd like to chime in first?

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[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

Good point Lindsey. And, can I add, people are always more upset when they feel they've been manipulated after the fact. In sales it's often called buyer's remorse. In relationships it can be a killer.

But you like law...what about the finesse it takes to convince a jury of your side...isn't that manipulation?

[wannabelawyer.livejournal.com]

I prefer to think of it as persuasion.
I always thought of manipulation as being more like forcing people into something.

Might all be semantics though. I'll have to think about that.

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

Ah, the power of words. Semantics...more important than you could ever imagine. Keep thinking on it Lindsey.