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Did William Jennings Bryan Graduate READY? (Illinois College)

Edit Public Technologies 10 Mar 2016
Oldenburg and Enz are drawing on the work of Greek teacher of rhetoric, Isocrates, who taught around 393 B.C.E. Isocrates, whose school competed with Plato's academy, privileged students with natural ability and sound character. However, Isocrates taught by having students imitate oratorical exemplars and through extensive of public practice....

Appointments to Board (ISE - The Irish Stock Exchange plc)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Feb 2016
Aberdeen Latin American Income Fund Limited (since 2010), Eastern European Property Fund Limited (since 2012), Isocrates Limited (since 2013), Kubera Cross-Border Fund Limited (since 2006), Marwyn Value Investors Limited (since 2015), Metage Funds Limited (since 2003), Terra Catalyst Fund (since 2008), Trading Emissions PLC (since 2011), Trinity ......

Foundation Launches Young Leadership Experience to Hellas (Greece)

Edit Huffington Post 11 Jan 2016
Leadership. The ability to motivate others towards a common goal. When coupled with a charity or philanthropy, the art of connecting with others to better humanity ... Photo. Ariane Nomikos ... Photo ... Photo ... Photo ... Pnyka is the hill where Demosthenes gave his most brilliant speeches to defend democracy and Isocrates conceived the Pan-Hellenic idea of the Hellenic City-States, making an unprecedented revolution in the definition of a human nation ... ....

Wordplay: Opening the futility closet and exposing the lumbersexuals within

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 23 Dec 2015
WORDPLAY. David Astle. DAVIDASTLE.COM  TWITTER.COM/DONTATTEMPT. Boston's public library was designed by McKim, Mead & White back in 1895. Sneakily, the trio chiselled their names into the building's facade. Not as graffiti but a tablet beside the main portico. In classic script the tablet vaunted the library's many treasures, including Moses, Cicero, Kalidasa, Isocrates, Milton …  Advertisement ... Nowhere, in short ... Viz ... ....

Terry Papillon receives 2014 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Advising (Virginia Tech - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)

Edit noodls 23 Apr 2014
(Source. Virginia Tech - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) ... The Provost's Award for Excellence in Advising is given annually to a Virginia Tech faculty or staff member who serves undergraduate advisees in exemplary ways ... "Dr ... His research specialty is Greek rhetoric, particularly the Greek rhetorician Isocrates. He has published numerous articles and two books, one in 1998 on Demosthenes and one on Isocrates in 2004....

America the What?

Edit CounterPunch 08 Nov 2013
He devotes a whole chapter of the book to Isocrates, attempting to defend him against the characterization of sophists presented above. He does a good job of this, but at the end of the chapter, the fact remains that Isocrates was far more practical in his orientation than was Socrates (or any of his followers) ... Isocrates favors discourse, but ......
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