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To be honest, I am a little confused in this class. All the different theories are confusing to remember. The definitions of the theories are wordy and I need to decode the definitions before I can understand the theory. However, what I did understand was the difference between rhetorical tradition and critical tradition. Maybe the reason I understood was because there were concrete examples to base each definition off of.

I agree with what we learned and I definitely think there is a difference between rhetorical tradition and critical tradition. Some people are more "numbers-numbers-numbers" others are more creative and expressive. With that, we've evolved this idea to relate to people in general. Those who go with the critical tradition are seen as "OCD" while those who go with the rhetorical tradition are more "go with the flow."

As with anything, things can be interpreted in a number of different ways, but I think that these two are the main groups and everything else would be a subgroup of these. Any theory can be applied to any text in pop culture, any person, anything, or really any culture. It's all in people's perspectives and how they see and analyze things.