Associative Argument Comparison

Category	Queen Elziabeth I	Bill Gates
Foucault: "unwarranted claims to knowledge" (Bertens 147)	Royal blood lays claim to the crown of England.	MicroSoft is the only operating system available.
Foucault: "illegitimate usurpations of power" (147)	Elizabeth was the bastard daughter of King Henry VIII of England and Anne Boleyn, Marquess of Pembroke who becomes Queen.	MicroSoft dominates the market.
New Historicism Handwriting	Three samples of "Elizabeth."
Language	Collected Works: Queen Elizabeth I spoke and wrote in French, Latin, Italian, Spanish, and ancient Greek.	An educated guess: Bill Gates speaks and writes in English and understands bianary code, application languages, and operating system protocols.
Digital text	Who is Queen Elizabeth I?	Who is Bill Gates?
News Broadcast	Speech of Queen Elzabeth addressing her troops at Tilbury (see PDF at bttom page of link).	BBC News: Gates Knighted by The Queen.
Televsion	In HBO's Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth beheads her cousin Queen Mary of Scotland beheaded for conspiring to assinate her.	Microsoft Television.
Film	By Shekhar Kapur	Nothing So Strange by Brian Flemming
Internet	Associative Argument	Associative Agrument

Works Cited

Bertens, Hans. Literary Theory: the Basics. Routledge, London and NewYork: 2001.

Elizabeth I: Collected Works. Ed. Leah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller, and Mary Beth Rose. University Of Chicago Press, 2000. pg 379.

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