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    Stanford and author his book, The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start doing, and Take Command of Your Life, in chapter 2 of his book effectively uses Aristotle's Rhetorical Triangle in his argument containing ethos, pathos, and logos to show that reasons are bullshit. Mr. Roth effectively has ethos in his book. Bernard Roth the Author of the book, The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, And Take Command of Your Life, had multiple different example of how he is a creditable source. Roth helped

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    trial, Socrates understood the importance of using rhetorical appeal in his Apology speech, which over the years has been used by many public speakers when delivering speeches as well as in advertising. Communicators who understand the effects of ethos, pathos, and logos, also known as rhetoric devices, experience success in delivering speeches that are effective and well received, a good example is the "I have a Dream Speech” by Martin Luther King Jr. Obama's 2012 campaign advertisement targeting

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    more complex. Pathos, ethos, and logos are rhetorical strategies to persuade a crowd to feel a certain way. Speakers and writers use these devices to pursue their point of view to an audience. When a speech makes the crowd feel a certain way or makes them have an emotional connection to the topic then the speaker is using pathos. Logos is the connection to logic. In other words the speaker makes correlations to make the crowd feel that the point of the speech is logical. Ethos is credibility. The

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    Throughout the Prime Minister’s Eulogy the audience can very obviously see the various places that Margaret Thatcher uses Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. Ethos is used in writing to help establish the author's credibility, or make sure that the readers know why exactly its acceptable for the author to be discussing this topic. Pathos is then used when the author factors into the writing the concerns of their audience; such as making sure that the words will appeal to the audience. Logos, the final of the

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    This book is mainly about Jose wanting to convince me about him becoming a better athlete by using steroids. Jose Canseco uses Aristotle’s modes of persuasion to convince me in logos, pathos and he doesn’t convince me that he used ethos. According to aristotle ethos is appealing to a given audience's sense of ethics. Logos appeals the audience’s sense of logic and reason and pathos deals with the sense of compassion. In Juiced, Jose Canseco convinces me in logos because he is using steroids for

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    Persuasive Techniques Ethos, Pathos, and Logos The author Gary Mason uses mostly logos in this essay to show us statistics and data about oil dependency and how Denmark reduced theirs significantly since 1973 because of the Arab oil embargo. He mentions Denmark because they relied on oil and reduced its consumption from different reason unlike Canada and many more countries that waited for signs of possible global warming. This author focuses on logos persuasive techniques and avoids pathos as much

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    Bob Corker strongly uses Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. All three are used strongly throughout his many interviews. In the first interview excerpt, Corker used Ethos heavily with a few examples of Logos. Throughout the interview, Corker gives many examples of President Trump urging him to campaign, and how the President would endorse him. Corker also gives examples of many things he’s done to provide Ethos that show his credibility as a political figure. To tie into the Ethos, Corker also used Logos when

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    culture. He expresses these impacts with Aristotle’s devices: logos, pathos, and ethos. Logos or the appeal to logic meant to convince the audience by using logic or reason. Originally it was referred to the actual content of a speech and how it is organized. Pathos is frequently translated to some credibility or emotional appeal. It originally meant the elements of speech that are applied onto the audience's emotions. Ethos is the credibility or trustworthiness but its original meaning was the elements

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    self “hmm this contains ethos, logos and pathos”, yeah me neither. Somehow they fit into our everyday life more than we know. Someone, somewhere will try to convince you of something usually by using the three rhetorical devices logos “or appealing to logic and reasoning”, pathos “appeals to emotion” and lastly ethos “persuasion by appeals to ethics”. (587) In the video “Drunk history- Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks”, by Comedy Central the use of logos, pathos and ethos isn’t used. This video just

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    writing process has been improved such as organization and time management. One thing I have learned during the course of this semester thus far are the terms logos, pathos, and ethos. I would not say that knowing the terms have significantly affected how I read now, as I feel like the skills needed to use logos, pathos, and ethos I had already been using. However, now I know terms and because of such I am able to organize the thoughts more sufficiently. My writing problems have consistently been a struggle

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