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Example Of Chris Brown Apology

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Technology, it’s all around us. With this comes good and bad publicity, due to celebrity scandals, which comes to surface on social media sites, such as Youtube, Twitter, and Instagram. Regardless of what kind of scandal gets put out into the world, many celebrities take to social media sites to apologize for their wrongdoings because they know this will reach everyone. These public apologies use rhetorical appeals such as ethos, pathos, logos, and kairos to create a more effective apology to try to gain everyone's forgiveness, one such celebrity was Chris Brown. Brown's attempt to convince the audience that he is truly sorry is successful because of his language and sincere tone.
Chris Brown’s apology follows an incident where he repeatedly hit his girlfriend, Rihanna, in the face while in a verbal dispute. Due to this, he had a court hearing where he was charged with domestic violence, receiving five years of probation along with 180 days of community service. With the probation and community service, Brown was told to attend a year of domestic violence counseling. After the hearing, Brown released a public apology on his official website. It consists of apologizing to his fans, telling them that he had apologized to Rihanna on multiple occasions, and asking everyone for their forgiveness.
Chris Brown is a world-renowned music artist. He has been around since the mid-2000s, so by the time of his apology he was well known and respected by his fans and this builds on his

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