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Jim Morrison and rhetoric!!!

Jim Morrison was one of the first musical artists in American history to use rhetoric to induce social action. Having scored in the genius range on his IQ tests, Jim studied many different ways to manipulate the general population. He was intrigued about learning how to start riots and indulged heavily in the readings of Fredrick Nietzsche and Allen Ginsberg. Jim Morrison also was a spectacular poet and lyricist. He had a way with describing feelings of sadness, loneliness, and he also could also use his amazing voice to describe a subject in very dissonant detail and still get his point clearly across. Jim could make is voice very calm and collected, but he could also change, in the flash of a second, making his voice loud, frightful, and boisterous. Jim Morrison used everything within his ability to shock the audience. He would run and jump around on stage like a possessed demon and he would also attempt to antagonize the audience. Jim felt that by doing this the audience wou...

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