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Friday
Feb012013

How to Screw Up

DateFriday, February 1, 2013 at 10:41AM

Know your rhetoric, and your own mistakes can enhance your career. My most popular presentation shows how. And Fast Company wrote it up.  You can see it here.

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Was the Paul Harvey "So God Created a Farmer" ad aired during the superbowl a belonging trope? If so, was it a metonymy?

Thank you.
February 11, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterBill Walker

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