Authority

What Can Happen When Someone Is Given Too Much Power? When you were a kid, you probably played games with your friends or siblings right? Simon Says, for example, is a game pretty that much anyone has played. One person is given the power to make others do whatever movement they want, but only if they say “Simon says” first. What if someone you really didn’t like was standing a bit too close to the left of someone? You could make the person to their right hit them just by saying “Simon says…

Persuasive speaking is a type of speech in which the speaker is trying to convince the audience to do some type of action. The Greek philosopher, Aristotle, divided persuasive speaking into three categories: ethos, pathos, and logos. Logos is persuading by the use of data, statistics, and interpretation. Pathos is a type of persuasion which testifies to the reader’s emotions. Lastly, ethos is a type of appeal which is influenced by the speaker’s language and by the actions taken by the speaker.…

Figure 9.6 is the less effective version of the persuasive message. This message uses two psychological tools of influence. Reciprocation and liking are the tools used to persuade the reader. Reciprocation is used by offering the members who sign up for the walkathon free items. Once members pay for the registration and receive the free items, they will feel obligated to attend to walkathon to repay their acceptance of the free items. Additionally, current credit unions members are being…

Anyone who knows me, knows that I do tend to use persuasion a lot. Over my winter break I used lots of persuasion. Those including Logos, Ethos, and Pathos. I used those three persuasion techniques while trying to go to a party, going shopping, and when trying to go to a friend’s house. While on break I used the persuasion technique Logos. It means that logic is used to support a claim. Over the break I was invited to a Christmas party that a few of my friends were going to. When I told my…

The need for power and control, something that someone would die for. Throughout life people have a certain amount of power and control, some more than others. Some people would go great lengths to keep, or get more of, the power and control they posses. There are many different forms of power and control, it may be a dynamic, the law, or anything in between. The author of Montana 1948, explores the need and want of power through wildly different characters who each have their own personality…

mental schemas to aid us in informed and logical decision making.; Hhowever, as humans, we have also logically figured out ways to bypass those fail-safes entirely. Initial persuasion, including for cults, hinges on the recruiter’s appearance of authority, honesty, and likeability. As Levine states, “[when] the source appears to have any or all of these characteristics, people not only are more willing to agree to their request but are willing to do so without carefully considering the facts. We…

Political power gives governments the ability to control the behavior of people. There are several different types of government and the amount of power they possess depends upon the type of regime it is. Examples of how different types of government control its population can be found in literature ranging from fiction pieces that are meant to warn people to nonfiction analytical articles. Three piece of literature that demonstrates the use of power are “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson,…

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Power Power is word that speaks volume. It is a word that has the ability to change the people and the environment around whether it is a good thing or a bad thing. There are many types of power to be considered . We all you have the power of electricity which is the source of light, technology and more. If there ever was to be a power failure like in the book of One Second After it would drastically change the world in a negative way. What are some other types of power? Coercive power is a…

This paper to me seemed like it would be a very tough one to accomplish. I am not one to go into another person’s home and just observe them and maybe put myself in an awkward position. But, this assignment actually pushed me out of my comfort zone. Because of this paper, I talked to an old friend of mine who has an all Hispanic family and they live where I grew up but hold a lot of their culture with them and inside their home. I asked my old friend if I could come over and catch up with him…