Eric Hoffer

According to Bernard Roth, the author of The Achievement Habit, reasons are just excuses used when something doesn 't have high significance in life. Roth has been a professor at Stanford University for 52 years. He wrote this book to help individuals, especially college-level students achieve their goals and to help them live a more satisfying life. Roth uses ethos, pathos, and logos very effectively to validate his writing and better appeal to his audience. Ethos is used throughout the…

Filmic interpretations of the apocalypse often focus on the anxiety between progress and destruction, because the way we see different technologies is intimately tied to how we see ourselves. Technology is shown alternately as our savior in trying times, a testament to our intelligence, or a testament to our mastery, but also as an accident waiting to happen, an isolating force, or a feeble attempt to raise ourselves to the level of deities. The stories we tell about technology, (especially…