Credibility

ethos to appeal to his congregation to convince them to turn from their wicked ways. Edwards states, “So that thus it is, that natural men are held in the hand of God over the pit of hell. The fact that he invokes God’s name would lend to his credibility. There is no more credible authority in Puritan America than God. In the last two paragraphs of his sermon, Edwards shifts his tone and offers hope. “Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind…

establishment of strong ethos and pathos. Throughout his speech, he constantly used ethos to demonstrate his credibility as a democrat, republican, and even a business man. Bloomberg passionately speaks about his work in the senate and states, “I know Hillary Clinton can do all this, because I saw it firsthand when she was in the Senate.” This sentence founded a strong sense of credibility for Bloomberg. During the election I constantly watched for the candidates to address change with certain…

engines to find their research information. Some prefer this way because it is more efficient. However, many questions and concerns have risen from this method of research. One question that comes up in McClure’s article is how do you know the credibility of your research since anyone and everyone can make it, especially on Wikipedia. McClure explains Wikipedia as “a web-based community of readers and writers, and a trusted one at that” (McClure 223). So writers do not see this open…

Businesses don’t have enough incentives to set, so markets can’t ensure that they will behave with integrity. Businesses have much more knowledge to evade detection. As we can observe in the article “Very few businesses can be trusted”, written by Karen Yeung and published in The New York Times, “Businesses cannot be relied on to regulate themselves (except in very limited circumstances).” The technological knowledge expertise gap can be connected by experts who will frequently get together to…

In Cunxin’s autobiography Mao’s Last Dancer, he addresses his rags to riches life story. He argues how he has been cheated out of life, from being lied to by the Chinese government. Growing up he was taught and believed that communism was the best option, until he got the opportunity to train at The Houston Ballet in America. There he understood what freedom truly is, but quickly realized that way of living is not possible in China. Cunxin uses doleful experiences to appeal to our emotions,…

about the vacation spot of St. Martin. After watching the video of myself giving my speech, I realized what I needed to improve on in my upcoming speeches. In this paper I am going to talk about my credibility, delivery, content of speech, and my goals. First, I am going to talk about my credibility. I think that I did a decent job on stating why I could talk about the vacation spot of St. Martin. I explained in 0:47 of my speech that I had traveled there six different times in my life.…

Gore’s argument in his book, The Assault on Reason, informs readers about the way fear encourages illogical thinking. Gore varies greatly between different methods of persuasion, including appeals to emotion (pathos) and credibility (ethos). He utilizes these many techniques to bring out the relationship between politics and fear, however, a specific element overshadows the others. The extensive application of expertise, a form of ethos, lends itself to Gore’s statements about how fear affects…

Before persuading the people he first had to get them to trust him, and so ethos, or ethical appeal, was also used frequently. Petalsharro focused on the importance and trustworthiness of President Monroe and thus transferred the credibility of the President to himself. The only pitfall of his speech is his lack of logos, or logic. While Petalsharro makes a convincing speech because of the use of pathos and ethos, the lack of logos incredibly weakens his argument. Petalsharro relied…

to speak, in this place, of freedom” (Reagan 1). He is telling them that he has credibility on matter of freedom because he believe that it is the duty of the American to speak of. He tried to persuade Berliners that Americans are here to free them from their despair, not to separate them from their loved ones like what Mikhail Gorbachev did by constructing the Berlin Wall. He then continues to show his credibility by first presenting Paul Lincke, a German composer and the "father" of the…

Boroditsky effectively communicates and persuades the businessmen of this importance through scientific evidence, rhetorical questions, and anticipating objection. Emphasizing her points with the rhetorical appeals logic and credibility strengthen her argument by providing a logical progression in the argument and convincing her audience of her validity. After reading this article, business leaders will have a better idea of the effects of multiculturalism. In response, as executives…