In every rhetorical context, we can evaluate how an author creates a cognitive framework or the process of turning a group of complex elements and data into a simpler, easier to understand format. This framework includes the actor, goal obstacle, and tacts of a story; assumptions about the audience; values that guide the audience; and essential facts. These components can be seen throughout Stokely Carmichael’s “Black Power”, a speech from the 1960s after the assassination Martin Luther King Jr. Although Martin Luther King Jr. believed that peaceful resistance was the best way to combat racial discrimination, Carmichael thought otherwise and shows that belief through his use of this cognitive framework.
Although it can go unnoticed at times,