Local and Tangible

The most interesting and engaging part of this course was learning how power can be tangible and local. When thinking about power, it is all too easy to attribute the word and its context to the "big" players in the world. We often forget about the power that small aspects, such as people, objects, activities and languages can behold. The most important aspect of power that we learned through was the power of language, and uses of rhetoric. By understanding the processes of rhetoric, and frameworks that are used, and can be used successfully, or not, it becomes an apparent topic in all situations and experiences. Identifying powerful language, and its possible effects, makes the concepts learned throughout this course very tangible, and localized to the individual and how power manifests within us as well.