I don’t really know what the idea portrait of me would be. I’ve been thinking about this since the question was posed at the end of class. I have narrowed it down to three scenarios: the first one would just be a comfortable me. I would be wearing sweats with sneakers in like a park or some busy city background like Gallery Place or DuPont Circle. I’m not exactly what it would mean but it would be me. Comfortable and out on the city. A deeper meaning would probably be it doesn’t matter how you dress it’s still going to get done. The second would be a formal regal portrait. I would be sitting on a thrown but it would be made up of marble and gold. If be wearing a black silk gown with a medium length trail and have a crown and scepter. I want it to be a supreme overlord feel but like a soft supreme overlord and not an in your face supreme overlord. The third one would be me in and field of waist length sunflowers during the day when the sun is highest in the sky. If have a huge afro with flowers in it. I would be wearing somethung flowy and the picture would be captured when the wind is blowing slightly to have whatever I have on moving in the wind. All my portraits would have my resting face (although the Supreme overlord would be an even meaner version).

The five canons are still relevant today. I took a speech class in the fall of 2016 and read/learned about Cicero and the five canons. Reading this article it’s strange to think that speeches were not tailored to its audience. Tailoring your speech to the audience is such a vital part of the speech. It’s what engages people. Like if someone went to speak to a group of fine arts students about string theory the students qouldnt be engaged and the speech would be almost pointless.

Cicero might have needed to use five individual parts because at the time those five parts could have been missing from speeches. Cicero could have observed numerous speeches and found that arrangement, invention, style, memory, and delivery were missing from speeches that could have been effective in getting their point across to their audience.

A stopping point is good so the leader, as well as their followers don’t go overboard and/or do too much that puts whatever their doing or trying to do in jeopardy. A stopping point also prevents confusion or overloading information and/or ideas onto members of the audience.

Reading the section on arrangement is basically what I’ve learned from the time I first learned to write a paragraph until now.

In the style section I can’t really think of specific leaders who use their individual styles effectively besides Barack Obama, but for some reason Morgan Freeman comes to mind. When Morgan Freeman speaks people listen. The most effective characteristics of style to me are: voice (like Morgan Freeman and the AllState man), tone and changing tone at appropriate moments to create emphasis or to deemphasize something, hand gestures/body language, and a certain swagger that a speaker has to have. It’s hard to explain but certain people have the swag to win over the majority of people. Rating about the classical cannons of rhetoric I think about if Cicero knew how revolutionary these canons would be and if he would have ever thought of them still being used some thousands of years later.

Cicero and Cataline was an interesting story.