How Others View Rhetoric

I enjoyed reading what other people had to say about the way we all think and react rhetorically. Personally it took me awhile to define rhetoric from my view point and it felt like a bunch of pieces I couldn't quite fit. Saying that is probably because I am out of practice in writing but reading what others had to say helped me to form my thoughts into well oiled ideas. Also while reading my peers definitions I saw the importance of rhetoric in the physical world not just on a piece of paper or a computer screen. It is important to not only write rhetorically but to think and express your actions rhetorically because if you are well versed in this art you will be able to contribute to the culture of the world instead of just being another breathing mammal. Ideas, thoughts, feelings all similar all needing to be expressed are important to a culturally different world. Getting your views out there could change the world for the better or just simply contribute to someone else who has the power to do so. Like martin Luther King Jr. did and how Barack Obama is trying to do now. Everyone has important ideas inside of them just not everyone has to power in the world or in their head to make a change.