Ramage.......and my headache

Hi this is Chris Hardin and as I mentioned during our first class(It seems like a quite a long time ago) I'm a Kutztown graduate going back for my teaching certification(English & Communications) and M.Ed and currently work full-time as a case manager/counselor in the Allentown School District.....As I delved into Ramage's book I'm uncertain as if the abstract nature of this reading, the start of the school year or my allergies/sinuses has given me a pounding headache for the last week or so. Hopefully this posting will be somewhat coherent in my curtain condition. Ramage presents a number of examples of with his "performance" of Rhetoric and it's certainly an unusual start to a textbook. He contrasts the "rhetorician" and Socrates and how Socrates stands for "The Truth" while a rhetorician is only interested in his or her gain. Within the first segment, Ramage slams rhetoric as a deceptive driven practice without discernible boundaries. His comparison of rhetoric to professional wrestling is quite amusing as he uses his own rhetoric to devalue the topic. Ramage is looking for the reader to examine the complexities of rhetoric and acknowledge the deeper meanings that rhetoric contains.