My name is Daree Shannon I'm 19 I'm originally from Detroit, Michigan but I live in Grosse Pointe. I graduated from Grosse Pointe South at the top of my class. My major is journalism I hope to one day write my audio biography along with other books and movies! I really like Wayne State I’m a sophomore. My hobbies include reading, playing piano, singing, watching TV. My favorite shows are True Blood, General Hospital, Real housewives of Atlanta, Boardwalk Empire, and the Golden Girls. In the article the History and Theory of rhetoric James Herrick he expresses the history of rhetoric, why it is significant in everyday life, and the theories of why people are against and don’t understand rhetoric. In the fourth century b.c. the earliest rhetoric was in Platos dialogue Gorgias. He thought rhetoric was foul and ugly. After Gorgias first appeared it was a struggle for rhetoric to redeem itself. Rhetoric presents the question of why something exists, the reasons why, and how it came into existence. Despite rhetorical questions being good for learning, researching or just questions that pop into people’s head everyday many people view rhetoric as stupid and empty talking. Through my personal exprience in this english course I find rhetoric to be very usefu. Especially when it comes to writing and creating a credible argument. Without rhetoric there would be no question we as students could ponder and ask when we are writing our essays. The different rhetorical appeals, logos, pathos, and ethos exist to help writers persuade their audience through emotion, personal experience and logic reason. I think rhetoric is definitely an effective art to use when teaching a English class. Before having this class I never though of rhetoric let alone think that it would be helpful for my writing. I want to have my blog be about Stem cell research informing people on the positive attributes. I've been in a wheelchair since I was 7 years old and when people start getting the stem cell surgery I wanna be one of the many people to walk again!