COMM 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Oral Tradition, Nat Turner, Battle Rap
15 Dec 2020
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● Know the examples and what they go with
● Know how to recombine the examples
● Power - manifested, in the ability and is only manifested in a group, when they are able
to act together, but they have to act together based on a common understanding and a
voluntary sense of collective identification
■ Danaryias throwing the broken chains, getting the slaves to act
together, saying you can be free and they recognize each other
○ Not a slave/ mind control
○ Don't have to accomplish anything
○ That's why rhetoric is a power to persuade you to act as a group
● Force - harry potter example
○ A bunch of forces going on, force of his family, stone in his pocket, ability when
he turned the guy to stone
○ Ability of anything to enact a change in something else through the exertion of
outgoing energy
■ Ex: wind, fashion sense of your eye,
■ Something that just happens
● Strength - Incredibles - strength is specific type of force
○ Power physically to exert force on something else through the capacities of the
body, the body possesses force onto itself and uses its muscles to exert it. Using
tech you don't have strength in your body you magnify in your body
● Violence - what magnifies strength
○ Tools of violence: gun, hammer, fist - magnifies your strength, and you can exert
force through it
○ Violence in its pure form is exertion of force on something else without
permission using some sort of tool or instrument
■ You don't ask permission, and it breaks/ restructures something else
without
○ Solomon example - tearing down the trees to make the weapons to change and
● Authority - not violence at all
○ Don't have to exert force, it's when you say something and people trust you so
much or it represents the power that everyone is so you just do it and listen, you
don't question it you just do it
■ Authority grows out of power
■ Ex: yell leader - that person has authority when they make a motion and
people cheer
● Comes from the power of A&M in a way people have agreed to
work together and stand for it, and it allows them to work together
