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You don’t have to race to race walk. But if you do compete in judged races, two rules apply:  The...

Walking for fitness is a cheater’s way of sightseeing. You can tour places from your  own city’s neighborhoods to streets...

In walking you don’t dress from head to toe, you dress from toe to head. Think of it this  way:...

With good  shoes on your  feet,  you’re  nearly ready to hit the  road. Although great shoes are the key ingredient,...

Weather variations make any outdoor activity, including walking, more complicated and  layers more important. Of course, it’s also  the  weather...

Although many of you may be taking up a walking program to lose weight (and it is indeed effective with...

Chinese rhetorical thought can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn period (770– 476 bce). The word for “rhetoric”...

The history of Korean rhetoric is the history of translation of and communication with its neighboring foreign cultures. From its...

Throughout central and eastern Europe (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria), classical rhetorical studies pertain to a...

The term “epideictic” derives from the Greek epideixis, translated as “showing forth” or “display.” According to Aristotle’s classification of rhetorical...

In 1967 the assertion that rhetoric is epistemic attracted immediate attention from rhetorical scholars. The assertion was taken to imply...

The field of communication has historical roots in the interplay of human speech and ethics. Our journals record scholarly investigation...

“Rhetoric” and “ethnography” are slippery concepts, each describing a practice or methodology as well as a class of textual objects....

The goal of rhetoric during the Renaissance was the mastery of spoken or written language to affect a particular audience...

Rhetoric is the art and study of human symbol use. As a discipline, rhetoric began in ancient Greece as a...

The word “rhetoric” comes from the Greek rhêtorikê, which means “the art of speech,” “the art of speaking”: the etymology...

Walter Lippmann (1889 –1974), political columnist and confidant of several presidents, public intellectual and winner of two Pulitzer prizes, remains...

Marshall McLuhan is best known for his theories on the impact of media apart from the specific content/messages they convey....

The title of a widely influential 1923 volume, The Meaning of Meaning (Ogden & Richards 1989), suggested the difficulty of...

The term media refers broadly to the range of tools that humans have used throughout history to communicate with each...

Medium theory stands apart from more generic “media theory” in its exploration of the influences of communication technologies in addition...

The modalities of communication – speech, song, writing, images, etc. – constitute general registers of human expression and experience. As...

A model is a simplified description in graphic form of some aspect of reality. A model of communication seeks to...

Objectivity has been a criterion of both science and its practice throughout the modern era. Its principal meaning is that...

“Paradigm” refers to a fundamental set of assumptions about reality and the appropriate ways of studying it. A discipline is...

Phenomenology is a movement in philosophy associated with the human sciences as a qualitative approach to the study of human...

Park rangers enforce laws and regulations in national, state, and county parks. They help care for and maintain parks as...

Paralegals, also known as legal assistants, assist in trial preparations, investigate facts, prepare documents such as affidavits and pleadings, and,...

In papermaking, wood, recycled paper, and a small amount of vegetable fibers are turned into pulp, which is spread in...

Paleontologists study the fossils of ancient life-forms, including human life, found in sedimentary rocks on or within the Earth’s crust....

For both practical purposes and aesthetic appeal, build­ing surfaces are often painted and decorated with various types of coverings. Although...

Packaging machinery technicians work with automated machinery that packages products into bottles, cans, bags, boxes, cartons, and other containers. The...

Doctors of osteopathic medicine (D.O.’s), more com­monly referred to as osteopaths, practice a medical dis­cipline that uses refined and sophisticated...

Orientation and mobility specialists help people with disabilities stay actively involved in society. They teach blind, visually impaired, and disabled...

Oriental medicine practitioners, or OM practitioners, are health care professionals who practice a variety of health care therapies that are...

An optometrist is a health care professional who provides primary eye care services, including comprehensive eye health and vision examinations,...

For those who are familiar with anthropology, the themes of chaos and complexity might seem intuitively related to the field....

Chaos theory describes the motion of certain dynamical, nonlinear systems under specific conditions. Chaotic motion is not the same as...

Child maltreatment has occurred throughout history and across cultures. Anthropology’s cross-cultural approach has contributed to efforts to define and explain...

Until recently in the history of human beings, childbirth has been the exclusive work of women, who labor and bear...

Vere Gordon Childe was a 20th-century archaeologist whose work concentrated on European prehistory, social evolution, and origins of the archaic...

Chichen Itza emerged as a principal political player following the Late and Terminal Classic “collapse” of Maya polities in the...

Since the Industrial Revolution, most Western societies have come to consider childhood as a time of innocence rooted in biological...

Civil disobedience refers to the willful challenge and disruption of law or the orderly flow and process of daily social...

Cladistics is a method of reconstructing phylogeny without necessary recourse to either fossils or molecular distances. It is required to...

Clines are gradations in biological features over geographic space. They refer to continuous degrees of difference in either phenotype or...

Many public health interventions are extremely good value for money. Advice from doctors to give up smoking, vaccinations against communicable...

This article addresses the distinctive challenges of planning, financing, implementing, and evaluating public health policies in low- and middle-income countries....

The origins of public health can be found in ancient Greek and Roman civilizations. Many of the prominent themes in...

A fair society should give individuals equal opportunities to realize their own life project. Health is of utmost importance for...