Manoush Zomorodi Speech Analysis

The speaker’s use of strong logos are evident throughout his talk. To begin, the speaker

Some people meet their fate trying to find themselves as a person. An example of this is a guy named Chris McCandless who grew up with a tough childhood, who left his family to be an explorer after successfully completing college. He met many people and went many places before he died at the age of 24 in Alaska using minimal equipment. His death and motive can be compared to other explorers. In the book, Into the Wild the author Jon Krakauer uses the Logos appeal predominantly when comparing and contrasting Chris McCandless/ Alex to Gene Rosellini and Carl McCunn in order to show how Chris is a pilgrim.

to see their needs" (Micheal Jackson, Man In The Mirror) he is using logos by persuading the

One of the very first people we met at the beginning of the advertisement is a girl, later we learn her name to Pheeyo Aung, talking about living in a garage. This specific part of the video shows how logos is being used. By telling us about her living conditions before by showing us pictures of her family. She even tries not to cry while trying to talk about wanting to have a real living space and get out of the garage she was in. Although she was very emotional during this section of the advertisement, the audience see what she was really living like. We get a feel of how she was living, and it was not something she was just told to say.

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.”

Logos can be recognized in Steve Jobs’ Commencement Speech when he used logic to convince the audience. Logically speaking about death, Steve Jobs convinced the audience to spend their time wisely because they will not live forever. After speaking about when he was told he had an incurable form of cancer and then later found out it was actually a rare cancer that was curable, Jobs said, “Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.” Jobs had been in a place where he thought he was going to face death, and it gave him a greater understanding

Gorgias goes on to explain three different occupations that use Logos to gain acceptance of opinions. Ultimately, Gorgias finishes comparing Logos to the effects of a drug (Freeman).

The initial part of the film only uses a lot of logos and a little ethos but then logos is only used here and there at curtain points to reinforce the argument. The film uses logos by stating facts such as the law passed in 2005 when a bill was passed that allowed big companies to bypass the clean water

Logos is a rhetorical device that appeals to the reason, or logic, of the reader. Loving Life Therapy uses Logos to gain the visitors trust by talking about her studies and experiences. Dr.Yvonka de Ridder quotes that “After my studies and experience in the field of counseling, psychology, and human sexuality, I began to recognize that something

Logos: Logos refers to the logistical side of a persuasive speech. In the graph featured in the video that is shown below, Oliver is appealing to the Logos proof and is attempting to persuade the audience through reasoning. The graph shows the significant change in Netflix download speed on Comcast during the negotiation, and after Netflix agreed to Comcasts demands. Oliver is using this as an example of when a telecom company has altered a websites speed in order to get more money out of them which is enhancing his

This is logos because people,

In the beginning of his story Singer talks a Brazilian movie where a retired school teacher sells a child for a tv, then when she feels remorseful about it she tries to rescue the boy. I still don't understand how a retried school teacher even has the capability to take down some Type of organ mafia. So really the logos in this beginning doesn't make too much sense and doesn't tie in with his ethos.

Without delay, the author uses logos to back up his claim by giving the audience some evidence of some restaurants statistics. Tom Meyer tells Kliman for the most part restaurants only use about 30 percent of local foods and can that percent could go up to 40 or 50 in the summer months. By using Meyer statistics Kliman is using logos to make the audience realize “all products aren’t equal. But if local is something to support, something that matters, shouldn’t it matter for the other 70 percent?” (Kliman 72) Meaning he uses logos to appeal to the audience that most restaurants don’t worry about the 70 percent but they should because it does make a difference. In the last section of Kliman’s essay “A Glimpse of the Future, Part Two” the author uses both ethos and logos when he talks to the co-founder Ype Von Hengst of the Silver Diner. Hengst uses logos to claim that it was a necessity to overhaul his diner, to now serve fresher ingredients and source more local things into his diner. He backs his claim up by giving you a fact about how much the diners standards have improved by saying “local accounted for 10

In Robin Esrock’s TED talk “Learn to Travel, Travel to Learn”, he is directing his presentation towards individuals who are eager to travel and are younger in age. He also starts off his presentation by explaining to the audience realistic reasons that people say is the reason they cannot travel today. Esrock gives the audience his own example of money being the reason why he thought he could not travel. I think that this was a good use of logos because it shows that he values the same things as the younger generation does. He makes it clear that he is speaking to a younger audience by telling them that he always hears the older generation say they wish they would have traveled more than anything else. In fact, a large part of his presentation focuses around the idea of the fear in

Have Smartphones Killed Boredom (And is That Good)? is an article about the world’s addiction to smartphones and the effect they have on boredom. In the article, Christopher Lynn, a professor at the University of Alabama, compares tapping on the touchscreen of a smartphone to smoking cigarettes. He calls both actions a pivot.