Credibility

Death: no one can escape it, only some get to cheat it, and everyone has to deal with it. One of the key things about being mortal is we all face death and as such we each try to cope with it the best way we can. Some choose to find solace in religion where quite a few (but not all) belief systems recognize some sort of afterlife. Some are afraid of death knowing its inevitability and there is nothing to stop it. Others try to defeat death using science and medicine. Looking through Socrates’…

“The Odyssey”, written by Homer and translated by Robert Fitzgerald, follows King Odysseus of Ithaka on his twenty year journey home from the Trojan War. Throughout the epic poem Odysseus must face many obstacles, some inevitable, and some the result of human mistakes. Odysseus demonstrates his arrogance time and time again, manipulating people to get what he needs to overcome these obstacles with little thought to how much their generosity will cost them. Odysseus uses his end goal to justify…

People should advance in their desire to find the Loch Ness monster because other " allegorical" species have been found accurate, also many people have sighted this creature. "For hundreds of years, sailors told stories of a hideous creature with a long round head, a jagged-edge beak, and enormous, powerful tentacles... scientist gave Kraken a new name: the giant squid"(6). Some creatures that were pure fiction, like the giant squid and the Komodo lizard, have been proven an undeniable species.…

William Shakespeare’s Play Credibility William Shakespeare is a phenomenal writer who had a distinguished career in writing and acting but further studies into his writing has left suspicion of help from other writers. He wrote a gathering of great hit plays and stories that have since shaped American literature and is currently used in American literature classes today. His work spreads through comedy, history, tragedy, and poetry; it was the entertainment of the past and he was in the center…

Beeeeeeeeeeeep. The heart monitor flatlined as the pancreatic cancer patient was injected with poisonous serum. Through a painless procedure, the patient’s suffering was permanently ended. However, the precious life of this individual was also permanently ended due to the use of one controversial technology: euthanasia. Society’s concern is whether or not this technology should be permissible or forbidden. The underlying question is simple: Has euthanasia reached the point in which it becomes…

Stiff is a book written in 2003 by Mary Roach. It goes into detail on the subject of donated bodies and their uses. Throughout the entire book, the author establishes credibility, subject, and tone. The speaker in Stiff is author Mary Roach. She establishes credibility throughout the book by stating her own experiences with cadavers and using many, many references. In the beginning of the book, she talks about her first experience with a cadaver, “I was thirty-six, and it was eighty-one. It…

To establish credibility before your presentation can be difficult if your audience such as coworkers do not already know you. If your audience is unfamiliar to you, the best thing to do is find out about them and be very well prepared. Practice and know what you are presenting well. Make sure you have a backup plan for your presentation so that if something goes wrong, you won’t panic. During your presentation, speak clearly and with confidence. Most people have fears of speaking in public,…

therefore, causing chaos and ultimately causing Civil War throughout the Roman Empire. Brutus demonstrates credibility, emotion, and persuasion in his rhetorical monologue. Brute did a tremendous job of applying credibility in his rhetorical monologue. He builds credibility by, “Roman, countrymen, and lovers… Brutus’ love to Caesar was no less” (3.2, 14, 19-20). He also builds credibility based on talking at the same level as the plebeians and he wants to build a…

The most effective way leaders establish credibility is by using influence tactics to get the most productivity from their team. These are ways to keep the team motivated and keep high morale to get to the end results successfully (Griffith & Dunham, 2015). I feel the best way for credibility is to treat the team as you would want to be treated. Make them feel like you are just one of the team and not their leader. The team has to be confident in the knowledge of their lead that will help…

Speaker’s Credibility is a strategy that use Trustworthiness to raise the reliability by arguing against self- interest, and working against your own interest makes people who know your ideas more persuaded. For instance, Donald Trump, a presidential candidate, suggest a tax policy that would tax individuals with 25 percent, 20 percent, 10 percent and zero. He also argues that this plan is against his self-interest since he will pay a more tax than before. One-sided appeal is another persuasion…