How Do Logos Appeal

In the early days of computing, a hacker was primarily referred to as a computer guru, someone who is extremely technical with a high expertise in computer also known as “Expert Programmers”. Nevertheless, as technology is advancing at a face pace, hacking has adopted a completely different definition. The modern definition is someone who access a computer system primarily to steal or destroy information. Hacking has caused major harm in the realm of technology. Over the years, hackers have become much more lethal in their craft. They manage to break into complex information systems from entities such as banks, government agencies, and private businesses. Furthermore, they often manipulate their victims through social engineering in order to obtain financial benefits. Hackers hold different label such as: black hat hacker and white hat hacker in which all have their own motives.

The word hacking, usually associated with information technology, is a term used for the development of creative solutions for a problem by someone in a non-professional environment. With the introduction of personal computers and the internet, anyone could create solutions to problems in computer science. This led to the emergence of “hacker culture”, leading to the decentralization of computer industry (Hicks, 2014).

Every piece of writing has a purpose, whether it be to entertain, inform, or persuade. Many pieces that successfully achieve their purpose use audience appeals to gain the readers confidence. One well-known example is the United States Declaration of Independence. In Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence, ethos, pathos, and logos are all used to create a persuasive document.

“The Perils of Indifference” Rhetorical Analysis In his moving speech, “The Perils of Indifference”, of 1999, Ellie Wiesel, a Jewish Holocaust survivor with firsthand experience of ethnic cleansing and oppression, strongly encourages his widely varied audience from around the world to promote change and ensure that they won’t make the same mistakes their ancestors had made 45 years earlier during World War II. Wiesel’s purpose is to convince the current and upcoming generations to protect their humanity and morality in order to prevent human suffering. He is attempting to achieve this goal by gaining his credibility and appealing to the audience’s sympathy, exchanging the use of concession and refutation, and referring to the suffering of

When an author writes a persuasive article of any kind they use at least one of 3 appeals to get their point across. The appeals of Pathos, Ethos, and Logos are used by all persuasive essay writers to prove the point they are trying to relay across and are applied to every argument. Ethos is an appeal to ethics, and it is a means of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader, pathos is an appeal to emotion, and is a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response, logos is an appeal to logic, and is a way of persuading an audience by reason. When faced with the question why Native Americans’ dying Language need to be saved the article “Saving America's Endangered Languages” brings up a number of valid points to help strengthen its argument. Every point that is bought up by the author Ellen L. Lutz uses one or more of these points to help prove that point that native american languages need to be saved.

Erik Ravenscraft wrote this editorial to inform average computer using people about the dangers of internet privacy. Ravencraft wrote about this because ever since the computer became a mainstream device people have been stealing information and passcodes. In his editorial Ravenscraft uses many Rhetorical Devices, a couple of those Devices are Logos and Ridicule. Ravenscraft uses these Devices to strengthen his opinion when he talks about the number of people getting hacked and how securing data does not work like people think it does.

Journalist Nikole Jones, in her podcast “The Problem We All Live With”, and H.G Bissinger, in his book, Friday Night Lights, address racial tensions between black and white people. The rhetors make logical arguments using numbers and examples to persuade their prospective audiences about the inequality in the opportunities available to black and white high schoolers, and that black people are unfairly stereotyped by white people. Jones is more successful than Bissinger because she reaches her intended audience and focuses on her arguments about race throughout her entire work, while Bissinger’s best seller is directed to sports fans and is not solely about race.

Overall, my strategy will focus on appealing to logos. By using numerous statistics and data to reinforce the reality of our earth’s state to the audience. Presenting reason paired with a well-structured argument will hopefully make the audience gain a new perspective about environmental sustainability. Focusing on logos to argue my purpose helps the audience understand the situation and lead them to better actions. I will also appeal to pathos and ethos to support my main strategy. The facts will create credibility and by appealing to the audience’s emotions will help stress the importance of the issue and help gain the attention of the audience.

For my public argument I choose a pamphlet because considering my audience and purpose it fit the best. This is because I my purpose was to convince parents to let their children play football causing my audience to be parents of children who are not allowed to play football. I feel like a pamphlet was the best because it can give information and have pictures without either of the two being overwhelmed by the other.

Adam Segal’s “The Hacked World Order” reveals many prevalent issues in today’s technologically centered society. Starting at Year Zero, June 2012 to June 2013, the battle over cyberspace witnessed world-changing cyberattacks. This was accomplished due to the fact that nearly 75% of the world’s population has easy access to a mobile phone, and the Internet connects nearly 40% of the total human population, which is nearly 2.7 billion people. With that being said, cyberattacks are becoming a more realistic form of terror.

In my opinion, I think that logos is the most effective way to persuade the audience, because it is visual, has a realistic result and can be compared directly. To begin with, logos provides the audience with an authentic vision so that they can understand the effectiveness of the product easily. For example, in the documentary "Killing Cancer", professional doctors and scientists did brain surgery to inject the virus into the tumor of the patient. These professions also talked many scientific principles before the surgery and explained through some animations in a theoretical approach. By looking at the surgery directly and hearing the professions' explains, the audience is able to trust the feasibility of the cancer treatment. The audience will not be doubtful about this new treatment, and instead admiring the techniques and wisdom of the scientists.

By the year of 2016, investments in online security are expected to reach $86bn (Contu et al, 2012). Although this might seem a large sum of money, it is considered necessary since there is an increase in online risks from all over the world. Professional hackers develop malware on a global scale and on a 24/7 basis. Hackers have five objectives when spreading malware over the Internet: to infect/distribute, to steal, to persist, to control and for intelligence (Morris, 2010).

As the world becomes more and more reliant on computers the computer hacking industry is greatly rising. With people such as Kevin Mitnick, who is known as a "computer terrorist" (Kjochaiche 1), computerized information isn't safe any more. Kevin is known as "the most high-profiled computer criminal and responsible for more havoc in the computer world today."(1) He considered this a fun and easy task. He got caught and thrown into prison, but once he got out nothing changed. Kevin stated that as long as the technology is there it just calls to people to break into it. Computer hackers usually start off young, thinking that it is nothing but a little harmless fun. But as they get older, they realize it has turned into

Currently, the worst fear of the netizens is being “hacked”. What the general netizens understand about it is that it is a breach of their internet security and an invasion of their privacy. For the more technically-savvy users, hacking is a way to get access to application software and games that require

The fight against hackers and cyber crime is a global problem and nationally and internationally, the threats they caused have been recognized and acknowledged.