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1] It surprised me most to know how long that Quintilian’s ideas and concepts have been around. They’ve been around for many centuries and not many ideas hold up for that long. It also surprised me when I realized how common and regular it is to see it in current works. Many things fit the form and style of Quintilian.
2] I’m so very excited to learn that persuasion has been considered an art form for many centuries that I can barely contain myself. This means that I, enjoying argument for argument’s sake, am an artist of great proportion. But in all seriousness and stoicism, it is a great feat for an idea to stay solid and concrete for so long and not be proven incorrect by other people. He got it right hundreds of years ago.
3] I think that the 5-part scheme will be easy to use for the most part. Finding counterexamples and refuting them will definitely be the most difficult. Since we are talking about volunteer organizations, it might be hard to find bad things to say about them. Other than that, the scheme makes sense and it is simple to follow.
4] I think an interesting way to introduce my paper will be to talk about statistics of the hungry people in Toledo. I might accompany it with a story. Revealing a statistic seems to make the most sense because it is definite evidence. Making this interesting might be harder than I thought.
5] The narration will be the easiest part of Quintilian’s scheme to use. It is just explaining and displaying what the organization is about. There is a lot of detail to discuss and there is a plethora of information for me to use thanks to Al Gore and the inter web.
6] My refutation will most likely look like an English document on standard weight copy paper, 12 point font, double spaced, and black and white. I think it will start with a counterargument, something about how people can’t give up their own food just to feed other people. And it will finish with a refutation that I haven’t yet come up with. It’s difficult to come up with something against a food bank, all they do is good.