Joaquin River Restoration

The author of this passage uses the appeal to logic and reasoning or Logos, to build up their argument. For example in paragraph 3, they provides specific facts when they say “In 2011, ESPN and Fox signed television rights deals worth $3 billion to the Pacific-12 conference”. The author uses facts in paragraph 4 when they say, “According to the most recent federal data, the University of Texas

2) Logos involves winning your audience over with facts and using your opponent’s argument to your own advantage

Daniel Weintraub in the article, “River Restoration Project Offers Sprinkling of Hope”, claims that only 12% of the San Joaquin River was recovered for the fish the river’s residents. Weintraub supports his statement by explaining that the project of restoring the San Joaquin River is bringing hope for the river’s residents. The author’s purpose is to show that the project will work so that people can join the project and help restore the San Joaquin River. The author writes in an informative tone for his

McEwen and Weintraub both state evidence on the information on their articles. They both give support which makes me believe them both. In McEwen’s article “River Plan Too Fishy for my Taste Buds” he states that their is to many problems with legislation and their is no funding, but at the same time everyone els wants to restore the river. In other hand Weintaub in his article “River Restoration Project Offers a Sprinkiling of Hope” he is all for it and he wants the changes.

There were multiple rhetorical strategies in this article. The use of logos through a counter argument was really impactful. They brought up how opponents of gun control say how “no law can unfailingly forestall a specific criminal.” This comment was explained to be a challenge not a restriction. The countries of France, England and Norway were used as examples of places with strict gun laws that still have problems. But instead of using this information in a way that strengthens the opposing side's argument, they used it to guilt trip the audience. “But at least those countries are trying. The United States is not.” Another well used strategies was placing blame. It

The Federalist Papers No.10 and The Federalist both use logos as a way to persuade their audience. The Federalist Papers no.10 uses many uses of rhetorical devices especially logos to persuade the colonist to say yes to the Constitution for example in paragraph fourteen which states “The influence of factious leaders may kindle a flame within their particular States, but will be unable to

Two of the projected plans include keeping things the way they are and allowing more of the water in Friant Dam to flow into the river to bring back the former environment that was once there as well as improve the conditions for west-side farmers. The two plans contrast drastically with each other but both have positive and negative consequences.

Not only is Ethos and Pathos used effectively in the speech, Logos is as well. Though the use of Logos is used much more indirectly than either of the latter, it is still an important component of the speech. Adm. Mcraven uses Logos by providing support for his statements and lessons taught throughout the speech. For example, Adm. Mcraven explained how one individual could ultimately change the lives of eight-hundred million people by only changing the lives of ten in their lifetime. He supports this claim with mathematical reasoning and evidence, “Ask.Com says that the average American will meet 10,000 people in their lifetime. That's a lot of folks. But, if every one of you changed the lives of just 10 people — and each one of those folks changed the lives of another 10 people — just 10 — then in five generations — 125 years — the class of 2014 will have changed the lives of 800 million people.”

It seemed that most of the controversy in the water crisis was either about water rights issues or about the current water levels compared to the fish population, which in turn had effects on the endangered species of this area. Very rarely did anyone speak about the Native American’s wants or needs concerning the Klamath River water crisis. The Natives feel that they should have some say about what decisions are going to be made concerning the area since they have been in the Klamath are longer than any other group.

In the movie, as well as the book, there are multiple times where the rhetorical strategy logos is used. An example of one of them is when Atticus says, “The state has not produced one iota of medical evidence to the effect that the crime Tom Robinson is charged with ever took place.” I know it is logos because it is a fact that the state hasn’t given any medical evidence to prove that Tom is guilty of the crime he is being charged for. Atticus is using this fact to try to persuade some people with logic that it wasn’t Tom who did anything to Mayella. I think that this part was better in the movie because the actor who played as Atticus made it more dramatic which made the whole situation more effective and serious.

Yet, humans have limited control on natural events, so this only reinforces the importance of managing water wisely. Recently California’s government has begun to focus more on sustaining and restoring the water supply. Dale Kasler (2016) articulates in his article some of the steps they have decided to make to solve this serious issue. The government has made the following investments: “$415 million for watershed restoration and other environmental aid for Lake Tahoe; up to $335 million for two proposed reservoirs in California, including the Sites reservoir north of Sacramento; $880 million for flood-control projects on the American and Sacramento rivers in Sacramento; and $780 million for flood-control projects in West Sacramento” (para. 10). This could be the first step to restoring the water to California. But these

One example is when he states, “TiVo's a commercial failure... when they went IPO, their stock was at about 30 or 40 dollars and then plummeted, and it's never traded above 10 (Sinek).” In this example he is explaining that TiVo was a commercial failure, even though it had good market conditions, to prove to the audience that success isn’t just about the market. He uses the company's stock market history as evidence, showing the audience that this statement is not just opinion, it’s fact, effectively convincing the audience that TiVo was a failure and proving his point. To conclude, logos is a key tool in showing an audience that your claim isn’t just opinion. But, without credibility, the audience may begin to question the accuracy of the data

Another rhetorical element that can be seen in Steven Pinker’s "Mind Over Mass Media" is the element of logos. Logos is an attempt at using facts and logic to persuade an audience. It is the most emphasized and widely used rhetorical appeal in Pinker’s essay about media. The first example of logos appears when Pinker writes about the “you are what you eat” theory. Pinker says that most of the critics of media act like humans immediately change follow what information they get. Logically this doesn’t make much sense, people can learn about things and not be totally changed by them. Since Pinker

    Logos is used to describe facts and evidence that supports the writer’s thesis. To use logos in an essay, the writer needs to find statistics, historical analogies and other sources of facts. I use logos to give facts behind my thesis. When

Logos: It is an appeal to the mind with the use of logic, rationality and critical reasoning to persuade the audience. The author uses logos in his article to make a logical connection with the topic. For example, the author uses the explanation of ideas in the article and employs lots of diagrams in each parts of the topic to show the visualization to support his evidence which is very informative because the visuals give lots of information about what the article is about and that to get attention of the audience.