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    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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