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independent scholar of rhetoric, popular media culture, and public memory
About the Author
Jaime L. Wright (PhD, University of Texas Austin 2007) is an independent scholar of rhetoric, popular media culture, and public memory. She taught undergraduate courses for fifteen years at St. John's University (Queens, NY) and authored book chapters and essays Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Argumentation and Advocacy, Women's Studies in Communication, and other journals.

The Power of Promises Made

We feel the power of promises made: what happens when they are broken and what happens when they are kept. We see the historical arc of language as it makes and keeps a people against all odds, through all tribulations.

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