The speech given by Obama, and the speech given by Steve Jobs, we're both very effective on the message they were trying to convey. They both didn't, however, try to convince people of something. The Obama speech did a great job of convincing why his party is better, and did a great job using rhetorical devices such as pathos, ethos, and logos. The Steve Jobs speech was written as a starting of life speech for the next generation students from Stanford. They are both amazing speeches, but both weren't using the rhetorical devices to convince people of anything. They both did use them, just not in the same way. The first speech I’m going to take a look at is Barack Obama’s speech. At the time, John Kerry was the democratic candidate, and Obama held the keynote spot at the DNC. This speech needs little introduction, and I think it is the most effective of all of Obama’s speeches. Why the most effective? It turned him from a political nobody with massive potential who was known little by political circles …show more content…
What does that mean exactly? Through his use logos and pathos, Jobs’ rhetorically backs his arguments. He didn’t use logos in this speech. He went for a more emotional appeal, rather than logical. Again, he wasn’t trying to convince anyone of everything
By describing his life events, such as failure, he makes himself sound more human, and not as much as a celebrity as he really is. He uses Pathos mostly throughout the speech to create an emotional bond with his audience. Instead of using facts and stats to convey his message, he uses emotion and logic. “Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.” The way he connects them with failure makes him sound like he is way more like them than he really
The Author of the passage is debating, whether student athletes should be awarded monetary compensation for their contribution to teams that garner millions of dollars for universities. The author uses appeal to Logos and Pathos to build his argument on the subject, and to help persuade the reader to agree with the the argument they are trying to make.
Logos, ethos, and pathos are essential components used in advertising. By learning to recognize logos, ethos, and pathos in advertising, we are able to understand the message and what is being portrayed. (Albert et al, 2014), suggested that Aristotle postulated that a speaker’s ability to effectively convince an audience is constructed on how well the speaker appeals to that audience in three different areas: logos, ethos, and pathos. These appeals together form what Aristotle calls a rhetorical triangle.
In the articles “Alone in the Crowd” and “As technology Gets Better, Will Society Get Worse?,” Michael Price and Tim Wu, respectively acknowledge the effects of technological advances. While both Price and Wu use effective rhetorical strategies in their articles, one presents their argument in a more persuasive manner. Wu effectively convinces his audience that as a society we continue to advance technologically, but for the wrong reasons. Price references an interview with Sherry Turkle, to convey his opinion that the social media frenzy consumes our society. Price and Wu both present their point of view, but Wu has more factual information to justify his argument. The appeal to emotion is stronger in Price’s article; however, in this situation Wu’s logos appeal is more rhetorically effective. Beyond Ethos, Pathos, and
Rhetoric is defined as the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques. It is used to persuade an audience. According to Michael Austin in Reading the World: Ideas That Matter (661,664), Aristotle has three elements to persuasion: ethos, pathos and logos. Ethos is not just appealing to ethics, but it is establishing the speaker’s credibility and character. Pathos is an appeal to emotion to persuade an audience of something. Logos is an appeal to logic with things like facts and research. Any speaker that wants to persuade an audience to believe something should have an equal amount of all three elements. In the three videos, the speakers use
Right off the bat, our logo proudly represents our event, which is a game of Flag Football. We recognize that the students of R.H. King are involved in heavily academic semesters, and this means that they operate on a very tight schedule. In accordance with this, we have designed our logo to be simple, yet attractive and meaningful, in order to provide students with the crucial information of our event and what we represent. This logo ensures that students do not have to provide an in-depth analysis to understand it, which would in fact, deter more students than attract. Regarding the colour choices in this logo, we aimed to keep our colours simple, yet contrasting, in order to capture the attention of individuals who come across our logo.
Ethos, pathos, and logos are ingredients in the recipe for persuasion. For example, I would not have usually watched any video claiming to be academic with cartoon-like characters. I watched the video because I trust our instructor to provide us with credible information, I feel as if our instructor has a vested interest in the academic success of us all, and the video was produced in a manner that made it easy to grasp its concepts. Ethos, pathos, and logos as I understand the terms. Once watching the video and deciding to read further text on the appeals of persuasion, I was able to deduce that these three specific items are used in our everyday lives just about everywhere. In television, ethos is used in my life particularly because I trust
Writers use pathos, ethos, and logos in their writing to appeal to their audience. Pathos is an appeal to emotions, ethos is an appeal to trust, and logos is an appeal to reasoning or logic. Frederick Douglass's, " What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" is about his views and the views of many slaves towards the Fourth of July. He uses ethos, pathos, and logos effectively to convey his central message.
The number one thing most people fear is writing a speech and auditioning it publicly. Many people would rather die than to present publicly. Writing speeches to persuade people is not only a skill but art there needs to be a little bit of everything, The 3 common things in every persuasive speech is Pathos, Logos, and Ethos. Pathos is what appeals to the emotion or what tugs on the heart. Logos is something that has to do with statistics or logistics like financial cost and funding. Lastly, Ethos is using a credible source such as the former President John F. Kennedy. Analyzing JFK speech to fund NASA, I can take a look on how this 3 aspects appeal to a great persuasive speech.
We all wish we could take back the day thousands of Americans were killed. The day of September 9, 2011. George W. Bush presented a speech that night. He talked about and went over what happened during 9/11. His purpose of this speech was to let people know what was going on and what we, as a group, could do in response to this situation.
Jobs’ uses pathos starting from the first line of the speech. He starts by saying “I am honored to be with you today” and give the audience a sense of importance. He then says, “I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation.” This statement has two main uses in appealing to emotion. First, by using the phrase “this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation” he is relating to the audience by stating this is an important day to him as it is to them. Second, he is giving the audience a
Debates and speeches are an enormous part of our lives as communicators, and having the skills to properly address an audience is a key factor in becoming an effective speaker and persuader. Persuasive speeches can be challenging because the speaker’s objective is to get you to understand why you should be on their side. Throughout the speech, they have to prove to their audience that they are ethical, truthful, and passionate in order to spark an emotional response and win them over. On this paper, I will be comparing Michelle Obama’s 2008 Democratic National Convention speech versus Melania Trump’s 2016 Republican National Convention speech in order to determine who gave the most powerful speech. I was able to identify the best speech by
Clintons 2004 DNC speech is probably considered one of the best political speeches because of his use of logical and ethical appeal. One example of logical appeal in the speech would be when he said "President Obama took office,the economy was in free fall. It had just shrunk 9 full percent of GDP.We were losing 750,000 jobs a month. Are we doing better than that today?. " He uses statistics in order the audience that President Obama was able to help improve the economy when it was in its worse place.
I watched Obama's, Trump's and Clinton's speeches after Trump won- I thought they were all great and took away something from each of them.
The idea of pathos, logos, and ethos is used throughout all three of the passages it is used in how the first passage uses pathos when astronaut Armstrong expresses a meaningful quote hence using pathos. Then in the second passage, uses logos and pathos to describe if a disaster would have occurred but it did not break out. Finally, the political cartoon shows signs of all three of Logos, Pathos, and Ethos and now let's explain and see how each is used and how it improves, helps the text, and political cartoon.
Steve Jobs effectively uses pathos throughout the speech to appeal emotions of his audience, effectively connecting with audience. Jobs starts off his speech by using pathos saying “I'm honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college, and this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation” (Jobs). From these first two