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Aristotle's Rhetorical Triangle

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  In modern times, writing has been used for an unimaginable variety of purposes. Behind every blockbuster movie there are screenwriters, behind every student’s final year assignment there are proofreaders, and behind very politicians there are speechwriters. I risk being a cliché but the usual “the pen is mightier than the sword,” always comes to mind whenever I am asked to describe the power of writing. Now the complete quote “The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together,” is from Marcus Garvey, a famous Jamaican political activist. See any recurring theme? Writing and politics. I am not trying to conjure an absurd imaginary world where words don’t exist, thus politics don’t exist as well. But I am merely trying to bring us to the main thing that makes writing so crucial to politics, the quality that lends politicians the ability to arrange words that moves heart thus winning votes called rhetoric. In the process of writing this article

An integrated process-based HSE management system: Case Study summary

 This is a rephrased summary of "An integrated process-based HSE management system: A case study" written by Vahid Hajipour, Hamidreza Amouzegar, Ali Gharaei, Mohammad Saeed Gholami Abarghoeia, Sepideh Ghajaria.  Case Study Summary of software development In the referred article, the authors proposed a centralized data management system to facilitate a better integration of health, safety and environment (HSE) policies into organizational practices. This solution is suggested to address the lack of efficient HSE implementation due to the existence of challenges in the integration process itself. The common denominator across organizations that leads to this problem is the conventional use of data management practiced by departments that are inherently disconnected from each other. The flawed practice of data management due to disconnected systems causes the difficulty to perform collaborative efforts (in this case the incorporation of HSE into organizational practices). Howev