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		<title>Apologizing for Colloquial Slurs: This Could &#8211; and Should &#8211; Be One of Those Cases</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2011 07:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emil B. Towner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Claiming that offensive language is common only demonstrates that an apology is needed that much more. That’s the gist of the story out of Wisconsin, where a county supervisor made the following remark during a board meeting: “We jewed ’em down some.” That was his response when asked about the county’s dealings with a contractor. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emiltowner.com&amp;blog=7763299&amp;post=752&amp;subd=emiltowner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thirsting for a Difference?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 17:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s try something. See if you can count how many times you&#8217;ve walked by a faucet or water fountain already today. Now imagine this: What if all those faucets disappeared and you had to walk an hour to get a jug of water&#8230;and then another hour to bring it back to your family? It may [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emiltowner.com&amp;blog=7763299&amp;post=632&amp;subd=emiltowner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Hope of Civic Leadership in Rwanda</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 03:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emil B. Towner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; In January 2009, I walked through the Kigali Memorial Centre for the first time. I spent a few hours walking through each section, reading captions under solemn images and trying to imagine the horror that took place across Rwanda in 1994. The last section of the museum that I walked through was a memorial dedicated to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emiltowner.com&amp;blog=7763299&amp;post=595&amp;subd=emiltowner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BP’s Apologia and Visual Rhetoric</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 16:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emil B. Towner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BP’s apologetic rhetoric balances apologia strategies that evade responsibility for—and, at the same time, take credit for its (re)actions to—the oil spill in the Gulf. In addition to the implications the company's rhetoric has on society, it also stands out as an interesting case study in the use of visual rhetoric as apologia.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emiltowner.com&amp;blog=7763299&amp;post=560&amp;subd=emiltowner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ellen Degeneres Should Not Have Apologized to Apple</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 15:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emil B. Towner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, Ellen Degeneres showed a spoof commercial of Apple&#8217;s iPhone on her show. The next day, Degeneres issued an apology to Apple during her show, stating: &#8220;I am sorry if I made it look like the iPhone is hard to use. It&#8217;s not hard to use. I have an iPhone&#8230; I just learned how to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emiltowner.com&amp;blog=7763299&amp;post=557&amp;subd=emiltowner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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