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The current reality that we are living in is undergoing major social political and economic changes as social movements play a major part in these changes These Movements carry different forms and contents of messages that transcend the boundaries of time and space Whatever it is local or universal oral or written individual or group however these messages are mediated they carry specific purposes that seek to influence or even guide thoughts and behavior perhaps in terms of what we do not know Recognizing and understanding them requires a method or approach to analyze and interpret the discourse How can these strategies help us to enhance our ability to analyze and critique and how this could be means of understanding ourselves and others Perhaps the answer can be found in Donovan J Ochs and John Waite Bowers s book The Rhetoric of Agitation and Control The book mainly examine the used strategies of Agitation and Control by individuals groups or organizations in their rhetoric messages verbal non verbal mass mediated during social movements from students demonstrations civil rights marches and protests for political or social issues Bowers and Ochs provide many examples of movements that happened in the past as an illustration of the concepts of agitation and social control In the book
