In a brief essay, explain why the late Marie Colvin felt it was important for her to risk her life covering stories about the lives of ordinary people living in war zones.

What will be an ideal response?


To Colvin, the story about wars is not about battles, strategy or technology as it is about people. Colvin expressed a thought not that different from that of Charlottesville photographer Ryan Kelly (whom we read about in Chapter 14) about feeling guilty because she can escape the trauma she is covering. She said she sometimes feels “like a fake because . . . I get to go home.”

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Replacing the thought, "Everyone will laugh at my speech because I sound so dumb" with "I've done my research and I know what I'm talking about" is an example of

a. visualization. b. cognitive restructuring. c. selective relaxation. d. rhetoric-therapy.

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LaToya’s new co-worker always has great stories, but LaToya has trouble being persuaded by the stories because of the way the co-worker jumps around in topic and often has to “fill in” parts he forgot. LaToya is utilizing ______.

A. narrative rationality B. narrative coherence C. narrative fidelity D. narrative preemption

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____________________ is a method to reduce speaking anxiety by guiding speakers through imagined positive speaking experiences

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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