Regulatory compliance

Essay about PSA (Public Service Announcement) According to CARE’s website, it is said CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty, which especially focuses on working alongside poor women. Even though the world has been changed a lot, people gradually find more problems need to solve, like poor women’s right. “I am powerful” is such an advertisement made by CARE to address and to make people take the responsibility for fixing this problem. Using "seeds" as the implication…

Demanding to have something is not going to get one what they want, that is not how one should use interpersonal persuasion. Instead being demanding will lessen one’s chances of obtaining that specific thing that one desires, which borchers calls compliance gaining because one is trying to get what they want by acting in a certain way, in order to influence the other person to give them what they…

Omar Akram in his essay, “Can Music Bridge Cultures and Promote Peace” clearly accomplishes his goal of persuading the audience through persuasive techniques such as logos, pathos, and ethos with pathos being the dominant. Throughout the essay Akram keeps on mentioning that the world we live in can be a peaceful place and people can live united even if there are many distinctive cultures in the world. Feeling a need to bring these cultures together instead of creating a sense of superiority in…

The necessity of marriage and finding a partner at a certain point in life is so deeply embedded in society. The tale of meeting “Prince Charming” and having him sweep you off your feet is something most young girls believe in and unconsciously pursue. For men, the idea of marriage is not so charming. It is seen in literature throughout time that men believe that to be married is to be “tied down”, that women are only trying to manipulate and “trap them” and in this way are never constant in…

The 1960s and 1970s were times where the ideals of the Paranoid Style were rampant. During this time some of the things people feared were conspiracy within the government and higher ups, the possibility of being spied on, the rise of the second wave of feminism, and the possibility of accidents within our nuclear power plants. In our history class, we have observed these topics through films made at or around the same time these paranoia incidents were clearly present. Through the film The…

Rhetoric in Schools Rhetoric is the ancient art of persuasion, which has been shaping our world for centuries. Leaders use it, commercial vendors use it, and normal everyday people use it. Rhetoric has been treated as a valued art, but the value is typically not seen today because rhetoric is no longer a requirement to be taught taught in schools. According to Jay Heinrich, in “outside academia we [have forgotten] it almost entirely” (Heinrich 5). Rhetoric should be taught in schools again…

It is an indubitable fact that every high school graduate ponders at one time or another who his or her college roommate will be. This unavoidable curiosity has been, for a long time, always unanswered until the roommates actually meet for the first time. Imagine, however, that a highschool graduate could not only find out who his or her roommate will be, but also pick the actual roommate. In Dalton Conley’s, “When Roommates Were Random”, Conley explains how he saw his capricious roommate…

The Three Parts of Persuasion Persuasion happens when an individual causes somebody different to adjust to what they want. The adjustment may either be to their internal psychological structures or to their outer performance. Internal structures consist of morals, assertiveness, views, plan, and objectives. It is the core of association with others. Its communication come from a foundation which may either be somebody you admire or hate. Attitude, Sorrow, and Symbols are all styles…

Prophets for Profits Advertisements are public announcements or notices that promote a product to certain audiences. They feature elements that will try to attract attention from a particular group of audience and persuade them to purchase the product. One of the constant sources of advertising is the cosmetic industry. COVERGIRL is one of the biggest cosmetic companies in today’s industry. They are known for using famous personalities to promote their products—such as Ellen Degeneres, Sofia…

Nicias and the Importance of Persuasive Leadership How did Nicias fail to convince the Athenian assembly that the Sicilian Expedition was a strategic error? His arguments, while valid and logical, are not sufficient to win over the assembly to undo their vote of war. Not only does Thucydides have incomplete information about these events, but Thucydides’ prior knowledge of Nicias’s failure colors the way he reconstructs Nicias’s ineffective arguments against war. Nicias attempts to dissuade the…