In the article, New Orleans Is Wrong to Remove Its Confederate Monuments, Daniel Davidson argues that it was wrong for the confederate statues in New Orleans to be taken down. He advocates his argument by using a numerous amount of rhetorical strategies- slippery slope, parallel structure, rhetorical questions, ethos, pathos, and logos. In Davidson’s article, he starts off with using a story of the first confederate stature being torn down- in the story, Davidson uses pathos to connect with the intended audience and get them to believe and agree with his viewpoint. After telling pathos-filled stories, he includes the use of a slippery slope- he explains that the removal of one confederate statue will continue and cause school and public memorials…
Social Media's Impact on Revolutions Authors use a variety of techniques in order to get the audience to connect and interpret an article. In the article, “Small Change”, by Malcolm Gladwell, he uses pathos and logos effectively so that he is able to get readers to connect to his work. Pathos appeals to the audience’s emotions, and logos refers to the logic of the writer when appealing to the audience’s intellect. Such rhetorical appeals help to strengthen his article on the limitations of how social media has not helped to start revolutions.…
On September 12th, 1962, President John F. Kennedy organized to deliver a speech at Rice University in Houston, Texas, that played a huge role in shaping the efforts of the united states in technology and outer space. John F. Kennedy addresses to his audience, which includes government officials, congressmen, scientists and other students and faculty members of the university. His speech is considered to be a mark regarding the start of a modern era of exploration and innovation of outer space. In Kennedy’s speech, he uses a significant amount of ethos, pathos, and logos to tell his audience the importance of the United States to go into outer space.…
Brian Wesley Turner Professor D.H. Simmons PhD Composition II 09.19.2014 Eyes Wide Open In the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Hospitality Public Service Announcement video: “If You See Something, Say Something™”, the audience is persuaded to take a stand and be a part of keeping the United States of America safe to live and explore. This is especially while on vacation or on business and traveling through the fifty states.…
The trademark of logos, mascots and names of collegiate sports are on a different level than professional organizations. In professional sports, this situation is where it has hit its all time high. For decades professional sports organizations like the Washington Redskins and Cleveland Indians have been faced with a tremendous amount of trademark controversy over their name or logo. There are many more professional teams facing this adversity but these two have been dealing with the USPTO for years to try to patent their trademark. With that said, because USPTO uses the Lanham Act of 1946, they have denied registration.…
Pathos can also be negative which mean it can bring out your fear of something. An example was displayed because men fear being told they’re getting old. Mike being told he playing like Betty White, which is not only old but is a lady. Every man in my mind feared ever been told that by another grown man. Snickers to that fear of a men in consideration and displayed it in this ad.…
There are three means of persuasion ethos, pathos, and logos. To begin with, ethos is described in the lecture as ethics or reputation. The communicator of an organization should be trustworthy to be effective in communicating change. Conger (2013) described one step in the process of persuasion as establishing credibility. For example, after working with Tricare for five and a half years, the supervisor chose me to cover for her in her absence due to my reputation as a hard worker who could relate well to almost anyone.…
In article “Media Begging Us for Conspiracy Theories on Las Vegas” by Ann Coulter an ineffective piece of writing because it lacks ethos, pathos, logos, contains many fallacies, especially ad hominem and doesn’t consider potential rebuttals. The article is an ineffective piece of writing because Ann Coulter doesn’t use ethos to establish her creditably on the issue anywhere in the article nor did she she try to establish the credibility of her “evidence.” While she tries to break down the credibility and trustworthiness of certain news outlets, she nevers gives the audience a reason to trust her and believe what she is trying to say. By not doing so, she doesn’t give a reason for the audience to trust her or believe the “evidences” that she is trying to give.…
Write an essay analyzing the issues raised by these arguments. Be sure to indicate which side you most strongly agree with. Support your position, providing cited evidence from articles, reasons and examples from your own experience and observations, discussions you have participated in, Your essay should be as clearly focused, well organized, and carefully written as you can make it. I want to see you as an author use a logical appeal (label) and appeal to one’s emotions( pathos) and an appeal of credibility expert opinion(ethos} Highlight and label ethos pathos and logos MLA Required On-Demand Writing Assignment…
The goal of argumentative writing is to persuade your audience that one’s ideas are valid, or more valid than someone else's; therefore, the use of appeals of logos, ethos, and pathos are critical to making the argument more compelling to the audience. The best way to appeal to the audience through the usage of ethos would be to share my personal experience being abused by my ex-boyfriend who is also my older son’s father. I can also conduct interviews of battered women and use their testimonies and the experiences to support my argument, because we would all qualify as sources’ of credibility. Using logos would support the claim presented through the facts and statistics gathered during research to help strengthen the argument. For example,…
Ethos/Pathos/Logos Analysis: Maus Throughout the graphic novel Maus by Art Spiegelman, a plethora of the rhetorical appeals, ethos, pathos, and logos, are demonstrated. Ethos is established via things like credibility of the speaker; Pathos is displayed through things like appealing to the audience’s emotions, hopes, fears, or prejudices; Logos is shown through things like clear, rational ideas, facts and citations. All of those ways to show the rhetorical appeals can be found in Maus. While examining the illustrations and dialogue of Maus, one can analyze and cite many exhibitions of ethos, pathos, and logos.…
American Tragedy Ronald Reagan is one of the best presidential speakers. Especially in “Speech on the Challenger Disaster.” Ronald Reagan’s use of ethos, logos, and pathos help to honor the seven astronauts, and unite the nation through the tragedy. President Reagan establishes his credibility and trustworthiness by using “I;” therefore, appealing to his own personality and experiences making him more credible. This example, “I know it’s hard, but painful things like this happen” (Paragraph 5), and “I have always had great respect for our space program, and what happened today did nothing to diminish it” (Paragraph 6).…
While logos and ethos help an argument, the use of fallacies can hinder an argument’s credibility to the reader. In the entire editorial, Pielke references that the addition of a sports major will bring together the separation between academics and athletics. He does not refer to any other method of solving this problem and in one instance, he says that creating these types of degree programs will bring the two issues closer together. This is assuming that the action he wants universities to take is the only one that will provide a positive outcome of a closer knit community between the academic and athletic departments. There are other possible ways to decrease this separation other than adding an entirely new major only specific to those…
According to a research done by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 443,000 people die primary from smoking and another 8.6 million live with a serious illness caused by smoking each year. People who smoke, ignore or do not fully know and understand what smoking does to your body and social life. In the past there was a lot of money and assets involved on the tobacco industry. There was very little movement of change on not using tobacco; however, in recent years a lot of organizations are doing ads to prevent or to reduce tobacco use. These ads target mostly the youth, the use can change and have a renewed generation.…
After noticing the speaker’s confidence during the speech, it became clear that his calmness and ability to speak clearly, his ability to refer to his notes and to use the power point at the same time and also his ability to ensure he was the source of the information he was giving made his delivery good. This informative speech could have been improved with more body movement during the transitions and a good eye contact with the…