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    piece is to teach the importance of life's responsibilities to children, mainly female, and young adults who may not be familiar with the challenges life can bring and to promote the benefits you can gain by overcoming those obstacles. Hemauer uses pathos, which appeals to emotion, logos, designed to engage our logic, and ethos, to prove its credibility, to convey that though growing up on a family farm was a struggle day-to-day, it was valuable life lesson because it shaped her into

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    advertisement states that “8 million children are not in school” which is a large number of children that are not attending school. UNICEF is achieving their goals because it demonstrates people that many children in the world are not in school. Ethos, pathos, and logos are all necessary for a good advertisement, and this is an example of that. People know that when they see this ad, children need to attend school because it is essential. Food, shelter, clothing, and shoes are also necessary for life especially

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    Stupid? he goes in depth to explain the effects of relying on technology. Through a well thought out and dominating ethos and logos argument he finds ways to warn the public of the coming doom of the dependencies on technology, with a less dominating pathos argument he makes the audience think deeper and fear the changes in our minds, as well as using slippery slope fallacies to push his opinions. In an argument proving an ethos claim, the author need to show their credibility in any way possible, as

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    collide, time stops and the drivers get out to conversate. Once they get back in time begins to move again and the cars wreck. In the PSA “Don’t text and drive” Produced by TranterGrey Media, pathos stood out over ethos and logos. Pathos is used more effectively element in this video. First the PSA illustrates pathos more than ethos or logos, because before the cars collided time froze and both drivers get out and discuss what is about to happen. During this conversation, the older woman asks the teenage

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    through the process of not “giving a f***” or say no to things they don’t want to do in a polite and honest manner so that they too can live a carefree life like her if they so desire it. In a brief analysis of the different modes of persuasion, ethos, pathos, and logos her speech was very interesting and had many strong points; however, there were points throughout the speech that really did detract from the overall quality of the speech and potentially the affected the experience of the listeners as

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    In various occasions there have been several scandals with celebrities and other important people. Some celebrities and athletes have successfully dodged the media attention on some scandals. However, Ryan Lochte was not fortunate enough to keep his scandal a secret, and was soon exposed to the world of his wronging’s during the Olympic Games. Soon after his exposure, many companies that sponsored Lochte wanted out. Speedo was one of the main brands to discontinue Lochte’s sponsor and released an

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    to the article “Rhetoric and Advertising” more than 2,000 years ago the Aristotle came up with three different categories to describe how people use rhetoric to persuade people: ethos, pathos and logos. Each of these terms describes different way to try to reach an audience and convince them to agree with you. 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

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    Many authors have found that persuading an audience is sometimes the easiest way to grasp the attention of many and do so by using logos, pathos and ethos techniques. Sometimes misleading and based around personal opinions, understanding the initial reasons for using these strategies can explain why they are used. Based on my research these rhetorical strategies can be found throughout all three videos provided. The first two videos titled “Drunk History - Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks” and “Drunk

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    She appeals to pathos when she speaks about how a professor told her that her novel was not realistically African, the professor expressed that her “characters were too much like him,” her characters were not the conventional Africans that the professor perceived from a single story. This further advances her appeal to pathos by convincing her audience with an amused tone where she proceeds to give another occurrence of

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    Government at Harvard. Another is pathos, or appealing to a reader’s emotions. Finally, there is logos, or presenting facts, which Sandel does expertly throughout the article. Michael Sandel’s article Markets and Morals is a persuasive article because of the author’s use of strong credibility, straight logic and facts, and powerful and emotional verbiage. This translates to an overwhelming sense of persuasiveness that stems from the appeal to the reader’s senses of ethos, pathos, and logos. The author, Sandel

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