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My best friend, Dana was invited to speak to the kids at Carver Center for Arts and Technology, which is the high school that she used to attend, about graduation from high school and college. When she told me I immediately thought about Aristotle’s idea of rhetoric. I even made sure that I studied it before I went to the program with her just in case she needed a few ideas. The program on graduation and college was on April 4, 2003. When we got there she was very nervous. While we waited in the hallway for the program to begin I asked her if she wanted me to go over the speech with her but she said no. I told her that I knew a little about rhetoric because I leaned it in my Communications Theory class but she said she too had learned about rhetoric and was very prepared but she was just extremely nervous. When the program began and the commentator called her name to speak I began to get just as nervous as she had been before the program began. As she walked on stage and began talking she appeared very confident and not so nervous anymore. I thought that I would have been bored but she had a hold on the audience because everyone was very attentive. After the performance many people came up to her and complemented her